Royal Blood are heading for the top of the charts

The two piece are currently over 23,000 sales ahead of their nearest competitor.

Royal Blood look set to score the Number One slot in this week’s UK album chart.

The two piece are currently over 23,000 sales ahead of their nearest competitor Ed Sheeran, with their second album ‘How Did We Get So Dark?’. Nickleback’s ‘Feed The Machine’ sits at Number 3, with Rag’N’Bone Man’s ‘Human’ at 4 and Lorde’s new album ‘Melodrama’ making up the Top 5.

Elsewhere in the midweek charts, Fleet Foxes are at Number 8 with ‘Crack-Up’, Ride’s ‘Weather Diaries’ is at 11 and Beth Ditto’s ‘Fake Sugar’ sits at 29.