Arcade Fire are heading for their second UK No 1 album as One Direction and Fatboy Slim battle for singles honours.

The Canadian band's newly-issued Sonovox/Virgin EMI set Reflektor currently leads the midweeks by a margin of three sales to one over its nearest challenger, Virgin act Katy Perry's Prism, according to the Official Charts Company. Their last album The Suburbs reached No 1 in 2010.

There are four other brand new albums among the Top 10 artist sellers in ...