Michael Buble's To Be Loved is heading for No 1 in the UK this Sunday having already achieved the highest first-week sales of his career.

With two days of trading still to go, the Reprise/Warner Bros album had sold 92,226 copies by the end of business on Thursday, according to the Official Charts Company. That already beats the Canadian's previous best opening tally of 78,006 with Crazy Love in October 209, while his last album Christmas started with 53,736 sales ...