The album, Take That's first with Robbie Williams for 15 years, sold 518,601 copies last week,taking it past Coldplay's X&Y, which sold 465,000 in its debut week in 2005 and Take That's own The Circus, which sold 432,000 first week in 2008.

The result boosted the overall market: combined album sales last week were up 37.2% on the previous frame at 3,192,027, their highest for 45 weeks, although still 2.6% behind same-week sales in 2009.

Universal Music UK chairman and ...