A Flash Flood Of Colour continues to head the UK artist albums market after accumulating 12,838 sales up to the end of trading on Tuesday, according to Official Charts Company figures. However, both Ed Sheeran's Asylum/Atlantic album + and XL artist Adele's 21 remain less than 5,000 sales behind and have every chance of overtaking by the weekend.

Wherever A Flash Flood Of Colour ends up it will significantly improve on the chart placing of their previous studio album, 2009's ...