At the beginning of the week Faith's newly-issued RCA album was around 40% ahead in sales of Decca's Sing release, but by the close of business on Thursday this lead had narrowed to just 8%, according to the Official Charts Company.

Behind the two biggest albums at this stage of the week are four other brand new releases with Atlantic act Rumer's Boys Don't Cry third, Polydor's Scissor Sisters album Magic Hour fourth, Sony Classical act Russell Watson fifth with ...