The Island album is set to debut at number one on the artist albums chart this coming Sunday having sold around 72,000 copies up to the close of business on Wednesday, according to the Official Charts Company. That is already more than the highest sales Florence's first album Lungs managed across an entire week.

Lungs debuted at number two in July 2009 after selling 63,020 copies, which remains the most copies it has sold in a week, despite eventually spending ...