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Michael Bublé has remained at the top of the album chart this week with Christmas.

The singer’s festive longplayer tops the charts for the second week in a row, selling 317,000 copies to become the Christmas number one album.

Bublé said in a statement: “I’m absolutely thrilled to be Christmas number one. The UK is one of my favourite places to visit and it’s a real honour to have my record in so many fans’ homes this Christmas. Merry Christmas, everyone!”

Christmas is now the biggest-selling album of December and the fourth biggest-selling album of the year,

This week’s chart shows minimal movement, with just four records switching places. Olly Murs’s In Case You Didn’t Know moves up one place, pushing Mylo Xyloto by Coldplay down to number four, while Westlife’s greatest hits compilation leaps one place ahead of + by Ed Sheeran, moving up to number eight.

The Top 10 in full:
1. (1) Michael Bublé: ‘Christmas’
2. (2) Amy Winehouse: ‘Lioness: Hidden Treasures’
3. (4) Olly Murs: ‘In Case You Didn’t Know’
4. (3) Coldplay: ‘Mylo Xyloto’
5. (5) Rihanna: ‘Talk That Talk’
6. (6) Adele: ’21’
7. (7) Rebecca Ferguson: ‘Heaven’
8. (9) Westlife: ‘Greatest Hits’
9. (8) Ed Sheeran: ‘+’
10. (10) One Direction: ‘Up All Night’

Source: Official Charts Company

Michael Bublé has returned to the peak of the UK album chart with his Christmas LP.

The Canadian singer’s festive opus switched positions with last week’s number one Lioness: Hidden Treasures by the late Amy Winehouse after achieving the biggest weekly sales of any album this year, with a total of over 269,000 copies.

Colplay’s Mylo Xyloto boosts five places to three following an 113% week-on-week sales increase sparked by their performance on last Sunday’s X Factor final.

All of this week’s top six, which also comprises of In Case You Didn’t Know by Olly Murs, Talk That Talk by Rihanna and Adele’s 21, shifted over 100,000 copies in the last seven days.

Elsewhere, X Factor 2010 runner-up Rebecca Ferguson dips four to seven with her debut album Heaven, Westlife sneak back into the Top 10 with their Greatest Hits record, which is up two to nine, and Bruno Mars drops back out of the top-sellers after falling one place to 11.

The Top 10 in full:
1. (2) Michael Bublé: ‘Christmas’
2. (1) Amy Winehouse: ‘Lioness: Hidden Treasures’
3. (8) Coldplay: ‘Mylo Xyloto’
4. (4) Olly Murs: ‘In Case You Didn’t Know’
5. (5) Rihanna: ‘Talk That Talk’
6. (6) Adele: ’21’
7. (3) Rebecca Fergsuon: ‘Heaven’
8. (7) Ed Sheeran: ‘+’
9. (11) Westlife: ‘Greatest Hits’
10. (9) One Direction: ‘Up All Night’

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Amy Winehouse’s posthumous release Lioness: Hidden Treasures has landed straight in at number one on the UK album chart.

The LP of previously-unheard recordings shifted over 194,000 copies in just seven days, giving the late singer the biggest weekly sales total of her career.

The figure also makes Hidden Treasures the fourth fastest-selling album of 2011, a title currently held by Lady GaGa’s Born This Way with 215,000 copies.

Lioness‘s success is emulated by the rest of this Sunday’s top four, all of which have managed to break the 100,000 sales barrier in the past week.

Michael Bublé’s Christmas remains at two, but posts a week-on-week increase of over 30% to almost 190,000 copies, X Factor runner-up Rebecca Ferguson shifts over 128,000 editions of her debut album Heaven to reach three and Olly Murs still notches up over 113,000 sales of In Case You Didn’t Know, despite slipping from pole position.

As Christmas approaches, former number one albums occupy the rest of the Top 10, with the biggest movements being made by Rihanna’s Talk That Talk, down two to five, and One Direction’s Up All Night, which crashes five to nine.

The Top 10 in full:
1. (-) Amy Winehouse: ‘Lioness: Hidden Treasures’
2. (2) Michael Bublé: ‘Christmas’
3. (-) Rebecca Ferguson: ‘Heaven’
4. (1) Olly Murs: ‘In Case You Didn’t Know’
5. (3) Rihanna: ‘Talk That Talk’
6. (5) Adele: ’21’
7. (7) Ed Sheeran: ‘+’
8. (8) Coldplay: ‘Mylo Xyloto’
9. (4) One Direction: ‘Up All Night’
10. (10) Bruno Mars: ‘Doo Wops & Hooligans’

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Olly Murs has secured his first UK number one album with his second release In Case You Didn’t Know.

The 2009 X Factor runner-up narrowly beat Michael Bublé’s Christmas – which rose one place to two – by just 5,000 copies.

Rihanna’s Talk That Talk slipped two places from last week’s number one to three, but still managed to sell over 100,000 units.

Il Divo scored their fifth UK Top 10 album, with Wicked Game landing at number six. Bruno Mars’s former number one Doo Wops & Hooligans climbed back up three places to ten, spending its 34th week in the Top 10.

Westlife’s Greatest Hits slips five places to nine, while JLS see their Jukebox album fall to 11.

The Top 10 in full:
1. (-) Olly Murs: ‘In Case You Didn’t Know’
2. (3) Michael Bublé: ‘Christmas’
3. (1) Rihanna: ‘Talk That Talk’
4. (2) One Direction: ‘Up All Night’
5. (9) Adele: ’21’
6. (-) Il Divo: ‘Wicked Game’
7. (8) Ed Sheeran: ‘+’
8. (7) Coldplay: ‘Mylo Xyloto’
9. (4) Westlife: ‘Greatest Hits’
10. (13) Bruno Mars: ‘Doo Wops & Hooligans’

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