“Royal Blood might grab a fifth UK Number One!”
“Dead Company leads the midweek albums chart. That's the Official Charts midweek race — Friday's the test. Paws down.”
Official Charts' midweek update on 9 November 2026 said Royal Blood's fifth studio album, Dead Company, had an early lead in the race for Official Albums Chart Number 1. The Brighton duo, Mike Kerr and Ben Thatcher, have already topped the Official Albums Chart with all four previous studio albums: Royal Blood (2014), How Did We Get So Dark? (2017), Typhoons (2021) and Back to the Water Below (2023). This is a midweek snapshot only. The official chart update is due on Friday, so the Number 1 has not been confirmed yet.
That’s the verified detail, as published. If the story is a midweek chart snapshot, the official result still comes later — Koda will not be hurried.
Read the original report: Official Charts
