Nov 3, 2005 • 1 min read

Westlife on course for album number one

Westlife are likely to top the album chart this week, selling 65,000 copies to Robbie Williams's 40,000 in his second week of 'Intensive Care'.

Bloody Westlife are more than likely going to get to number one in the album chart this week, knocking Robbie Williams from the top slot. The boybland sold 65,000 copies when their album went on sale this week, whereas Robbie only managed to sell another 40,000 copies of 'Intensive Care' following sales of 300,000 in its first week on release. As my fellow editor is so fond of saying, "that's the Asda shoppers for you". Or something like that.

According to The Sun, Kian Westlife said smugly: "We are absolutely thrilled because this success is genuinely unexpected. We'd have been delighted if we had just made the top five."

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