The boy bands - some of whom, admittedly, are now a long in the tooth for that epithet and all of whom appeared in the same episode of The X Factor results show 15 days ago - are Take That, JLS and Westlife.

Take That's Progress opened at number one last week with a century high first-week sale of 518,601, and remains at the summit with second week sales of 208,219. It advances 9-4 on the year-to-date chart and is ...