Example's newly-released album Playing In The Shadows is around 8,500 sales ahead of its nearest challenger, XL act Adele's 21 whose sales her up 22% on the week following her performance last Saturday night on the first edition of Jonathan Ross's new ITV1 chat show.

The Example album's very likely debut at number one on this coming Sunday's new chart follows him entering the singles countdown at number one with Stay Awake last weekend, Ministry's fourth singles chart-topper of the ...