It's the first time so far this year that we've had six figure sales in consecutive weeks, and help overall album sales to climb for the fourth week in a row, improving 6.6% week-on-week to 2,287,233.

The Foo Fighters tally, at 135,685, is the highest for 22 weeks, and the third highest of the year, trailing only the debut weeks of The Arctic Monkeys' Favourite Worst Nightmare (227,922) and The Kaiser Chiefs' Yours Truly, Angry Mob (151,139)

Compared to the ...