Nine weeks after she last topped the album chart, Olivia Dean returns to pole position, with her second studio album, The Art Of Loving starting its fifth run at the summit, and securing its eighth week at No.1 thus far in a 29-week chart tenure during which it has never dropped out of the Top 5.

Though laudable, the album’s 3-1 bounce is attended by a 9.60% dip in consumption week-on-week to 12,585 units (641 CDs, 1,282 vinyl albums, nine ...