British bands with at least one previous No.1 album to their name – Architects, The Lathums and Doves - filled all of the top three places in the week’s early sales flashes with their new albums but none of them was able to improve their tally of chart-toppers in the final analysis, with Sabrina Carpenter cutting a swathe through them, and all other contenders to return to No.1 with Short N’ Sweet.

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