11 Kate Bush albums set to enter the Official Albums Chart Top 100 ahead of first live shows in 35 years

Kate Bush sees 11 of her albums flooding into the early midweek sales flash for the Official Albums Chart Top 100, as the British musical icon prepares to kick off her first run of shows in 35 years tonight.

As legendary singer Kate Bush gears up to play her first run of shows in 35 years in London tonight (August 26), OfficialCharts.com can reveal that early figures show all of her nine studio albums plus collections, The Whole Storyand Director’s Cut, are set to re-enter the chart this week.

Her greatest hits collection The Whole Story, which hit Number 1 upon its release in 1986, is currently Number 8 on the tally (a sales lift of 536% from the previous week),  followed by 1985’s Hounds Of Love at Number 14.

Elsewhere, her 2011 LP 50 Words For Snow and her 1978 debut The Kick Inside are at 32 and 33 respectively, and 1989’s The Sensual World is up 52 places at Number 41.

Further down the chart are The Red Shoes (Number 61), Never For Ever (65), The Dreaming (66), Director’s Cut (67), Lionheart (72) and Aerial (75).

 

The chart entries in full:

 

The Whole Story (8)

Hounds Of Love (14)

50 Words For Snow (32)

The Kick Inside (33)

The Sensual World (41)

The Red Shoes (61)

Never For Ever (65)

The Dreaming (66)

Director’s Cut (67)

Lionheart (72)

Aerial (75)

 

To date, Kate has spent a total of six weeks at Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart across three of her records; Never For Ever (1980), Hounds Of Love (1985), and The Whole Story (1986). 

Meanwhile, her highest charting single and only UK Number 1 is Wuthering Heights, which spent four weeks at the top in 1978.

The news comes after Kate also saw a sales boost following the announcement of the tour back in March this year, where her most recent release, 50 Words Of Snow, saw the biggest week on week percentage uplift of 810%.  The album has sold 155,000 copies to date in the UK.

Kate kicks off her run of 22 shows at London’s Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith tonight (August 26) and wraps up on Wednesday, October 1.

Click here to see Kate Bush’s full Official Chart history and peak positions

For all the latest on this story check the Official Chart Update tomorrow from 4pm here on OfficialCharts.com, this week’s full Official Albums Chart Top 100 will be published here this Sunday at 7pm.

 

For more information email:

Lauren@officialcharts.com

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August 26, 2014 1:00pm ET by Official Charts Company   Comments (0)

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