Kings of Leon's latest album WALLS becomes their fifth consecutive studio album to top the Official Albums Chart.

The group's seventh collection follows in the footsteps of Because of the Times, Only by the Night, Come Around Sundown and Mechanical Bull to hit Number 1, all of which peaked at the top spot in their first week of release.

WALLS - an acronym for We Are Like Love Songs – notched up combined chart sales of 50,000, outselling their nearest rival Phil Collins by three copies to one. Phil's The Singles retrospective enters at Number 2, sales boosted earlier in the week following his announcement that he is to come out of retirement for a European Tour.

The all-new Top 5 continues with Keane lead-vocalist Tom Chaplin; The Wave is new at Number 3.

Concluding the Top 5 are Oasis, whose classic album Be Here Now returns to the Top 5 following a re-issue (4), and Two Door Cinema Club, who land their second Top 5 album with Gameshow (5).

Rebecca Ferguson has a fourth Top 10 album in the bag today - her new offering Superwoman flies in at Number 7. American country-rock group Blackberry Smoke hit the Official Albums Chart Top 10 for the first time at 8 with Like An Arrow, while Katie Melua scores a seventh consecutive Top 10 studio album with the self-produced In Winter (9).

Justin Bieber's Purpose vaults five places as his UK tour rolls on and re-enters the Top 10 at 10. Further down, Beth Hart's Fire on the Floor marks her fourth Top 40 record at 28, and David Teie's classical collection Music for Cats bows at Number 33.

John Cooper Clarke and Hugh Cornwell land at 34 with their new project This Time It's Personal; Hillsong Worship enter the Official Albums Chart at 36 with Let There Be Light; and finally, The Game's 1992 is new at Number 38.

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