Justin Timberlake’s “The 20/20 Experience” (RCA/Sony Music Entertainment) began a third week atop the U.K. album chart as the Official Charts Company published its new sales data Sunday (April 7). British DJ-producer Duke Dumont debuted at No. 1 on the singles chart with “Need U (100%)” (Ministry of Sound), featuring female teenage London singer-songwriter A*M*E.
“The 20/20 Experience” is now Timberlake’s longest-running No. 1 album in the territory. Its 2006 predecessor “FutureSex/LoveSounds” had only one week at the U.K. chart summit before being toppled by the Scissor Sisters’ “Ta-Dah.” His solo debut, 2002’s “Justified,” spent two weeks there in January 2003, before Kelly Rowland’s “Simply Deep” took over.
But it was a close-run thing this time, with the current set selling a modest 26,000 copies, 3,000 ahead of Imagine Dragons’ first album “Night Visions” (Interscope/Universal), which arrived at No. 2. The Las Vegas modern rock band’s banner U.K. week also extended to the singles chart, on which the album’s existing hit “Radioactive” moved back 32-18 and two further tracks from it debuted in the top 40, “On Top of the World” at No. 34 and “It’s Time” at No. 40, with “Demons” appearing at No. 75. “Hear Me” previously reached No. 37.