Spiritbox, The Wildhearts and HotWax are all on course for Top 10 albums in the UK

The Official Charts’ midweek standings are here, and there’s a trio of Kerrang! favourites all sitting in the Top 10.

Excitingly, The Wildhearts are currently in fourth place, with Satanic Rites Of The Wildhearts looking like it will become the band’s “highest-charting record ever in the UK”.

Elsewhere, Spiritbox’s second LP Tsunami Sea is eighth and HotWax’s debut Hot Shock is right behind in ninth – and once again, both would be significant achievements in their respective careers.

All three bands are behind the mighty Lady Gaga, whose seventh album Mayhem is on course for the Number One spot.

Good luck, everyone!

Speaking to Kerrang! recently about Spiritbox’s success and how she manages to keep a level head, singer Courtney LaPlante explained, “We’ve gotten to experience a lot of cool, crazy stuff over the last few years. We got to walk the red carpet and be interviewed right after [legendary American singer-songwriter] Frankie Valli at the GRAMMYs.

“But the more we do those things the more we realise how connected we still feel to the times in our lives when we were working minimum wage jobs, doing what we were doing, feeling like we could never get our band off the ground, when it seemed hopeless. That experience feels so much closer to the reality of who we are now than ‘Courtney on a red carpet’. Those events aren’t part of normal life. It’s going to be a long time before we feel comfortable with them. And we don’t really care if they keep happening to us at all. Those aren’t the parties that bands like ours normally get invited to. And when you don’t get invited, you’re hardly going to stand in line waiting to be let in…”

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