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The official UK albums chart: the Streets' third album enters at the chart's summit, while Hayley Westenra's number 16 debut is good news for classical, which now has three acts in the Top 20.

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1. The Streets

As an unlucky Massive Attack continue to cool their heels at number two, The Streets debuts at number one for the first time, with third album The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living selling 71,407 copies. The Streets' first album Original Pirate Material debuted and peaked at number 12, while follow-up A Grand Don't Come For Free had to settle for a number two debut behind Keane's Hopes And Fears, despite first-week sales of 106,327, but reached number one six weeks later with a lower sale of 34,413.

2. Massive Attack

Still chasing that elusive third number one album, Massive Attack are number two for the third straight week with Collected: The Best Of Massive Attack. The band, who topped the chart with their last two regular albums, Mezzanine (1998) and 100th Window (2003), sold 72,471 copies of Collected three weeks ago, 47,998 a fortnight ago, and 43,175 last week The album is the Bristol collective's first compilation and, although it didn't top the chart, it has more staying power than 100th Window, which slipped 1-9-16 and, despite its good start, has to date sold 209,141 copies.

3. The Kooks

A fortnight after achieving the extremely rare feat of climbing into the Top 10 of the singles and albums chart simultaneously, Brighton band The Kooks continue to fourth single and first Top 10 hit Naive slips a couple of notches to number seven, but their Inside Out/Outside In album climbs for the sixth week in a row, to reach another new peak. A number nine debut in January, its recent progress reads: 64-58-44-33-9-5-3, while its 12-week sales tally has climbed to 166,130 including 34,814 last week.

27. Don Williams

Country legend Don Williams was, for a time, extremely successful in the UK, racking up a rapid 14 chart albums between 1976 and 1984, although he had just two hit singles--I Recall A Gypsy Woman and You're My Best Friend. Williams hasn't charted since--until this week. Making its debut at number 27 on sales of 12,397, The Definitive Don Williams: His Greatest Hits ties in with the gravelly voiced 66-year-old's UK leg of his International Farewell Tour, which started in Glasgow on Friday (April 14) and finishes May 11 in Manchester.

Chart compiled from actual sales last Sunday to Saturday, across a sample of more than 4,000 UK stores

[c] The Official UK Charts Company 2006. Produced with BPI and BARD cooperation

ARTISTS A-Z

ANDREA BOCELLI 14, 71

ANDY ABRAHAM 21

ARCTIC MONKEYS 12

BASEMENT JAXX 55

BEVERLEY KNIGHT 9

BLUR 64

COLDPLAY 30

CORINNE BAILEY RAE 5

DAFT PUNK 59

DAVID BOWIE 45

DAVID ESSEX 68

DAVID GILMOUR 35

DAVID GRAY 75

DON WILLIAMS 27

EDITORS 44

EMBRACE 7

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