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Foo Fighters make impressive return to knock James Blunt off the top.
Taking their name from a term used in the Second World War to refer to mysterious aerial phenomena or UFOs, the Foo Fighters glide to their second number one with Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, which lands safely at the summit on sales of 135,685, easily beating former incumbent James Blunt, whose All The Lost Souls suffers a 47.5% dip in sales to 61,949, while falling to number two.
Helped by discounting, two other Foo Fighters albums are in the Top 75 - their previous studio album In Your Honour slips 63-69 on sales of 3,382 but their 2006 live acoustic set Skin And Bones re-enters at number 62, on sales of 3,844.
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