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Early Sales Report For Paul Weller's "Wake Up The Nation"

From Music Week:

On albums Paul Weller’s brand new Island album Wake Up The Nation is around 7,000 sales ahead of AC/DC’s Columbia-issued soundtrack to the Iron Man 2 movie. If Wake Up the Nation holds on by week’s end it will give the former Jam and Style Council frontman back-to-back solo number ones for the first time in his career as his last album 22 Dreams reached the top last June.

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