After a tense week of chart battling, Demi Lovato has earned her best ever UK album chart position – even if she fell juuuuuust shy of managing the No1.

Dancing With The Devil… The Art of Starting Over was trailing The Snuts by a razor-thin margin for most of the week – and despite briefly overtaking it at one point, it’s the Scottish band who won the race in the end… by 20,455 sales to 20,183. Yes, a difference of just 272!

Still, Demi far outdoes the No5 peak of 2017’s Tell Me You Love Me, the No6 peak of 2015’s Confident, the No10 peak of 2013’s Demi and the No45 peak of 2011’s Unbroken. Her first two albums – Don’t Forget and Here We Go Again – did not make the Top 100 over here.

Three songs from this new album are also on the singles chart: Ariana Grande collab Met Him Last Night enters at No44 and the semi-title track Dancing With The Devil arrives at No50. Sam Fischer collab What Other People Say holds at its previous peak of No58.

On top of all that, her US estimates have improved dramatically: her initial projection of 61k first-week sales has been upgraded to a likely 71.5k; enough to likely put her at No2 on the Billboard 200 early next week. Justin Bieber will likely hold No1 with 76k, thanks primarily to strong streaming numbers; but Demi will have the most actual sales.

Now I will need either the Saweetie collab, My Girlfriends Are My Boyfriend, or the excellent Lonely People to be the next single.