The xx have shot straight to the top of the official UK album chart with their new LP ‘I See You’, NME said.

The trio’s third studio album is their second Number One record after 2012’s ‘Coexist’.

It shifted 26,500 units across physical, digital and streaming equivalent sales and knocked Little Mix’s recent album ‘Glory Days’, off the top.

It comes ahead of their UK tour which kicks off in March. See their 2017 dates in full below.

• Nottingham Motorpoint Arena (March 4, 2017)
• Manchester O2 Apollo (March 5-6)
• London O2 Academy Brixton (March 8-11, 13-15)
• Cardiff Motorpoint Arena (March 17)

Elsewhere in the album chart, the soundtrack to La La Land has shot 96 places to Number Three after the Golden Globe winning film opened in the UK last week.

In the UK singles chart, Ed Sheeran remains at Number One and Two with ‘Shape Of You’ and ‘Castle On The Hill’.