The Verve storm to top of album charts

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Their success comes more than a decade after their last album release and a year after they reunited in June 2007, while just for good measure their single "Love is the Noise" is at number nine in the singles chart.

The Verve rose to fame internationally in the early '90s but internal tensions finally splintered the band in the wake of 1997's success of "Urban Hymns," an album that spawned the megahit "Bittersweet Symphony" and went platinum in the U.S.

Masked metal act Slipknot and "All Hope is Gone" was another new entry at two, while last week's number one, Dublin band The Script and "Script" fell to three.

The top 10 of the album charts had a glut of new entries with Eva Cassidy's "Somewhere" at four, Michael Jackson's "King of Pop" at five, as well as Game's "Lax" at nine and Teddy Thompson and "A Piece of What You Need" at 10.

In the singles chart American singer-songwriter Katy Perry spent a fourth week at number one with her worldwide hit "I Kissed a Girl".

The Californian-born former gospel singer saw off the challenge of Swedish DJ Eric Prydz and "Pjanoo", the top 10's only new entry, which came in at two.

Perry's song has upset some people because it contains the following lyrics: "I kissed a girl and I liked it. The taste of her cherry ChapStick. I kissed a girl just to try it. I hope my boyfriend don't mind it."

Barbadian singer Rihanna, a faller last week, moved up one to three with "Disturbia".

(Reporting by John Joseph; Editing by Robert Hart).