Dua Lipa’s ‘Radical Optimism’ Is Racing to U.K. No. 1

Dua Lipa’s Radical Optimism will be hard to catch in the U.K. chart race. Based on midweek sales and streaming data captured by the Official Charts Company, the British pop singer’s third studio album has a healthy lead. Radical Optimism is outselling the next-best-placed LP, Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department, by 2 to 1, and should storm home for Lipa’s second leader. Assuming it continues on its path, Radical Optimism will become Lipa’s first album to debut at No. …