After winning both the BRITS Critics’ Choice Award and the BBC’s Sound of 2014 poll earlier this year, Sam Smith (left) is living up to great expectations, claiming pole position on the UK albums chart for a second week.
Sam’s long player, In the Lonely Hour,is this year’s fastest selling debut set to date and follows his chart-topping singles Money on My Mind and Stay with Me.
The 22-year-old Londoner is also breaking big time in the States, where he appears on three singles currently in the US top 40.
The ballad Stay with Me vaults to number 19, while his collaborations with Disclosure (Latch) and Naughty Boy (La La La) are both climbing.
His solo album is also expected to enter high on the Billboard chart when released across the pond later this month.
Meanwhile, Coldplay continue their world domination with sixth studio set Ghost Stories recently topping the UK chart and becoming the year’s fastest selling artist album to date.
Shifting 168,000 copies in its first week according to Official Charts Company data, the Chris Martin-fronted quartet maintain their 100 percent strike rate, reaching the UK summit with all of their studio albums.
Unsurprisingly, Ghost Stories also topped the US chart, selling 383,000 copies in its first frame to become the year’s fastest selling album to date.
Elsewhere, Michael Jackson recently scored his tenth British number one album with Xscape, a posthumous collection of previously unreleased tracks.
Sam’s long player, In the Lonely Hour,is this year’s fastest selling debut set to date and follows his chart-topping singles Money on My Mind and Stay with Me.
The 22-year-old Londoner is also breaking big time in the States, where he appears on three singles currently in the US top 40.
The ballad Stay with Me vaults to number 19, while his collaborations with Disclosure (Latch) and Naughty Boy (La La La) are both climbing.
His solo album is also expected to enter high on the Billboard chart when released across the pond later this month.
Meanwhile, Coldplay continue their world domination with sixth studio set Ghost Stories recently topping the UK chart and becoming the year’s fastest selling artist album to date.
Shifting 168,000 copies in its first week according to Official Charts Company data, the Chris Martin-fronted quartet maintain their 100 percent strike rate, reaching the UK summit with all of their studio albums.
Unsurprisingly, Ghost Stories also topped the US chart, selling 383,000 copies in its first frame to become the year’s fastest selling album to date.
Elsewhere, Michael Jackson recently scored his tenth British number one album with Xscape, a posthumous collection of previously unreleased tracks.
There was also a return to the UK albums chart for Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott,formerly of Beautiful South.
Their first offering as a duo, What Have We Become, debuted at number three following huge support from Radio 2 for the extremely catchy single D.I.Y.
This week’s UK albums chart sees dance act Clean Bandit score the highest new entry at number three with their debut New Eyes while 97-year-old Dame Vera Lynn becomes the oldest living artist to reach the top 20, thanks to her new National Treasure collection.
Ed Sheeran gets his first UK number one single this week with Sing, co-written and produced by Pharrell Williams.
The Suffolk star’s previous high on the chart was back in 2011, when his introductory hit The A Team reached number three.
British acts are currently hot stateside with Sheeran already inside the top 20 and Scots dance wizard Calvin Harris ascending into the top ten with Summer.
Meanwhile, Manchester-based four-piece Rixton may not be known in the UK yet but have already secured a US top 20 hit with Me & My Broken Heart, likely to perform well at home when released in July.
However, current queen of the Billboard Hot 100 is Australian rapper Iggy Azalea with her track Fancy, featuring British singer-songwriter and Icona Pop collaborator Charli XCX.
Azalea is the first Australian female artist to top the chart since Olivia Newton-John reigned supreme for ten weeks with her 1981 single Physical.
Not content with pole position, Iggy also features on the current US number two hit Problem by pop princess Ariana Grande.
Their first offering as a duo, What Have We Become, debuted at number three following huge support from Radio 2 for the extremely catchy single D.I.Y.
This week’s UK albums chart sees dance act Clean Bandit score the highest new entry at number three with their debut New Eyes while 97-year-old Dame Vera Lynn becomes the oldest living artist to reach the top 20, thanks to her new National Treasure collection.
Ed Sheeran gets his first UK number one single this week with Sing, co-written and produced by Pharrell Williams.
The Suffolk star’s previous high on the chart was back in 2011, when his introductory hit The A Team reached number three.
British acts are currently hot stateside with Sheeran already inside the top 20 and Scots dance wizard Calvin Harris ascending into the top ten with Summer.
Meanwhile, Manchester-based four-piece Rixton may not be known in the UK yet but have already secured a US top 20 hit with Me & My Broken Heart, likely to perform well at home when released in July.
However, current queen of the Billboard Hot 100 is Australian rapper Iggy Azalea with her track Fancy, featuring British singer-songwriter and Icona Pop collaborator Charli XCX.
Azalea is the first Australian female artist to top the chart since Olivia Newton-John reigned supreme for ten weeks with her 1981 single Physical.
Not content with pole position, Iggy also features on the current US number two hit Problem by pop princess Ariana Grande.
