Tom Odell, BRITs critics' choice winner for 2013, has reached number one in the UK album charts with his debut album Long Way Down.
According to the Official Charts Company, the 22 year old singer songwriter knocked Kanye West’s Yeezus off the top spot and outsold the number two album, Rod Stewart’s Time, by two copies to one.
Tom is signed to Lily Allen’s In The Name Of imprint with Columbia Records and won the BRITs critics’ choice award earlier this year.
He is the first male artist to win the accolade with previous winners including Florence + The Machine, Adele and last year’s victor Emeli Sande.
The latter went on to have the biggest selling album of 2012 with Our Version Of Events spending 66 consecutive weeks in the top ten.
Michael Buble’s To Be Loved (up 10 to number four) and Jake Bugg’s self-titled debut album (up 22 to number five) also entered the top five.
Elsewhere in the charts, this week’s highest climber was Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not by Glastonbury headliners Arctic Monkeys.
The Sheffield band’s 2006 debut album went up by 148 places from 180 to number 32.
According to the Official Charts Company, the 22 year old singer songwriter knocked Kanye West’s Yeezus off the top spot and outsold the number two album, Rod Stewart’s Time, by two copies to one.
Tom is signed to Lily Allen’s In The Name Of imprint with Columbia Records and won the BRITs critics’ choice award earlier this year.
He is the first male artist to win the accolade with previous winners including Florence + The Machine, Adele and last year’s victor Emeli Sande.
The latter went on to have the biggest selling album of 2012 with Our Version Of Events spending 66 consecutive weeks in the top ten.
Michael Buble’s To Be Loved (up 10 to number four) and Jake Bugg’s self-titled debut album (up 22 to number five) also entered the top five.
Elsewhere in the charts, this week’s highest climber was Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not by Glastonbury headliners Arctic Monkeys.
The Sheffield band’s 2006 debut album went up by 148 places from 180 to number 32.
