Emeli Sandé is still a new name to many in the States (that needs to change), but she has been on fire in her homeland of the UK since the debut of her album Our Version of Events. After taking home 2 BRIT Awards for the 2012 release, and shifting over 1.8 million copies in the UK alone, the Scottish songstress continues to make press as she breaks a nearly 50 year-old chart record held by The Beatles!
The Official Charts Company has announced that Emeli Sandé has overthrown The Beatles’ record of spending the most consecutive weeks in the UK’s Official Albums Chart Top 10 of any debut album.
Our Version Of Events, which was released in February of last year and went on to become the UK’s biggest selling album of 2012, has not dropped out of the Top 10 since its release – for a staggering 63 weeks. In doing so, Sandé overtakes the British music icons, who held the record with Please Please Me. The debut album from the Fab Four spent 62 weeks inside the Top 10 between its release in 1963 and 1964.
Emeli’s debut has to date sold 1.82 million copies in the UK, spending 10 weeks at Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart, and breaking the 100,000 sales in a week tally on three separate occasions. With 429,000 sales racked up already since the new year, the album is leading the way as 2013’s biggest seller also. The album has also enjoyed platinum status in Germany, France, Belgium and Ireland.
“I’m completely lost for words and this is something I could only have dreamed of,” Emeli tells OfficialCharts.com. “The Beatles are the greatest band of all time and their legacy lives on and continues to inspire all of us that make music. I’m so happy that so many people have connected with the stories and the songs on the record, this really is our version of events now. I’d like to say thankyou to everyone that has bought, played or shared my music in the last year, without your support this would never have been possible.”
Congrats Emeli!
