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Artist News
Sandé breaks Beatles chart record
By Chris Cooke | Published on Monday 29 April 2013
That Emeli Sandé has only gone and broken a Beatles chart record. According to the Official Charts Company, her debut album ‘Our Version Of Events’ has now been in the album chart’s top ten ever since its release 63 weeks ago. The Beatles’ debut long player ‘Please Please Me’, released in 1963, spent 62 weeks in the top ten, and until now that was the longest any debut album had spent in the top bit of the chart.
OCC boss Martin Talbot told CMU: “It has been an incredible past fifteen months for Emeli Sandé – and to break a record which was set almost 50 years ago by The Beatles is arguably the greatest achievement of all. Across her 63 top ten weeks, she has been top five for almost 75% of the time – a remarkable record, by one of the most remarkable new British acts to emerge for many years”.
While Sandé herself added: “I’m completely lost for words and this is something I could only have dreamed of. 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 thank you to everyone that has bought, played or shared my music in the last year, without your support this would never have been possible”.
