And thats 67
consecutive weeks. In the lonely hour is still top 5 in todays new album chart. He snatches the record from Emeli sande's Our version of events. Before her the Beatles held the record for 50 years!
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The feat is the latest in a long list of impressive accolades for Sam’s In The Lonely Hour. During its record-breaking stint in the Top 10, the album has enjoyed six separate spells at Number 1 (eight weeks in total), spawned four Top 10 singles including the Numbers 1s Money On My Mind and Stay With Me, and was the only album to sell one million in both the UK and US last year. To date, sales for In The Lonely Hour stand at 8.5million worldwide.
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This album is so huge and still going strong. I knew it would have long term consistency just like Adele's albums.