London: Singer Sam Smith has a reason to rejoice as his debut album 'In The Lonely Hour' has spend a whole year in the top 5 of the UK's official albums chart, a feat previously achieved by The Beatles.
The 23-year-old singer's maiden album celebrates its first birthday this week.
The last, and only other, debut album in Official Charts history to manage this kind of performance in its first year of release was The Beatles' 'Please Please Me' in 1963, which remained in the
Top 5 for 51 weeks of its first year on sale (and 56 weeks overall), according to Official Charts Company records.
"Seeing this statistic genuinely makes me feel very weird, but also insanely happy and just so thankful to everyone who has purchased the album. Not so lonely anymore!" Smith said in a statement.
The singer is currently recuperating from a throat surgery.
