Tom Odell tops the Official Albums Chart with Long Way Down

Tom Odell's Long Way Down knocks Kanye West's Yeezus Off Number 1.

Tom Odell has gone straight in at Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart today with his debut full-length, Long Way Down.

The 22-year-old singer / songwriter has knocked Kaye West’s Yeezus (Number 6) off the top spot, and has outsold the Number 2 album, Rod Stewart’s Time, by more than two copies to one.

Odell, who is signed to Lily Allen’s In The Name Of imprint with Columbia Records, won the Critics’ Choice Award at this year’s BRITs. Previous winners of the prestigious prize include such household names as Adele (2008), Florence And The Machine (2009), Ellie Goulding (2010), and Jessie J (2011). Last year’s winner, Emeli Sande, went on to have the biggest selling album of 2012 with Our Version Of Events. It spent 66 consecutive weeks in the Official Albums Chart Top 10, beating the previous record of 62 weeks which was held by The Beatles’ debut album, Please Please Me, for nearly 50 years.

Mike Rosenberg, AKA Passenger, climbs two places to Number 3 today with All The Little Lights, while Michael Buble’s To Be Loved (up 10 to Number 4) and Jake Bugg’s debut self-titled album (up 22 to Number 5) complete this week’s Top 5.

Official Albums Chart New Entries and High Climbers

In addition to Tom Odell’s Long Way Down (Number 1), there is one other new entry on this week’s Official Albums Chart: Australian electro duo Empire Of The Sun score their second UK Top 40 album with Ice On The Dune, which is new in at Number 24.

This week’s highest climber is Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not by Glastonbury headliners Arctic Monkeys. The Sheffield band’s 2006 debut album soars a massive 148 places from 180 to Number 32.

The Official Albums Chart Top 10 is as follows. Click here to see the Top 100 in full after 7pm.

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