According to the Official Charts Company singer-songwriter Sam Smith has sold 101,000 copies of his debut album ‘The Lonely Hour’.

The BBC Sound of 2014 winner has officially knocked Coldplay out of the lead a week after he scored his third number one single ‘Stay with Me’. The 22 year old Londoner, and third cousin of Lily Allen, first rose to fame in October 2012 after being featured on Disclosures single ‘Latch’ which hit number 11 on the UK charts. It was then in February 2013 that his first single ‘Lay Me Down’ hit the charts only later to be dethroned by Robin Thicke with ‘Blurred Lines’ featuring Pharrell Williams, which came in at number 14 and became the most downloaded song of all time in the UK.

Smith was followed by Paolo Nutini’s ‘Caustic Love’, Paloma Faith’s ‘A Perfect Contradiction’ and Michael Jacksons belated album ‘Xscape at Five’ as runners up but as this evening (1st of June) he received the fastest selling debut album of 2014 to date.