Sam Smith's 'In the lonely hour' becomes the biggest debut album

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Sam Smith launched their career as a featured artist on hits by Disclosure and Naughty Boy, but they soon showed they were a huge star in their own right when their debut album In The Lonely Hour was released in 2014. It sold 101,700 copies in its first week on sale, broke the record for most consecutive weeks in the Top 10 for a debut album – spending 69 weeks there from its initial debut in June 2014 – and now has 2.59 million combined sales under its belt.

Just to be clear it's in the UK

[27monster27 9,475]

I am so proud of them. This is very big for the LGBTQ+ community. 

[Regina George 59,387]

Good for them but this whole list doesn’t make any sense in my honest opinion  but still good for them! 

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The first gay man to make music and then come out as nonbinary.

[FfFfFfFF 54,014]

This is actually the first time I'm hearing this album name on a pop forum. 

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If only Stefani Didn’t release red and blue 

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The first openly Ghey to do so...

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12 minutes ago, ReginaGeorge said:

Good for him but this whole list doesn’t make any sense in my honest opinion  but still good for him! 

Edit that comment before the gender police comes for you

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3 minutes ago, Amen Fashion said:

If only Stefani Didn’t release red and blue 

Red and Blue doesn’t count. I’m almost positive The Fame is the most successful debut album of the 2000’s

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17 minutes ago, ReginaGeorge said:

Good for him but this whole list doesn’t make any sense in my honest opinion  but still good for him! 

It's from the UK.

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this must be in the UK only. as far as i know "+" wasn't that big of a thing in the US? 

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4 minutes ago, sillynate said:

Red and Blue doesn’t count. I’m almost positive The Fame is the most successful debut album of the 2000’s

It is. 14.3 Million copies sold. And it's also the the highest selling debut album since Britney's Baby One More Time (1997, 14.8 Million Copies)

So The Fame remains the highest selling debut album of the millenium. 

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14 minutes ago, tomsches said:

Edit that comment before the gender police comes for you

OMG it totally slipped my mind!  thx 

 

10 minutes ago, Supersonic said:

It's from the UK.

oh def makes more sense

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where does this list come from

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That’s quite an achievement! So proud of Sam. And they are still performing very well commercially to this day.