Sam Smith breaks album chart recordSeptember 5, 2015 - 16:31 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - It's congratulations to The Weeknd, who has topped the Official Albums Chart for the first time with Beauty Behind the Madness, Digital Spy said. The Canadian singer's second album goes straight to number one, having fended off competition from Foals. Elsewhere, Jess Glynne's I Cry When I Laugh is at two, while Foals' What Went Down enters at three. Ella Eyre is also new at four with her debut album Feline. It was a hugely significant week for Sam Smith, whose 2014 debut album In the Lonely Hour - which is up one place to five - set a chart record by going 67 consecutive weeks in the Official Albums Chart Top 10. The record was previously held by Emeli Sande's Our Version of Events. Meanwhile, Halsey is new at 9 with Badlands, Motörhead arrive at 10 with Bad Magic and Beach House are new at 17 with their new album Depression Cherry. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. Aram I supports Karekin II’s “patriotic position” Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I has expressed support for the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. |