Jessie J's 2011 debut Who You Are is sixth with 1.33 million combined sales, and is the biggest debut of the decade not to reach Number 1 Jess Glynne is right behind with her chart-topping I Cry When I Laugh, at 1.23 million. The UK's biggest debut by an international artist is Bruno Mars' Doo-Wops and Hooligans, from 2011 (1.87m) and George Ezra's Wanted on Voyage rounds off our Top 5 biggest debuts of the 2010s (1.42m). Emeli's first release Our Version of Events was the biggest selling album of 2012 and has shifted 2.43 million combined sales. Ed's debut + is on 2.5 million, and is immediately followed by another British superstar, Emeli Sandé. 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.īehind Sam is Ed Sheeran, another artist who's seen incredible success this decade - we've even crowned him the UK's Number 1 artist of the decade. 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.
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Whose had the biggest and best start in the 2010s?
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The last decade has seen the launch of scores of new acts with huge international appeal, with a fair few of them coming from the UK.Īs we wave goodbye to 2019 and, thus, the 2010s, we've been looking back at the biggest debut albums that came out in the last decade.
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Every artist has to start somewhere, and an illustrious career in music usually begins with a successful debut album (occasionally it can end there too, but let's not dwell on the downside).