Every Official Number 1 debut album since 2000

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More often than not, a long and fruitful career in music begins with a successful debut album. The last 20 years has seen the launch of scores of new acts, many with huge international appeal.

One of the biggest and most recent is Lewis Capaldi, whose debut album Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent debuted at Number 1 in May 2019 and recently clocked up an entire year in the Top 10 (and still going), including 10 weeks at the summit.

Lewis's stint at the top is the longest for a debut album in seven years, since Emeli Sande's Our Version Of Events, a record which proved an unstoppable force in 2012/2013.

The following year saw the launch of British singer-songwriter Sam Smith, whose first collection In The Lonely Hour debuted at Number