Tom Jones scores record-breaking Number 1 album with Surrounded By Time: “I am forever grateful”

officialcharts.com:

Sir Tom Jones reaffirms his status as a chart icon today as his new album Surrounded By Time lands straight in at Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart, setting a UK chart record.

At 80 years and 10 months old, Tom becomes the oldest male to claim a Number 1 album on the Official Albums Chart, and the oldest artist ever to do so with an album of new material, overtaking Bob Dylan, who topped the chart at 79 years old last June with Rough And Rowdy Ways.

The late Dame Vera Lynn holds the overall record with her greatest hits collection We’ll Meet Again – The Very Best Of, Number 1 in 2009 when Vera was 92.

Read more on the oldest artists who ruled the Official Chart here. Surrounded By Time is Tom’s fourth Number 1 album and his first since