Ed Sheeran's 'X' beats Coldplay to claim this year's best-selling album
Ed Sheeran has seen off competition from Coldplay to claim the year's best-selling album.
The A Team star sold more than 182,000 thousand copies of X in its first week of release and has shifted more than 634,000 in total, according to figures from the Official Charts Company.
He said:
Sam Smith's In The Lonely Hour is the second biggest seller having sold 487,000 copies, with Coldplay's Ghost Stories rounding off the top three.
The top 10 biggest sellers of the year so far is dominated by UK acts with US star Pharrell Williams the only international act included.
The Top 10 Best-Selling Albums of 2014 so far:
10 - Bad Blood by Bastille
9 - AM by Arctic Monkeys
8 - If You Wait by London Grammar
7 - Girl by Pharrell Williams
6 - Halcyon by Ellie Goulding
5 - A Perfect Contradiction by Paloma Faith
4 - Caustic Love by Paolo Nutini
3 - Ghost Stories by Coldplay
2 - In The Lonely Hour by Sam Smith
1 - X by Ed Sheeran