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Tom Walker<\/a> has today secured a #1 album with his debut, What a Time to Be Alive<\/em> released by Relentless Records. Tom fought off competition from the likes of Bryan Adams, Ariana Grande and The Greatest Showman<\/em> to hit the top spot.<\/p>\n

His latest\u00a0track\u00a0\u2018You and I\u2019 also hit #8 in the singles chart.\u00a0The #1 follows an already incredible year for Tom after picking up the public-voted BRIT Award for\u00a0British Breakthrough Act.\u00a0Previous single \u2018Leave a Light On\u2019 hit #1 on iTunes in 20 countries (reaching platinum in 10) and\u00a0went\u00a0straight into the Official Top 40 songs of\u00a02018 in the UK.<\/p>\n

Tom said,\u00a0\u201cto everybody who has bought, supported and just been absolutely lovely about this record, who have come to the shows and been there since day one, here we are. Thank you so, so much. Thank you for the support. This is next level!\u201d<\/p>\n

Listen to What a Time to Be Alive<\/em> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tom Walker has today secured a #1 album with his debut, \u2018What A Time To Be Alive\u2019 released by Relentless Records. Tom fought off competition from the likes of Bryan Adams, Ariana Grande and The Greatest Showman to hit the top spot. <\/p>\n

His latest <\/span>track \u2018You And I\u2019 also hit #8 in the singles chart.<\/span> The #1 follows an already incredible year for Tom after picking up the public-voted BRIT Award for British Breakthrough Act. Previous single \u2018Leave A Light On\u2019 hit #1 on iTunes in 20 countries (reaching Platinum in 10) and went straight into the Official Top 40 songs of 2018 in the UK. <\/p>\n

Tom said, <\/span><\/span>\u201cTo everybody who has bought, supported and just been absolutely lovely about this record, who have come to the shows and been there since day one, here we are. Thank you so, so much. Thank you for the support. This is next level!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Listen to \u2018What A Time To Be Alive\u2019 here<\/a>.<\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sme-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nTom Walker scores #1 album with \u2018What a Time to Be Alive\u2019<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sonymusic.co.uk\/tom-walker-scores-1-album-with-what-a-time-to-be-alive\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tom Walker scores #1 album with \u2018What a Time to Be Alive\u2019\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Tom Walker has today secured a #1 album with his debut, \u2018What A Time To Be Alive\u2019 released by Relentless Records. 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