Listen to the Emeli Sande & Naughty Boy penned track titled ‘Side Effects of You’ above.

This heartfelt ballad chronicles Fantasia’s very public drug over dose in 2010.

Our Version Of Events leaps ahead of The Beatles’ Please Please Me to spend the most consecutive weeks in Top 10 of any debut album.

Emeli Sandé’s chart success shows no signs of slowing, as the Scottish singer/songwriter today makes Official Charthistory.

The Official Charts Company can confirm that Emeli Sandé has smashed The Beatles’ chart record of spending the most consecutive weeks in the UK’s Official Albums Chart Top 10 of any debut album.

Our Version Of Events, the debut release from the 2012 BRITs Critics Choice winner which was released in February of last year and went on to become the biggest selling album of 2012, has not dropped out of the Top 10 since its release – that’s a staggering 63 weeks!  In doing so, Sandé overtakes British music icons The Beatles who held the record for almost 50 years previously with Please Please Me. The debut album from the Fab Four spent 62 weeks inside the Top 10 between its release in 1963 and 1964.

Our Version Of Events has to date sold 1.82 million copies in the UK, spending 10 weeks at Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart, and breaking the 100,000 sales in a week tally on three separate occasions. With 429,000 sales racked up already since the new year, the album is leading the way as 2013’s biggest seller also. The album has also enjoyed platinum status in Germany, France, Belgium and Ireland.

Emeli is no stranger to the upper echelons of the Official Singles Chart either, appearing on two Number 1 singles (Read All About It with Professor Green, and Beneath Your Beautiful with Labrinth), and having a total of 9 Top 10 singles under her belt.

“I’m completely lost for words and this is something I could only have dreamed of,” Emeli tells OfficialCharts.com. “The Beatles are the greatest band of all time and their legacy lives on and continues to inspire all of us that make music.  I’m so happy that so many people have connected with the stories and the songs on the record, this really is our version of events now. I’d like to say thankyou to everyone that has bought, played or shared my music in the last year, without your support this would never have been possible.”

Official Charts Company Managing Director, Martin Talbot, comments:

“It has been an incredible past 15 months for Emeli Sandé – and to break a record which was set almost 50 years ago by The Beatles is arguably the greatest achievement of all. Across her 63 Top 10 weeks, she has been Top 5 for almost 75% of the time – a remarkable record, by one of the most remarkable new British acts to emerge for many years.”

In this new video interview, Emeli takes us on a trip through her career from medical student to getting her first break in music, being nominated as Critics’ Choice at The BRITs, opening (and closing!) the London 2012 Olympic Games, right through to becoming a fully-fledged Official Chart record breaker today!

THE Scots singer performed a collection of songs from her award-winning debut album, for lucky fans at New York’s JFK Airport.

EMELI SANDE entertained crowds at New York’s JFK Airport as she took part in the first Live From T5 concert of the spring season.

The Scots star performed her chart topping single Next to Me as well as other selections from her critically acclaimed debut album Our Version of Events, for ticketed customers and lucky contest winners on Friday evening.

The singer donned a red shift dress with a black print and black leather jacket, complete with black chic heels as she wooed adoring fans at the airport.

Organisers JetBlue have teamed up with multi-platform digital company DailyCandy and Capital Records to provide fans in – Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Washington D.C – with the chance of meeting the singer and winning a weekend trip to New York.

After well and truly conquering the UK’s music industry, Emeli is looking to achieve the same success stateside.

The 26-year-old is set to return to the US for a much-anticipated headline tour, beginning July 2.

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Emeli Sande: ‘The Voice has a false authority, it’s not a good representation of the industry’

‘Next To Me’ songstress Emeli Sande has revealed that while she enjoys watching ‘The Voice’ during the blind auditions round, she loses interest soon after because she thinks the show has a “false authority”.

Speaking to Yahoo! OMG, Sande explained that it’s not really how the music industry works and as an artist herself she doesn’t feel as if she would have the right to dictate to a contestant if they’re good enough to ‘make it’ or not:

“I enjoy looking at the talent that’s undiscovered and I enjoy watching the auditions – but after that, it always makes me a little bit sad. It’s a few people telling others whether they’re good or not. Their confidence can be really knocked – it always makes me feel sad.”

“I don’t think The Voice is a natural representation of the music industry. I think it’s false authority. I know how to be an artist in my own right, and what I love doing is writing. I don’t think I’d ever have any right to tell anyone else whether they can make it or not. I don’t think I’d feel comfortable in that position.”

Despite her feelings about the TV vocal talent show, she added that Jessie J has the right mindset and priorities as a judge: “She really is waving the female flag. She definitely keeps it focused on vocal ability – things that are important when you’re an artist.”

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