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Charlotte's
Second Album Sets Record |
Charlotte’s Second
Album Sets New Record
Karen Price
22/11/1999
AT the tender
age of 13, Charlotte Church has broken more records this week by
becoming the youngest person to see her second album go straight
into the Top 20.
The pint-sized
opera singer entered the Guinness Book of Records last
year as the youngest ever solo artist to have an album in the Top 20
- now she has matched that success by taking the number 13 slot.
Her new album,
called Charlotte Church, went platinum before being
released and after only one week in the charts she has tripled sales
in the UK for the equivalent period last year, said Shalit
Entertainment.
In the US,
Charlotte has been the biggest-selling British act for seven
consecutive weeks this year, outselling stars such as Robbie
Williams, Elton John and The Corrs, a spokesman added.
Charlotte will
be appearing on BBC Wales’s Children In Need programme
on Friday.
And Jamie Shaw,
the 14-year-old singing sensation from Dinas Powys whose debut
album, When You Believe, was released last month, will
also be making an appearance to help raise funds for the BBC
charity.
Charlotte, who
is still trying to decide which of many offers - including singing
before the Pope or President Clinton - she wants to take for
Millennium Eve, and Jamie, will be joining presenters Rhodri
Williams and Frances Donovan in the television studio for the live
broadcast.
The man voted
the world’s favourite Phantom of the Opera, Peter Karrie, will be
performing, as will Jae Alexander - who joins Peter on his current
BBC Wales show Peter Karrie Unmasked.
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