James Blunt achieves a notable chart double this week, with third single You're Beautiful completing a seven week climb to number one, while the former public schoolboy and soldier's Back To Bedlam massively extends its lead at the top of the album chart, writes Alan Jones.

In an era when few singles reach number one unless they debut there, You're Beautiful is the first to take more than six weeks to top the chart since January 1999, when Steps' Heartbeat/Tragedy ...