Christine And The Queens’ Chaleur Humaine is the biggest selling debut album by an international artist released in the UK in 2016.

While the French artist did not feature alongside Michael Ball & Alfie Boe and TV gameshow host turned singer Bradley Walsh in Music Week’s recent piece on the role of streaming in chart success, her contribution to the charts is significant.

Released in the UK in February (following its original 2014 release in France), Chaleur Humaine peaked at No.2 and currently has sales figures of 169,002. The gold-certified album spent 10 weeks in the UK albums chart Top 10 and reached No.1 on iTunes. The record outstrips American singer Charlie Puth's Nine Track Mind album, which has current figures of 148,360.

Over the festive period Christine And The Queens performed on the Top Of The Pops Christmas special and Jools Holland’s Hootenanny, prompting Chaleur Humaine to surge back into the iTunes Top 10 and the Top 20 of the UK albums chart, it currently sits at No.28.

This week the singer, real name Héloïse Letissier, announced the release of new single iT, while Chaleur Humaine is now available with six bonus tracks and a physical deluxe edition.

The record’s biggest single, Tilted, was released in January 2016, peaked at No.2 and currently sits on sales of 346,405.

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