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Her debut album was recorded for just #250, but the low budget is not hindering UK artist Kate Walsh's rise to the top.
Walsh was last week celebrating becoming the first unsigned artist to hit the number one spot on the iTunes albums chart, ahead of major label releases by Take That, Kaiser Chiefs and Arcade Fire.
"It's a sign of that DIY ethos thing working," says Jonathan Morley from Northern Lights, who has been managing Walsh since May last year and funded the recording of her album, entitled Tim's House.
Available in the UK digitally since March 19, the album has also been building a profile in the US since iTunes featured it on its home page; this in turn helped send Tim's House into the top five of the site's folk chart. The groundswell of support for the album was echoed by iTunes UK, where the title track was ...