Sam Fender secures a record-breaking opening week, with People Watching netting the North Shields native a hat-trick of chart-topping albums.

The English singer-songwriter is back with another album dedicated to the plight of the working-class everyman. Here's how all 11 tracks stack up.

On his third album, People Watching, Sam Fender's voice feels more essential than ever as he continues to stand as a brave and unfaltering artist.

The singer-songwriter’s third release looks to the big stage with its blend of classic rock, tear-jerkers and emotive vocals

Most notably, Fender adds that he’s “desperate” to record a punk album. “I’m buzzing! I’m just singing at you!” he tells the interviewer, going so far as to belt out a Tom Petty-esque track as a preview.

English singer-songwriter Sam Fender spends the bulk of his third studio album putting his observations about others to anthemic pop rock. The concept is simple.

DIY Magazine gave the album five stars and wrote: "People Watching is a bleak but astonishing rumination on our current times, viewed through the lens of Sam’s whirlwind past few years - an album that undoubtedly firms up his position as one of the great songwriters of our time."

Devastating observations about the trials of everyday life are part of what the English singer-songwriter is all about

After a long, patient wait by fans, the time has finally come for Sam Fender to release his third album. Put out to the world on Friday, February 21 ‘People Watching’ brings an end to the ‘Seventeen Going Under’ period of Fender’s career - a hugely impressive time which saw the star go from performing at the old Academy in Newcastle to selling out consecutive nights at St James Park.