JOSH GROBAN has scored his first U.K. number one album with “Stages.”

    The collection of Broadway covers — which includes songs from “Les Miserables” and “The Phantom of the Opera” — is Groban’s seventh U.K. top 40 album.

    Groban pushed Paul Simon into second place on the U.K. album charts.

    The compilation, “The Ultimate Collection,” is still outselling Ed Sheeran’s album “X.”

    Sam Smith’s “In the Lonely Hour” remains at No. 4.

    James Bay’s “Chaos and the Calm” sits in 5th. (SD-Agencies)