An Auckland opera trio has beaten Lorde to take the best-selling album title in this year's charts.
Sol3 Mio's self-titled debut album is this year's fastest selling record.
Despite it only being on sale for five weeks, it is the No. 1 selling album on this week's Recorded Music New Zealand chart and the No. 1 selling New Zealand album for 2013.
The Samoan-New Zealand group is made up of brothers Amitai and Pene Pati, and cousin Moses Mackay.