Sutton Benger songbird Gabrielle Aplin’s new album, which was released on Monday, has stormed the iTunes chart – claiming both numbers two and three.

English Rain shot straight to number two, with the deluxe edition in third.

And her latest single, Panic Cord, was at number 19 in this week’s Official Top 40.

But Miss Aplin, 20, is taking it all in her stride and says she is not bothered by chart positions.

“I don’t have any numbers in mind at all,” she said.

English Rain was produced by Mike Spencer, who has worked with Kylie Minogue and Emeli Sande.

Miss Aplin, who states her main influences as Joni Mitchell and Fleetwood Mac, said: “People are quite surprised when I say I’m working with a massive pop producer; they think it might go a bit too far. But it’s really not – I wouldn’t let that happen.

"If you don’t like a song and it’s successful, you’re gonna have to sing it for the rest of your life, and you’ll hate yourself.”

The singer-songwriter played a promotional show at Sound Knowledge in Marlborough last night.

Unusually, she started touring nationally before locally, saying there were no places to gig around Chippenham, although she did play at Komedia in Bath, to where she returned in March.

“I just kept touring by myself and releasing my music online, I didn’t approach labels at all,” she said.

Despite having toured Australia with Ed Sheeran this year, she insists her life has not changed much at all.

“It was just like a friend invited me on their tour,” she said. “I met [Ed] a few years ago at a festival in Cornwall.

“People don’t treat me any differently when I go home.

“My mum still makes me clean up and load the dishwasher, and I’m just hanging out in my trackies.”

Miss Aplin has a flat in London but spends half her time at her parents’ house in Sutton Benger, where she grew up, and says she loves the “normality”.

“It doesn’t really feel like I’ve moved away, I spend so much time there anyway,” she said.

“It’s really, really normal, not like London. I’m so glad to have grown up there.”

When asked about Sheldon School in Chippenham, where she was a pupil, Miss Aplin said: “I was average, I just got on with it.”

Home will be the next single released from English Rain and Miss Aplin will tour from October 29 to November 16. The nearest venue to Wiltshire is the O2 Academy, Bristol, on November 8.