Relatively unknown acoustic guitarist Kate Walsh has knocked Take That’s Shine off the top of the iTunes download album chart – but does not even own an iPod.

Kate is a true internet success story, she built her fan base simply by putting her music onto her myspace site and eventually managed to persuade iTunes to sell it. She has admitted to being as shocked as everyone else, that her homemade album has been downloaded from iTunes this week, more times than Take That or the Kaiser Chiefs’ Ruby.

Kate told The Times: “You end up looking at it every day to see if you’re still number one. I think I’m ahead of Elton.

“I don’t actually have an iPod yet. I hear they are quite good for ten hour flights.

“I set up my own record label called Blueberry Pie and just got the music out there. It’s pretty easy. Anyone can do it.”