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List of UK Albums Chart number ones of the 2020s. The first number one album was Frank Sinatra 's Songs for Swingin' Lovers!. [ 1] For its first few years the chart was usually topped by a musical soundtrack or original cast recording, but rock albums steadily gained ground. Rock was dominant after the release of The Beatles first LP, Please ...
The UK Albums Chart is a weekly record chart compiled by the Official Charts Company, which for most of its history was based on album sales from Sunday to Saturday in the United Kingdom. The chart was founded in 1956, compiling physical format album sales until 2007, after which it has included albums sold digitally .
The Official UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by sales and audio streaming [1] in the United Kingdom. It was published for the first time on 22 July 1956 and is compiled every week by the Official Charts Company (OCC) on Fridays (previously Sundays).
The top three are all compilation albums, headed by Queen 's Greatest Hits which has spent 1422 weeks in the top 100, ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits, with 1169 weeks on the chart, followed by Legend by Bob Marley and the Wailers with 1147 weeks. The most weeks for a studio album is 1058 for Rumours by Fleetwood Mac which charted every year from its ...
The most successful artist of the 1990s was British band Simply Red, who topped the UK Albums Chart for 19 weeks with four different albums. [3] Stars , their fourth studio album, sold 3.29 million copies in total, [ 4 ] and was the biggest-selling album of both 1991 and 1992. [ 5 ]
From 10 July 2015, it has been based on a Friday to Thursday album sales. This list shows the twenty-three artists who have topped the UK Albums Chart, in four or more decades. English band The Rolling Stones have topped the albums chart in the most decades, with six. [1] American musician Bruce Springsteen and Australian singer-songwriter ...
This list shows the twenty-seven artists with the most number ones on the UK singles chart. American singer-actor Elvis Presley has most number one singles with twenty-one. English band The Beatles have the most number one singles for a band, with eighteen. American singer Madonna has the most number ones for a female solo artist with thirteen.
The UK Albums Chart is a weekly record chart based on album sales from Friday to Thursday in the United Kingdom. The Official Charts Company (OCC) defines an "album" as being a type of music release that feature more than four tracks and last longer than 25 minutes; [1] sales of albums in the UK are recorded on behalf of the British music industry by the OCC and compiled weekly as the UK ...