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The chart was founded in 1956 and began with a top five being unveiled. It was extended to a top ten from November 1958 onwards. It compiled physical format album sales until 2007, after which it has also included albums sold digitally. Since July 2014, it has incorporated music streaming service data. From 10 July 2015, it has been based on a ...
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 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). It is broadcast on BBC Radio 1 (top 5) and found on the OCC website as a Top 100 or ...
Lists of UK Albums Chart number ones. This is a list of the number one hits in the UK Albums Chart, from its inception in 1956 to the present. The sources are the Record Mirror chart from 1956 to the end of 1958, the Melody Maker chart from November 1958 to March 1960, the Record Retailer chart from March 1960 to March 1972 and the Music Week ...
David Bowie passed the 1000-week mark following his death in January 2016, when 16 of his albums entered or re-entered the top 75. [2] ABBA's 'Gold' became the first album to reach 1000 weeks on the top 100 UK albums chart in July 2021. Robbie Williams is the only artist to feature on the list twice: as a solo artist, and with Take That.
Welsh singer Tom Jones made UK chart history this year when, at 80 years and 10 months old, he became the oldest living male artist to achieve a number-one album in the UK Albums Chart with his 41st studio album Surrounded by Time. The album entered the chart at the top spot on 30 April 2021 (6 May 2021, week ending), giving Jones his fourth ...
This list shows albums that peaked in the Top 10 of the UK Albums Chart during 1973, as well as albums which peaked in 1972 and 1974 but were in the top 10 in 1973. The entry date is when the album appeared in the top ten for the first time (week ending, as published by the Official Charts Company, which is six days after the chart is announced).
The entry date is when the album appeared in the top ten for the first time (week ending, as published by the Official Charts Company, which is six days after the chart is announced). The first new number-one album of the year was the compilation album Raiders of the Pop Charts. Overall, twenty-one different albums peaked at number-one in 1983 ...