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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).
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 ...
Queen 's Greatest Hits (1981) is the best-selling album in the UK. Their 1991 follow-up Greatest Hits II is the UK's tenth highest-selling album. The best-selling album in the United Kingdom is Greatest Hits, a compilation album by the British rock band Queen that was first released in 1981. [ 1] As of July 2022, it has sold more than 7 million ...
The following artists have achieved simultaneous weeks at number one in both charts but with different songs. ABBA, 9 April 1977 – "Knowing Me, Knowing You" in the UK and "Dancing Queen" in the US (one week) [ 133][ 134] John Lennon, 10 – 24 January 1981 – "Imagine" in the UK and "(Just Like) Starting Over" in the US (three weeks) [ 135 ...
The UK Albums Chart is one of many music charts compiled by the Official Charts Company that calculates the best-selling albums of the week in the United Kingdom. [1] [2] [3] Before 2004, the chart was only based on the sales of physical albums.
The UK Album Downloads Chart is compiled by the Official Charts on behalf of the British music industry. Since July 2015, the chart week runs from Friday to Thursday, with the chart date given as the following Thursday. [1] The chart was introduced in April 2006 to coincide with the OCC's decision to include sales of album downloads in the UK ...
Fifteen record labels have spent three or more weeks at the top of the UK Official Download Chart so far during the 2020s. The totals below do not include compilation albums credited to various artists apart from soundtracks which are included.
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-actress-businesswoman Kylie Minogue are the only solo artists to score a ...