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UK Albums Chart
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{{short description|British albums sales chart}}{{Cleanup|reason=lengthy and wordy list of achievements|date=January 2023}}{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2023}}The Official Albums Chart, previously the UK Albums Chart, is a list of albums ranked by sales and audio streamingWEB,www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/uk-official-albums-chart-to-include-streaming-data-for-first-time-3479/, UK’s Official Albums Chart to include streaming data for the first time, Official Charts Company, 12 February 2015, 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 on UKChartsPlus as a Top 200,WEB,www.ukchartsplus.co.uk/, UKChartsPlus Home Page, Ukchartsplus.co.uk, with positions continuing until all sales have been tracked in data only available to industry insiders. However, even though number 100 was classed as a hit album (as in the case of The Guinness Book of British Hit Albums) in the 1980s until January 1989, since the compilations were removed, this definition was changed to Top 75 with follow-up books such as The Virgin Book of British Hit Albums only including this data. As of 2021,WEB,www.officialcharts.com/, Official Charts â Home of the Official UK Top 40 Charts, Officialcharts.com, the OCC still only tracks how many UK Top 75s album hits and how many weeks in Top 75 albums chart each artist has achieved.To qualify for the Official Albums Chart, the album must be the correct length and price. It must be more than three tracks or 20 minutes long and not be classed as a budget album. A budget album costs between £0.50 and £3.75. Full details of the rules can be found on the OCC website.WEB,www.officialcharts.com/media/647277/official-uk-charts-album-chart-rules-march-2015.pdf, Rules for Chart Eligibility: Albums, 1 March 2015, Official Charts Company, 3 November 2015, - the content below is remote from Wikipedia
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History
According to the canon of the OCC, the official British albums chart was the Record Mirror chart from 22 July 1956 to 1 November 1958; the Melody Maker chart from 8 November 1958 to March 1960;Warwick, Neil; Kutner, Jon; Brown, Tony (2004). The Complete Book of the British Charts: Singles and Albums (3rd ed.). London: Omnibus Press. {{ISBN|1-84449-058-0}}.the Record Retailer chart from 1960 to 1969; and the Official Albums Chart from 1969 on. For eight weeks in February and March 1971 no Official Albums Chart was compiled due to a postal strike â for this period, the OCC uses the chart compiled by Melody Maker instead.WEB,www.officialcharts.com/who-we-are/seventies-history/, The history of the Official Charts: the Seventies, OfficialCharts.com, 4 May 2020, In the 1970s the new album chart was revealed at 12:45 pm on Thursdays on BBC Radio 1, and then moved{{when|date=June 2023}} to 6:05 pm (later 6:30 pm) on Wednesday evenings during the Peter Powell and Bruno Brookes shows.{{cn|date=June 2023}} In October 1987 it moved to Monday lunchtimes, during the Gary Davies show, and from April to October 1993 it briefly had its show from 7:00â8:00 pm on Sunday evenings, introduced by Lynn Parsons. Since October 1993 it has been included in The Official Chart show from 4:00â5:45 pm on Fridays (previously from 4:00â7:00 pm on Sundays). A weekly ‘Album Chart’ show was licensed out to BBC Radio 2 and presented by Simon Mayo, until it ended on 2 April 2007.Though album sales tend to produce more revenue and, over time, act as a greater measure of an artist’s success, this chart receives less media attention than the UK Singles Chart, because overall sales of an album are more important than its peak position. 2005 saw a record number of artist album sales with 126.2 million sold in the UK.NEWS,news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4588444.stm, Blunt boosts record labels’ 2005, BBC, 6 January 2008, In February 2015, it was announced that due to the falling sales of albums and rise in popularity of audio streaming, the Official Albums Chart would begin including streaming data from March 2015. Under the revised methodology, the Official Charts Company takes the 12 most streamed tracks from one album, with the top-two songs being down-weighted in line with the average of the rest. The total of these streams is divided by 1000 and added to the pure sales of the album. This calculation was designed to ensure that the chart rundown continues to reflect the popularity of the albums themselves, rather than just the performance of one or two smash hit singles. The final number one album on the UK Albums Chart to be based purely on sales alone was Smoke + Mirrors by Imagine Dragons. On 1 March 2015, In the Lonely Hour by Sam Smith became the first album to top the new streaming-incorporated Official Albums Chart.NEWS,www.musicweek.com/businessanalysis/read/sam-smith-tops-first-streaming-integrated-uk-albums-chart/061022, Sam Smith tops first streaming integrated UK Albums Chart, Jones, Alan, 1 March 2015, Music Week, 12 November 2015, 6 March 2015,www.musicweek.com/businessanalysis/read/sam-smith-tops-first-streaming-integrated-uk-albums-chart/061022," title="web.archive.org/web/20150306011142www.musicweek.com/businessanalysis/read/sam-smith-tops-first-streaming-integrated-uk-albums-chart/061022,">web.archive.org/web/20150306011142www.musicweek.com/businessanalysis/read/sam-smith-tops-first-streaming-integrated-uk-albums-chart/061022, dead, The weekly Top 75 UK Albums Chart (albums described as hits in the case of British Hit Singles & Albums or The Virgin Book of British Hit Albums) were published in Music Week magazine until 2021. In 2018 Future (publisher of ‘Louder Sound’ publications such as Metal Hammer and Classic Rock)WEB, PennWell Corp. and NewBay Media Acquired By UK Firms, Folio, 1 September 2018, 4 April 2018,www.foliomag.com/pennwell-corp-newbay-media-acquired-uk-firms/,web.archive.org/web/20180902011815/https://www.foliomag.com/pennwell-corp-newbay-media-acquired-uk-firms/, 2 September 2018, live, dmy-all, WEB,www.musicweek.com/media/read/future-acquires-music-week-publisher-newbay-media/071997, Future acquires Music Week publisher NewBay Media, Music Week, en, 19 December 2018, WEB,www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/monthly-official-singles-and-albums-charts-coming-exclusively-to-music-weeks-all-new-monthly-publication__32422/, The very first Monthly Official Singles and Albums Charts are coming to Music Week, Officialcharts.com, WEB,www.loudersound.com/, Together we’re Louder | Louder, Loudersound.com, acquired Music Week publisher NewBay Media. Future decided that the publication would go monthly from March 2021, and so a bespoke monthly Official Albums Chart Top 75 (similar to album charts used by Top of the PopsWEB,www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000rxph, BBC One â Top of the Pops, 02/08/1990, BBC, in the early 1990s and Absolute 80s on Sundays)WEB,planetradio.co.uk/absolute-80s/shows/the-absolute-80s-album-chart/, The Absolute 80s Album Chart on Absolute 80s, Absolute 80s, WEB,planetradio.co.uk/absolute-80s/schedule/, Absolute 80s â Latest Show Schedule, Absolute 80s, started to be published from this date alongside monthly singles charts and specialist/genre charts.By 2022, the weekly album chart had started to regularly feature a pattern of acts getting a Top 10 new entry one week, followed by a dramatic decline the next, with most of these releases exiting the Top 75 completely. The majority of these acts would be indie and rock bands like the Wombats, Sea Power and Maxïmo Park, who would market their album to the type of people who would want to own the release via a physical format rather than streaming it. This trend became so prevalent that Northern Irish indie band Two Door Cinema Club decided to take a stand and ended up destroying the masters of their latest album Keep On Smiling, so it would not become part of a multi-formatted first week marketing opportunity.WEB,www.musicweek.com/labels/read/why-two-door-cinema-club-and-prolifica-management-stopped-chasing-week-one-album-sales/086441, Why Two Door Cinema Club and Prolifica management stopped chasing week one album sales, The first number one on the UK Albums Chart was Songs for Swingin’ Lovers! by Frank Sinatra for the week ending 22 July 1956. As of the week ending 23 May 2024, the UK Albums Chart has had 1362 different number one albums. The current number one album is The Tortured Poets Department by Taylor Swift.WEB,www.officialcharts.com/charts/albums-chart/, Official Albums Chart Top 100 | Official Charts Company, Officialcharts.com,Record holders
{{Very long section|date=August 2022}}The most successful artists in the charts depend on the criteria used. As of February 2016, Queen albums have spent more time on the British album charts than any other musical act,NEWS,news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4648611.stm, Queen top UK album charts league, BBC, 4 July 2005, 27 October 2008, followed by the Beatles, Elvis Presley, U2 and ABBA. By most weeks at number one, the Beatles lead with a total of 176 weeks, and the most number one albums of all with 16,WEB,www.officialcharts.com/artist/10363/beatles/, The Beatles, Officialcharts.com, 11 April 2016, followed by The Rolling Stones and Robbie Williams with 14 number ones each. Similar to the situation regarding Elvis Presley’s record-breaking tallyWEB,www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/artists-with-the-most-number-1-singles-on-the-uk-chart__23765/, Artists with the most Number 1 singles on the UK chart, Officialcharts.com, of number ones on the singles chart, The Official Charts Company has classed re-issues of The Beatles’ Abbey Road, and The Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main Street and Goats Head Soup, as brand new hits/number 1s due to the amount of bonus material available, formats released and the fact that the issuing record label had changed.WEB,www.officialcharts.com/artist/28195/rolling-stones/, The Rolling Stones | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company, Officialcharts.com, As of September 2022, Elvis Presley is still the male solo artist with the most weeks at number one with a total of 66 weeks and most top ten albums by any artist, charting 53 releases.WEB,www.officialcharts.com/artist/13107/elvis-presley/, Elvis Presley, Officialcharts.com, 11 April 2016, Until this same month, he also held the record for the most number one albums by a solo artist in a tie with Robbie Williams, however when Williams’ XXVWEB,www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/robbie-williams-breaks-official-chart-records-with-xxv-album-only-the-beatles-now-have-more-uk-number-1-albums__37414/, Robbie Williams breaks Official Chart records with XXV, Official Charts Company, Official Charts, album reached the top on 16 September 2022, the former Take That star broke this record with 14 number ones albums to Presley’s 13 chart toppers, with Williams moving into second place in the all-time number 1 album record holders just two behind The Beatles. As of October 2023, The Rolling Stones join Williams in joint second place for overall artists with most number ones when they released their 14th No.1 album Hackney Diamonds. With Williams and Presley, the record was broken on a technicality, as many Presley’s albums have been kept off the top spot by movie soundtracks, while with Williams such albums are now in their own chart.WEB,www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/acts-with-the-most-number-1-albums-on-the-official-uk-chart__15643/, Acts with the most Number 1 albums on the Official UK Chart, Officialcharts.com, WEB,www.officialcharts.com/artist/1849/robbie-williams/, Robbie Williams | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company, Officialcharts.com, Taylor Swift and Madonna tie for has the most number one albums by a female artist in the UK, with 12 each, though in Madonna’s case this includes the Evita film soundtrack which was a cast recording and not strictly a Madonna album as she does not perform on every track (of the album’s 31 tracks, she performs on 22 songs but only on 8 songs by herself). Swift also holds the record for the most consecutive number one albums by a female artist with 9, just one behind Eminem who holds the record for the most consecutive number one albums in Official Albums Chart history with 10.WEB,www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/eminem-surpasses-led-zeppelin-and-abba-to-claim-the-most-consecutive-number-1s-in-official-albums-chart-history-with-kamikaze__23888/, Eminem surpasses Led Zeppelin and ABBA to claim the most consecutive Number 1s in Official Albums Chart history with Kamikaze, Official Charts Company, 7 September 2018, 7 September 2018, Adele is the female solo artist with the most weeks at number one, with a total of 37 weeks.WEB,www.officialcharts.com/artist/3710/adele/, Adele, Officialcharts.com, 11 April 2016, Spice Girls are the female group with the most weeks at number one, with a total of 18 weeks (15 of which were for their debut album Spice).WEB,www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=203971, Music forums focusing on chart music with chart and entertainment discussion., BuzzJack Entertainment, Forums, Buzzjack.com, In March 2018, Little Mix’s fourth studio album Glory Days, set a new chart record for the most weeks spent inside the top 40 of the UK Albums Chart for a girl group album. As of 2022, it had spent 69 weeks in the Top 40.WEB, Little Mix’s official biggest albums in the UK ranked,www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/little-mixs-official-biggest-albums-in-the-uk-ranked-and-revealed__31559/, 11 August 2022, www.officialcharts.com, en, WEB, Little Mix’s Glory Days sets new girl group chart record,www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/little-mixs-glory-days-sets-uk-chart-record-as-the-longest-reigning-top-40-girl-group-album-ever__22376/, 11 August 2022, www.officialcharts.com, en, To date, Little Mix are the girl group with the most Top 5 albums, with seven as of 2021.WEB, The Official Top 40 biggest girl band studio albums,www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/the-official-top-40-biggest-girl-band-studio-albums-of-the-last-25-years__26546/, 11 August 2022, www.officialcharts.com, en, In July 2021, ABBA’s (Gold: Greatest Hits (ABBA album)|Gold: Greatest Hits) was officially recognised by the Official Charts Company as the first album to spend over 1000 weeks on the Albums Chart,WEB,www.nme.com/news/music/abba-gold-becomes-first-album-to-spend-1000-weeks-on-uk-charts-2986256, ‘ABBA Gold’ becomes first album to spend 1,000 weeks on UK charts, NME, 6 July 2021, WEB,www.umusicpub.com/uk/News/2021/7/ABBA-Gold-reaches-1000-weeks-on-the-Official-Albums-Chart.aspx, ABBA ‘Gold’ reaches 1000 weeks on the Official Albums Chart, Umusicpub.com, 3 March 2022, NEWS,www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-57697878, Abba Gold reaches record-breaking 1,000 weeks in UK album chart, BBC News, 2 July 2021, WEB,www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/abba-gold-becomes-first-album-to-reach-1000-weeks-on-the-official-albums-chart__33502/, Official Charts Company, ABBA Gold becomes the first album to reach 1000 weeks on the Official Albums Chart, 13 July 2021, WEB,www.officialcharts.com/artist/8604/abba/, Abba | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company, Officialcharts.com, WEB,djmag.com/news/abba-s-gold-spends-record-breaking-1000-weeks-uk-charts#:~:text=ABBA%27s%20%27Gold%27%20album%20has%20spent,in%20the%20UK%20album%20charts, ABBA’s ‘Gold’ spends record-breaking 1000 weeks in UK charts, 7 July 2021, MAGAZINE,www.billboard.com/articles/news/9596785/abba-gold-record-1000-weeks-uk-chart/, ABBA ‘Gold’ Is First Album to Log 1,000 Weeks on U.K. Chart, Billboard, WEB,www.forbes.com/sites/hughmcintyre/2021/07/02/abbas-gold-greatest-hits-is-the-first-title-to-hit-1000-weeks-on-the-uk-albums-chart/, ABBA’s ‘Gold’ Greatest Hits Is The First Title To Spend 1,000 Weeks On The U.K. Albums Chart, Hugh, McIntyre, Forbes, WEB,www.officialcharts.com/charts/albums-chart/19940109/7502/, Official Albums Chart Top 75 | Official Charts Company, Officialcharts.com, WEB,www.officialcharts.com/charts/albums-chart/19940116/7502/, Official Albums Chart Top 75 | Official Charts Company, Officialcharts.com, WEB,www.officialcharts.com/charts/albums-chart/19940123/7502/, Official Albums Chart Top 75 | Official Charts Company, Officialcharts.com, WEB,www.officialcharts.com/charts/albums-chart/19940130/7502/, Official Albums Chart Top 75 | Official Charts Company, Officialcharts.com, but this total does not include 2014’s Gold â 40th Anniversary Edition (which like Queen’s The Platinum Collection is a 3-CD set also including More ABBA Gold: More ABBA Hits and The Golden B-sides) or additional weeks inside the Top 100 missing from the OCC’s database before February 1994 (as with the singles chart, Music Week only published the Top 75 as this was the public chart for store owners to use in their record shops with the Top 150 Artist Albums Chart WEB,www.officialcharts.com/who-we-are/eighties/, The history of the Official Charts: the Eighties, Official Charts Company, 1989 “the Official Albums Chart is split in two: a Top 150 Artist Albums Chart and a Top 50 Multi-Artist Compilations Chart. In time, the two charts become widely referred to (including within the OfficialCharts.com database) as the “Official Albums Chart” and “Official Compilations Chart. Format shifts continue through the year â sales of CDs overtake vinyl albums for the first time, as BPI data registers a then albums market peak of 163 million units across the year”., 13 July 2021, being for industry insiders/ChartsPlus subscribers).For many years, The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was the best-selling album in UK chart history, but is now in third place after being supplanted by Queen’s Greatest Hits and then also by ABBA’s (Gold: Greatest Hits (ABBA album)|Gold: Greatest Hits). However, Sgt. Pepper still remains the best-selling studio album in UK chart history. Queen’s Greatest Hits has sold over 7 million copies (including downloads and equivalent streams) as of July 2022. ABBA’s Gold has sold over 6 million, and Sgt. Pepper has sold in excess of 5.4 million copies.WEB,www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/abba-overtake-the-beatles-as-gold-becomes-the-uks-second-biggest-selling-album-of-all-time-2225/, ABBA overtake The Beatles to score UK’s second biggest selling album, Official Charts Company, 11 April 2016, The longest-running number one album, both consecutively and non-consecutively, is the soundtrack of the film South Pacific. It had a consecutive run of 70 weeks from November 1958 to March 1960, and had further runs at the top in 1960 and 1961, making a non-consecutive total of 115 weeks.The youngest artist to top the chart is Neil Reid, whose debut album topped the chart in 1972 when he was only 12 years old,WEB,www.everyhit.co.uk/recordalb.html, Record Breakers and Trivia: Albums, Everyhit.co.uk, 5 January 2008, while the youngest female artist is Billie Eilish who was 17 years old when she debuted at the top with When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?.WEB,www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/billie-eilish-becomes-the-youngest-ever-female-solo-act-to-top-the-official-albums-chart-thank-you-for-the-love-__25987/, Billie Eilish scores record-breaking Number 1 album, Officialcharts.com, The record for the oldest artist to top the charts is Vera Lynn, who was 92 years old when she was at number one with (We’ll Meet Again: The Very Best of Vera Lynn), released in 2009 (though the album only contains material she recorded between 1936 and 1959). Lynn, who died in 2020 at the age of 103,NEWS,www.bbc.com/news/uk-53091856, Dame Vera Lynn: Forces’ Sweetheart dies aged 103, BBC News, 18 June 2020, NEWS,www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-13118290, Obituary: Dame Vera Lynn, a symbol of resilience and hope, BBC News, 18 June 2020, also leads the list for the oldest artist to have a chart album, when the 2017 release of Vera Lynn 100, released to mark her 100th birthday (though again, this only contains material she recorded decades earlier), peaked at number 3. Currently, the oldest living male artist to have the topped the UK albums chart is Tom Jones,NEWS,www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/tom-jones-surrounded-by-time-b1840661.html, Tom Jones fans celebrate as singer becomes oldest man to top UK album charts, 1 May 2021, The Independent, who reached the top in 2021 with new studio album Surrounded By Time at the age of 80,WEB,www.theguardian.com/music/2021/apr/30/tom-jones-80-oldest-man-uk-album-chart, Tom Jones, 80, becomes oldest man to top UK album chart, 30 April 2021, The Guardian, WEB,www.theguardian.com/music/2021/apr/22/tom-jones-surrounded-by-time-review, Tom Jones: Surrounded By Time review | Alexis Petridis’s album of the week, 22 April 2021, The Guardian, NEWS,www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-56948942, Sir Tom Jones becomes oldest man to top UK album chart, BBC News, 30 April 2021, WEB,www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/tom-jones-scores-record-breaking-number-1-album-with-surrounded-by-time-i-am-forever-grateful-__33043/, Tom Jones scores record-breaking Number 1 album: “I am forever grateful”, Officialcharts.com, while 95 year old Tony Bennett charted at number 6 on the chart of 8â14 October 2021 with his Lady Gaga duets album Love For Sale, becoming recognised by Guinness World Records as the oldest person to release an album of new material.WEB,www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2021/10/legendary-tony-bennett-officially-the-oldest-person-to-release-an-album-of-new-ma-678310, Legendary Tony Bennett officially the oldest person to release an album of new material, 8 October 2021, WEB,www.officialcharts.com/charts/albums-chart/, Official Albums Chart Top 100 | Official Charts Company, OfficialCharts.com,Debut albums
The fastest-selling debut albums (first-week sales):- All-time highest sales by a solo female artist is Susan Boyle with I Dreamed a Dream, which sold 411,820 copies in November 2009
- By a band is Arctic Monkeys with Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, which sold 363,735 copies in 2006NEWS,news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5391154.stm, Madonna breaks earnings record, 29 September 2006, BBC Online, 19 March 2016,
- By a solo male act is Craig David with Born to Do It, which sold 225,320 copies in 2000NEWS,www.nme.com/news/craig-david/91937, Craig David recreates iconic ‘Born to Do It’ album artwork with Instagram post, Morgan Britton, Luke, 1 March 2016, NME, 19 March 2016,
Official Compilations Chart Top 100
Over more than sixty years of compiling album sales, the various chart compiling firms have had a problem with the success of multi-artist compilation albums, with these albums (mostly TV-advertised collections featuring a number of hits) either being allowed to chart in the main album chart or excluded.In August 1971, the British Market Research Bureau (BMRB)WEB,www.officialcharts.com/who-we-are/sixties-history/, Who We Are - History of the Official Charts - the Sixties, Officialcharts.com, 3 March 2022, allowed low-priced budget albums to chart as well as standard compilations.WEB,www.officialcharts.com/charts/albums-chart/19710801/7502/, Official Albums Chart Top 50, Officialcharts.com, 3 March 2022, This decision gave a number one to Music For Pleasure’s Hot Hits 6, which went straight in at the top of the chart and was joined at number 6 by a new entry for Hallmark’s Top of the Pops Volume 18, another album featuring a selection of popular tracks performed by session artists in the style of a recent hit (and unconnected with the BBC series of Top of the Pops albums, which would follow in the 1990s).This decision was soon overturned, with these anonymous cover albums being taken out the chart again. On the Official Albums Chart Top 50 for the week ending 18 August 1973, all the compilations listed as ‘various artists’ albums were taken out of the chart, but those billed as ‘official soundtracks’ (to films such as A Clockwork Orange and Cabaret) were kept in.WEB,www.officialcharts.com/charts/albums-chart/19730812/7502/, Official Albums Chart Top 50, Officialcharts.com, 3 March 2022, As the Ronco-released tie-in to the 1973 film That’ll Be the Day was listed as a various artist album and not as a soundtrack, it disappeared from the chart after its seventh week at number oneWEB,www.officialcharts.com/charts/albums-chart/19730624/7502/, Official Albums Chart Top 50, Officialcharts.com, 3 March 2022, WEB,www.officialcharts.com/charts/albums-chart/19730701/7502/, Official Albums Chart Top 50, Officialcharts.com, 3 March 2022, WEB,www.officialcharts.com/charts/albums-chart/19730708/7502/, Official Albums Chart Top 50, Officialcharts.com, 3 March 2022, WEB,www.officialcharts.com/charts/albums-chart/19730715/7502/, Official Albums Chart Top 50, Officialcharts.com, 3 March 2022, WEB,www.officialcharts.com/charts/albums-chart/19730722/7502/, Official Albums Chart Top 50, Officialcharts.com, 3 March 2022, WEB,www.officialcharts.com/charts/albums-chart/19730729/7502/, Official Albums Chart Top 50, Officialcharts.com, 3 March 2022, WEB,www.officialcharts.com/charts/albums-chart/19730805/7502/, Official Albums Chart Top 50, Officialcharts.com, 3 March 2022, alongside EMI’s former number one Pure GoldWEB,www.officialcharts.com/charts/albums-chart/19730617/7502/, Official Albums Chart Top 50, Officialcharts.com, 3 March 2022, and Phillip’s 20 Original Chart Hits.In 1983, the Now That’s What I Call Music series was launchedWEB,www.officialcharts.com/artist/3954/various-artists---now-series/, VARIOUS ARTISTS - NOW SERIES | full Official Chart History, Officialcharts.com, 3 March 2022, by EMI/Virgin, followed by CBS/WEA’s rival Hits Album series a year later and Chrysalis/MCA’s Out Now! in 1985.WEB,www.officialcharts.com/search/albums/out-now!-2/, out now! 2 | full Official Chart History, Officialcharts.com, 3 March 2022, WEB,www.officialcharts.com/search/albums/out-now!/, out now! | full Official Chart History, Officialcharts.com, 3 March 2022, From this point in the 1980s, every regular edition of Now That’s What I Call Music topped the albums chart (apart from Now 4WEB,www.officialcharts.com/charts/albums-chart/19841223/7502/, Official Albums Chart Top 100 | Official Charts Company, Official Charts Company, Official Charts, which was kept of the number one spot by the first ever Hits Album), with these albums from the three major-label joint-ventures joined in the charts by many albums from all the regular compilation specialists like K-Tel, Telstar and Stylus.WEB,www.officialcharts.com/artist/28339/various-artists/, VARIOUS ARTISTS | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company, Officialcharts.com, 3 March 2022, As the amount of compilations in the chart were keeping out artists from reaching number one or charting at all, it was decided that all the various artist albums would be removed from the Official Albums Chart Top 100.In January 1989, all the various artist compilation albums were removed from the Top 100 albums chart and given their own Top 20 chart (found in Music Week and Record Mirror), with the main albums chart reformatted as a top 75 (as far as hit albums are concerned) to equal the singles chart.As of 2022,WEB,www.officialcharts.com/charts/official-compilations-chart/, Official Compilations Chart Top 100 | Official Charts Company, Official Charts Company, Official Charts, the OCC publishes the Official Compilations Chart Top 100 on their website,WEB,www.officialcharts.com/charts/official-compilations-chart/20210108/7503/, Official Compilations Chart Top 100 | Official Charts Company, Officialcharts.com, which as well as listing the chart places of all the various Now That’s What I Call Music!, Hits Albums and Ministry of Sound Annuals that have been released, now include Motion Picture Cast Recordings such as The Greatest Showman or A Star Is Born and Original Broadway/West End cast albums such as Hamilton, all three of which were included in the main artist albums chart before 2020.WEB,www.officialcharts.com/artist/28902/motion-picture-cast-recording/, MOTION PICTURE CAST RECORDING | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company, Officialcharts.com, WEB,www.officialcharts.com/artist/2393/original-broadway-cast/, ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST | full Official Chart History, Officialcharts.com, In addition to the main Compilations chart, all the ‘Motion Picture Cast Recordings’ and cast albums get their own Official Soundtrack Albums Chart Top 50,WEB,www.officialcharts.com/charts/soundtrack-albums-chart/, Official Soundtrack Albums Chart Top 50 | Official Charts Company, Official Charts Company, Official Charts, but are still classed as artist albums as far as the singles chart is concerned with, for example, only three tracks from early 2022 chart topper Encanto (a Disney soundtrack which sold 13,855 units to be at number one for the chart of 3 February 2022) being allowed to chart as singles at a time.WEB,www.musicweek.com/analysis, Analysis, Music Week, WEB,www.musicweek.com/analysis/read/charts-analysis-encanto-s-bruno-settles-in-at-summit/085081, Charts analysis: Encanto’s Bruno settles in at summit | Analysis, Music Week, WEB, Jones, Alan,www.musicweek.com/analysis/read/charts-analysis-years-years-land-second-no-1-album/085080, Charts analysis: Years & Years land second No.1 album | Analysis, Music Week, 28 January 2022, 3 March 2022,South Pacific (soundtrack)>South Pacific (soundtrack)|1958|115 weeks |
The Sound of Music (soundtrack)>The Sound of Music (soundtrack)|1965|70 weeks |
6 | The Greatest Showman>Motion Picture Cast Recording | The Greatest Showman (soundtrack)>The Greatest Showman (soundtrack){{#tag:ref | The Greatest Showman (soundtrack)>The Greatest Showman soundtrack has returned to number one on the Official Compilations Chart Top 100 for 28 more weeks,HTTPS://WWW.MUSICWEEK.COM/ANALYSIS/READ/CHARTS-ANALYSIS-BLACKPINK-BECOME-SECOND-KOREAN-ACT-TO-SCORE-UK-NO-1-ALBUM/086614 > TITLE=CHARTS ANALYSIS: BLACKPINK BECOME SECOND KOREAN ACT TO SCORE UK NO.1 ALBUM | ANALYSIS | MUSIC WEEK, giving it 56 weeks at number one altogether, with its last week at number one being on the chart week-ending 29 September 2022HTTPS://WWW.OFFICIALCHARTS.COM/CHARTS/OFFICIAL-COMPILATIONS-CHART/ > TITLE=OFFICIAL COMPILATIONS CHART TOP 100 | OFFICIAL CHARTS COMPANY | OFFICIAL CHARTS COMPANY>OFFICIAL CHARTS, HTTPS://WWW.OFFICIALCHARTS.COM/CHARTS/OFFICIAL-COMPILATIONS-CHART/20211029/7503/>TITLE = OFFICIAL COMPILATIONS CHART TOP 100 | OFFICIAL CHARTS COMPANY | OFFICIAL CHARTS COMPANY>OFFICIAL CHARTS, |group=“nb“}}|2017 | 28 weeks |
21 (Adele album)>21|2011|23 weeks |
G.I. Blues (soundtrack)>G.I. Blues (soundtrack)|1960|22 weeks |
9 | The Beatles|With The Beatles|1963 | 21 weeks |
A Hard Day’s Night (album)>A Hard Day’s Night|1964 |
Divide (album)>Divide|2017|20 weeks |
My Fair Lady (Broadway cast recording)>My Fair Lady|1956|19 weeks |
12|Original Soundtrack | Saturday Night Fever (soundtrack)>Saturday Night Fever (soundtrack)|1977 | 18 weeks |
Blue Hawaii (soundtrack)>Blue Hawaii (original soundtrack)HTTPS://WWW.OFFICIALCHARTS.COM/ARTIST/13107/ELVIS-PRESLEY/>TITLE=ELVIS PRESLEY | FULL OFFICIAL CHART HISTORY | ACCESS-DATE=3 MARCH 2022, |1961 |