List of albums which have spent the most weeks on the UK Albums Chart
The following is a list of all albums that have spent at least 100 weeks on the UK Albums Chart as published by the Official Charts Company (OCC). The chart comprises a top 100 from August 1981 to 1988 and since 1994, a top 75 before this (and from 1988 to 1994) from 1978 and various lengths before this from July 1956. Re-releases – such as remasters, re-issues, deluxe versions or anniversary editions – are treated together unless the re-released version differs significantly from the original (for example, it has been re-recorded or remixed). This list does not include compilation albums by various artists, which have been excluded from the UK Albums Chart since 1989. Soundtracks are still included if they are an original cast performance or if all tracks are performed by the same artist.[1]
The top three are all compilation albums, headed by Queen's Greatest Hits which has spent 747 weeks in the top 100 (489 of them in the top 75) as an individual album and a further 211 as part of a box set with Greatest Hits II and Greatest Hits III called The Platinum Collection. Excluding multiple album box sets, ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits has the most weeks at 760 (514 in the top 75). The most weeks for a studio album is 655 for Rumours by Fleetwood Mac (466 in the top 75) which charted every year from its release in 1977 until 1989 and in twelve different years since then.
Amy Winehouse's 2006 album Back to Black has the most weeks for a post-2000 release, charting for 292 weeks to date (246 in the top 75), though this total includes 55 weeks for the deluxe edition and 2 weeks for the box set that includes Back to Black and Winehouse's debut album Frank). The original soundtrack of South Pacific has the most weeks at number 1, with 115.[2] The most weeks by an album not reaching number 1 is 520 for Bat Out of Hell by Meat Loaf[3] and the most weeks by an album not reaching the top 10 is 130 for Blue Lines by Massive Attack.
Dire Straits, Michael Jackson and U2 jointly hold the record for most albums to reach 100 weeks on chart, with five each. Of these, three albums by both Dire Straits and Jackson have achieved 200 weeks on chart; in the case of Dire Straits, all of them studio albums (Brothers in Arms, Making Movies and Love Over Gold). The only other artist to have three albums reach 200 weeks on chart is Queen, with the aforementioned three Greatest Hits albums.
The numbers shown are up to the chart for week ending 24 November 2016.
200 or more weeks
150 to 199 weeks
125 to 149 weeks
100 to 124 weeks
See also
- List of songs which have spent the most weeks on the UK Singles Chart
- Lists of albums
- List of best-selling albums in the United Kingdom
Notes
- 1 2 3 Including 211 weeks for The Platinum Collection, which includes all three Greatest Hits albums
- ↑ Including 1 week for box set with Gold and More Gold
- ↑ Including 55 weeks for the deluxe edition and 2 weeks for the box set with Frank and Back to Black
- ↑ Including 27 weeks for the 25th anniversary edition reissue, Thriller 25
- ↑ Including 5 weeks for box set with 1962–1966 and 1967–1970
- 1 2 Including 1 week for box set Five Years (1969–1973), which includes the albums Space Oddity, The Man Who Sold the World, Hunky Dory, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, Pin Ups, Aladdin Sane, Live Santa Monica '72 and Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture
- ↑ Including 67 weeks for 2001 reissue with the same tracks in a different order
- ↑ Including 3 weeks for box set with Whitney Houston Live: Her Greatest Performances
- ↑ Including 6 weeks for box set with Volume 1 and Volume 2
- ↑ Including 5 weeks for box set with 1962-1966 and 1967-1970
- ↑ Including 2 weeks for box set with Frank and Back to Black
- ↑ Including 10 weeks for box set of Youth & Young Manhood, Aha Shake Heartbreak and Because of the Times entitled Boxed
- ↑ Including 4 weeks for box set with At Folsom Prison
- ↑ Including 12 weeks for box set with Can't Take Me Home, Missundaztood, Try This and I'm Not Dead
- 1 2 Including 16 weeks for box set with Labour of Love I and II and 18 weeks with Labour of Love I, II and III
- ↑ Including 7 weeks for box set of Kasabian, Empire and West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum entitled Kasabian: The Albums
- ↑ Listed as 103 weeks from 1980 onwards plus a further 14 weeks for re-entries from 1994 onwards; the first 13 weeks relate to the 1980 album of the same name
Books
- British Albums Chart: All Time Top 1000 by Michael Churchill. Published by Lulu.com, 2013.
References
- ↑ "Rules for Chart Eligibility: Albums" (PDF). 2009. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
- ↑ The Guinness Book of Records. Guinness. 1998. p. 230.
- ↑ Duthel, C (2012). Angelina Jolie - The Lightning Star. Lulu.com. p. 201. ISBN 978-1-4710-8935-0.
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- 1 2 "UK Charts > Guns N' Roses". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2015-08-10.
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- 1 2 "UK Charts > Ed Sheeran". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2015-11-10.
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- 1 2 3 "UK Charts > Radiohead". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2015-02-21.
- 1 2 3 "UK Charts > Coldplay". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2015-02-21.
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- 1 2 3 "UK Charts > David Bowie". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2015-10-13.
- 1 2 "UK Charts > Tina Turner". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2015-02-23.
- 1 2 "UK Charts > Michael Bublé". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2015-02-21.
- 1 2 "UK Charts > Eagles". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2015-02-25.
- 1 2 "UK Charts > Paolo Nutini". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2015-02-22.
- 1 2 "UK Charts > Rihanna". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2015-02-22.
- 1 2 3 "UK Charts > Bon Jovi". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2015-11-10.
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- 1 2 3 "UK Charts > Whitney Houston". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2016-01-16.
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- 1 2 "UK Charts > Red Hot Chili Peppers". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2015-02-22.
- 1 2 "UK Charts > Arctic Monkeys". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2015-11-10.
- 1 2 3 "UK Charts > UB40". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2015-02-25.
- 1 2 "UK Charts > Kings of Leon". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2015-05-18.
- 1 2 "UK Charts > The Corrs". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2015-02-23.
- 1 2 "UK Charts > Simply Red". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2015-02-21.
- 1 2 3 4 "UK Charts > Stereophonics". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2015-11-10.
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- 1 2 3 "UK Charts > Snow Patrol". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2015-02-22.
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- 1 2 "UK Charts > Bruce Springsteen". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2015-04-20.
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- 1 2 3 "UK Charts > Electric Light Orchestra". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2015-04-07.
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- 1 2 "UK Charts > Green Day". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2015-03-24.
- ↑ "UK Charts > Sam Smith". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
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- 1 2 "UK Charts > Eric Clapton". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2015-03-23.
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