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Posted by: Suedehead2 16th November 2014, 07:03 PM

After another wait for somebody to get round to posting the albums chart this week's ramblings are now on the front page and the latest news box.

Posted by: { bré } 16th November 2014, 09:33 PM

I'm pretty sure Military Wives' margin of victory was a lot larger than that of 'Wake Me Up', it was up against the second week of an XF winner's single that didn't even sell that much (relatively) in its first week, and it had the largest first week sales of any song since Leona Lewis' winning single in 2007. Also 'Wake Me Up' didn't have a huge lead all week, it was underperforming to begin with but then shot to a huge lead after the airing of the documentary on Monday, then Ed had nearly whittled away the entire lead by Friday when it was boosted to a huge lead again by CIN.

Posted by: zeus555 16th November 2014, 09:42 PM

As 4 of the all Time 'Most Chart Weeks' Albums are inside this Week's Top 75 I thought that I'd Post 2 up-dated Lists.

(Due to Greatest Hits (One) by Queen being at No.54, The Dark Side Of The Moon being at No.61, Rumours being at No.68, & ABBA Gold being at No.74).

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LIST A…..ALBUMS WITH THE MOST TOP 75 WEEKS

1) Gold - Greatest Hits - ABBA - 471 Weeks
2) Bat Out Of Hell - Meat Loaf - 451 Weeks
3) Greatest Hits - Queen - 435 Weeks
4) Legend - Bob Marley & The Wailers - 426 Weeks
5) Rumours - Fleetwood Mac - 417 Weeks
6) The Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd - 365 Weeks

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LIST B…..UK ALBUMS WITH THE MOST TOP 100 WEEKS

1) Gold - Greatest Hits - ABBA - 691 Weeks
2) Greatest Hits - Queen - 679 Weeks
3) Legend - Bob Marley & The Wailers - 671 Weeks
4) Rumours - Fleetwood Mac - 585 Weeks
5) Bat Out Of Hell - Meat Loaf - 525 Weeks
6) The Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd - 450 Weeks

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By entering at No.5 with Queen Forever, Queen become only the 12th Act to manage 210, (or more)
Top 10 Album Weeks. In fact, they are the only 12 Acts to achieve as many as 200 Weeks too.

UK ALBUM CHART ACTS WITH 210 (OR MORE) TOP 10 WEEKS

(W/E 28th July 1956 to W/E 22nd November 2014)

1) ELVIS PRESLEY - 518 Weeks

2) BEATLES - 463 Weeks

3) CLIFF RICHARD - 338 Weeks

4) FRANK SINATRA - 337 Weeks

5) ROLLING STONES - 268 Weeks

6) MICHAEL JACKSON - 265 Weeks (Includes 18 Weeks with the Jackson Five) ***

7) ROD STEWART - 251 Weeks (Includes 3 Weeks with The Faces) ***

8) SIMON & GARFUNKEL - 240 Weeks

9) ABBA - 224 Weeks

10) MADONNA - 217 Weeks (Excludes 6 Top 10 Weeks with the 'Who's That Girl' Soundtrack - 1987) ***

11) ELTON JOHN - 216 Weeks

12) QUEEN - 210 Weeks (Includes 1 Week as Queen & Paul Rodgers) ***

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Queen's 210 Top 10 Album weeks also makes them only the 5th Group to reach that Total.
(Including the Duo of Simon & Garfunkel in the 5 Groups).

DUOS & GROUPS WITH THE MOST UK TOP 10 ALBUM WEEKS

(W/E 28th July 1956 to W/E 22nd November 2014)

1) BEATLES - 463 Weeks

2) ROLLING STONES - 268 Weeks

3) SIMON & GARFUNKEL - 240 Weeks

4) ABBA - 224 Weeks

5) QUEEN - 210 Weeks (Includes 1 Week as Queen & Paul Rodgers) ***

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As The Endless River has become the 6th UK No.1 Album by Pink Floyd, I now show
where this places them in the List of Groups with the Most UK No.1 Albums.

GROUPS WITH 6 (OR MORE) UK NUMBER 1 ALBUMS

(WEEKS AT No.1 IN BRACKETS)

(W/E 28th July 1956 To W/E 22nd November 2014)

1) BEATLES - 15 (174 Weeks)

2)=ROLLING STONES - 10 (45 Weeks)
2)=U2 - 10 (15 Weeks)

4)=ABBA - 9 (57 Weeks)
4)=QUEEN - 9 (21 Weeks)

6)=OASIS - 8 (21 Weeks)
6)=LED ZEPPELIN - 8 (14 Weeks)
6)=REM - 8 (13 Weeks)

9) WESTLIFE - 7 (7 Weeks)

10)=TAKE THAT - 6 (28 Weeks)
10)=POLICE - 6 (Includes 1 No.1, as Sting & The Police - 2 No.1 Weeks) (17 Weeks)
10)=COLDPLAY - 6 (16 Weeks)
10)=GENESIS - 6 (12 Weeks)
10)=PINK FLOYD - 6 (11 Weeks)

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Posted by: Suedehead2 16th November 2014, 09:45 PM

Wake Me Up had enough of a lead to be a near-certain number one even without Friday's boost. I think you're right about Military Wives though. You have to remember I'm nearly as old as Donny Osmond My memory sometimes fails me

Posted by: Suedehead2 16th November 2014, 10:06 PM

Thanks for those extra facts Colin. It's always good to see your lists. It's interesting to see four of the six albums with the most weeks all in the chart at the same time!

Posted by: { bré } 16th November 2014, 10:24 PM

Could so easily have been 5 of the 6, as Bob Marley & The Wailers were in the top 75 for quite a while this year (most recently just 5 weeks ago). Meat Loaf's album was also last in the top 75 only 28 weeks ago.