...has been delayed due to technical problems. I hope it will be up tomorrow.

Sorry that you are having a problem, Suedehead2. Here is my contribution, anyhow.

 

With Gold, by ABBA, re-entering the Top 75, (at No.68).....

 

It means that it has reached 441 Top 75 Weeks, in the UK, & it becomes

THE Album with the Most Top 75 Weeks.

 

Since the UK Album Charts began, (W/E 28th July 1956):,

THE UK's TOP 5 ALBUMS WITH THE MOST TOP 75 WEEKS

1) Gold - ABBA - (1992) - 441 Top 75 Weeks

2) Bat Out Of Hell - Meat Loaf - (1978) - 440 Top 75 Weeks

3) Greatest Hits (One) - Queen - (1981) - 414 Top 75 Weeks

4) Rumours - Fleetwood Mac - (1977) - 370 Top 75 Weeks

5) Legend - Bob Marley & The Wailers - (1984) - 365 Top 75 Weeks

 

THEIR TOP 100 WEEKS

1) Greatest Hits (One) - Queen - 633 Top 100 Weeks

2) Gold - ABBA - 628 Top 100 Weeks

3) Legend - Bob Marley & The Wailers - 581 Top 100 Weeks

4) Rumours - Fleetwood Mac - 511 Top 100 Weeks

5) Bat Out Of Hell - Meat Loaf - 506 Top 100 Weeks

 

UK Chart Books use the Top 75, as the maximum size of the Album

Charts that they use. (The Top 75 only began on W/E 2nd December

1978. Before then the Chart had gradually increased, from a Top 5,

to a Top 60).

 

However, from W/E August 8th 1981 to W/E 14th January 1989 the entire

Top 100 was used, & 4 of these 5 Albums got numerous No.76 to No.100

Weeks, from that period. ('Gold' does not get any Top 100 Weeks -

October 1992 was almost 4 Years after the Top 100 ceased being used,

for Chart Facts & Feats).

 

This is how a UK Chart Book would show the Albums with the Most

Chart Weeks - Adding in full Top 100 Positions for August 1981 to

January 1989:,

 

THE UK's TOP 5 ALBUMS WITH THE MOST CHART WEEKS

1) Rumours - Fleetwood Mac - 482 Weeks (112 Top 100 Weeks added)

2) Greatest Hits (One) - Queen - 476 Weeks (62 Top 100 Weeks added)

3) Bat Out Of Hell - Meat Loaf - 474 Weeks (34 Top 100 Weeks added)

4) Gold - ABBA - 441 Weeks (Top 75 Weeks only)

5) Legend - Bob Marley & The Wailers - 395 Weeks (30 Top 100 Weeks added)

 

NOTE - Some sources give 3 Weeks too many, to the Queen

Album. However - It 100% definitely has 476 Weeks - not 479 Weeks.

 

ABBA are the Group with the Most Top 40 Weeks, for a UK Album.

Gold has 215 Top 40 Weeks - over-taking the previous Group that

held that Chart Record - Pink Floyd. Their 1973 Album, The Dark Side

Of The Moon, has 211 Top 40 Weeks. (Pink Floyd's Album has 354 Top

75 Weeks, & 423 Top 100 Weeks).

 

The Artist Album with the Most Top 40 Weeks is Bridge Over Troubled

Water, by Simon & Garfunkel - 278 Top 40 Weeks. It has 307 Top 75

Weeks, & they are also its Top 100 Weeks.

Edited August 15, 201113 yr by zeus555

Why is the top 100 used for 1981-1989 but not for 2007-present? What makes the first period any more canonical than the second?

Why is the top 100 used for 1981-1989 but not for 2007-present? What makes the first period any more canonical than the second?

 

Bre - I don't know. It is not my decision. It is The OCC's, & UK Chart Book Compilers, decision.

I recall that the 1981 to 1989 Top 100's used to be published - in 'Sounds' I think it was. Only the

Top 75 appears in print, ('Music Week'), now. I was once told - by The OCC - that IF 'Music Week'

ever started using the Top 100's, then The OCC etc. would use the Top 100's, for Chart Stats,

& Facts & Feats etc. ('Sounds' closed down in April 1991).

 

AMY WINEHOUSE/ADELE

 

With Amy Winehouse remaining at No.1 for a 3rd Week, & her 'Frank' Album in 4th place

- plus, Adele being No.2, ('21'), & No.5, ('19).... It's only the 9th Chart, since the Album Chart began

- 28th July 1956 - that 2 Acts have 2 Top 5 Albums, at the same time.

 

It is also the 3rd Chart in a row that it has happened in. The first time ever that it has occured in

3 consecutive Charts, & only the 2nd time that it has happened for more than 1 successive Chart.

(16th & 23rd December 1961 saw the George Mitchell Minstrels, & Elvis Presley, have 2 Top 5 Albums

each, in successive Charts).

 

Better late than never, it is now up on the front page and in the latest news box :)