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Thanks for including my research :P Additional (recycled) fact about this week/last week, this is the first time two 'Sound of...' acts have had back-to-back #1s within the year of which they're meant to be the 'Sound'. It's happened a few times with acts from different years and even once with two acts of the same year - although that one (Scissor Sisters/Razorlight) took place in 2006 after both acts were on the 2004 list.

 

Also, I notice you mentioned Emeli Sandé's past success but completely failed to make any mention of 'Heaven'. :kink:

Edited August 21, 201113 yr by Bré

Although actually looking back at my post I forgot to bold 'Back To Black' and 'Frank' :ph34r: So there's actually 22 albums with 2+ weeks top 5 this year. Sorry. Dumb moment.

Edited August 21, 201113 yr by Bré

Thanks for including my research :P Additional (recycled) fact about this week/last week, this is the first time two 'Sound of...' acts have had back-to-back #1s within the year of which they're meant to be the 'Sound'. It's happened a few times with acts from different years and even once with two acts of the same year - although that one (Scissor Sisters/Razorlight) took place in 2006 after both acts were on the 2004 list.

 

Also, I notice you mentioned Emeli Sandé's past success but completely failed to make any mention of 'Heaven'. :kink:

Oops :lol: You wouldn't believe the number of times I've spotted that sort of error when reading it through. I was bound to miss one eventually. I did mention Heaven later though in the bit about DJ Sammy :D Still missed the chart position though :ph34r: I was concentrating too much on minimising the changes I'd need to make if the numbers two and three finished the other way round.

As Suedehead2 says - The Adele Album is the only UK Hit Album, ever, to manage to enter

in the Top 2, & to spend as long as its first 30 Weeks, at No.1, or No.2.

 

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1) Believe it or not, that is the longest Run, in the Top 2, by any Album, since The Sound Of Music Soundtrack had

105 consecutive Top 2 Weeks, from W/E 5th June 1965 to W/E 3rd June 1967. (64 Weeks were at No.1, & 41 at No.2).

 

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2) Adele's 21 has the longest Run in the Top 2, for an Artist Album, since Please Please Me, by The Beatles.

That Album spent 48 successive Weeks in the Top 2, from W/E 22nd April 1963 to W/E 21st March 1964.

(30 Weeks at No.1, & 18 Weeks at No.2).

 

PLEASE PLEASE ME - THE BEATLES - CONSECUTIVE TOP 2 WEEKS

2-2-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2

 

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3) Adele's Album over-takes the previous, Most Consecutive Top 2 Weeks Since The Beatles, Artist Album,

which was Bridge Over Troubled Water, by Simon & Garfunkel. In 1970, that Album spent its first 29 Weeks

in the Top 2. From W/E 21st February to W/E 5th September 1970. (22 Weeks at No.1, & 7 Weeks at No.2)

 

BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER - SIMON & GARFUNKEL - CONSECUTIVE TOP 2 WEEKS

1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-2-2-1-1-1-1-2-1-1-1-1-1-2-2-2

 

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4) 21 - THE ONLY ALBUM - EVER - TO SPEND ITS FIRST 30 WEEKS IN THE TOP 2

I've checked & checked, & I can find no other Album, (since 28th July 1956), that has spent as many as its

FIRST 30 Weeks in the Top 2. The 'Please Please Me' Album went in at No.8. G.I. Blues, by Elvis Presley, spent

31 successive Weeks in the Top 2, from W/E 17th December 1960 to W/E 15th July 1961, but its first Chart Week

was at No.4 - W/E 10th December 1960. (22 Weeks at No.1, & 9 Weeks at No.2).

 

21 - ADELE - CONSECUTIVE TOP 2 WEEKS (W/E 5th February to W/E 27th August 2011)

1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-1-1-1-1-1-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-1-1-2-2-2-2

 

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5) NOTE - This statistic is one that could be easily misunderstood. No-one is saying that 21 has spent more consecutive

Weeks in the Top 2, than any other Album. What her Album has achieved, is to be the only/first Album to spend as long

as its 1st 30 Chart Weeks in the Top 2.

The South Pacific Soundtrack Album managed an incredible 119 consecutive Top 2 Weeks, from November 1958 to February 1961.

107 of them at No.1, & 12 at No.2. (70 of them were consecutive No.1 Weeks - including being No.1 for all of 1959). But, it took 28 Chart

Weeks to start that 119 Weeks Top 2 Run.

 

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6) I also checked which Album entered at No.1, & then remained there the longest - in its 1st Chart Weeks.

It was My Fair Lady - Original Broadway Cast. It entered at No.1, on W/E 10th May 1958, & remained there

for 19 Weeks. It then spent 2 Weeks at No.1 - giving it 21 Top 2 Weeks, with its initial Chart Weeks.

(Also - From November 1958 to March 1959, it was No.2 for 19 Weeks, in a row).

 

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Edited August 21, 201113 yr by zeus555

Thanks for the extra info. I somehow think even the mighty Adele won't be beating the Sound Of Music record :lol:

 

The distinction between any run and a run at the start of an album's chart life is one the papers regularly got wrong as Adele clocked up the weeks at number one. Let's hope they don't do the same again.