This week's musings are in their usual place on the front page and the latest news box

 

 

THE ARTISTS WITH THE LONGEST GAP BETWEEN UK NUMBER 1 ALBUMS

 

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1) BLACK SABBATH - 42 Years, 8 Months, 12 Days

 

Paranoid (10/10/1970) to 13 (22/6/2013)

 

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2) BOB DYLAN - 38 Years, 5 Months, 11 Days

 

New Morning (28/11/1970) to Together Through Life (9/May/2009)

 

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3) ROD STEWART - 33 Years, 4 Months, 20 Days

 

Greatest Hits (5/January/1980) to Time (25/5/2013)

 

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4) AC/DC - 28 Years, 2 Months, 16 Days

 

Back In Black (16/8/1980) to Black Ice (1/November/2008)

 

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5) ELVIS PRESLEY - 25 Years, 25 Days

 

Elvis's 40 Greatest Hits (10/September/1977) to Elv1s - 30 Number 1 Hits (5/October/2002)

 

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This Week also sees all 5 of the Albums, with the Most Top 100 Weeks, back in the Top 100.

 

THE UK ALBUMS WITH THE MOST TOP 100 WEEKS

 

(To W/E 22nd June 2013)

 

1) Gold - Greatest Hits - ABBA - 668 Weeks

2) Greatest Hits - Queen - 656 Weeks

3) Legend - Bob Marley & The Wailers - 619 Weeks

4) Rumours - Fleetwood Mac - 547 Weeks

5) Bat Out Of Hell - Meat Loaf - 516 Weeks

Edited June 16, 201312 yr by zeus555

Thanks for that. Interesting to note that the four albums that ended the longest gaps between number ones were studio albums rather than Greatest Hits sets.

 

RIHANNA'S RECORD BREAKING SINGLES TOP 75 RUN ENDED 2 WEEKS AGO.....

 

1) THE RUN BEGAN WITH - W/E 12th September 2009 - RUN THIS TOWN (With Jay-Z & Kanye West) - A New Entry at No.1

 

2) THE RUN ENDED WITH - W/E 8th June 2013 - DIAMONDS - At No.60 (Then a fall to No.77 on W/E 15th June)

 

Total = 196 consecutive Top 75 Singles Chart Weeks for Rihanna. By far the longest such Run.....

 

 

Now a fresh Run begins for her:,

 

W/E 22nd June:,

 

A) Live Your Life (T.I. Featuring Rihanna) re-enters at No.52

 

B) Diamonds re-enters at No.57

 

C) Stay re-enters at No.69

Edited June 17, 201312 yr by zeus555

So her run could be said to have ended thanks to talent show inspired re-entries and the new one starts (in part) after Stay was performed on a talent show. Swings and roundabouts indeed.

Now a fresh Run begins for her:,

 

W/E 22nd June:,

 

A) Diamonds re-enters at No.57

 

B) Stay re-enters at No.69

 

'Live Your Life' has also re-entered at #52. If that had been made 59p just a day earlier it'd almost certainly have kept her run going last week (entered at #82) :P

Edited June 16, 201312 yr by Bré

The record for weekly sales hasn't been broken 3 times in a row. Naughty Boy didn't break that record (Daft Punk had it with 163k, Naughty Boy did 145k), he broke the record for first week sales - which was broken for a second time in a row by Robin Thicke. Then he, last week, broke the weekly sales record for a second time in a row. Pharrell has broken his own record for that 3 times this year incidentally.

 

(And while I'm nitpicking, this is actually the 9th week in a row with 100k+ for #1 - Music Week seemed to have forgotten about Rudimental when they said last week was the 7th).

Edited June 16, 201312 yr by Bré

I thought nit-picking was your job :P