Sgt Pepper tops 50th anniversary albums chart poll

Sgt Pepper tops 50th anniversary albums chart poll

Source: Music Week

The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band has been named as the public’s favourite chart-topping album in a poll to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the UK albums chart.

The 1967 album was joined by three other Beatles albums in the chart’s Top 10 with Revolver ranking sixth, Abbey Road finishing eighth and The Beatles (“The White Albumâ€) taking 10th spot.

Michael Jackson’s Thriller claimed runners-up spot and U2’s The Joshua Tree ranked third on the chart, which was unveiled on Radio Two on Monday in a three-hour show hosted by Simon Mayo.

Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours at four, Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here in fifth place, Simon & Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water in seventh spot and Queen’s A Night At The Opera in ninth place complete the Top 10 positions on the Top 100 chart in which the public was asked to select their favourite album which had reached number one in the UK.

In the poll, which was complied by the Official UK Charts Company, voters were also asked to select their 10 favourite “other†albums that had not reached number one. This list was headed by Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon.

The main Top 100 was led by the Seventies and Eighties with 24 albums apiece, while there were 11 albums from the Sixties, 21 from the Nineties and 20 from the current decade.

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Before anyone asks the top 100 chart was not published. :(