The George Harrison drop was I believe related to a postal strike in 1971, I forget the exact details but again I remember it being mentioned on BuzzJack before.

 

@mrpopquiz 'Now That's What I Call Music! 13' also went 1-x due to sudden exclusion as I posted earlier. Does anyone have any insight as to the other album that went 1-x which I don't remember any details about or am I just imagining it? (I am fairly certain it was one that had only one week in the chart entirely).

The OCC uses the Melody Maker chart from the strike period then reverts to Record Retailer from the week the Harrison album drops to 18. MM had a smaller pool of shops and used telephone calls to collect data. The drop also makes sense if you consider that it was a triple album and so demand could have fallen to pay that much money for a triple LP in that week.

Now 13 returned to the top of the album chart for 1 week before going 1- out due to the split in the album chart in January 1989. I didn't include that in my original list as it wasn't a proper 1- out - it went from 1 in the album chart to 1 in the compilation chart.

 

 

^so it's the same as the That'll Be The Day album. That was secluded from the charts cos they changed the rules and Various Artists album were no longer allowed, guess moved to another chart or lost in limbo if the compilation chart didn't exist yet

The OCC uses the Melody Maker chart from the strike period then reverts to Record Retailer from the week the Harrison album drops to 18. MM had a smaller pool of shops and used telephone calls to collect data. The drop also makes sense if you consider that it was a triple album and so demand could have fallen to pay that much money for a triple LP in that week.

 

And a triple album in a fancy box too. I heard on a podcast recently that the retail price then would have been the equivalent of about £75 in today's money.