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In The OCC 'Feature' about 'ABBA Gold' reaching 900 UK Top 100 Weeks... They have given it 5,450,000 Total UK Sales. https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/a...um-ever__27036/ However, in a 22nd April 'Feature' they gave it 5,580,000 Sales. (Including W/E 25th April Chart). https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/a...-ranked__26063/ So, they have now removed around 130,000 of its Sales. Nor have they added in any of its Sales in the 15 Charts from W/E 2nd May to W/E 8th August. It sells around 2,000 UK copies - often a bit more - every Week. It will sell around 2,000 copies this Week - W/E 15th August Chart. On W/E 6th September 2008 Alan Jones gave it 4,312,090 UK Sales. Does anyone know how many UK copies it sold from W/E 13th September 2008 to the final Week of 2008? Was the last 2008 Chart that of W/E 3rd January 2009? It sold 410,119 UK copies in all of 2008. It was the 19th Best Seller of the Year...

RonnieV -- Thanks for telling me that I'd missed out Nirvana. I've now added it to the List. I've heard that 'Legend' is 2 Weeks too few before. It is very hard to get The OCC to correct things, so I doubt if they will ever give 'Legend' its 2 missing Weeks. I see that on W/E 6th January 1996 they have 'ABBA Gold' at No.80. Other sources say that it was at No.85 that Week...

NOTE -- Hey! Let me know if I've missed any Albums from the List -- Thanks. In the New UK Album Chart -- W/E 8th August 2019 -- 'ABBA Gold' becomes the first Album to reach 900 Weeks in the Top 100. ALBUMS WITH THE MOST WEEKS IN THE UK TOP 100 01)... ABBA Gold -- ABBA -- (1992) -- (No.1 Album - 8 Weeks) -- 900 Weeks 02)... Legend -- Bob Marley & The Wailers -- (1984) -- (No.1 Album - 12 Weeks) -- 888 Weeks 03)... Greatest Hits (One) -- Queen -- (1981) -- (No.1 Album - 4 Weeks) -- 867 Weeks 04)... Rumours -- Fleetwood Mac -- (1977) -- (No.1 Album - 1 Week) -- 795 Weeks 05)... The Dark Side of The Moon -- Pink Floyd -- (1973) -- (No.2 Album) -- 534 Weeks 06)... Bat Out Of Hell -- Meat Loaf -- (1977) -- (No.9 Album) -- 522 Weeks 07)... Number Ones -- Michael Jackson -- (2003) -- (No.1 Album - 2 Weeks) -- 406 Weeks 08)... (What's The Story) Morning Glory? -- Oasis -- (1995) -- (No.1 Album - 10 Weeks) -- 395 Weeks 09)... + -- Ed Sheeran -- (2011) -- (No.1 Album - 3 Weeks) -- 380 Weeks 10)... The Sound Of Music (OST) -- Various Artists -- (1965) -- (No.1 Album - 70 Weeks) -- 374 Weeks 11)... Curtain Call - The Hits -- Eminem -- (2005) -- (No.1 Album - 5 Weeks) -- 368 Weeks 12)... The Very Best Of -- Fleetwood Mac -- (2002) -- (No.6 Album) -- 360 Weeks 13)... Back To Black -- Amy Winehouse -- (2006) -- (No.1 Album - 6 Weeks) -- 343 Weeks -- @@@ 14)... The Immaculate Collection -- Madonna -- (1990) -- (No.1 Album - 9 Weeks) -- 341 Weeks 15)... Greatest Hits -- Simon & Garfunkel -- (1972) -- (No.2 Album) -- 332 Weeks 16)... Nevermind -- Nirvana -- (1991) -- (No.5 Album) -- 331 Weeks 17)... Bridge Over Troubled Water -- Simon & Garfunkel -- (1970) -- (No.1 Album - 33 Weeks) -- 329 Weeks @@@ = Excluding the 1 No.1 Week and 55 Top 100 Weeks of the 2007 'Deluxe' Edition.

I've just noticed that The OCC's ABBA Album's Article calls Benny - 'Jenny'!!! 'Agnetha, Björn, Jenny, and Frida'.

If anyone wants to listen to today's UK - BBC Radio 2 - ABBA Special, it is here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0004dk6 I'm not sure if 'Over-Seas' people can listen to it, but UK listeners can. You have to just Register a BBC Account. It is fast and easy to do.

08 The Beatles - Hey Jude 10 Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water 10 Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody 10 Abba - Dancing Queen 08 Donna Summer - I Feel Love 10 Abba - Take A Chance On Me 08 Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights 10 Blondie - Heart Of Glass 07 Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2) 10 Blondie - Atomic 09 Blondie - Call Me 10 Abba - The Winner Takes It All 08 John Lennon - Imagine 08 Soft Cell - Tainted Love 10 Queen & David Bowie - Under Pressure 09 The Human League - Don't You Want Me 08 Kraftwerk - The Model 09 Michael Jackson - Billie Jean 10 Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart 08 Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax 08 George Michael - Careless Whisper 07 Frankie Goes To Hollywood - The Power Of Love 07 Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) 10 Madonna - Into The Groove 08 Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls 10 Madonna - Papa Don't Preach 10 Madonna - La Isla Bonita 09 Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) 08 Pet Shop Boys - It's A Sin 08 Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind 10 Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth 08 Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now 10 Madonna - Like A Prayer 07 Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U 09 Madonna - Vogue 08 Shakespear's Sister - Stay 09 Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You 10 Take That - Back For Good 07 Oasis - Some Might Say 06 Livin' Joy - Dreamer 10 Oasis - Don't Look Back In Anger 08 Spice Girls - Wannabe 07 The Chemical Brothers - Setting Sun 08 Spice Girls - Say You'll Be There 10 The Prodigy - Breathe 09 Spice Girls - 2 Become 1 06 White Town - Your Woman 08 The Verve - The Drugs Don't Work 09 Spice Girls - Spice Up Your Life 08 All Saints - Never Ever 10 Cornershop - Brimful Of Asha (Norman Cook Remix) 08 Madonna - Frozen 09 Spice Girls - Viva Forever 07 Manic Street Preachers - If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next 08 Cher - Believe 10 Britney Spears - ...Baby One More Time 06 ATB - 9PM (Till I Come) 08 All Saints - Pure Shores 07 Kylie Minogue - Spinning Around 10 Eminem - Stan 08 S Club 7 - Don't Stop Movin' 05 Roger Sanchez - Another Chance 10 Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out Of My Head 07 Sugababes - Freak Like Me 09 Girls Aloud - Sound Of The Underground 08 t.A.T.u. - All The Things She Said 06 Evanescence - Bring Me To Life 08 Beyonce featuring Jay-Z - Crazy In Love 07 Britney Spears - Toxic 06 Eric Prydz - Call On Me 07 Stereophonics - Dakota 07 Gorillaz - Dare 06 Sugababes - Push The Button 05 Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor 10 Madonna - Hung Up 05 Arctic Monkeys - When The Sun Goes Down 05 My Chemical Romance - Welcome To The Black Parade 07 Rihanna featuring Jay-Z - Umbrella 06 Kleerup with Robyn - With Every Heartbeat 10 Sugababes - About You Now 10 Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love 08 Coldplay - Viva La Vida 09 Lady Gaga featuring Colby O'Donis - Just Dance 10 Lady Gaga - Bad Romance 10 Rihanna - Only Girl (In The World) 10 Adele - Someone Like You 10 Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris - We Found Love 07 David Guetta featuring Sia - Titanium 10 Gotye featuring Kimbra - Somebody That I Used To Know 06 Florence + The Machine - Spectrum (Say My Name) 09 Swedish House Mafia featuring John Martin - Don't You Worry Child 07 Avicii vs Nicky Romero - I Could Be The One 07 Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams - Get Lucky 06 Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne - Rather Be 05 Kiesza - Hideaway 05 Years & Years - King 08 Adele - Hello 07 Clean Bandit featuring Zara Larsson - Symphony 05 Dua Lipa - New Rules 05 Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa - One Kiss

The OCC 'Best Selling Albums' List is just repeating 'Facts' from past OCC Lists. July 2016 is the real 'Date' for many of the Sales in yesterday's OCC List. They still have 'Greatest Hits 1' by Queen, on 6.1 Million Sales. It actually got its 21st Platinum Award last December - 6,300,000 Sales. Then you have to add in its 2019, (so far), Sales. They keep giving 'ABBA Gold' 5,200,000 UK Sales - no matter how many copies it sells each Year. That got its 18th Platinum Award last December - 5,400,000. Then it needs its 2019 Sales included. Anyhow, I - and others - get its UK Sales to be over 5,700,000, by now. By carefully adding its Yearly UK Sales since 1992. Or you can use Alan Jones Totals for it, in July 2008, and add in its Sales since then. If you do that, you - again - get over 5,700,000 UK Sales for it. Yesterday's OCC Article said that Oasis's '(What's The Story) Morning Glory?' is 'approaching' 4,700,000 UK Sales. It actually reached 4,940,000 UK Sales last October, and then you have to add in its Sales since then. So, yesterday's OCC List is way out of date. I don't see why they keep re-publishing it, when they don't up-date the Sales in it... The Wikipedia List is more current. Not fully up-to-date - but far more accurate than The OCC List: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-..._United_Kingdom

Although Eric has done a Table/Graph for U2, he has forgotten to include them in his List of the World's Top 494 Acts. Which is 495 Acts, when U2 are included. Using Eric's Points System, U2 have 8,513 points. That is enough to put them in 11th place - pushing Elton John down to 12th place. I've Emailed Eric about this and he says that he will include U2 ASAP...

Eric has also used a points System, to work out the World's Top 494 Singles Acts - based on the Peaks of their Hit Singles in each Country. Some Acts are rather low in the List, such as Queen, (No.33), Coldplay, (No.39), and Bruce Springsteen, (No.90). This is because they were far bigger as Global Album Chart Acts. They'd be much higher, if it were a List based on the World's Album Charts... THE WORLD'S BIGGEST SINGLES ACTS -- LINK: NOTE -- Eric's Top 494 Acts List is only based on those Acts that he's chosen to work on - so far. There will be some Acts - that he's yet to work on - who would be on the List. http://artisteschartsventes.blogspot.com/p/top-artists.html

Jay1982 -- Thanks for pointing out that I missed one of Kylie's 26 Top 5 Singles. I've now added it in and she is in =6th place with Rihanna. Charis -- A French Guy called Eric has a Worldwide Hit Singles Site. He has made a Table/Graph for each Act, and you can see all of their Hit Singles Peak Positions, in a lot of Countries. You just 'Click-On' the Act on the right hand side, to see all of their Global Hit Singles. In the Graphs he also tells you how many World No.1's they had, and Top 5's, Top 10's etc. He uses the Main/Official Singles Chart for each Country. However, he's used the wrong Singles Chart for Canada. He has 'Dancing Queen' as a No.2 Hit there. In the Main Singles Chart, it was No.1 for 2 Weeks. So ABBA should have 132 Global No.1 Singles, in their Graph - not 131...Beneath each Act's Graph/Table he has put their Hits in more obscure Charts, such as those of: Turkey, Israel, Yugoslavia, Denmark, Poland, Greece, Portugal, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Mexico etc. LINK: http://artisteschartsventes.blogspot.com/

Here is a Link to a Global Singles Chart Site. http://artisteschartsventes.blogspot.com/ It is created/run by a French fellow called Eric. Just 'Click-On' the Artists on the right-hand side, to see their Global Hit Singles and their Peaks... He uses the wrong Singles Chart for Canada, which is why he says that 'Dancing Queen' reached No.2 there. In the 'Official' Canadian Singles Charts it was a No.1 Hit - for 2 Weeks. So ABBA should have 132 Global No.1 Singles - not 131.

ACTS - WITH THE MOST UK TOP 5 SINGLES 01) ELVIS PRESLEY - 54 -- (37 if you discount his 17 Top 5 Hits, with Re-Issues, in 2005) 02) MADONNA - 46 -- (44 if you discount the 1991 Remixes of ’Holiday’ & ’Crazy for You’) 03) CLIFF RICHARD - 40 04)=MICHAEL JACKSON - 29 04)=THE SHADOWS - 29 -- (Including 18 with Cliff Richard) 06)=KYLIE MINOGUE - 26 06)=RIHANNA - 26 08) THE BEATLES - 25 09) U2 - 24 10)=ROBBIE WILLIAMS - 23 10)=WESTLIFE - 23 12)=EMINEM - 22 12)=CALVIN HARRIS - 22 14)=ELTON JOHN - 20 14)=ROD STEWART - 20 14)=MARIAH CAREY - 20 -- (Counting the 5 times that ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ has reached the Top 5) 17) OASIS - 19 18)=DAVID BOWIE - 17 18)=ABBA - 17 18)=GEORGE MICHAEL - 17 18)=BOYZONE - 17 18)=BRITNEY SPEARS - 17 18)=TAKE THAT - 17 24)=PAUL McCARTNEY/WINGS - 16 24)=ROLLING STONES - 16 24)=QUEEN - 16 24)=GIRLS ALOUD - 16 28)=BEE GEES - 15 28)=McFLY - 15 28)=JENNIFER LOPEZ - 15 28)=JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE - 15

Simon -- My brothers watch 'Pointless'. I do not. I'm glad that I don't. On Friday 8th June 2018, the 2nd Host - Richard Osman - 'Tweeted', that 'ABBA Gold' had spent "22 Years or 1,159 Weeks in the Top 75". He totally misunderstood that they were its Top 200 Weeks!. (He had 'rounded' the Years total up. 1,159 divided by 52 = just over 21.7 Years). It won't even reach 600 Top 75 Weeks until next Week - W/E 7th March. Unfortunately, 426 people Re-Tweeted his grossly inaccurate 'Tweet'. I contacted his Secretary about it, but she just ignored me and Richard Osman's silly 'Tweet' is still there...

SOLO FEMALE ARTISTS WHO MANAGED THE UK 'DOUBLE TOP' FOR 2 - OR MORE - WEEKS IN A ROW (The Weeks of the 'Double Top' in Brackets) 1)... Ariana is the 1st Female to achieve it when her No.1 Single was different in each of the Weeks... 2)... She is only the 9th Solo Female to manage it and only the 10th Female Act to do so... 3)... Only 16 Solo Females and 18 Female Acts, over-all, have ever achieved the UK 'Double Top'... @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ 12/07/1986 (3) Madonna - True Blue // Papa Don't Preach 01/04/1989 (2) Madonna - Like A Prayer // Like A Prayer 26/11/2005 (2) Madonna - Confessions On A Dancefloor // Hung Up 26/02/1994 (3) Mariah Carey - Music Box // Without You 04/02/1995 (5) Celine Dion - The Colour Of My Love // Think Twice 13/10/2001 (2) Kylie Minogue - Fever // Can't Get You Out Of My Head 12/07/2003 (3) Beyonce - Dangerously In Love // Crazy In Love 24/11/2007 (4) Leona Lewis - Spirit // Bleeding Love 15/03/2008 (2) Duffy - Rockferry // Mercy 26/02/2011 (4) Adele - 21 // Someone Like You 21/02/2019 (1) Ariana Grande – Thank U, Next // Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored 28/02/2019 (1) Ariana Grande – Thank U, Next // 7 Rings NOTES A)... Madonna also had the 'Double Top' on: 10/05/2008 (1) Madonna - Hard Candy // 4 Minutes (Featuring Justin Timberlake) B)... Adele also had the 'Double Top' on: 02/04/2011 (1) Adele - 21 // Someone Like You C)... Spice Girls are the only other Female Act to manage it for more than 1 Week in a row. They did that twice... @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Ariana becomes only the 5th Solo Female to achieve the UK 'Double Top' in more than 1 'Run' at No.1. Apart from Madonna, Adele and Ariana, there were also Rihanna and Lady GaGa.. Athough all 3 of Rhianna's were with a Featured Artist. 1 of Lady GaGa's was with Bradley Cooper. 16/06/2007 (1) Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad // Umbrella (Featuring Jay-Z) 15/01/2011 (1) Rihanna - Loud // What’s My Name? (Featuring Drake) 03/12/2011 (1) Rihanna - Talk That Talk // We Found Love (Featuring Calvin Harris) 11/04/2009 (1) Lady GaGa - The Fame // Poker Face 27/03/2010 (1) Lady GaGa - The Fame/The Fame Monster // Telephone (Featuring Beyonce) 01/11/2018 (1) Lady GaGa & Bradley Cooper – A Star Is Born (Motion Picture Cast Album) // Shallow @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Only 2 other Female Acts have managed the UK 'Double Top' more than once. Spice Girls and Sugababes. 28/12/1996 (3) Spice Girls - Spice // 2 Become 1 22/03/1997 (2) Spice Girls - Spice // Who Do You Think You Are? / Mama 22/10/2005 (1) Sugababes - Taller In More Ways // Push The Button 20/10/2007 (1) Sugababes - Change // About You Now @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Female Acts who achieved the UK 'Double Top' for 1 Week are: 08/11/1980 (1) Barbra Streisand - Guilty // Woman In Love 13/06/1987 (1) Whitney Houston - Whitney // I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) 21/02/2009 (1) Lily Allen - It’s Not Me It’s You // The Fear 07/11/2009 (1) Cheryl Cole - 3 Words // Fight For This Love 19/10/2013 (1) Miley Cyrus - Bangerz // Wrecking Ball @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Britney Spears is the biggest Female Act to never achieve it. She's had 6 UK No.1 Singles, but Zero UK No.1 Albums. Diana Ross and Kate Bush are 2 other big Female Acts, who have never managed it... @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

Counting The Shadows, only 7 named/credited Acts, have replaced themselves at No.1, in the UK Singles Chart. Between them they did it 10 times. 6 Acts did it once. The Shadows did it 4 times. Once in 1960 and 3 times in 1963...

ACTS REPLACING THEMSELVES AT No.1 – PLUS – THE No.1 ALBUM If we count The Shadows in 1963, this UK Chart Feat has only been achieved by 4 Acts. It has really been achieved 6 times, as The Shadows managed it 3 times, in 1963. Ariana Grande is the 1st Female to manage it. Madonna came close on W/E 17th August 1985. She had the No.1, (‘Into The Groove’), and No.2, ‘Holiday’), Singles, and she also had the No.2 Album, with ‘Like A Virgin’. Her Album was held at No.2, that Week, by ‘Now That’s What I Call Music 5’. Ariana has the obvious advantage, that Compilation Albums are no longer allowed into the Artist Album Chart. Ariana is the 1st Act since John Lennon to achieve it – February 1981 – 38 Years. Ariana is the 1st living Act to achieve it, since The Beatles, in December 1963 – which is a huge gap of 55 Years and 2 Months! Ariana is also the 1st Act to achieve it with New Entries, in the Singles or Albums Charts. In her case, both of those Charts No.1’s are New Entries… (NOTE – THE SINGLE’S PREVIOUS WEEK’S POSITION IN BRACKETS) @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ 1)… THE SHADOWS -- THREE TIMES W/E 26th January 1963 01 (02) Dance On! 02 (01) The Next Time//Bachelor Boy (Cliff Richard and The Shadows) No.1 Album – Out Of The Shadows – The Shadows W/E 30th March 1963 01 (02) Foot Tapper 02 (01) Summer Holiday (Cliff Richard and The Shadows) No.1 Album – Summer Holiday (OST) -- Cliff Richard and The Shadows W/E 6th April 1963 01 (02) Summer Holiday (Cliff Richard and The Shadows) 02 (01) Foot Tapper No.1 Album – Summer Holiday (OST) -- Cliff Richard and The Shadows @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ 2)… THE BEATLES W/E 14th December 1963 01 (10) I Want To Hold Your Hand 02 (01) She Loves You No.1 Album – With The Beatles – The Beatles @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ 3)… JOHN LENNON W/E 7th February 1981 01 (02) Woman 02 (01) Imagine No.1 Album – Double Fantasy – John Lennon & Yoko Ono @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ 4)… ARIANA GRANDE W/E 21st February 2019 01 (NE) Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored 02 (01) 7 Rings No.1 Album – Thank U, Next – Ariana Grande -- (A New Entry at No.1) @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

SCOTT -- I was counting Beyonce's Career starting in 1997 with Destiny's Child. That's 22 Years ago. Which may be long enough for Radio One etc. to see her as an 'Old' Act. I personally do not agree with splitting Acts into 'Relevant' and 'Irrelevant'. I think that Music should be judged on merit and not on how young or old the Artist singing it is. Unfortunately, we have Radio One etc., that only really judges an Act on how 'relevant' it is. I regard such a judgement as a joke. I recall Nick Grimshaw, declaring that Robbie Williams was 'irrelevant', in 2012. Based purely on his Career starting in the early 1990's. Nick said that Robbie was 'Too old' for Radio One. Really, DJ's with such a biased mentality should not be on the Radio...

Like Radio One, The BRITS are a bit obsessed with the idea of an Act being 'Relevant'. Therefore, it would not surprise me if Ariana Grande, was the next International Female to get the 'Lifetime Achievement' Award. As regards the next International Male Artist to get it, we may see Justin Bieber or Justin Timberlake get it. Perhaps Drake... The BRITS 'Committee' may just go for Artists who are having Hits in the present day, rather than rewarding Artists who have achieved a lot over several Decades, but are seen as 'Old' or 'Irrelevant' in this Decade... Which would leave out Madonna, Kylie, Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, Beyonce, Diana Ross, ABBA, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, and many other 'Old' International Acts...

The 'Official' reason why Pink has been given the Award is because The BRITS have opened the 'Outstanding Contribution' Award to International Acts. However, I think that the fact that she has a New Album due, ('Hurts 2B Human'), and Single, ('Walk Me Home'), is why she has been chosen to be the 1st 'International' Female to get it. The BRITS wanted someone big, who would turn up to perform and that is why Pink has been given the Award. Madonna's New material is not ready, and Kylie's New material was last Year. ABBA have spent longer at No.1 in the UK than any Act since The Beatles split, (Post-1970), and they have never even had a BRIT Award. They were nominated for Best International Album at the very 1st Awards in 1977. They were called The Britannia Awards then. As they were the 1st, they were given for all of UK Chart History. ABBA's 'Arrival' lost to 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' by Simon & Garfunkel in the Best International Album category. The other 2 Nominees were 'Tapestry' by Carole King and 'Songs In The Key Of Life' by Stevie Wonder. That is the 1st - and last - time that ABBA ever got a BRITS Nomination. Other Acts were given the 'Outstanding Contribution' Award more than once. The Beatles got it in both 1977 and 1983. Robbie Williams, David Bowie and Elton John have been given 'Special' BRITS Awards more than once, to celebrate their Careers. As a contrast, I don't think that Take That have had the Outstanding Contribution To Music Award even once. (Sometimes the Award has been called the 'Lifetime Achievement' Award and it has been called the 'Icon' Award, at other times). Although 2 of U2 were born in the UK, they are regarded as an Irish Group. So, they were the 1st, (and last), Non-UK Group to get the Outstanding Contribution To Music Award, in 2001. Bob Geldof got the Award in 2005, and he too is Irish. Let's face it, he didn't get the Award for his 2 UK No.1's with the Boomtown Rats. He got it for his Charity work with Band Aid and Live Aid... Now that the 'Outstanding Contribution To Music' Award has been given to Pink, we can expect to see it given to other 'International' Acts, in the future. Such as Madonna, Kyle Minogue, Beyonce, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder etc., etc. (I can't see it being given to ABBA, as they will not all turn up tp accept the Award. They certainly will not perform. So, ABBA are probably out of the question, for the Award...).

In case anyone doesn't know - Pink is to get The BRIT Award for 'Outstanding Contribution To Music' Award at The BRITS. She is the first Non-UK Female to get it and the first Solo Female to do so. It means that she has been awarded it, when even Madonna never was...

ABBA and The Bee Gees just miss the List with 19 Top 10's each...

In case anyone is still unsure of the final UK Charts of 2018. The OCC tell me that the current UK Charts - W/E 3rd January 2019 - are the last Charts for 2018. With a Sales 'Cut-Off' Date of Thursday 27th December 2018. The 1st UK Charts of 2019 are those for W/E 10th January - even though 4 Days of their Sales were in 2018.

Yes - John - Thank You for your Chart Commentaries too.

Dannyboy -- Thank you for all of your interesting UK 'All Time' Charts. They are very interesting and much appreciated by many of us. We realise how much time and effort you put into them.

Paul -- Thank you for doing these Weekly UK Album Totals Up-Dates. They really are much appreciated. I - and others - look forward to seeing your Weekly Up-Dates in 2019.