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David Bowie is the Starman of this week's Official Chart as the nation pays tribute to a music icon
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As the nation mourns the sad passing of David Bowie this week, the star’s continued impact on music shows as he dominates this week’s Official Chart.
Bowie’s new album Blackstar debuts at Number 1 with combined sales of almost 150,000, giving him his tenth chart-topping record and the fastest selling album of the year so far. Click here to look back over Bowie’s full UK chart history.
MORE: View this week's Top 100 Official Albums Chart in full
Importantly, Blackstar was already headed for Number 1 before news of Bowie’s death broke; early sales flashes last weekend revealed the record was head and shoulders above the competition.
Including Blackstar, over half a million Bowie records were picked up this week in the UK - totalling 623,000 combined sales and streams. The figure includes 241,000 album sales, 167,000 singles purchased, and Bowie tracks were streamed over 19 million times on audio streaming services such as Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play, Deezer and more.
MORE: How the British public mourned the loss of David Bowie on the charts
Ten of the late icon’s albums command one quarter of this week’s Official Albums Chart Top 40, and 19 entries in the albums Top 100.
His 2014 retrospective Nothing Has Changed – The Very Best Of is the highest re-entry at Number 5, followed by The Best Of 1969/1974 at Number 11. The full list of his 19 albums in this week’s Official Albums Chart appears below:
| 1 | BLACKSTAR | DAVID BOWIE | RCA |
| 5 | NOTHING HAS CHANGED - THE VERY BEST OF | DAVID BOWIE | PARLOPHONE |
| 11 | THE BEST OF 1969/1974 | DAVID BOWIE | PARLOPHONE |
| 14 | HUNKY DORY | DAVID BOWIE | PARLOPHONE |
| 17 | THE RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST | DAVID BOWIE | PARLOPHONE |
| 18 | BEST OF BOWIE | DAVID BOWIE | PARLOPHONE |
| 23 | ALADDIN SANE | DAVID BOWIE | PARLOPHONE |
| 25 | THE NEXT DAY | DAVID BOWIE | RCA |
| 31 | LOW | DAVID BOWIE | PARLOPHONE |
| 37 | DIAMOND DOGS | DAVID BOWIE | PARLOPHONE |
| 42 | LET'S DANCE | DAVID BOWIE | PARLOPHONE |
| 45 | HEROES | DAVID BOWIE | PARLOPHONE |
| 55 | STATION TO STATION | DAVID BOWIE | PARLOPHONE |
| 59 | THE BEST OF - 1980/1987 | DAVID BOWIE | PARLOPHONE |
| 60 | YOUNG AMERICANS | DAVID BOWIE | PARLOPHONE |
| 61 | SCARY MONSTERS | DAVID BOWIE | PARLOPHONE |
| 89 | THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD | DAVID BOWIE | PARLOPHONE |
| 95 | SPACE ODDITY | DAVID BOWIE | PARLOPHONE |
| 97 | FIVE YEARS - 1969-1973 | DAVID BOWIE | PARLOPHONE |
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Elsewhere on this week’s Official Albums Chart, Elvis Presley’s If I Can Dream holds at Number 2, Adele’s 25 ends its seven-week run at the top and slips to 3, and Justin Bieber’s Purpose is at Number 4.
Outside the Top 10, YouTuber KSI makes his Official Chart debut at 14 with his Keep Up EP, and The Voice UK winner Stevie McCrorie lands at Number 35 with Big World.
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colm
Remember its nearly 40 years since Elvis's death.
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Southendman
David Bowie and Elvis Presley sit at the top of the album charts looking down from above! Both born on the 8th January! Both changed music & culture in their own ways and are icons, both have (and in the case of Bowie will) continue to sell music long long after their deaths - as Elvis P as proved time & time again! Bless both of them and thanks guys for the special music!
Mrs. Brooks
WOW! 19 albums inside the top 100 and, more impressively, 10 albums inside the top 40. Legend! In the other hand, Elvis' album will probably top the chart next week. Two legends dominating the first two spots.
Guillermo F. Perez-Argüello
I doubt this will happen, as Presleys " If I can dream" album tallies in the UK are starting to decrease markedly, as is the case with every album after its 11th week of release. It sold 79,000 units in its first week at # 1, then 88,000 in its second week at the top, followed by 69,000 in its third week (at number 3), then alternating between positions #3 and #2 on the strength of sales in excess of 77,000, 96,000 105,000, 121,000, 173,000, 71,000, 40,000 and approx. 33,000, respectively, on its next eight weeks and up to now. I seriously doubt the album could next week outsell "Blackstar" which sold 150,000 this week.
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gini
:P Elvis hater.
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gini
"Elvis' album will probably top the chart next week. . Two legends dominating the first two spots". And I think the same. :D
Guillermo F. Perez-Argüello
Are you joking?
DG
David Gibbs
I agree.I would love to see Dream go back to number 1 but even without the sad loss of Bowie I think it will decline in sales after the Christmas peak.It has been great to see it so high in the chart these past weeks.
Brian Quinn
This is the first time in Chart history that the top two albums are by deceased artists.
Guillermo F. Perez-Argüello
That is correct. But it is not just the first time it happens, say, this century, but the first time this is achieved without any of the two albums being of the greatest hits variety.In fact, both Bowie's and Presley' albums were not just their respective "newest" albums, but they each contained an enormous quantity of new studio inputs...
Paula Wilkinson-Jones
Not quite. April 1978 had Nat King Cole and Buddy Holly as the Top 2 albums.
Brian Quinn
Many Thanks.
DG
David Gibbs
Same birthdays as well.Just by way of a nice little story my son was expecting the birth of his second child on 17th January and I said I hope it could go for another day which is my birthday 18th January.In the end she came early on 8th.Nice.
matthewhargreaves
It's so nice to see so many of David Bowie's albums inside the top 100, taking a quarter of the top 40, over half a million sold in a week. Blackstar album is superb, love the haunting 'Blackstar' & 'Lazarus'. I'm sure he's looking down touched with the tributes from his fans! #RIPDavidBowie a true music legend who will be sadly missed. Would love to hear the 5 demos he wrote for his upcoming album that he was reported to have done as a follow up to 'Blackstar'.