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Official Albums Chart on 14/8/2015

14 August 2015 - 20 August 2015

The UK's Top 100 biggest artist albums of the week, compiled by the Official Charts Company based on sales of CDs, downloads, vinyl, audio streams and video streams. View the biggest albums of 2024.

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William Navarro

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What about Roxette? They sold out the 02-arena in London last month but they are not in the top 100? Odd.

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architecturaloshawatt

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Avril Lavigne!
I missed her!

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QUEENAVRIL

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SLAY MY ASSS YASSSSSSS QUEEN AVRIL REENTRY AT #100 GAGA WHO??? GAGA FLOP YAAAAAAAAAAAAS AVRIL

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addickted2hcharlton

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Our Cilla is still doin well on ere.

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important

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Michael's BAD again on chart!

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David Sutton

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Total Weeks in Top 40 updated week ending 20th August
1. Soundtrack - The Sound Of Music 347
2. Soundtrack - South Pacific 313 Weeks (all in Top 20)
3. Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water 279
4. Meatloaf - Bat out of 249
5. Simon & Garfunkel's Greatest Hits 221
6. Abba - Gold - 216
7. Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon 214
8. Soundtrack - The King & I 201 (all in Top 20)
9. Mike Oldfield - Tubular bells 183
10. Soundtrack - West Side Story 175 (all in Top 20)
11. Soundtrack - Oklahoma 168 (all in Top 20)
12. Queen's Greatest Hits 158
13. Original Broadway Cast - My Fair Lady 156 (all in Top 20)
14. The Buddy Holly Story 155 (all in Top 20)
15 Michael Jackson - Thriller (+ Thriller 25) 154 (138+16)
16. Dire Straits - Brothers in arms 145
17. George Mitchell Minstrels - Black & White Minstrel Show 142 (all in Top 20)
18. Lady Gaga - The fame 131
+18=.Ed Sheerhan - + 131
20. Best of the Beach Boys 127
21. David Gray - White Ladder 123
22=.Fleetwood Mac - Rumours 120
22=. Oasis - Definitely Maybe 120
24. Amy Winehouse - Back to black 117 (89 + 45 deluxe - 17 overlap)
25=. Abba's Greatest Hits 114
25=. Corrs - Talk on corners 114
+25= Bob Marley & Wailers - Legend 114

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Danny Cicchetti

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You Forgot Adele

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QUEENAVRIL

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YOU FORGOT AVRIL

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David Sutton

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Hi Danny. Adele's 21 has notched up 103 weeks in the Top 40. I just didn't go that far down the list.

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David Sutton

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Would have to extend the list a long way to include Avril :)

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David Sutton

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All Time Longest Runners in Top 40 Updated week ending 20th August

1. Soundtrack - The Sound Of Music 347
2. Soundtrack - South Pacific 313 Weeks (all in Top 20)
3. Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water 279
4. Meatloaf - Bat out of 249
5. Simon & Garfunkel's Greatest Hits 221
6. Abba - Gold - 216
7. Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon 214
8. Soundtrack - The King & I 201 (all in Top 20)
9. Mike Oldfield - Tubular bells 183
10. Soundtrack - West Side Story 175 (all in Top 20)
11. Soundtrack - Oklahoma 168 (all in Top 20)
12. Queen's Greatest Hits 158
13. Original Broadway Cast - My Fair Lady 156 (all in Top 20)
14. The Buddy Holly Story 155 (all in Top 20)
15 Michael Jackson - Thriller (+ Thriller 25) 154 (138+16)
16. Dire Straits - Brothers in arms 145
17. George Mitchell Minstrels - Black & White Minstrel Show 142 (all in Top 20)
18. Lady Gaga - The fame 131
+18=.Ed Sheerhan - + 131
20. Best of the Beach Boys 127
21. David Gray - White Ladder 123
22=.Fleetwood Mac - Rumours 120
22=. Oasis - Definitely Maybe 120
24. Amy Winehouse - Back to black 117 (89 + 45 deluxe - 17 overlap)
25=. Abba's Greatest Hits 114
25=. Corrs - Talk on corners 114
+25= Bob Marley & Wailers - Legend 114

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David Sutton

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Total Weeks in Top 10 (updated week ending 20th August)

1. Soundtrack - South Pacific 276 weeks
2. Soundtrack - The Sound of Music 233 weeks
3=. Soundtrack - The King & I 153 weeks
3=. Soundtrack - West Side Story 153 weeks
5. Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water 135 weeks
6. Original Broadway Cast - My Fair Lady 122 weeks
7. George Mitchell Singers - Black & White Minstrel show 120 weeks
8. Soundtrack - Oklahoma 112 weeks

There may be some missing from the 50-100 section, but those I've got are:
9. Michael Jackson - Thriller (including Thriller 25) 88 weeks
10. Adele - 21 76 weeks
11. Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells 74 weeks
12. Lady Gaga - The fame 72 weeks
13. Amy Winehouse - Back to Black 71 weeks (standard + deluxe - 1 week when both versions were in the top 10 simultaneously.
14. Emile Sande - Our version of events 67 weeks
15. Dire Straits - Brothers in arms 66 weeks
16. Carpenters - The singles 1969-1973 64 weeks
+16=. Sam Smith - In the lonely hour 64 weeks
18. Beatles - Please Please Me 62 weeks
+19. Ed Sheerhan - X 60 weeks
20. Simon & Garfunkel's Greatest Hits 59 weeks

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David Sutton

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Consecutive Weeks in Top 10 (updated week ending 20th August)

Sam and Ed continue their runs. Ed catches Brothers In Arms.

1. Soundtrack - South Pacific 180 weeks
2. Soundtrack - The Sound of Music 172 weeks
3. George Mitchell Singers - Black & White Minstrel show 120 weeks
4. Original Broadway Cast - My Fair Lady 101 weeks
5. Soundtrack - The King & I 94 weeks
6. Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water 92 weeks
7. Soundtrack - West Side Story 89 weeks
8. Adele - 21 71 weeks
9. Emile Sande - Our version of events 66 weeks
+10. Sam Smith - In the lonely hour 64 weeks
11 Beatles - Please Please Me 62 weeks
12. Dire Straits - Brothers in arms 60 weeks
+12=. Ed Sheerhan - X 60 weeks
14. Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells 55 weeks
15. Soundtrack - West Side Story 52 weeks (separate run)
16. Shania Twain - Come on over 51 weeks
17. Soundtrack - South Pacific 49 weeks (separate run)

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Paddy

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Wouldn't measuring albums sales be a bit more realistic? for example they've both sold less than Shania Twain despite being in the top 10 longer.

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QUEENAVRIL

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AVRIL LAVIGNE - 1'076 WEEKS

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David Sutton

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Hi Paddy, sales and longevity are two different stats. This isn't a list of best albums necessarily. It's just interesting to compare the achievements. Album sales is a better indication of overall popularity - but hard to get figures. Every so often OCC does a list.

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Paddy

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OK, it just seems like their record label is spinning the focus is on longevity because its the only thing these particular artists have going for them like how they used to say Westlife were more successful than the Beatles because they had more consecutive number 1.

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David Wedderspoon

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No Elvis Presley on these lists? I would have thought the big selling soundtracks like Blue Hawaii & G.I. Blues would be up there and some of his regular studio albums too like Elvis Is Back.

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David Sutton

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Hi David. Elvis came pretty close. GI Blues was 47 consecutive weeks (49 in total) in the top ten. Blue Hawaii was 46 consecutive weeks, (47 in total).