Official Albums Chart on 11/12/2015

Demi Lovato And Selena Gomez aren't in graffic what is happening with The UK fans of they.

I'm not a fan of Fleur East, but I do study the charts, and it always amazes me at how wrong I can be about what I and I'm sure most of us assume is popular, yet Fleur's album entered rather low you'd have to agree at number 14. With even artists such as Enya we haven't heard from for years is at number 10. Most of the people I know reckoned Fleur East should have won the x-factor last year, yet even her single Sax wasn't number 1. Yet for Enya to achieve a hit single would be unthinkable these days. I think my point is why is the difference between albums and singles so different and unpredictable these days? When I was young popular artists had top ten singles and albums, not just one or the other. Has the media done this on purpose by the way it promotes artists? Another example is Pink Floyd can be number 1 in the albums charts, or even their lead vocalist David Gilmour who just enjoyed a number 1 album as a solo artist, which most people under 30 won't know who we're talking about, yet why can't they get into the official singles charts? The whole industry seems a joke!!

Number of weeks in Top 100.

Queen beat Bob Marley to the 700 mark.
+1. Abba - Gold - 730
+2. Queen's Greatest Hits – 700
3. Bob Marley & Wailers - Legend - 698

Consecutive weeks in Top 40 Updated 17th December

Sam overtakes Ed's + album. Ed's X album catches the Lighthouse Family

1. Soundtrack - The Sound Of Music 269
2. Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water 234
3. Simon & Garfunkel's Greatest Hits 191
4. Soundtrack - South Pacific 180 Weeks (all in Top 5!)
5. Soundtrack - West Side Story 163 (all in Top 20!)
6. Original Broadway Cast - My Fair Lady 134 (all in Top 20!)
7. George Mitchell Minstrels - Black & White Minstrel Show 125 (all in Top 20!)
8. Dire Straits - Brother in Arms 123
9. Best of the Beach Boys 118
10. Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon 107
11. Michael Jackson - Thriller 106
11=. Carpenters - The singles 1969-1973 106
13. Mike Oldfield - Tubular bells 100
14. David Gray - White ladder 98
15. Adele - 21 95
16. Soundtrack - The King & I 94 (all in Top 5!)
17. Amy Winehouse - Back to black (includes deluxe version) 93
18. Ellie Golding - Halcyon 93
19. Emile Sande - Our version of events 92
20. Simply Red - Stars 87
21. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours 86
22. Dido - No Angel 84
+23. Sam Smith - in the lonely hour 81
24. Ed Sheerhan + 80
25. Corrs - Talk on corners 79
26=. Fleetwood MAc - Tango in the night 78
26=.Robbie Williams - Life thru a lens 78
28. Lighthouse Family - Ocean Drive 77
+28=Ed Sheerhan - X 77
30=. Abba - Arrival 76
30= Lionel Richie - Can't Slow Down 76

Total weeks in Top 20 Updated 17th December

Sam catches Rumours!. Ed's X album overtakes Definitely Maybe. One week short of his + album!

1. Soundtrack - South Pacific 313 Weeks
2. Soundtrack - The Sound Of Music 281
3. Soundtrack - The King & I 201
4. Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water 195
5. Soundtrack - West Side Story 175
6. Soundtrack - Oklahoma 168
7. Original Broadway Cast - My Fair Lady 156
8. The Buddy Holly Story 155
9. Simon & Garfunkel's Greatest Hits 149
10.George Mitchell Minstrels - Black & White Minstrel Show 142
11. Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon 123
12. Michael Jackson - Thriller (+ Thriller 25) 118
13. Mike Oldfield - Tubular bells 108
14. Abba - Gold - 100
15. Amy Winehouse - Back to black 99 (76 + 27 deluxe - 4 overlap)
16. Dire Straits - Brothers in arms 95
16= Best of the Beach Boys 95
18. Adele - 21 93
19. Carpenters - The singles 1969-1973 91
20. Abba's Greatest Hits 83
21. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours 81
+21= Sam Smith - In the lonely hour 81
23. Corrs - Talk on corners 80
24. Led Zeppelin II 79
25.Ed Sheerhan - + 78
+ 26. Ed Sheerhan - X 77
27. Oasis - Definitely Maybe 76

Consecutive weeks in Top 20 Updated 17th December

Ed overtakes Brothers In Arms, Sam also scores

1. Soundtrack - The Sound Of Music 221
2. Soundtrack - South Pacific 180 Weeks
3. Soundtrack - West Side Story 163
4. Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water 147
5. Original Broadway Cast - My Fair Lady 134
6. George Mitchell Minstrels - Black & White Minstrel Show 125
7. Soundtrack - The King & I 94
8. Mike Oldfield - Tubular bells 92
9. Michael Jackson - Thriller 90
10. Adele - 21 87
+11=.Sam Smith - In the lonely hour 81
+12. Ed Sheerhan - X 77
13. Dire Straits - Brother in Arms 76