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Official Albums Chart on 8/1/2016

8 January 2016 - 14 January 2016

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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John Archbell

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Adele whines through all her songs..irritates. Can't stand her

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Christopher Lake

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Attn: The World - Buy David Bowie albums and send Bieber as low as possible.

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Richard12345

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Bowie might just get number 1 based on his fans loyalty but he will lose it fast. Shame! I am a realistic Bowie fan since the seventies.

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SteveJ

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Bowie album is brilliant and deserves to be No.1 next week. That's what new, original music sounds like!

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gini

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He deserves the No. 1 this week.

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David Sutton

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Tried to update total weeks in Top 40 as Adele's 19 and 21 are both there, but once again i get the mysterious "Hold on-waiting to be approved by OCC" message.

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David Sutton

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Consecutive weeks in Top 20 Updated 14th Jan

Ed & Sam continue their runs

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 85
+12. Ed Sheerhan - X 81
13. Dire Straits - Brother in Arms 76

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David Sutton

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Total Weeks in Top 10 (updated week ending 14th January)

Ed's X catches 21 and Sam Smith.

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
10=. Sam Smith - In the lonely hour 76 weeks
+10=. Ed Sheerhan - X 76 weeks

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maidenfan

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I holmes on the graham norton show pal she was totally bigheaded and so full of herself, she thinks she is it,

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I Holmes

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I disagree. I think she's the most humble down to earth person and her attitude has only contributed to her success. Each to their own opinion, though.

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maidenfan

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hope adele gets knocked off next week by david bowie at least he isn't arrogant and not so full of himself

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I Holmes

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Adele is neither arrogant or full of herself. But I think Bowie will get no.1 next week.

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Leslie Lees

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but she is

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Amy-Leigh Hickman

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Bowie's last album opened with around 94,000 back in 2013 whereas Adele is currently selling no more than 50,000 a week (this is mostly down to post-Christmas album sales declines all around). As much as album sales have generally been continuing to fall overall since Bowie's last album, he's most likely to get it. I'd guess it'll shift around 60-70k in the opening week, but that's based on pure estimation based on nothing but the above.

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I Holmes

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I'm sure Adele would be devastated by your opinion.

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gini

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I agree with you :)

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gini

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Yes ! I agree with you :)

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gini

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She is payola

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David Kent

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So do I.