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Official Albums Chart on 31/3/2017

31 March 2017 - 6 April 2017

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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David Sutton

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Sorry post below was intended for the following week

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David Sutton

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Total weeks in Top 40. * means is in this week's Top 40. Updated week ending week ending 13th Apr.

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. Abba - Gold - 225
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15 Michael Jackson - Thriller (+ Thriller 25) 154 (138+16)
*16. Bob Marley & Wailers - Legend 150
17. Amy Winehouse - Back to black 147 (118 + 45 deluxe - 17 overlap)
*17=.Ed Sheerhan - + 147
19. Dire Straits - Brothers in arms 145
20. George Mitchell Minstrels - Black & White Minstrel Show 142 (all in Top 20)
*21.Ed Sheerhan - X 138
22. Adele - 21 134
23. Lady Gaga - The fame 132
*23=.Fleetwood Mac - Rumours 132

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Lars Van Moer

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Nice to see Steve Hackett's great new album in the charts.

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DriftingStar

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Jesus & Mary Chain enter charts @#16? Really? Their first album for nearly 20 years.
Jeeez they couldn't sell records back then so who the is buying them now?
Answers on a postcard please....

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Pin Ball

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Correction - they had a fair number of top 20 albums if you cared to check the facts - two of them even went top 10! Only 1985's Psychocandy (31) and 1998's Munki (47) failed to go top 20 - their first and last albums before they first split up..... Whatever, it is a pleasant surprise to see them back in the top 20 again anyway after so long, but of course, next week, they will probably be down at number 90 or something.....

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Pin Ball

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Ha ha - how right was I at predicting this? They have dropped down to 92!!!

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Tony Bianchi

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Before anyone mentions Paul McCartney being a mistake it's credited to a different label, that's why it's "new". For once, not an OCC mistake, just a longstanding chart practice.

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Tony Bianchi

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Where to start? Taking hours to upload this chart (and others) when some of the "lesser" charts were put up instead. Incorrectly crediting "Soft Cell and Marc Almond" when the sleeve tells you it's the other way round. It's "Vera Lynn 100" not "100". That "Jethro Tull" album isn't even by the group - it's their leader Ian Anderson with Carducci String Quartet. As listed correctly on iTunes, Discogs, Wikipedia and - for once! - Alan Jones' Music Week report. That's not to mention thinking Mike Oldfield is more of a hard rock act than Bush, thinking Jean-Michel Jarre is a progressive rock act instead of a dance / electronic one (yet you've included Blanck Mass and Soulwax!!) and excluding Cam from the country albums chart. Plus you know full well this situation with the over-dominance of streaming could be easily corrected but being in cahoots with Spotify will tend to colour any decisions you make. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/jethro-tull-the-string-quartets/id1180995795