Official Albums Chart on 28/4/2017

Thought ABBA & Bob Marley spend more that a 1000`s weeks in the album chart? are the figures correct?

Number of weeks in Top 100. + means is in this week's Top 100. Updated Week ending 4th May Apr
Queen's Greatest Hits continues its battle with Bob Marley, as do Amy and Best of Fleetwood MAc

+1. Abba - Gold - 784
+2. Bob Marley & Wailers - Legend - 770
+2=. Queen's Greatest Hits – 770
+4. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours - 677
5. Meatloaf - Bat out of - 521
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14. TRACY CHAPMAN - TRACY CHAPMAN - 292
+15. MICHAEL JACKSON - NUMBER ONES – 290
16. MIKE OLDFIELD - TUBULAR BELLS - 286
16=. MICHAEL JACKSON - THRILLER - 286 (includes 27 weeks for 25th anniversary edition)
+18=. AMY WINEHOUSE - BACK TO BLACK - 282 (259 + 55 deluxe - 32 overlap)
+18=. FLEETWOOD MAC - THE VERY BEST OF – 282
+20.OASIS - (WHAT’S THE STORY) MORNING GLORY? - 277
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23. BEATLES - SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND - 269 (253+16 for 1987 re-issue))
+24. ED SHEERAN – + – 266
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28. DIRE STRAITS - MAKIN' MOVIES - 252
+29.EMINEM - CURTAIN CALL - THE GREATEST HITS 250
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49. U2 - THE JOSHUA TREE - 191
+50. OASIS - TIME FLIES - 1994-2009 190
+51. ARCTIC MONKEYS - AM - 189
+52.WHITNEY HOUSTON - THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION 186

Total weeks in Top 75 . + means is in this week's Top 75. Updated Week ending 4th May

+1. BOB MARLEY & WAILERS - LEGEND - 527
2. ABBA - GOLD - 522
+3. QUEEN'S GREATEST HITS – 508
+4. FLEETWOOD MAC - RUMOURS - 483
5. MEATLOAF - BAT OUT OF - 455
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12. JEFF WAYNE - WAR OF THE WORLDS - 247
+13. AMY WINEHOUSE - BACK TO BLACK - 245 (215 + 53 deluxe - 23 overlap)
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16. DIRE STRAITS - BROTHERS IN ARMS - 227
+17. ED SHEERAN – + – 226
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20. ADELE – 21 – 205
21. THE KING & I - FILM SOUNDTRACK - 201
+21=. OASIS - (WHAT’S THE STORY) MORNING GLORY? - 201
+23. MICHAEL JACKSON - NUMBER ONES – 198
23. TRACY CHAPMAN - TRACY CHAPMAN - 197
+24. FLEETWOOD MAC - THE VERY BEST OF – 193
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40. LADY GAGA - THE FAME - 167
+41. ARCTIC MONKEYS - AM 166
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48. MY FAIR LADY - ORIGINAL BROADWAY STAGE CAST SOUNDTRACK - 156
49. BUDDY HOLLY – THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY – 155
+49=. EMINEM - CURTAIN CALL - THE GREATEST HITS 155
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55. MICHAEL JACKSON - BAD - 151
+56.Ed Sheerhan - X 149 CONSEC

Total weeks in Top 40. + means is in this week's Top 40. Updated week ending week ending 4th May.

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 153
+17.Ed Sheerhan - + 150
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20. George Mitchell Minstrels - Black & White Minstrel Show 142 (all in Top 20)
+21.Ed Sheerhan - X 141
+22.Fleetwood Mac - Rumours 135

Consecutive weeks in Top 40 + means is in this week's Top 40. Updated week ending 4th May.

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!)
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33=. Abba - Arrival 76
33= Lionel Richie - Can't Slow Down 76
35= .Abba's Greatest Hits 75
35= Norah Jones - Come away with me 75
35= Whitney Houston - Whitney 75
*35=Adele-25 75

Total weeks in Top 20. + means is in this week's Top 20. Updated week ending week ending 4th May

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. Ed Sheerhan - X 125

Total Weeks in Top 10 (updated week ending 4th May)
+ means is in this week's Top 10.

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. Ed Sheerhan - X 92 weeks

I dont understand or want to all this streaming downloading etc.It just does not seem to count anymore.Would Ed Sheeran ,Drake,Rihanna ,Adele etc domuinate like they do if peope had to go out and buy a disc instead of just sitting at home and clicking a button.Elvis, the Beatles,the Stones and even Cliff Richard achieved greatness the hard way.Please dont take this is denigrating modern artists in any way it is just the way the charts are now compiled.Look also at how Billboard wrote off most of Elvis' achievements by moving the stats from 1956 to 1958 as the starting point for their top 100 chart thereby cutting out is major years.What does that say for their stats.

Hi Dave...Its normal for dominant popular artists to hold number one.....Elvis,The Beatles,T Rex,Abba and so on...........enjoying things that are popular is not a crime so to call people sheep is very childish as choice in music is very personal........I enjoy a large amount of music that does not chart and never see music as an Olympic competition so I would suggest that you consider your insults to peoples choice in music with care as your choice in music may not be others but what does it matter.......let us just bathe in the beauty of choice of Ed,Steps and all other who have the ability to vocally entertain us over all the years gone and the many to come