Official Albums Chart on 4/12/2020

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Shame I'm opin it goes dahn n we get the real Disco Queen back in there, still there's always next year or after when iss 10 years after er death.

What the f#$% are u trying to say??

Hi what they are badly saying is that Donna Summer is the Disco Queen. She died 8 years ago in 2012. However, bad grammar and atrocious spelling aside, it's a rather bad and sad attack on another artist. Kylie deserves the placing for the album as she works hard on her music and for her fans.

This OCC online data is actually wrong. BOOH is erroneously omitted from the week you say it dropped out. The print edition by Graham Betts confirms it was actually on chart in the 'drop out' week (at #68), making a continuous 328 week run. I count that as being a longer run as, in the 1980s, when Meat Loaf did it, the official chart was the full top 100. Since 1989 (and still is today), only the top 75 counts, and there are a number of weeks in Ed's run below 75. The top 75 longest runs were 207 wks for Meat Loaf, 235 for Ed. It is without doubt the longest top 100 run from debut, and both album's runs would be enough for the alltime top 20 by total weeks even if they were their only runs!

Coincidentally this week, X has the same total top 75 weeks as BOOH's top 100 run.

The biggest issue making like for like comparisons is not streaming vs physical, but the varying size of the chart. Ed has a consistant top 75 chart with the top 100 observable. Meat Loaf entered a top 60, and was still on a continuous run as it expanded to a top 75 then top 100.

Simon & Garfunkle's Greatest Hits is worth a mention for the same reason. It missed just one week in 226 from debut when the chart was only a top 50 to 60, which I've no doubt would have charted if there was a top 75 or 100 at the time (1972/1976). It was the follow-up to Bridge oVer troubled Water which had a 244 week continuous run of a top 50. Again, if the chart was expanded to a top 75 or 100 early enough, would certainly have a longer continuous run:
It missed just 4 weeks of top 60 action in it's first 298 weeks and 8 of it's first 310 to January 1976. A run, which began in a volatile chart era where it varied from a top 43 to top 77 on a week to week basis for over a year, and top 50 for it's 3rd year (1972).

Ed dropped out of the top 60 after just 128 weeks, but recovered strongly re-entering the top 60 five weeks later for another 100 week run in the top 60 (the first drop out week was coincidentally this week in 2016)

The likes of Abba Gold and Queen's Greatest Hits have surprisingly short maximum runs of 179* and 224 top-100 weeks respectively. *Abba Gold is currently extending it's longest run since July 2017 (Top 100) and 28/12/17 (Top 75, 155 weeks), Queen follow the 1980s rules above but have many mid-run weeks below the top 75, so it's only impressive if you count the top 100 run!

Rumours is also extending it's longest run, having been top 75 since March 2017 (195+ weeks), only once dropping out of the top 60.

Bob Marley's Legend's longest run was 207 top-100 weeks from 2015 to 2019, which included a 192 week top 75 run. It also dropped out of the chart this week in both 2015 and 2019.

Bit of an essay but hope it's helpful for some all-time stats!

The Sound Of Music ran for 304 weeks, almost 5 years back when the charts were only the top 50 in 1971, and dipped in and out continuously of the top 50 for the next 3 years.

The closest comparison to Ed though in the current era is Arctic Monkey's AM, which ran for 169 weeks since 2013 before dropping out for one week during the Christmas season. Since then, it's remained on the charts even up to today, adding another 208 weeks and interestingly its position hasn't been affected much during this Christmas Season unlike X.

I had forgot about soundtrack albums! All the more remarkable as 1965's chart were only a top 20, expanded to a top 30 in 1966 and a top 40 in 1967. Neither of the larger charts mattered for SOM's chart run as it was #1 at the end of both years! In one of those years (can't remember which) it was one of only 3 different #1 albums in that year.

It is great, but I think it will drop like a stone. Even better to see Shaky back in the top 10, the first time in 15 years. Pity it's with a greatest hits rather than new album, but at least he should do the same in the singles chart this month.
Kylie is (unexpectedly, for me), back up too!

It may go back up again after her spot on Jonathan Ross and with Christmas sales