Official Albums Chart on 26/2/2021

It's because the older stuff is better, the new stuff will pop high into the charts with the artists fans snapping it up and the following Week it will plummet as it's mostly same ol same ol throw away, conveyor belt untalented dribble.

Some stats that may interest you:

Hit albums so far this year: 153
New hits: 46
Re-Entries: 46
Hangovers from 2020: 61
On chart for all 9 weeks this year: 47
Commonest chart length: 1 week (56 Albums).

New albums account for just 11% of hits and 14% of chart points, meaning the size of new labums out performs the average by 3%.
Hangovers (those 61 albums on chart 31st December and 7th January) account for 40%, accounting for 73% of chart points. Out performing the average by 33%!
Re-Entries are the smallest type of hit, but with equal number as of this week, to 2021 albums.

A lot of it is streamed, so with a few exceptions, people aren't buying the old stuff. It's best to look at the Sales Chart to get a more accurate view of things.

Greatest Hits/Best Of compilations have always dominated the charts ever since they began in the early 60s

Yep, modern stuff generally doesn't cut the mustard does it really! It's so cheaply made, apart from Jesse Ware The City's Gonna Fall" and Harry Style's "Golden" and "It's Ok"

But not like these days. And they werent in top 10 everyweek

Absolutely awful to see so many artists with new albums leaving the top 100 so soon and those old and creepy albums still on the run...insane!!