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Most Weeks at Number 1 - UK Albums Acts
MOST WEEKS AT NUMBER 1 - UK ALBUMS ACTS
by Colin Hughes
(Number 1 Albums In Brackets)
(W/E 28th July 1956 to W/E 2nd July 2020)
01) BEATLES - 176 (15) @@@
02) ELVIS PRESLEY – 66 (13)
03) ABBA - 57 (9)
04) ROLLING STONES - 46 (12)
05) ED SHEERAN - 41 (4)
06) SIMON & GARFUNKEL - 40 (2)
07) ADELE - 37 (3)
08) ROBBIE WILLIAMS - 36 (13)
09) ROD STEWART - 32 (10)
10) MICHAEL JACKSON – 31 (Including 3 Weeks as Michael Jackson Plus The Jackson Five) (10)
11)= MADONNA - 30 (12) (Includes 1 Week with the 'Evita' Soundtrack -1996) (12)
11)= EMINEM - 30 (10)
11)= TAKE THAT - 30 (8)
11)= CLIFF RICHARD - 30 (7)
15)= THE CARPENTERS - 29 (3)
15)= ELTON JOHN - 29 (Includes 1 No.1 with PNAU) (7)
17) DAVID BOWIE - 27 (11)
18)= BOB DYLAN – 26 (9)
18)= PHIL COLLINS - 26 (6)
18)= SIMPLY RED - 26 (5)
21) DIRE STRAITS - 22 (4)
22)= THE SHADOWS – 21 (Excludes 21 Weeks with Cliff Richard) (4)
22)= QUEEN - 21 (9)
22)= OASIS - 21 (8)
25) BARBRA STREISAND - 20 (Includes 2 No.1 Weeks with the 'A Star Is Born' Soundtrack = 1977) (7)
26) GEORGE MITCHELL MINSTRELS - 19 (3)
27)= COLDPLAY - 18 (8)
27)= CELINE DION - 18 (5)
27)= SPICE GIRLS - 18 (2)
@@@ = The Official UK Charts Company, give The Beatles 16 UK No.1 Albums, as they count one of their Re-issued No.1 Albums, as a ‘New’ No.1 for them. I’m not sure if they are counting ‘Sgt Pepper’s’ Return to No.1, (June 2017), as their 16th No.1, or if it is ‘Abbey Road’s Return to No.1. (October 2019). I think that it is ‘Abbey Road’, that they counting, as 2 Beatles No.1 Albums.
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