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Lists of Melody Maker number-one singles, from the British publication of the same name, are grouped as follows: List of Melody Maker number-one singles from 1956 to 1969; List of Melody Maker number-one singles of the 1970s; List of Melody Maker number-one singles of the 1980s
This is a list of the number one hits in the UK Albums Chart, from its inception in 1956 to the present. The sources are the Record Mirror chart from 1956 to the end of 1958, the Melody Maker chart from November 1958 to March 1960, the Record Retailer chart from March 1960 to March 1972 and the Music Week chart from then onwards.
On 26 August 1967, Disc, owned by the same company as Melody Maker, stopped compiling their own chart and started using the Melody Maker chart. [14] In its 9 February 1963 edition, Melody Maker disclosed that it received chart returns from 245 retailers and that its chart was audited by auditors supplied by Middlesex County Council . [ 15 ]
Melody Maker (7 September 1968 issue). The Melody Maker (MM) was slow to cover rock and roll and lost ground to the New Musical Express (NME), which had begun in 1952. MM launched its own weekly singles chart (a top 20) on 7 April 1956, [9] and an LPs charts in November 1958, two years after the Record Mirror had published the first UK Albums Chart. [10]
Dire Straits had three UK number-one albums during the 1980s. Their second, Brothers in Arms, was the biggest-selling album of the decade. The UK Albums Chart is a weekly record chart based on album sales from Sunday to Saturday in the United Kingdom; during the 1980s, a total of 184 albums reached number one.
These are the Billboard magazine number-one albums of 1980, per the Billboard 200. Pink Floyd 's The Wall was the best-selling album of 1980, and spent 15 consecutive weeks at number one. Chart history