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After their commercial release in 1982, compact discs and their players were extremely popular. Despite costing up to $1,000, over 400,000 CD players were sold in the United States between 1983 and 1984. [14] By 1988, CD sales in the United States surpassed those of vinyl LPs, and, by 1992, CD sales surpassed those of prerecorded music-cassette ...
It compiled physical format album sales until 2007, after which it has also included albums sold digitally. Since July 2014, it has incorporated music streaming service data. From 10 July 2015, it has been based on a Friday to Thursday album sales. This list shows the sixteen artists with the most top-ten albums on the UK Albums Chart.
Artists who reached the number one in the UK Albums Chart in six decades Artist Number one album Decade(s) it reached number one Ref. The Rolling Stones: The Rolling Stones: 1960s [3] The Rolling Stones No. 2: Aftermath: Let It Bleed: Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! 1970s Sticky Fingers: Exile on Main St. Goats Head Soup: Emotional Rescue: 1980s Voodoo ...
The UK Albums Chart canon was modified when chart fans Alan Smith and Keith Badman discovered that charts of albums in the UK dated back to 28 July 1956, not 8 November 1958 as previously thought. [1] The first album chart was a Top 5 published in Record Mirror. [2] The album at number one on this chart was Songs for Swingin' Lovers! by Frank ...
On the Official Albums Chart Top 50 for the week ending 18 August 1973, all the compilations listed as 'various artists' albums were taken out of the chart, but those billed as 'official soundtracks' (to films such as A Clockwork Orange and Cabaret) were kept in. [79] As the Ronco-released tie-in to the 1973 film That'll Be the Day was listed ...
Although it was not an immediate big seller at the time and therefore does not appear in this list, Bat Out of Hell by Meat Loaf has since gone on to become one of the UK's best-selling albums. Released in the UK in February 1978, the album has only ever spent four weeks in the top ten of the album chart, two of them in 1981 in the wake of Meat ...
Usually defined as lasting from the mid-1960s until the mid-2000s, [1] [2] it was driven primarily by three successive music recording formats: the 33⅓ rpm long-playing record (LP), the cassette tape, and the compact disc (CD). Rock musicians from the US and UK were often at the forefront of the era. The term "album era" is also used to refer ...
From 10 July 2015, it has been based on a Friday to Thursday album sales. This list shows the sixteen artists with the most number ones on the UK Albums Chart. English band The Beatles have the most number one albums with sixteen. English singer-songwriter Robbie Williams has the most number one albums for a solo artist, with fourteen. [1]