The Official Albums Chart is the United Kingdom's industry-recognised national record chart for albums . Entries are ranked by sales and audio streaming . It was published for the first time on 22 July 1956 and is compiled every week by the Official Charts Company (OCC) on Fridays (previously Sundays). It is broadcast on BBC Radio 1 (top 5) and found on the OCC website as a Top 100 or on UKChartsPlus as a Top 200, with positions continuing until all sales have been tracked in data only available to industry insiders. However, even though number 100 was classed as a hit album (as in the case of The Guinness Book of British Hit Albums ) in the 1980s until January 1989, since the compilations were removed, this definition was changed to Top 75 with follow-up books such as The Virgin Book of British Hit Albums only including this data. As of 2021, Since 1983, the OCC generally provides a public charts for hits and weeks up to the Top 100. Business customers can require additional chart placings.
88-704: The Last Shadow Puppets are an English supergroup consisting of Alex Turner ( Arctic Monkeys ), Miles Kane ( the Little Flames , the Rascals ), James Ford ( Simian , Simian Mobile Disco ), and Zach Dawes ( Mini Mansions ). The Last Shadow Puppets were formed by co-frontmen, Alex Turner and Miles Kane, in 2007, after they became friends when the Little Flames supported Arctic Monkeys on tour in 2005. They bonded over their shared love of Scott Walker and David Bowie , and decided to write songs inspired by their music. They have released two records, The Age of
176-453: A side project for a single recording project or other ad hoc purposes, with no intention that the group will remain together afterwards. In other instances, the group may become the primary focus of the members' career. Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner credited British rock band Cream , which came together in 1966, as the first supergroup. Eric Clapton , formerly of rock band The Yardbirds and blues rock band John Mayall &
264-461: A supergroup hinges on the members already having been "successful". This itself is a subjective term, though metrics such as career earnings, records sold, number of commercial hit songs written and musician longevity can all be used to establish the objective success of a musical band and its individual members. Tyler Golsen in Far Out writes that "Today, the term “supergroup” has something of
352-584: A Top 10 new entry one week, followed by a dramatic decline the next, with most of these releases exiting the Top 75 completely. The majority of these acts would be indie and rock bands like the Wombats , Sea Power and Maxïmo Park , who would market their album to the type of people who would want to own the release via a physical format rather than streaming it. The first number one on the UK Albums Chart
440-499: A birthday present for Jo Whiley on BBC Radio 1 . They also performed a cover of Rihanna 's " SOS ". Their second single, " Standing Next to Me ", was released on 7 July 2008. That same month, the album was nominated for the 2008 Mercury Music Prize but lost out to Elbow 's The Seldom Seen Kid . In August, the band and a 16-piece orchestra, played their first tour shows at Portsmouth Guildhall and New Theatre Oxford , before attending Reading and Leeds Festivals 2008. Kane said
528-526: A collaborative project. Their collaboration extended into Arctic Monkeys material, with Kane playing guitar on " 505 ", the closing track of second Arctic Monkeys album Favourite Worst Nightmare and on " Fluorescent Adolescent " B-sides "The Bakery" and "Plastic Tramp". Kane also guested on "505" and "Plastic Tramp" at several Arctic Monkeys gigs in 2007, including the summer mini-festivals at Lancashire County Cricket Club and Arctic Monkeys' 2007 & 2013 appearances at Glastonbury. The initial recording of
616-456: A consecutive run of 70 weeks from November 1958 to March 1960, and had further runs at the top in 1960 and 1961, making a non-consecutive total of 115 weeks. The youngest artist to top the chart is Neil Reid , whose debut album topped the chart in 1972 when he was only 12 years old, while the youngest female artist is Billie Eilish who was 17 years old when she debuted at the top with When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? . The record for
704-489: A favourite— as b-sides. After the album release the band played a secret set at Glastonbury on 28 June 2008 with Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders playing drums on " The Age of the Understatement " and Jack White playing a guitar solo on "Wondrous Place". Two days later, they announced their debut world tour, which would start on 19 August that year. On 4 July 2008, they performed "Standing Next to Me" as part of
792-533: A hiatus, and working with their bands, Turner and Kane reunited briefly at the Shockwaves NME Awards on 25 February 2009, where they won Best Music Video for My Mistakes Were Made For You directed by Richard Ayoade . In a March 2010 interview with Absolute Radio , Alex Turner said that there were no plans for new material, however, Kane said in October 2010 they would get back together after he
880-458: A male artist and solo act to do so. The first female solo artist to have the UK's year-end best seller was Barbra Streisand in 1982, with Love Songs . The first studio album and non-soundtrack or cast recording album to top the decade-end chart was Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles in the 1960s – they became the first group to achieve this. James Blunt 's Back to Bedlam , in
968-508: A negative connotation. It usually signifies a short-term vanity project that attempts to profit off members’ reputations with their past works". In 1974, a Time magazine article titled "Return of a Supergroup" quipped that the supergroup was a "potent but short-lived rock phenomenon" which was an "amalgam formed by the talented malcontents of other bands". The article acknowledged that groups such as Cream and Blind Faith "played enormous arenas and made megabucks, and sometimes megamusic", with
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#17327727463521056-477: A new chart record for the most weeks spent inside the top 40 of the UK Albums Chart for a girl group album. As of 2022, it had spent 69 weeks in the Top 40. To date, Little Mix are the girl group with the most Top 5 albums, with seven as of 2021. In July 2021, ABBA's Gold: Greatest Hits was officially recognised by the Official Charts Company as the first album to spend over 1000 weeks on
1144-409: A pair of teenagers egging each other on, Turner and Kane are the most infatuated frontmen since Pete Doherty and Carl Barât . Large portions of their singing, dancing, playing and general tomfoolery are aimed not at the audience, but at each other." Kane and Turner's friendship is often an object of discussion, and has been described by the media as a " bromance ", due to its closeness. This has led to
1232-540: A particular cause, have been common since the 1980s. The term is most common in the context of rock and pop music , but it has occasionally been applied to other musical genres . For example, opera stars the Three Tenors ( José Carreras , Plácido Domingo , and Luciano Pavarotti ) and hip hop duos Kids See Ghosts ( Kanye West and Kid Cudi ) and Bad Meets Evil ( Eminem and Royce da 5'9" ) all have been called supergroups. A supergroup sometimes forms as
1320-616: A selection of popular tracks performed by session artists in the style of a recent hit (and unconnected with the BBC series of Top of the Pops albums, which would follow in the 1990s). This decision was soon overturned, with these anonymous cover albums being taken out the chart again. 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
1408-997: A show at La Cigale in Paris , for a performance of the band's staple song, "Standing Next To Me". In September 2021, during an interview with Clash Magazine , Kane said a new a project could "probably be in about four years," adding, "I think there's a bit of a myth about it and I quite like that," in regards to the eight year wait between The Age of the Understatement and Everything You've Come to Expect . On 18 June 2023 Miles Kane joined Arctic Monkeys at their Emirates Stadium show, playing guitar on 505 before embarking on his own One Man Band tour. Kane supported Arctic Monkeys on their Ireland tour in October 2023. The Last Shadow Puppets' musical style has been mainly described as Baroque pop , orchestral pop , and psychedelic pop , while also drawing heavily from vintage film scores , and post-punk . Turner and Kane have cited Scott Walker and David Bowie as main influences, with Turner saying, "[Bowie]
1496-522: A solo artist of any gender) with 23 weeks, 11 of which were consecutive (which is also a record for a female artist). The first studio album and non-soundtrack or cast recording album to top the year-end chart was With the Beatles by The Beatles in 1963 – they became the first group to achieve this feat. Elton John 's Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player in 1973, marks the first album by
1584-427: A total of 66 weeks and most top ten albums by any artist, charting 53 releases. Until this same month, he also held the record for the most number one albums by a solo artist in a tie with Robbie Williams , however when Williams' XXV album reached the top on 16 September 2022, the former Take That star broke this record with 14 number ones albums to Presley's 13 chart toppers, with Williams moving into second place in
1672-559: A year after formation. Also in 1968 Jack Bruce joined the Tony Williams Lifetime , composed of bassist and vocalist Bruce, and three famous Miles Davis alumni: drummer Tony Williams , guitarist John McLaughlin, and keyboardist Khalid Yasin (né Larry Young ). The term may have come from the 1968 album Super Session with Al Kooper , Mike Bloomfield , and Stephen Stills . The coalition of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (formerly Crosby, Stills & Nash) in 1969
1760-536: Is a time when supergroups were experiencing a revival; established musicians looked for new platforms to express themselves, as they brought their different genres closer through collaborations that utilized their shared popularity so as to build something fresh and thrilling A contemporary example of a supergroup is FFS , a collaboration between Scottish indie rock band Franz Ferdinand and American art rock band Sparks , Other prominent examples include Atoms for Peace and Boygenius . The very definition of
1848-517: Is another early example, given the success of their prior bands ( the Byrds , Buffalo Springfield , and the Hollies respectively). While the practice had declined by the 80s, in 1985 country superstars Johnny Cash , Willie Nelson , Kris Kristofferson and Waylon Jennings formed the first country supergroup, Highwaymen , going on to achieve three chart singles. Perhaps the most decorated line-up,
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#17327727463521936-403: Is divided by 1000 and added to the pure sales of the album. This calculation was designed to ensure that the chart rundown continues to reflect the popularity of the albums themselves, rather than just the performance of one or two smash hit singles. The final number one album on the UK Albums Chart to be based purely on sales alone was Smoke + Mirrors by Imagine Dragons . On 1 March 2015, In
2024-702: Is right." In February 2012, Miles Kane supported Arctic Monkeys at their Paris Olympia show. At the conclusion of the support slot, Turner joined Kane and his band to perform "Standing Next to Me". This was repeated again a year later at Kane's Glastonbury set, near the end of his performance. In October that year Kane, now joining the Arctic Monkeys on their headline set in Mexico, performed their last song " 505 " together. At Finsbury Park 2014, both reunited once more for an acoustic performance of "Standing Next to Me". In 2015 both Turner and Kane were involved in
2112-461: Is sort of in the DNA of every record, to some extent. He's been built-in for a long time". Other artists that served as inspiration for the band include, Ennio Morricone , Serge Gainsbourg , David Axelrod , Lee Hazlewood , Jaques Brel , Isaac Hayes and bands such as, The Style Council , The Electric Prunes , Sparks , Depeche Mode and The Fall . "To try to answer your question, it's probably in
2200-456: Is the guy from Arctic Monkeys and Miles. So we did the follow-up album to that. That's the last thing I did." On 3 December 2015, the band's official Facebook and YouTube pages released a teaser trailer for the album, also confirming for the album to be released sometime in Spring 2016. People such as Turner's ex-girlfriend, Taylor Bagley , and Zach Dawes of Mini Mansions made small cameos in
2288-500: The Now That's What I Call Music series was launched by EMI/Virgin, followed by CBS/WEA's rival Hits Album series a year later and Chrysalis/MCA's Out Now! in 1985. From this point in the 1980s, every regular edition of Now That's What I Call Music topped the albums chart (apart from Now 4 which was kept of the number one spot by the first ever Hits Album ), with these albums from the three major-label joint-ventures joined in
2376-655: The Rock en Seine festival in Paris, France. Four months after their last tour date, the band released The Dream Synopsis , an EP containing re-recordings of two songs, "Aviation" and "The Dream Synopsis", as well as four cover versions of The Fall 's " Totally Wired ", Jacques Dutronc 's " Les Cactus ", Glaxo Babies 's "This Is Your Life", and Leonard Cohen 's " Is This What You Wanted ". Each cover had an accompanying music video except for "Totally Wired". Two years after their last official release, Turner joined Miles Kane during
2464-404: The 2000s, marks the first album by a male artist and solo act to do it. Blunt was the only performer in history to top the decade chart with a debut album. The first female solo artist to achieve this feat was Adele in the 2010s, with 21 . Dua Lipa 's Future Nostalgia holds the record for having the lowest one-week sales while at the top of the chart in the modern era, when it was number one
2552-404: The 3,889 downloaded copies it sold out of 51,510 sales. Also on 16 September 2022, Columbia became the first record label to take the Top 3 chart positions with three different acts with releases by Robbie Williams, Ozzy Osbourne and Harry Styles occupying number 1, 2 and 3 (with parent company Sony Music also having the number 4 with a re-issue of Manic Street Preachers' Know Your Enemy ). In
2640-511: The Albums Chart, but this total does not include 2014's Gold – 40th Anniversary Edition (which like Queen's The Platinum Collection is a 3-CD set also including More ABBA Gold: More ABBA Hits and The Golden B-sides ) or additional weeks inside the Top 100 missing from the OCC's database before February 1994 (as with the singles chart, Music Week only published the Top 75 as this
2728-763: The Bluesbreakers ; Jack Bruce , formerly of jazz / rhythm and blues band the Graham Bond Organisation (GBO) and John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers; and Ginger Baker , formerly of the GBO, formed the band in 1966, recorded four albums, and disbanded in 1968. Guitarist Clapton and drummer Baker went on to form Blind Faith , another blues rock supergroup which recruited former Spencer Davis Group and Traffic singer, keyboardist, and guitarist Steve Winwood and Family bassist Ric Grech . The group recorded one studio album before disbanding less than
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2816-460: The British album charts than any other musical act, followed by the Beatles , Elvis Presley , U2 and ABBA . By most weeks at number one, the Beatles lead with a total of 176 weeks, and the most number one albums of all with 16, followed by The Rolling Stones and Robbie Williams with 14 number ones each. Similar to the situation regarding Elvis Presley's record-breaking tally of number ones on
2904-671: The Lonely Hour by Sam Smith became the first album to top the new streaming-incorporated Official Albums Chart. The weekly Top 75 UK Albums Chart (albums described as hits in the case of British Hit Singles & Albums or The Virgin Book of British Hit Albums) were published in Music Week magazine until 2021. In 2018 Future (publisher of 'Louder Sound' publications such as Metal Hammer and Classic Rock ) acquired Music Week publisher NewBay Media. Future decided that
2992-620: The Park , and Lollapalooza in Chicago . In June 2016, the band performed on the pyramid stage at Glastonbury . During the set, they performed a cover of " Moonage Daydream " in memory of David Bowie . In July, the band played two nights at Alexandra Palace in London , on the second date, they were joined by Johnny Marr for a cover of The Smiths ' " Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me ." They ended their 2016 tour on 26 August by playing at
3080-419: The Rascals , Miles Kane would be recording an album with Simian Mobile Disco member and former Simian drummer James Ford producing and playing drums. Turner and Kane had become friends when Kane's previous band the Little Flames played support for Arctic Monkeys on their 2005 UK tour. The Little Flames also supported Arctic Monkeys on their April 2007 UK tour, when Turner and Kane wrote songs together for
3168-825: The Top 100 albums chart and given their own Top 20 chart (found in Music Week and Record Mirror ), with the main albums chart reformatted as a top 75 (as far as hit albums are concerned) to equal the singles chart. As of 2022, the OCC publishes the Official Compilations Chart Top 100 on their website, which as well as listing the chart places of all the various Now That's What I Call Music! , Hits Albums and Ministry of Sound Annuals that have been released, now include Motion Picture Cast Recordings such as The Greatest Showman or A Star Is Born and Original Broadway/West End cast albums such as Hamilton , all three of which were included in
3256-500: The UK. In February 2015, it was announced that due to the falling sales of albums and rise in popularity of audio streaming, the Official Albums Chart would begin including streaming data from March 2015. Under the revised methodology, the Official Charts Company takes the 12 most streamed tracks from one album, with the top-two songs being down-weighted in line with the average of the rest. The total of these streams
3344-604: The Understatement (2008), and following a lengthy hiatus, Everything You've Come to Expect (2016). Both of their albums reached number one in the UK charts. They were nominated for a BRIT Award in the British Breakthrough category, and shortlisted for a Mercury Prize in the Best Album category, for The Age of the Understatement . In August 2007 NME magazine reported that Arctic Monkeys lead singer Alex Turner and lead singer of then newly formed
3432-420: The album Be Here Now by Oasis is a controversial second place, this is due to the fact its release date was irregular, being released on a Thursday instead of the usual Monday. The record was released on 21 August 1997 and sold around 813,000 in its first seven days, which surpasses the current claimant to the title, though this topic is still highly contested. In September 2020, The Rolling Stones became
3520-556: The all-time number 1 album record holders just two behind The Beatles. As of October 2023, The Rolling Stones join Williams in joint second place for overall artists with most number ones when they released their 14th No.1 album Hackney Diamonds . With Williams and Presley, the record was broken on a technicality, as many Presley's albums have been kept off the top spot by movie soundtracks, while with Williams such albums are now in their own chart. Taylor Swift and Madonna tie for
3608-663: The band announced that their second album would be entitled Everything You've Come to Expect , and would feature the return of all three previous band members, as well as the addition of bass player Zach Dawes . It was set to be released on 1 April 2016. A few days later, they announced their 2016 tour dates in support of the album. Set to start in March with a show at Usher Hall in Edinburgh . Two shows were later added during March in Cambridge and Middlesbrough . On 10 March 2016,
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3696-411: The band released the title track from Everything You've Come to Expect , as the album's second single. An accompanying music video was also released, of which there is 9 varieties, depicting Turner and Kane buried up to their necks on a beach while a woman dances around them. A week later the track " Aviation ", was released as the 3rd single. A video similar in style to Everything You've Come to Expect
3784-400: The band's tenth number one album, Voyage . With that album, ABBA also became the artist with the longest gap between number one studio albums, with 40 years (since The Visitors in 1981). The longest number one by a group is Simon and Garfunkel 's Bridge Over Troubled Water which was number one for 33 weeks (13 of which were consecutive). The longest consecutive number one by a group
3872-412: The best-selling studio album in UK chart history. Queen's Greatest Hits has sold over 7 million copies (including downloads and equivalent streams) as of July 2022. ABBA's Gold has sold over 6 million, and Sgt. Pepper has sold in excess of 5.4 million copies. The longest-running number one album, both consecutively and non-consecutively, is the soundtrack of the film South Pacific . It had
3960-542: The chart, but those billed as 'official soundtracks' (to films such as A Clockwork Orange and Cabaret ) were kept in. As the Ronco-released tie-in to the 1973 film That'll Be the Day was listed as a various artist album and not as a soundtrack, it disappeared from the chart after its seventh week at number one alongside EMI's former number one Pure Gold and Phillip's 20 Original Chart Hits . In 1983,
4048-404: The charts by many albums from all the regular compilation specialists like K-Tel, Telstar and Stylus. As the amount of compilations in the chart were keeping out artists from reaching number one or charting at all, it was decided that all the various artist albums would be removed from the Official Albums Chart Top 100. In January 1989, all the various artist compilation albums were removed from
4136-495: The first British female solo artist to have a number-one album in the UK with Never for Ever , as well as being the first album by any female solo artist to enter the chart at number 1. In August 2014 she became the first female artist to have eight albums in the Official UK Top 40 Albums Chart simultaneously, (altogether she had eleven albums in the Top 50 in one week). She is currently in fourth place for artists having
4224-548: The first act to have reached number one in the album chart during six different decades (1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2010s and 2020s). For solo artists, Elvis Presley was the first artist to score UK number-one albums in five different decades (the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 2000s and 2010s). In 2020, Bruce Springsteen became the first solo artist to score UK number-one albums in five consecutive decades (the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, and 2020s) with his twelfth number-one album Letter to You . Just two weeks later, Kylie Minogue became
4312-467: The first artist to chart with an album released in a NFT format when Close to Home debuted at number 2 (with Steps beating the rapper to number one and becoming the first mixed-gender British act to get chart topping albums in four consecutive decades). A week later, Will of the People by Muse became the first NFT-listed album to top the charts, with the limited edition NFT listed as part of
4400-456: The first female solo artist to have UK number-one albums in five different decades (all consecutively, the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, and 2020s), with her eighth UK number-one album Disco . In November 2021, ABBA became the third group (after The Rolling Stones and The Beatles) to score a UK number one album in five different decades (in ABBA's case, the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2020s) with
4488-549: The main album chart or excluded. In August 1971, the British Market Research Bureau (BMRB) allowed low-priced budget albums to chart as well as standard compilations. This decision gave a number one to Music For Pleasure's Hot Hits 6 , which went straight in at the top of the chart and was joined at number 6 by a new entry for Hallmark's Top of the Pops Volume 18 , another album featuring
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#17327727463524576-486: The main artist albums chart before 2020. In addition to the main Compilations chart, all the 'Motion Picture Cast Recordings' and cast albums get their own Official Soundtrack Albums Chart Top 50, but are still classed as artist albums as far as the singles chart is concerned with, for example, only three tracks from early 2022 chart topper Encanto (a Disney soundtrack which sold 13,855 units to be at number one for
4664-561: The most number one albums by a female artist in the UK, with 12 each, though in Madonna's case this includes the Evita film soundtrack which was a cast recording and not strictly a Madonna album as she does not perform on every track (of the album's 31 tracks, she performs on 22 songs but only on 8 songs by herself). Swift also holds the record for the most consecutive number one albums by a female artist with 9, just one behind Eminem who holds
4752-528: The most simultaneous UK Top 40 albums, behind Elvis Presley and David Bowie who both tie for the most simultaneous Top 40 albums (twelve each, both immediately following their deaths in 1977 and 2016 respectively), and The Beatles who had eleven in 2009 when remastered versions of their albums were released. The fastest selling album (first chart week sales) is 25 by Adele . Released in November 2015, it sold over 800,000 copies in its first week. However,
4840-725: The name was already registered. The band played their first ever show in Brooklyn , New York , at Sound Fix Records on 4 March 2008, playing a second gig at the Lower East Side 's Cake Shop the following night. Their first show in the United Kingdom was a short two song set on 5 April at the Lock Tavern in Camden , London. They played "Meeting Place" and " Standing Next to Me " in support of Remi Nicole , who organised
4928-543: The oldest artist to top the charts is Vera Lynn , who was 92 years old when she was at number one with We'll Meet Again: The Very Best of Vera Lynn , released in 2009 (though the album only contains material she recorded between 1936 and 1959). Lynn, who died in 2020 at the age of 103, also leads the list for the oldest artist to have a chart album, when the 2017 release of Vera Lynn 100 , released to mark her 100th birthday (though again, this only contains material she recorded decades earlier), peaked at number 3. Currently,
5016-447: The oldest living male artist to have the topped the UK albums chart is Tom Jones , who reached the top in 2021 with new studio album Surrounded By Time at the age of 80, while 95 year old Tony Bennett charted at number 6 on the chart of 8–14 October 2021 with his Lady Gaga duets album Love For Sale , becoming recognised by Guinness World Records as the oldest person to release an album of new material. In 1980, Kate Bush became
5104-647: The party both to celebrate her birthday and to raise money for MS sufferers. The album went straight to number one in the UK Albums Chart . The first single, " The Age of the Understatement ", was released the week before on 14 April, with new song "Two Hearts in Two Weeks" and covers of Billy Fury 's " Wondrous Place " and David Bowie 's "In the Heat of the Morning" —a song previously mentioned by Turner as
5192-421: The performances "fueled by dueling egos". However, while this "musical infighting built up the excitement ... it also made breakups inevitable." UK Albums Chart To qualify for the Official Albums Chart, the album must be the correct length and price. It must be more than three tracks or 20 minutes long and not be classed as a budget album. A budget album costs between £0.50 and £3.75. Full details of
5280-419: The phase where I enjoyed being part of a 'well-oiled machine' and I'm currently subscribing to the notion that the most unpredictable or unlikely moments are probably the most entertaining." He also, felt the band allowed him to perform differently than with the Arctic Monkeys, as Kane singing with him gave him "somewhere to hide". In a review for a show of their 2016 tour, Colm O'Regan of Hot Press said: "Like
5368-407: The previous 66 years of the chart, this occurrence where one label has had the Top 3 has only happened twice before with Parlophone taking the Top 3 positions in 1964 with two albums by The Beatles and Stay With The Hollies and K-Tel having three TV-advertised compilations at number 1, 2 and 3 on the chart of 31 December 1972. The fastest-selling debut albums (first-week sales): Sam Smith holds
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#17327727463525456-407: The publication would go monthly from March 2021, and so a bespoke monthly Official Albums Chart Top 75 (similar to album charts used by Top of the Pops in the early 1990s and Absolute 80s on Sundays) started to be published from this date alongside monthly singles charts and specialist/genre charts. By 2022, the weekly album chart had started to regularly feature a pattern of acts getting
5544-429: The record for most weeks spent in the Top 10 by a debut album with In the Lonely Hour , with 76, surpassing a record previously held by Emeli Sandé . Over more than sixty years of compiling album sales, the various chart compiling firms have had a problem with the success of multi-artist compilation albums, with these albums (mostly TV-advertised collections featuring a number of hits) either being allowed to chart in
5632-411: The record for the most consecutive number one albums in Official Albums Chart history with 10. Adele is the female solo artist with the most weeks at number one, with a total of 37 weeks. Spice Girls are the female group with the most weeks at number one, with a total of 18 weeks (15 of which were for their debut album Spice ). In March 2018, Little Mix 's fourth studio album Glory Days , set
5720-463: The record for the steepest drop from number one when their album Anxiety Replacement Therapy fell out of the Top 200 altogether with second week sales of 880 copies. This occurrence of number one albums dropping out of the top 100 in their second week of release prompted an article in The Guardian newspaper wondering whether the UK album chart was broken. On 26 August 2022, Aitch became
5808-582: The rest of the month. On 20 October the album's third single, " My Mistakes Were Made for You ", was released. Four days later they played a show at Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool as part of the Electric Proms . Their London and Sheffield shows were generally well received by both fans and critics. Turner and Kane played their last show, before going back to their respective careers, at the Mayan Theater of Los Angeles on 3 November 2008. Now on
5896-648: The rules can be found on the OCC website. According to the canon of the OCC, the official British albums chart was the Record Mirror chart from 22 July 1956 to 1 November 1958; the Melody Maker chart from 8 November 1958 to March 1960; the Record Retailer chart from 1960 to 1969; and the Official Albums Chart from 1969 on. For eight weeks in February and March 1971 no Official Albums Chart
5984-601: The sentiment, saying, "It's a friendship and a band born out of a desire to hang around together, egging each other on into more flamboyant outfits, [...] most of all better music". Supergroup (music) A supergroup is a musical group formed of members who are already successful as solo artists or as members of other successful groups. The term became popular in the late 1960s when members of already successful rock groups recorded albums together , after which they normally disbanded. Charity supergroups , in which prominent musicians perform or record together in support of
6072-468: The show that the space between taking it seriously and not taking it seriously is best occupied. I like to be in a place where I can reach for both. The keys to that corridor aren't always attainable." —Alex Turner on performing. The band outfits are usually designed by Kane and Ray Brown . Turner commented on their change in appearance from their first album to the second saying "We've gone from The Beatles to The Fast And The Furious". When asked about
6160-484: The singles chart , The Official Charts Company has classed re-issues of The Beatles' Abbey Road , and The Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street and Goats Head Soup , as brand new hits/number 1s due to the amount of bonus material available, formats released and the fact that the issuing record label had changed. As of September 2022, Elvis Presley is still the male solo artist with the most weeks at number one with
6248-501: The songs that would eventually form their debut album took place in France in late August 2007 with additional material added between August and December that year. In December, Owen Pallett was appointed to arrange the strings, brass and percussion for the album with the 22-piece London Metropolitan Orchestra . During the recording of the album Turner and Kane hired a documentary film-making team, Luke Seomore and Joseph Bull, to capture
6336-496: The story of the project. On 20 February 2008, Miles Kane and Alex Turner revealed they would be known as the Last Shadow Puppets and that their album, titled The Age of the Understatement , would be released on 21 April 2008. At first, the band chose the name Shadow Puppets because they thought it sounded like a 60's girl groups band name, which they were listening to a lot at the time, yet added The Last to it as
6424-488: The string arrangements on The Age of the Understatement , confirmed work on the second album on Twitter . In an interview with the Chilean site Rock & Pop on 17 November 2015, producer James Ford confirmed that work on the second album had been completed and that the record would be released sometime in Spring 2016. When asked of his recent work, Ford said, "This year, I've just done a Last Shadow Puppets record, which
6512-552: The supergroup Traveling Wilburys was formed in 1988, consisting of Bob Dylan , George Harrison , Jeff Lynne , Roy Orbison and Tom Petty . In the early 2000s, supergroups such as Audioslave and Velvet Revolver made their mark. Audioslave was created in 2001, composed of ex-members of Rage Against the Machine and Chris Cornell from Soundgarden . The members of Guns N’ Roses and Scott Weiland from Stone Temple Pilots came together to form Velvet Revolver in 2002. This
6600-531: The two festival stops would be "our [the band] first proper gigs". Their Leeds set was described by The Guardian as "a classy offering from the Puppets. But, maybe, that isn't what's needed at a festival on a Friday night". The first leg of the tour ended with a show at The Olympia in Paris on 26 August. The tour restarted in October at Cirkus in Stockholm , and continued in continental Europe, throughout
6688-476: The use, by both fans and journalists, of the portmanteau , "Milex", when talking about their shared exploits. They have referred to each other as "best mates", having bonded over their similar music taste, sense of humor, and upbringing: "we discovered that our mums have got the same kettle and toaster. Seriously. And they have the same aura. They're very similar women. We're both only children, too." In an interview with The Times , Turner claimed their first record
6776-415: The video. A second teaser trailer for the album was released on 28 December 2015. The video featured Kane impersonating wrestler Ric Flair along with videos from the studio and various cinematic shots. On 10 January 2016, the band released their first single since 2008. The song, " Bad Habits ", was accompanied with a music video filmed in the same style as the first two teaser trailers. On 21 January 2016,
6864-519: The way the band presents itself on stage Kane said: "...We're just sort of having fun in those characters but we're very much serious, its not like we're taking the piss, its just like why not be a bit flamboyant if you've got it in you, you know? The bands are so boring now days, you know, if someone wants to be a bit extravagant then I don't see why not. The bands I love were more extravagant and extreme than we are. If everyone wants to stay square then they can stay square." Turner felt similarly, "I've had
6952-584: The week beginning 15 May 2020 with sales of only 7,317, while in 2021 You Me At Six ( Suckapunch ) and Ben Howard ( Collections from the Whiteout ) became the first artists to have a number one album exit the Top 100 with only one week on the chart (though when The Guinness Book of British Hit Albums did their list of number one albums with the fewest weeks on the chart, it was based on the Top 75 countdown and featured acts such as Little Angels with their 1993 album Jam ). In 2023, The Lottery Winners made
7040-480: The writing of Kane's third solo album. During those sessions, the song that would later be known as Aviation was the seed for the new Puppets record, as it sparked their desire to get the band together. During the summer of 2015 Turner, Kane, Ford and new member Zach Dawes started recording their second album at the recording studio Shangri-La in Malibu, California . On 19 October 2015 Owen Pallett , who contributed
7128-408: Was Songs for Swingin' Lovers! by Frank Sinatra for the week ending 22 July 1956. As of the week ending 21 November 2024, the UK Albums Chart has had 1381 different number one albums. The current number one album is Together at Home by From Zero and Linkin Park . The most successful artists in the charts depend on the criteria used. As of February 2016, Queen albums have spent more time on
7216-914: Was compiled due to a postal strike – for this period, the OCC uses the chart compiled by Melody Maker instead. In the 1970s the new album chart was revealed at 12:45 pm on Thursdays on BBC Radio 1 , and then moved to 6:05 pm (later 6:30 pm) on Wednesday evenings during the Peter Powell and Bruno Brookes shows. In October 1987 it moved to Monday lunchtimes, during the Gary Davies show, and from April to October 1993 it briefly had its show from 7:00–8:00 pm on Sunday evenings, introduced by Lynn Parsons . Since October 1993 it has been included in The Official Chart show from 4:00–5:45 pm on Fridays (previously from 4:00–7:00 pm on Sundays). A weekly 'Album Chart' show
7304-466: Was done with his solo project. That summer, the band played an acoustic set at Club Nokia in Los Angeles , for Brian O'Connor 's benefit concert. This marked the first live performance of the band since 2008. A year later, Turner confirmed his interests in recording a second album. In January 2012, Kane added that he would reunite with Turner to record again as the Last Shadow Puppets "when the time
7392-503: Was licensed out to BBC Radio 2 and presented by Simon Mayo , until it ended on 2 April 2007. Though album sales tend to produce more revenue and, over time, act as a greater measure of an artist's success, this chart receives less media attention than the UK Singles Chart , because overall sales of an album are more important than its peak position. 2005 saw a record number of artist album sales with 126.2 million sold in
7480-643: Was released, showing Turner and Kane, digging a sand pit on the same beach they were buried on in the previous video. On 29 March 2016, the band released a 4th song, " Miracle Aligner ", alongside a video that closed the trilogy started by the second single, before the release of the entire album. While on tour, the band promoted the album with appearances on television programmes such as Le Grand Journal , Late Night with Seth Meyers , The Late Late Show with James Corden , and Later...with Jools Holland . And headlining sets in festivals such as Coachella , Radio 1's Big Weekend , Primavera Sound , Rockwave , T in
7568-406: Was the Beatles' Please Please Me , which held the top spot for a straight 30 weeks. The longest number one by a male solo artist was Elvis Presley with G.I. Blues which stayed at the top for 22 weeks (his Blue Hawaii album was also the longest consecutive number one album for a male artist with 17 weeks). Adele 's album 21 has the most weeks at number one by a female solo artist (and by
7656-407: Was the consequence of friendship, not ambition, adding, "Me and Miles, if we had grown up in the same area and gone to the same school, maybe we'd be in a band together anyway," adding in another interview, "With such a close friendship we have. Wanting to work together, it brings something else. I haven't done too much with other people… he's kind of the only one." Hamish McBain of ShortList shared
7744-441: Was the public chart for store owners to use in their record shops with the Top 150 Artist Albums Chart being for industry insiders/ChartsPlus subscribers). For many years, The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was the best-selling album in UK chart history, but is now in third place after being supplanted by Queen's Greatest Hits and then also by ABBA's Gold: Greatest Hits . However, Sgt. Pepper still remains
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