Talk:List of albums which have spent the most weeks on the UK Albums Chart

This list is untrue! The Beatles' debut album alone spent 74 weeks on the chart! Where are the 'facts' coming from for this nonsense list?

List is pointless

The List is pointless. It uses the Top 200 for the ABBA Album, but the Top 75 for everything else.

It is best to use only the Top 75, for the List - for all Albums.

NOTE - All of my Lists, (below), go up to the UK Album Chart of the Week Ending 31st December 2011 - inclusive.

Here are the Albums based on Top 75 Weeks:,

Several of the Albums have No.76 to No.100 Positions included,because from W/E 8th August 1981 to W/E 14th January 1989,

the entire Top 100 of the UK Album Chart was counted. For example, 'Gold', by ABBA, is the only Album in the Top 5, to show Top 75 Weeks, only. The Queen Album spent 414 Weeks in the Top 75, the other 62 Weeks, are from when the entire Top 100 was counted.

UK ALBUMS WITH THE MOST CHART WEEKS

If an Album did not Peak at No.1, I show where it did Peak - in Brackets

1. Rumours - Fleetwood Mac - 483 Weeks (1977)
2. Greatest Hits - Queen - 476 Weeks (1981)
3. Gold - Greatest Hits - ABBA - 444 Weeks (1992)
4. Bat Out Of Hell - Meat Loaf - 474 Weeks (1978) (Peak = No.9 in 1981)
5. Legend - Bob Marley & The Wailers - 396 Weeks (1984)
6. The Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd - 376 Weeks (1973) (No.2)
7. The Sound Of Music - Film Soundtrack - 374 Weeks (1965)
8. South Pacific - Film Soundtrack - 315 Weeks (1958)
9. Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon And Garfunkel - 309 Weeks (1970)
10. Greatest Hits - Simon And Garfunkel - 290 Weeks (1972) (No.2)
11. War Of The Worlds - Jeff Wayne / Various Artists - 285 Weeks (1978) (No.5 in both 1978 & 2005)
12. Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield - 278 Weeks (1974)
13. Face Value - Phil Collins - 274 Weeks (1981)
14. Making Movies - Dire Straits - 251 Weeks (1980) (No.4)
15. Thriller/Thriller 25 - Michael Jackson - 248 Weeks (No.1/No.3) (1982/2008)
16. Dirty Dancing - Film Soundtrack - 243 Weeks (No.4) (1987)
17. The Immaculate Collection - Madonna - 242 Weeks (1990)
18. Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits - 231 Weeks (1985)
19. Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles - 207 Weeks (1967)
20. Nevermind - Nirvana - 205 Weeks (1991) (No.5 - in 2011)

THE TOP 5 ALBUMS - WITH ONLY TOP 75 WEEKS SHOWN

Here I show - in Brackets - how many Weeks, an Album has added from the entire Top 100, for the August 1981 to January 1989 period:,

1. Rumours - Fleetwood Mac - 483 Weeks (112 Top 100 Weeks added)
2. Greatest Hits (One) - Queen - 476 Weeks (62 Top 100 Weeks added)
3. Bat Out Of Hell - Meat Loaf - 474 Weeks (34 Top 100 Weeks added)
4. Gold - ABBA - 444 Weeks (Top 75 Weeks only)
5. Legend - Bob Marley & The Wailers - 396 Weeks (30 Top 100 Weeks added)

THE TOP 5 ALBUMS TOP 100 WEEKS

If we use the Top 100 for all of the Top 5 Albums, (since they first Charted), then the Albums with the most Top 100 Weeks are:,

1. Gold - ABBA - 638 Top 100 Weeks
2. Greatest Hits (One) - Queen - 635 Top 100 Weeks
3. Legend - Bob Marley & The Wailers - 583 Top 100 Weeks
4. Rumours - Fleetwood Mac - 513 Top 100 Weeks
5. Bat Out Of Hell - Meat Loaf - 506 Top 100 Weeks

82.22.125.117 (talk) 11:47, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

This list is a joke surely? Or am i missing something? Where are the Beatles, Oasis, Phil Collins and suchlike? All of which have multiple albums that spent over 100 weeks in the chart.

IN fact I would go as far as to say that possibly hundreds of albums are missing from this list.

The list is incomplete, it's under construction. fyi the beatles only have 3 albums that qualify, oasis just 2 and phil collins 3. albums don't stay in the charts as long as you think they do. Mister sparky (talk) 18:12, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

Queen's greatest hits album must be top of the pile by now i would have thought, there can't be to many weeks separating queen and abba'a greatest hits collections — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.213.137.203 (talk) 22:58, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

You may be right. According to the Official Charts Company, Greatest Hits by Queen has, as of 27 September 2012, spent 479 weeks on the United Kingdom Album Chart. Gold: Greatest Hits by ABBA has spent 450 weeks on the chart. However, the official Chart Company only lists the charts from 1960 onwards. A more extensive listing, going back to 1952, is provided by Chart Archive. This differs somewhat from the Official Chart Company's version, showing the ABBA album at 506 weeks, and the Queen album at 497 weeks. As neither website gives any details of how they make up their statistics, it is difficult to work out which is correct.

Strangely, the Queen album doesn't even appear on the list in the article! Other albums missing from the list include Rumours by Fleetwood Mac, which spent 489 weeks on the chart according to Chart Archive and 487 according to the Official Charts Company and Bat Out of Hell by Meat Loaf, which was there for 469 weeks per the Chart Archive and 474 weeks per the Official Chart Company. Other long-runners missing are the original soundtrack of South Pacific, which Chart Archive reckons spent 315 weeks on the chart, the original soundtrack of The Sound of Music, which Chart Archive credits with 372 weeks on the list, and Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, which Chart Archive has at 380 weeks, while the Official Chart Company reckons on 351 weeks.

Legend by Bob Marley & The Wailers is a strange one, as there are two entries. Legend managed just 78 weeks according to the Official Chart Company, but "Legend: The Best of Bob Marley & The Wailers" (which appears to be a different version of the same album) chalked up another 340 weeks. Chart Archive adds them both together and comes up with 446 weeks. Skinsmoke (talk) 23:51, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

I don't want to be rude but surely this is the most pointless/innacurate/completely false article in all of Wikipedia - and that's quite a feat!To be honest I'm completely mystified and it needs deleting in its entirety. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.149.127.57 (talk) 21:03, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

Mike Oldfield

There are still serious flaws with this list, one year on from the plea to give us more time to get it finished. As an example, Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield spent 278 weeks on the United Kingdom Album Chart according to the Official Charts Company and Chart Archive(Link redirected to OCC website), which would place it third on the list, and yet it fails to appear in the top 85 places.

Either this list needs some serious work to knock it into shape, or it should be scrapped completely. If it is a work in progress, it should really be moved to somebody's sandbox, where work can continue (by a group of editors, if necessary) until it is in a fit state to be transferred to the article pages. Skinsmoke (talk) 23:37, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

50 weeks as the minimum?

The singles list uses 40 as the minimum for entry on that list, how about making it 50 for this one just to round the numbers?. Also, we could have two combined lists from all singles or albums released, in which 100 weeks are needed for the albums and 80 for the singles?. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Myevergreen (talk • contribs) 23:30, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

I can't believe no-one's put this ridiculous list out of its misery yet...

the idea that it's a work in progress is no longer valid (if it ever was!)as it'd been up ages and you've still got complete rubbish like a Beyonce album in the top numbers of weeks of all time - beating 'Bat Out Of Hell' for goodness sake!