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Official Albums Chart on 4/9/2015

4 September 2015 - 10 September 2015

The UK's Top 100 biggest artist albums of the week, compiled by the Official Charts Company based on sales of CDs, downloads, vinyl, audio streams and video streams. View the biggest albums of 2024.

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David Sutton

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Total weeks in Top 40 Updated week ending 10th Sept

1. Soundtrack - The Sound Of Music 347
2. Soundtrack - South Pacific 313 Weeks (all in Top 20)
3. Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water 279
4. Meatloaf - Bat out of 249
5. Simon & Garfunkel's Greatest Hits 221
6. Abba - Gold - 217
7. Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon 214
8. Soundtrack - The King & I 201 (all in Top 20)
9. Mike Oldfield - Tubular bells 183
10. Soundtrack - West Side Story 175 (all in Top 20)
11. Soundtrack - Oklahoma 168 (all in Top 20)
12. Queen's Greatest Hits 158
13. Original Broadway Cast - My Fair Lady 156 (all in Top 20)
14. The Buddy Holly Story 155 (all in Top 20)
15 Michael Jackson - Thriller (+ Thriller 25) 154 (138+16)
16. Dire Straits - Brothers in arms 145
17. George Mitchell Minstrels - Black & White Minstrel Show 142 (all in Top 20)
+18.Ed Sheerhan - + 134
19. Lady Gaga - The fame 131
20. Best of the Beach Boys 127
21. David Gray - White Ladder 123
22=.Fleetwood Mac - Rumours 120
22=. Oasis - Definitely Maybe 120
+22=. Amy Winehouse - Back to black 120 (92 + 45 deluxe - 17 overlap)

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David Sutton

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Total Weeks in Top 10 (updated week ending 10th September)

1. Soundtrack - South Pacific 276 weeks
2. Soundtrack - The Sound of Music 233 weeks
3=. Soundtrack - The King & I 153 weeks
3=. Soundtrack - West Side Story 153 weeks
5. Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water 135 weeks
6. Original Broadway Cast - My Fair Lady 122 weeks
7. George Mitchell Singers - Black & White Minstrel show 120 weeks
8. Soundtrack - Oklahoma 112 weeks

There may be some missing from the 50-100 section, but those I've got are:

9. Michael Jackson - Thriller (including Thriller 25) 88 weeks
10. Adele - 21 76 weeks
11. Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells 74 weeks
12. Lady Gaga - The fame 72 weeks
13. Amy Winehouse - Back to Black 71 weeks (standard + deluxe - 1 week when both versions were in the top 10 simultaneously.
14. Emile Sande - Our version of events 67 weeks
+14=. Sam Smith - In the lonely hour 67 weeks
16. Dire Straits - Brothers in arms 66 weeks
17. Carpenters - The singles 1969-1973 64 weeks
+18. Ed Sheerhan - X 63 weeks
19. Beatles - Please Please Me 62 weeks
20. Simon & Garfunkel's Greatest Hits 59 weeks

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David Sutton

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Consecutive Weeks in Top 10 (updated week ending 10th September)

Sam and Ed continue their runs. Sam overtakes "Our version of events", and breaks record for consecutive weeks in Top 10 for a debut album.

http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/sam-smith-makes-official-charts-history-with-in-the-lonely-hour__10638/

Ed overtakes Please Please Me.

1. Soundtrack - South Pacific 180 weeks
2. Soundtrack - The Sound of Music 172 weeks
3. George Mitchell Singers - Black & White Minstrel show 120 weeks
4. Original Broadway Cast - My Fair Lady 101 weeks
5. Soundtrack - The King & I 94 weeks
6. Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water 92 weeks
7. Soundtrack - West Side Story 89 weeks
8. Adele - 21 71 weeks
+9. Sam Smith - In the lonely hour 67 weeks
10. Emile Sande - Our version of events 66 weeks
+11. Ed Sheerhan - X 63 weeks
12. Beatles - Please Please Me 62 weeks

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Panji SH

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Dont forget about Charlene Soraia's new album, Love Is the Law. It's out next week.

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Bogdan

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What about the new Atlas Genius album? Did it perform that poorly in the UK?