The Rolling Stones break Official Chart record as they pip Declan McKenna to Number 1 with Goats Head Soup
The Rolling Stones clinch this week’s Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart at the final hour with Goats Head Soup, following an extremely close battle with midweek leader Declan McKenna.
Finishing the week just over 800 sales ahead and leading on physical copies, this is the second occasion that Goats Head Soup has landed the Number 1 spot – it originally debuted at the top of the charts on its release in 1973.
In landing a Number 1 today, the Official Charts Company can confirm that The Rolling Stones set a new record, becoming the first band in Official Chart history to score a Number 1 album across six different decades.
MORE: View all of The Rolling Stones' hit singles and albums
Other notable acts who managed Number 1s in five separate decades include The Beatles, Elvis and Bob Dylan. Plus individual members of bands who also enjoyed chart-topping success across multiple decades include the likes of Paul Weller (5), David Gilmour (5), Paul McCartney (6) and John Lennon (6) – all of whom found success as solo artists and/or with other bands.
The Rolling Stones now have 13 Number 1 albums (including reissues Exile On Main St and Goats Head Soup), putting them equal with Elvis and Robbie Williams – only The Beatles have achieved more Number 1 albums in the UK (16 plus reissues).
MORE: All the Number 1 albums
Landing at Number 2 this week – though not without a fight – Declan McKenna scores a personal best; Zeros becomes his highest charting album yet and snags the title of the UK’s most downloaded album of the week. His debut album, 2017’s What Do You Think About The Car? went to Number 11 on its release.
The 21-year-old also proves the most popular record of the week in UK independent record shops, claiming Number 1 on the Official Record Store Chart.
Streaming now, watch Declan McKenna answering fan questions about the new album on the latest episode of The Record Club. Press play below.
Elsewhere in the Top 20, R&B legend Billy Ocean enters at Number 14 with One World – his eighth Top 20 collection. This is Billy’s first album of original material in over ten years.
English synth-pop duo Hurts debut at Number 21 with their fifth studio album Faith, while US rapper and singer Big Sean lands at Number 24 with Detroit 2 – his third Top 40 collection.
Finally, 6ix9ine debuts at Number 27 with his second studio album Tattletales.
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I don't get it... so they sometimes count re-issues as different #01 albums... other times they don't. Yet Guiness Records have Beatles re-issue as the same album returning to #01 50 years later giving them a new Guiness record as at the time The Official Charts (not long ago) was counting it as a re-entry...
Not sure I like these double standards on your articles. One just have to read Official chart articles from the past 2 years to find lots of double standards issues. Please put your ideas together and stop being so incoherent in your articles.
LM
Lee Moore
So the Rolling Stones reissue is counted as a separate number one but the Beatles reissued Sgt. Peppers, which returned to number one isn't?! You count Sgt Pepper, in this article, as their 17th number one, but they are shown as having 16 in their artist's archive! Which is it OCC??
thierry henon
Dermot Kennedy back to number 1 in the album chart in Ireland where he belongs!! So happy to see him having so much success in Ireland..Should be huge worldwide!
Tomas_cz
"the first band in Official Chart history to score a Number 1 album across six different decades"
- Not meant to belittle their achievement, but how is OCC counting the decades? Given there was no year "0", a decade runs from 1 to 10, which would mean they scored their number ones across four different decades?
Laurence Sully
1960 was the start of the sixties & 2020 began this decade -- get it right son ...
Tomas_cz
I'm not sure what is wrong with my approach that I should get something "right". With your logic, when did the very first decade in AD/CE start? Do you suggest that that decade had only nine years (year 1 to year 9)?
Laurence Sully
I learnt my logic at school like everyone else - a decade is ten years and runs i.e. 1960 - 1961 - 1962 - 1963 - 1964 - 1965 - 1966 - 1967 - 1968 - 1969 - I thought everybody knew that ...
Tomas_cz
You avoided answering my question. A decade is ten years (we agree here). If it runs from 0 to 9, where is the very first decade in AD/CE when there was no year "0"?
1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 is nine years, so not a decade. And if we add year 10 to make it a decade, it goes against your suggested run (we would still need to "reassign" one year somewhere along the way to year 1960).
Laurence Sully
Wind up merchant ...
thierry henon
I really was expecting DECLAN to claim the number 1 spot!! he deserved it!! hopefully next week when the rolling stones drop out of the Top 10?!
Andy
wrong Stones line up in photo, Goats Head Soup was Mick Taylor era Stones ...
Laurence Sully
Well spotted mate -- in 1973 Ronnie Wood was still in The Faces with Rod Stewart ...
Bengy
... only The Beatles have achieved more Number 1 albums in the UK (17 including two reissues).
But in the Artists section you have given them 16 albums. Will this be updated to include Sgt. Pepper?
Piran
Congratulations to The Rolling Stones! Their albums chart run is truly something incredible. :)
Alfred Lock
You cannot beat the golden oldies to pull it off in the end the old fashioned way with vinyl sales and beat todays acts though Declan Mckenna did put up a good scrap against the legends all week .