Official Albums Chart on 12/3/2021

Same trash Bought these Albums years ago Music has finally died

Seems like all you can say is: Music has finally died.

The same Albums in charts not mentioning the older ones at the bottom Where are the new stuff

Who wants new when old is so much better, iss golden olden all the way for a2c on ere.

I agree, they are a terrible 'band'.

I'm looking forward to 16 weeks time. Look at #26 to find out why. Legend (#40) should also achieve the same feat this year.

1000 weeks for 'Gold'! :O

That's amazing for ABBA! Would that be a chart record for them?

I think it's had the longest stay inside the Top 100 out of any album inside this week's chart.

It's had the most weeks on chart of any album ever (top 100) in total. There are some incredibly long runners for current consecutive run:
Abba 193wks
Rumours 209wks
Divide 210wks (from debut: never dropped out)
Oasis - What The Story 217wks

Oasis - TIme Flies 219wks
Eminem - Curtain Call 220wks
Arctic Monkeys - AM 222wks (just 1 week of the last 391 outside the top 100!)

I think that's all. I'm not sure how many albums have spent all 52 weeks on the album chart, or how many of those have done it multiple times. There can't be many, but all the above have spent the whole of 2018, 2019 and 2020 on the top 100. In Divide's case, top 75.
Almost all of these are currently on (and extending) their record runs. They are some of the longest runs in chart history, enough to be in the top 100 of all time by total weeks even if they were the ONLY run of each album. All have other very long runs in their chart histories.

Looking at those chart week numbers, I wonder if the news of Divide sparked interest in the album chart enough for the really old albums to re-enter long term (Gold, Rumours, What's The Story...) Even Curtain Call considering how much newer it is than the other re-entries. They all re-entered either around the new entry of Divide, or near the end of it's #1 run. Both chart headline events.

I suspect it's the rise in streaming services over the past few years - the introduction of streaming data into the album chart in early 2015 coincides with a lot of older albums not only re-entering but staying on the charts for entire years and newer albums like Ed's Multiply and Sam Smith's Lonely Hour having far longer chart runs than similar selling albums 5 years before.

She can't even sing juss like one of them exfactor warblers the charts are full of them n their ilk nahadays. Give me the Spice Gels any day on ere.

What?! Dua Lipa sounds nothing the like most of the X Factor artists, haha. :)

Those are some interesting statistics!

You'd think that they'd need ACR on the albums chart more than the singles chart, haha. :)

Thass wot she is a carbon copy of theirn.

You sound like a complete tool. It's the other way around. All those factor 'singers' are people who couldn't get signed without a show. They are puppets. Dua will be a worldwide star for years into the future!!

It's a very strange comparison: Singles have had just 2 changes to the #1 record and fairly static top 20. Albums have changed every week #1, and almost all new entries have dropped out quickly (including some #1s!), but there's a pretty solid 'middle half' (approx 15 to 60) that barely seems to move. Below 60 is rife with random re-entries a few small new ones.

Just under 200 albums have been on chart this year, 44 have been there every week! They account for 75% of 'chart impact' (i.e. these old albums are far bigger hits this year than new releases). There are only 2 new releases in the 50 of the year that I calculate (#34 and 48) and they've both dropped out of the weekly chart no longer adding to their impact! We'll see what July is like, when we're in the 2nd half of the year and early new releases will have had similar opportunity to compete with the catalogue.

She aint a good singer there's loss of better singers ahrt ther n I stick to my view on ere. Don't come on ere insultin either, juss shows you up on ere. Still I've blocked the insulter so won't see the ate speech again.

It's probably because digital sales contribute to most of the albums in the chart right now, hence why we get a turnover of #1's similar to what we would've been seeing in the singles chart in around about 2014-15. :)