A record number of albums made it to Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart in 2020

Barry Gibb earns his first solo UK Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart with Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers’ Songbook (Vol. 1).

Richard Sharp, the millionaire former banker on the cusp of being appointed as the BBC’s next chair, has used his first public appearance to praise the work of the British broadcaster and its role on the world stage — but he couldn’t help having a dig at recent Hugh Laurie series Roadkill.

vaccine by the autumn, absolutely.

Taylor Swift’s Evermore returns to Number 1 to claim a second week at the Official Albums Chart summit.

Taylor Swift and Harry Styles have emerged as the front runners for this week’s UK Number 1 album with their respective collections Evermore and Fine Line.

Pop Smoke claimed the UK's biggest debut album of 2020 with Shoot For The Stars, Aim For The Moon, OfficialCharts.com can confirm.

Lewis Capaldi’s Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish was the UK’s biggest album for a second year in a row, Official Charts Company data confirms.

Wham’s Last Christmas finally claims Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart 36 years after its release and breaks a new Official Chart record in the process, the Official Charts Company can confirm.

Naman Ramachandran The U.K. has approved the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine for COVID-19, and the first doses will be administered from Jan.

Animated feature Kensuke’s Kingdom, based on the Michael Morpurgo novel, Terence Davies’ Siegfried Sassoon biopic Benediction and the Studiocanal-released Saint Maud were among the films to receive the highest level of support from the British Film Institute’s production and distribution funds this year.

Official Charts Company reports, 43 different LPs occupied the top spot across this year, the highest on record.This number is up from 32 chart-toppers last year, and only 19 in 2018.

coronavirus in the last 24 hours - the highest ever number of new cases recorded on a single day at any point during the pandemic.

Taylor Swift’s surprise new album Evermore debuts at Number 1 on this week’s Official Albums Chart.

West Wing actor Richard Schiff has told how he had to talk with his wife about possibly never seeing her again as he battled Covid-19. The 65-year-old, best known for playing White House communications director Toby Ziegler in the political drama, was admitted to hospital in the US last month.