Barry Gibb earns his first solo UK Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart with Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers’ Songbook (Vol. 1).
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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.
The new data breaks the old record from 2015, when 39 albums topped the charts.Almost every album that topped the UK albums chart this year only stayed there for a single week, with three exceptions.Dua Lipa‘s ‘Future Nostalgia’ stayed at the top spot for two weeks, as did Lady Gaga‘s ‘Chromatica’, while Taylor
.Barry Gibb earns his first solo UK Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart with Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers’ Songbook (Vol. 1).
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2020 marks a record-breaking year on the Official Albums Chart, as 43 different albums made it to Number 1 - more than any other year in UK chart history, new analysis from the Official Charts Company confirms.
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