So who has spent the longest at the top of the UK album chart?
Only three acts have amassed an astonishing twenty weeks or more at No.1 on the UK album chart, and four of those albums belong to the same group! They are:
30 weeks:
The Beatles “Please Please Me” first charted 5th May 1963
28 weeks:
The Beatles “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” first charted 4th June 1967
23 weeks:
Adele “21” first charted 30th January 2013
22 weeks:
Elvis Presley “G.I. Blues” first charted 1st August 1961
21 weeks:
The Beatles “With The Beatles” first charted 1st December 1963
The Beatles “A Hard Day’s Night” first charted 19th July 1964