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Official Albums Chart on 26/2/2021

26 February 2021 - 4 March 2021

The UK's Top 100 biggest artist albums of the week, compiled by the Official Charts Company based on sales of CDs, downloads, vinyl, audio streams and video streams. View the biggest albums of 2024.

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Nick G

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The first time completely different albums have been number one every week in January and February. Almost happened last year but Lewis Capaldi had two non consecutive weeks in January.

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Top 10 albums of the year so far: Week 9
1 (1) Pop Smoke - Shoot For The Stars 630 (561)
2 (2) Harry Styles - Fine Line 625 (558)
3 (5) Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia 611 (538)
4 (4) Queen - Greatest Hits 609 (539)
5 (3) Taylor Swift - Evermore 604 (546)
6 (6) Lewis Capaldi - Divinely Uninspired 599 (533)
7 (7) Little Mix - Confetti 565 (515)
8 (9) Fleetwood Mac - Don't Stop 50 Years 552 (488)
9 (8) Kid Laroi - Fk Love 550 (489)
10 (10) Ed Sheeran - Divide 546 (481)

Former #1 of the year Evermore is slipping fast

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Phillipe

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Funny how many old albums/artist comps are doing the rounds again, shows what hard hitting times we're all in! How not many new albums are yet dropping and seeing that much of the current light of day!

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Philip King

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It's because the older stuff is better, the new stuff will pop high into the charts with the artists fans snapping it up and the following Week it will plummet as it's mostly same ol same ol throw away, conveyor belt untalented dribble.

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Some stats that may interest you:

Hit albums so far this year: 153
New hits: 46
Re-Entries: 46
Hangovers from 2020: 61
On chart for all 9 weeks this year: 47
Commonest chart length: 1 week (56 Albums).

New albums account for just 11% of hits and 14% of chart points, meaning the size of new labums out performs the average by 3%.
Hangovers (those 61 albums on chart 31st December and 7th January) account for 40%, accounting for 73% of chart points. Out performing the average by 33%!
Re-Entries are the smallest type of hit, but with equal number as of this week, to 2021 albums.

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SharpyDJ

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A lot of it is streamed, so with a few exceptions, people aren't buying the old stuff. It's best to look at the Sales Chart to get a more accurate view of things.

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Moutton Noir

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Greatest Hits/Best Of compilations have always dominated the charts ever since they began in the early 60s

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Phillipe

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Yep, modern stuff generally doesn't cut the mustard does it really! It's so cheaply made, apart from Jesse Ware The City's Gonna Fall" and Harry Style's "Golden" and "It's Ok"

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Dayv Morris

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But not like these days. And they werent in top 10 everyweek

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Damián

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Absolutely awful to see so many artists with new albums leaving the top 100 so soon and those old and creepy albums still on the run...insane!!