ALBUMS WITH MOST CONSECUTIVE WEEKS AT NUMBER ONE IN THE UK

Continuing with the album theme, this is the Top 20 list of the albums that have spent the most consecutive weeks at Number One in the UK.

 1.  70 weeks - South Pacific (Original Soundtrack) - 8th November 1958 to 5th March 1960

 2.  30 weeks - Please Please Me (The Beatles) - 11th May 1963 to 30th November 1963

 3.  23 weeks - Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (The Beatles) - 10th June 1967 to 11th November 1967

 4.  21 weeks - With The Beatles (The Beatles) - 7th December 1963 to 25th April 1964

 =.  21 weeks - A Hard Day's Night (The Beatles) - 25th July 1964 to 12th December 1964

 6.  19 weeks - My Fair Lady (Original Soundtrack) - 10th May 1958 to 13th September 1958

 =.  19 weeks - South Pacific (Original Soundtrack) - 19th March 1960 to 23rd July 1960

 =.  19 weeks - The Sound Of Music (Original Soundtrack) - 1st October 1966 to 4th February 1967

 9.  18 weeks - Saturday Night Fever (Original Soundtrack) - 6th May 1978 to 2nd September 1978

10.  17 weeks - Blue Hawaii Original Soundtrack (Elvis Presley) - 24th February 1962 to 16th June 1962

11.  15 weeks - The King & I (Original Soundtrack) - 7th November 1956 to 13th February 1957

12.  14 weeks - Summer Holiday Original Soundtrack - Cliff Richard & the Shadows - 2nd February 1963 to 4th May 1963

13.  13 weeks - South Pacific (Original Soundtrack) - 5th October 1960 to 28th December 1960

 =.  13 weeks - Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon & Garfunkel) - 21st February 1970 t0 16th May 1970

 =.  13 weeks - Grease (Original Soundtrack) - 7th October 1978 to 30th December 1978

16.  12 weeks - GI Blues Original Soundtrack (Elvis Presley) - 8th April 1961 to 24th June 1961

 =.  12 weeks - The Rolling Stones (The Rolling Stones) - 2nd May 1964 to 18th July 1964

 =.  12 weeks - Legend (Bob Marley & the Wailers) - 9th May 1984 to 25th July 1984

19.  11 weeks - The King & I (Original Soundtrack) - 16th November 1957 to 25th January 1958

 =.  11 weeks - Abbey Road (The Beatles) - 4th October 1969 to 13th December 1969

 =.  11 weeks - The Singles: 1969-1973 (The Carpenters) - 9th March 1974 to 18th May 1974

 =.  11 weeks - Elton John's Greatest Hits (Elton John) - 23rd November 1974 to 1st February 1975

=.  11 weeks - 21 (Adele) - 5th February 2011 to 16th April 2011

As I posted a track from South Pacific on my previous post, here is a track from the longest running non-soundtrack album listed above.

From the debut album, "Please Please Me", this is the Beatles with the debut hit, "Love Me Do".