On its record seventh spell as the UK Number One album, Ed Sheeran's third album "Divide" has now totalled 20 weeks at the top - just the second album in the last 50 years to reach this figure, and just the eighth album by a single artist ever to spend as long at Number 1. He also becomes just the fifth artist to achieve this feat after Elvis Presley, the Beatles (4 times), Simon & Garfunkel and Adele.
Here, in chronological order, is the full list
GI Blues - Elvis Presley
22 weeks total (12 consecutively)
14th January-25th February 1961 (7 weeks)
11th-25th March 1961 (3 weeks)
8th April-24th June 1961 (12 weeks)
Please Please Me - The Beatles
30 weeks (all consecutive)
11th May-30th November 1963
With The Beatles - The Beatles
21 weeks (all consecutive)
7th December 1963-25th April 1964
A Hard Day's Night - The Beatles
21 weeks (all consecutive)
25th July-12th December 1964
Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
28 weeks (23 consecutively)
10th June-11th November 1967 (23 weeks)
25th November 1967 (1 week)
23rd December-30th December 1967 (2 weeks)
3rd February 1968 (1 week)
10th June 2017 (1 week)
Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel
33 weeks (13 consecutively)
21st February-16th May 1970 (13 weeks)
13th June-4th July 1970 (4 weeks)
18th July-15th August 1970 (5 weeks)
3rd October 1970 (1 week)
17th October 1970 (1 week)
16th-30th January 1971 (3 weeks)
3rd-31st July 1971 (5 weeks)
11th September 1971 (1 week)
21 - Adele
23 weeks (11 consecutively)
5th February-16th April 2011 (11 weeks)
30th April-28th May 2011 (5 weeks)
23rd-30th July 2011 (2 weeks)
14th January 2012 (1 week)
28th January 2012 (1 week)
3rd March 2012 (1 week)
21st-28th April 2012 (2 weeks)
Divide - Ed Sheeran
20 weeks (9 consecutively)
18th March-13th May 2017 (9 weeks)
3rd June 2017 (1 week)
17th June 2017 (1 week)
8th-22nd July 2017 (3 weeks)
19th August-2nd September 2017 (3 weeks)
23rd December 2017 (1 week)
6th-13th January 2018 (2 weeks)
So well done to Ed Sheeran for joining an elite list.
From the album "Divide", this is "Castle On The Hill".
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