ED SHEERAN'S DIVIDE CLAIMS A 20TH WEEK AS UK NUMBER ONE ALBUM

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".