With the "Greatest Showman" soundtrack now clocking up a 24th (non-consecutive) week at Number 1 on the UK Album chart, it now becomes the longest running Number One album this century, overtaking the 23 week run of Adele's "21".
The last album to total more weeks at Number 1 in the UK was Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" which totalled 33 weeks at the top between February 1970 to September 1971.
It is just the seventh album to spend as many as 24 weeks at Number 1, and four of these seven have been soundtrack albums.
Here are those seven albums, listed in order of the total number of weeks spent at the top.
1. 115 weeks - South Pacific - Soundtrack (70 consecutively)
(9 runs between 8th November 1958 and 9th September 1961)
2. 70 weeks - The Sound Of Music - Soundtrack (18 consecutively)
(12 runs between 5th June 1965 and 23rd November 1968)
3. 48 weeks - The King And I - Soundtrack (15 consecutively)
(11 runs between 13th October 1956 and 22nd March 1958)
4. 33 weeks - Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel (13 consecutively)
(8 runs between 21st February 1970 and 11th September 1971)
5. 30 weeks - Please Please Me - The Beatles (all consecutively)
(11th May to 30th November 1963)
6. 28 weeks - Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles (23 consecutively)
(5 runs between 10th June 1967 and 10th June 2017)
7. 24 weeks - The Greatest Showman - Soundtrack (11 consecutively)
(6 runs between 20th January 2018 and 5th January 2019)
From the album, this is Keala Settle with, "This Is Me".
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