“I’m not a popstar”
David Bowie is still having a massive impact on the UK album chart, holding twelve spots on this week’s Official Albums Chart Top 50 and a total of 19 albums in the Top 100.
★ holds for a second week at Number 1, logging just over 80,000 combined sales, while the 2002 retrospective Best Of Bowie leaps from 18 to Number 3. 2014’s Nothing Has Changed, gives Bowie his third Top 10 entry this week at Number 6.
Bowie’s other entries in the Top 40 are: Hunky Dory (up 2 places to 12), The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust (down 2 to 19), Aladdin Sane (down 1 to 22), The Next Day (up 1 to 24), Low (unmoved at 31), and Let’s Dance (up 7 to 35).
The full list of his 19 albums in this week’s Official Albums Chart appears below:
01 – BLACKSTAR – RCA
03 – BEST OF BOWIE – PARLOPHONE
06 – NOTHING HAS CHANGED – THE VERY BEST OF DAVID BOWIE – PARLOPHONE
12 – HUNKY DORY – PARLOPHONE
19 – THE RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST – PARLOPHONE
22 – ALADDIN SANE – PARLOPHONE
24 – THE NEXT DAY – RCA
31 – LOW – PARLOPHONE
35 – LET’S DANCE – PARLOPHONE
41 – THE BEST OF 1969/1974 – PARLOPHONE
45 – “HEROES” – PARLOPHONE
46 – SCARY MONSTERS – PARLOPHONE
54 – THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD – PARLOPHONE
55 – DIAMOND DOGS – PARLOPHONE
62 – SPACE ODDITY – PARLOPHONE
64 – LODGER – PARLOPHONE
83 – PIN UPS – PARLOPHONE
89 – STATION TO STATION – PARLOPHONE
99 – YOUNG AMERICANS – PARLOPHONE
View the full Albums Top 100 here.
Our montage shows the dozen albums on this week’s Official Albums Chart Top 50
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