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Official Albums Chart on 11/6/2021

11 June 2021 - 17 June 2021

The UK's Top 100 biggest artist albums of the week, compiled by the Official Charts Company based on sales of CDs, downloads, vinyl, audio streams and video streams. View the biggest albums of 2024.

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David Caldwell

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What happened to Coral Island, one of the finest new albums out there?!?

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Dave Knight

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In my mind this is down to the vinyl resurrection, and current and new artists need to jump on this vinyl bandwagon no pun intended to get the royalties they deserve. Streaming is cheating artists from their money in a big way. I would go so far as to say even establishments like the Now thats what I call music are missing a trick, and should release their next release Now 109 on vinyl and it would sell big style.
That said cassette is also coming back although growing much slower, but Lady Ga Ga's most recent album was the highest selling cassette of 2020, so it wont be long cassettes will be included in the official chart sections. Vinyl is already there. So looks like normality might have a chance any day soon.

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Blank

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Top 10 albums of the year so far - week 24:
1) Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia 1676 (1604)

2) Harry Styles - Fine Line 1604 (1541)

3) Queen - Greatest Hits 1590 (1525)

4) Pop Smoke - Shoot For The Stars 1566 (1505)

5) Fleetwood Mac - 50 Years Don't Stop 1533 (1466)

6) Lewis Capaldi - Divinly Uninspired 1514 (1455)

7) Ed Sheeren - Divide 1487 (1423)

8) Elton John - Diamonds 1480 (1414)

9) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours 1280 (1227)

10) Eminem - Curtain Call The Hits 1261 (1206)

No positional changes this week. Positions (Ariana Grande) drops out of the top 75, leaving 36 hits on chart all year.

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Grumpy Piplup

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Future Nostalgia back in the top 5 ahah, this album is unstoppable (but it's well deserved!)

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Blank

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According to my calculations above, it's the album with the biggest chart impact by some distance. 72 places better than any other and counting.

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Jules Giddings

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Compilation albums by older artists are beginning to dominate the charts and they’re climbing too. Record companies need to sort themselves out and sign up some new talent that sell.

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Beezus Faffoon

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Not that many compilation albums feature new artists because the people that buy them tend to be 40+. The compilation album has been taken over by the playlist on streaming services which skew younger.

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Blank

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Probably more accurately, newer artists simply don't have a long enough career or enough big hits to be able to release a compilation. In the physical era, that would be no earlier than the 3rd album (usuallu at least 4th album) with around 4 singles from each. At one album a year, that would be a 5 year career including the year before debut release to record and promote the new release.

Albums or the modern equivalent (playlists / mixtapes etc) tend to be further apart these days, 2 years often. On that basis, a modern artist would need at least a 10-year long career to consider a greatest hits. As you say, with tracks released after 2007, they are amalgamated into streaming playlists almost from new, rather making a compilation redundant for artists who began their chart career after 2005.

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Jules Giddings

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Sure, the thing is there never used to be this many hits album filling up the charts, let alone the top 20. A lack of interest in modern music perhaps..

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Stuart Fraser

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Odd things happening with the album chart again. There are a couple of re-entries, but ZERO new entries below no.53. If the OCC are going to manipulate the charts on the fly, they need to do it better than this. As with their recent wheeze (ALL long-running albums dropped in the week before the Brits - a statistical impossibility, given the numbers involved), they need to realise that anyone with a background in statistics, or even a passing knowledge, will realise that such things simply could not happen. Please stop insulting our intelligence.

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Beezus Faffoon

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There's plenty of album entries below number 53. If you have the full list - numbers 101 and below - there are a lot of new entries further down.

Take the tin foil hat off!

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Stuart Fraser

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You know that the numbers from 101 are unimportant. Few people get to see them. This is about manipulating the chart to make it look more user friendly, but it's being done clumsily. Given the small numbers of sales involved, it just doesn't sit right.

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Beezus Faffoon

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Streaming services have the power to push certain tracks and albums and companies may pay for that to happen - eg in the week before the Brits when the old timers were pushed off streaming playlists in favour of the Brit artists - but the OCC just presents the figures they're given in a chart format. That's all they do.

You know that right?

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Blank

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If there are 10 records on chart and only one gets promoted, and it coincides with a big event like the Brits, then it will be the only one to gain sales. Therefore climb above the other 9, makiing one climber and 9 fallers assuming the sales of those other 9 are similar to a previous week's sales. It's a simple rank-order operation, and heavily biased due to the event and it's record label promoting it rather the UNbiased probability model you are using.