Official Charts Analysis: Paul Simon nets seventh No.1 album
Assembled over a period of nearly five years, Stranger To Stranger is Paul Simon's 13th solo studio album, and his first to reach No.1 in more than a quarter of a century, debuting atop the chart on sales of 19,218 copies, including 296 from streams.
At the age of 74 years and eight months, Simon thus becomes the oldest male solo artist to have a No.1 album, usurping Bob Dylan, who was almost exactly a year younger when he ...
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