Twenty three years ago this week George Michael's Faith was nine weeks into a 12-week non-consecutive run heading the US albums chart, on its way to accumulating 11m sales in the States.
Since then no studio album by a UK artist has managed 10 or more weeks at number one, but Adele's 21 has now come closest by spending its eighth week at the top of the chart.
It achieves this by shifting another 156,000 copies, just 1,000 more than ...
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