UK Albums Chart the most weeks on the charts is Queen's "Greatest Hits", which has spent over 1000 weeks on the chart by January 2018. See List of albums which have spent the most weeks on the UK Albums Chart for full details. In 1980, Kate Bush became the first British female artist to have a number-one album in the UK with "Never for Ever", as well as being the first album by any female solo artist to "enter" the chart at number 1. In August 2014 she became the first female artist to have eight albums in the Official UK Top 40
Kate Bush albums, all of which reached the UK Top 10, including the UK number-one albums "Never for Ever" (1980), "Hounds of Love" (1985), and the compilation "The Whole Story" (1986). She is the first British solo female artist to top the UK album charts and the first female artist to enter the album chart at number one. Having been writing songs since age 11, she was signed to EMI Records while under professional assistance by David Gilmour, who, along with his associates, curated her 1978 debut album "The Kick Inside". Bush slowly gained artistic independence in album production, and she has