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
Kylie (album) a female artist of the 1980s by a female artist. Eventually, in 1989, Minogue became the youngest singer ever in UK music history to have a number one album, and held that record until Canadian recording artist Avril Lavigne's album "Let Go" was released in 2002. In Minogue's native Australia, the album entered at number two, where it eventually peaked for three consecutive weeks, and stayed in the top 50 for a total of twenty-nine weeks. In New Zealand, the album remains Minogue's longest and only number one album. The album debuted at number ten, and eventually peaked at number