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
1989 (Taylor Swift album) with sales of 37,000, bringing its two-week sales total to 144,000 copies. It went on to become Canada's best-selling album of the year, having sold 314,000 copies. In the UK, "1989" sold 90,000 in its first week and debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart. It became her second number-one album in the UK, following "Red" (2012), and was the fastest-selling female solo album in 2014. To date, the album has sold 1.127 million copies in the UK. As of October 2017, "1989" has sold 10.1 million copies worldwide. In 2015, "1989" was ranked as the number one