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
Next Level (Ayumi Hamasaki album) Express contrasted the album's "hope[ful]" appeal to her previous records, which all dealt with "loneliness". This was particularly commended by Hiraga, who felt it was a lot more "encouraging" than anything she had done before. Commercially, the album was a success in Asia. "Next Level" debuted at number one on the daily and weekly Oricon Albums Chart in Japan, opening with 240,810 copies. This became Hamasaki's ninth number one studio album, and also became the highest first-week sales for a solo female artist that year. It descended to number two on the weekly chart for a second run, shifting 50,271