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
Ceremonials (album) its purest sense, as something grand and strange and with ambitions higher than mere humanity, as the triple-headed priestess-muse Florence depicted on its sleeve suggested." The album earned the band nominations for British Female Solo Artist and MasterCard British Album of the Year at the 2012 Brit Awards. The following year at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards, "Ceremonials" received a nomination for Best Pop Vocal Album, and "Shake It Out" was nominated for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. "Ceremonials" debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart, selling approximately 38,000 copies in its first two days of release and 94,050