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
21 (Adele album) respectively, and "Set Fire to the Rain" and "Rolling in the Deep" at number two and five respectively. On 14 June 2012, "21" scored its 24th week atop the US album charts, the longest since Prince's "Purple Rain" finished a non-consecutive 24-week run in 1985. The album is also the longest-running number-one by a UK studio album (excluding soundtracks and group acts), the longest-running number-one album by a female solo artist ever in the US, and the longest-running number-one in the SoundScan era. The album also spent 24 non-consecutive weeks at number 2. "21" is credited with saving the first