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
Return of the Mack (album) but described the album as having weak production. The album stayed for thirty-eight weeks on the UK Albums Chart, where it debuted and peaked at number 4, and became a certified platinum by British Phonographic Industry (BPI). On the US "Billboard" 200, the album reached a peak of a number 76, however, it would eventually became a certified platinum by Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), due to the success of the single "Return of the Mack". The album has since sold over 3 million copies worldwide. The album made Morrison the first artist in British pop history to have