Most consecutive weeks for one album in UK Top 10 (solo artist)

Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent by Lewis Capaldi (UK) amassed 78 consecutive weeks in the Top 10 of the UK’s Official Albums Chart between 30 May 2019 and 19 November 2020. In UK chart history (since 28 July 1956), no album by a solo artist has spent longer in the Top 10 without a break.

Nine albums have spent more consecutive weeks inside the UK Top 10, led by the various-artist soundtrack albums South Pacific (180 weeks), The Sound of Music (164) and The King and I (142). The George Mitchell Minstrels (The Black and White Minstrel Show, 120 weeks) and Simon and Garfunkel (Bridge Over Troubled Water, 92) have amassed the most successive Top 10 weeks by a group and a duo, respectively, while Ed Sheeran’s ÷ (“Divide”) (76 weeks) was the best-performing album by a solo artist before Capaldi’s Divinely…, followed by Sheeran’s x (74), Adele’s 21 (71) and Sam Smith’s In the Lonely Hour (69).

Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent debuted at No.1 on 30 May 2019 and has spent 10 non-consecutive weeks at the top. It has also resided at No.2 for 18 weeks, No.3 for 11 weeks, and has registered 59 weeks in the Top 5. On 19 November 2020 the album sat at No.10, and it finally slipped out of the Top 10 (to No.15) on 26 November when seven new entries debuted in positions 1-4, 6, 8 and 10.