Most cumulative weeks on the UK Official Albums Chart

As of 25 September 2025, rock band Queen (UK) had registered a cumulative total of 2,531 weeks (the equivalent of more than 48 years) on the UK Official Albums Chart, dating back to the No.35 debut of Queen II – which charted a week before their eponymously titled debut album – on 23 March 1974.

Among their 38 chart entries to date (the latest being Queen I – a remixed, retitled and expanded edition of their debut LP – on 7 November 2024) are 28 Top 10 albums and 10 No.1s, which have spent a cumulative total of 22 weeks at the summit. Greatest Hits, which debuted at No.2 on 7 November 1981 and followed up with four weeks at No.1, has contributed the most weeks to Queen’s reign on the Official Albums Chart – 1,172 weeks, as of 25 September 2025.

Other enduring artists who have all amassed 1,500 weeks or more on the UK Official Albums Chart are: Oasis (2,316 weeks), Fleetwood Mac (2,292 weeks), The Beatles (2,220 weeks), Taylor Swift (2,100 weeks), Michael Jackson (2,087 weeks), David Bowie (1,946 weeks), Elvis Presley (1,922 weeks), ABBA (1,888 weeks), Ed Sheeran (1,729 weeks), Eminem (1,602 weeks) and Elton John (1,583 weeks).