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Hugh Jackman (centre) with the forged of The Greatest Showman
The Greatest Showman has change into the longest working number one soundtrack for the reason that 1960s.
Its 19th non-consecutive week at number one has now surpassed the 18 weeks the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack spent in pole place in 1978.
That makes it the UK's most profitable soundtrack album since The Sound of Music, which spent 70 weeks at number one between 1965 and 1968.
The Greatest Showman is already the best-selling album of 2018 to date.
Taken from Hugh Jackman's movie about circus entrepreneur PT Barnum, the album accommodates such Top 40 hits as Rewrite the Stars and the Oscar-nominated This is Me.
The Greatest Showman's continued success got here on the expense of recent albums from Brits Critics' Choice winner Jorja Smith and the Beach Boys.
Smith's debut report Lost & Found enters this week's album chart at three, one place forward of the Beach Boys' collaboration with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. George Ezra's Staying at Tamara's is in the second slot, with Ed Sheeran's Divide at 5, based on the Official Charts Company.
In the singles chart, Jess Glynne gained a shut battle with Clean Bandit to see her newest single I am going to Be There declare the highest spot.
The flame-haired singer's seventh UK chart-topper extends her report for probably the most number one singles achieved by a British feminine artist.
"I'm speechless!" Jess advised OfficialCharts.com. "All I can say is thank you to everybody who has supported the song."
Solo, by Clean Bandit and that includes Demi Lovato, finally ends up in second place, after ending simply 898 gross sales and streams behind Glynne's report. Anne-Marie's 2002 is at three, with Shotgun by George Ezra at 4 and Ariana Grande's No Tears Left to Cry at 5.