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Hah, I've got the feeling it actually topped the charts in early 1991!
...yep, late January of MCMXCI: https://www.officialcharts.com/chart...19910120/7502/
Also in the Top Ten that week, I notice, was the Three Tenors' In Concert album, which had spent five weeks at the summit the previous autumn. That January was in the middle of a 13-month window where Luciano Pavarotti spent 11 weeks at Number One with three different albums, which would have seemed extraordinary a year earlier – but thanks to the 'Nessun Dorma effect' arising from Italia '90 he (and to a somewhat lesser extent José Carreras and Plácido Domingo) had a colossal explosion in crossover popularity. I can't think of any other classical albums actually topping the pop charts, off the top of my head, though I stand to be corrected...
Edit: Actually, has André Rieu managed it? He's had loads of huge-selling crossover albums, which again is pretty odd on the surface of things.Last edited by Various Artist; 13-10-2018, 21:36.
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Not quite, it turns out: nine Top 10s for Rieu, including two No.2s and three No.4s, but no Number Ones.
Il Divo had three Number Ones in 2004-8, though they were obviously specifically marketed as a classical-crossover 'boy band', so I'm arbitrarily ruling them out on those possibly spurious grounds.
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- R. + R. McReynold's Travelling Circus, The Jurgen Klopp Farewell Tour XI, Page's Boys
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Originally posted by Various Artist View PostHah, I've got the feeling it actually topped the charts in early 1991!
...yep, late January of MCMXCI: https://www.officialcharts.com/chart...19910120/7502/
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Happy Anniversary went Top 20 in 1974, allowing the moustachioed Mr Whitman a brief moment alongside Sparks, Slade, Queen and The Wombles. He and (the admittedly great) Jim Reeves were the easy-listening C&W staples of the middle-classes back then. And Don Williams. And that bloke who did The Crystal Chandelier.
Originally posted by MsD View PostIan Brown is a popstar in my eyes.
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The Royal Wedding went No. 1 in August 1981, only six weeks after No Sleep Til Hammersmith by Motorhead.
1976-1977 was very odd, due to TV advertised No. 1s: Burt Weedon, Muppets, Connie Francis, Slim Whitman.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...s_of_the_1970sLast edited by Satchmo Distel; 14-10-2018, 12:01.
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[QUOTE=wittoner;1483302]Originally posted by Jah Womble View PostAnd that bloke who did The Crystal Chandelier.
Charley Pride whose selling point was/is that he's a black C&W singer. Still recording today, in his heyday he was RCA's biggest act since Elvis Presley.
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Apologies if Jah has already noted this, but I think this thread highlights that such albums could not make No.1 today. Their front-loaded sales would be overtaken by the artificial counting of downloads and streams from Drake, Sheeran, Greatest Showman, etc.
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Originally posted by Patrick Thistle View PostThe Boo Radleys rode the Britpop Bubble to get that number one, didn't they.
Originally posted by Satchmo Distel View PostApologies if Jah has already noted this, but I think this thread highlights that such albums could not make No.1 today.
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Originally posted by Jah Womble View PostBy the next, C'mon Kids, the UK pop brigade had pretty much decided that the Boo Radleys were not for them
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