Elton John's hit album lastly reaches primary

Sir Elton John's profession biggest hits assortment, Diamonds, has reached primary after 374 weeks on the chart.

The 51-track assortment, that includes signature songs like Tiny Dancer, I'm Still Standing and Rocket Man, offers the star his ninth primary album on the age of 77.

He mentioned, “I'm very excited and thrilled that Diamonds is the number one album in the UK this week.” “What a great start to the new year. I couldn't be happier.”

Originally launched in 2017, Diamonds has been a fixture on the charts ever since. Its gross sales elevated final week after being re-released as a Super Deluxe Edition on Blu-ray, cassette and diamond-effect vinyl.

The star's streaming numbers have additionally elevated, because of the Disney+ documentary Never Too Late, which premiered final month.

Featuring beforehand unseen footage, it traces the star's journey from jobbing session musician to international famous person, in addition to his struggles with dependancy, turning into a father, and concluding his farewell tour in 2023.

The movie, co-directed by her husband David Furnish, was included within the BAFTA longlist for greatest documentary final week.

Diamonds was initially launched in 2017 to have fun the fiftieth anniversary of Sir Elton's songwriting partnership with Bernie Taupin.

The double album subsequently offered over 1.5 million copies within the UK, however by no means managed to climb above quantity two within the charts.

Its rise to primary was contributed by a quiet week for brand spanking new releases, with no new music coming into the highest 10.

According to the Official Charts Company, Diamonds has spent extra consecutive weeks within the high 40 than some other album in chart historical past.

Sir Elton's earlier primary albums spanned six many years, beginning with 1973's Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player. Their first biggest hits album topped the charts a yr later.

Diamonds just isn’t the one long-running hits compilation to seek out everlasting residence within the Top 100.

Canadian star The Weeknd's Highlights, three years after its debut, was the second best-selling album of 2024.

Meanwhile Abba's Gold and Queen's Greatest Hits have each spent over 1,000 weeks on the album chart.

The method music streaming is included into chart calculations advantages all of them – performs of particular person tracks are counted in direction of the entire gross sales of the album.

Elsewhere on this week's chart, Sabrina Carpenter's Short N' Sweet stays at quantity two, and SZA's SOS holds regular at quantity three.

Gracie Abrams' bittersweet track That's So True tops the singles chart for the seventh consecutive week, adopted by Rosé and Bruno Mars at quantity two with APT, and British singer Lola Young at quantity three with Messi.

Meanwhile, Chappell Rhone – who has simply been named Winner of BBC's Sound of 2025 – Their five-year-old single Pink Pony re-enters the membership chart at quantity 22.