List of best-selling albums of the 1960s in the United Kingdom
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New Musical Express (NME), Record Retailer, Melody Maker, Disc and Record Mirror. The UK Albums Chart was first officially published in February 1969 when Record Retailers and the BBC jointly commissioned the British Market Research Bureau (BMRB) to record sales of albums.[2] For dates between March 1960 and February 1969, the albums chart produced by Record Retailer is regarded by the OCC as being canonical to the UK Albums Chart; for dates before March 1960, the OCC considers the albums chart created by NME to be canonical.[3] The biggest-selling album of the 1960s was Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles
—of the top thirteen biggest-selling albums of the decade, ten were by The Beatles, the other three being motion picture soundtracks.
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References
- General (chart positions)
- Mawer, Sharon (2007). "1969". London: Official Charts. Archived from the originalon 17 December 2007. Retrieved 8 September 2011.
- Specific
- Official Charts. January 2007. Archived from the original(PDF) on 27 June 2007. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
- OCLC 185201487. Retrieved 5 August 2010.
- Official Charts. Archived from the originalon 10 January 2008. Retrieved 16 May 2010.
- Official Charts. 2010. Archived from the originalon 3 September 2011. Retrieved 9 September 2011.