Claim: David Bowie has an album.

The UK Albums Chart is a weekly record chart based on album sales from Friday to Thursday in the United Kingdom -LRB- the chart week ran from Sunday to Saturday until 2015 -RRB- . It listed only physical album sales until 2007 , after which it has also included albums sold digitally , and from March 2015 , includes streamed tracks . The chart is currently compiled by the Official Charts Company -LRB- OCC -RRB- on behalf of the UK music industry , and each week 's new number one is first announced on Friday evenings -LRB- Sunday evenings until July 2015 -RRB- by BBC Radio 1 on their weekly chart show .   The album chart was first published by Record Mirror on 28 July 1956 -- the album at number one that week was Songs for Swingin ' Lovers ! by Frank Sinatra . , 1,000 different albums have reached the top of the chart ; 11 artists have topped the chart with nine or more different albums . The most successful act is The Beatles , who have reached number one with fifteen records and spent 174 weeks at the top , longer than any other artist . Elvis Presley is the most successful solo artist with 13 number-one albums in the UK .