List of best-selling albums of the 1960s in the United Kingdom
An album is defined by the Official Charts Company (OCC) as being a type of music release that features more than four tracks and lasts longer than 25 minutes; during the 1960s, sales of albums in the United Kingdom were compiled by several different magazines, including "New Musical Express" ("NME"), "Record Retailer", "Melody Maker", "Disc" and "Record Mirror". The UK Albums Chart was first officially published on February 1969 when "Record Retailers" and the BBC jointly commissioned the British Market Research Bureau (BMRB) to record sales of albums . 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. 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.