Sir Elton John set to land 9th number 1 album – without releasing new music
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Sir Elton John may be decades into his career, yet he’s still scoring major accomplishments. The Rocket Man hitmaker is set to claim his ninth UK number one album this week, despite not having recently released any new music. Diamonds was originally released in 2017, and it’s thanks to a new deluxe version that the record has climbed its way back up again.
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Sir Elton’s greatest hits compilation is a long-term fixture on the Official Albums Chart – having already logged a total of 325 weeks inside the UK Top 40. But now, almost eight years since first hitting shelves and streaming platforms, the LP could finally reach the top spot thanks to the drop of a super deluxe edition Blu-ray and a limited Bad World diamond-effect LP.
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So far, it has reached a peak of number two, which is also not to be sniffed at. Should the album top the charts, though, it would join Sir Elton’s eight other UK number one albums: Don’t Shoot Me, I’m Only The Piano Player (1973), Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973), Caribou (1974), Elton John’s Greatest Hits (1974), Sleeping With The Past (1989), The Very Best of Elton John (1990), Good Morning To The Night with Pnau (2012), and The Lockdown Sessions (2021).
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It comes after the Official Charts named Diamonds as the 11th biggest album of the last 10 years in the UK in 2024. Sir Elton has stiff competition from a rising star, however, as Sabrina Carpenter, one of last year’s biggest pop sensations, could still be in with a chance of taking Short N’ Sweet to number one for a third week.
