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The highest earners at the box-office are mostly American films and UK-US co-productions. Sequels, remakes and adaptations dominate, with seven films in the Harry Potter franchise, five Star Wars instalments, the five Daniel Craig James Bond films, five films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Peter Jackson's first four Tolkien adaptations having earned in excess of £50 million.
The late Michael Jackson has five albums that have charted for over 150 weeks: Number Ones (587 weeks), Thriller (287 weeks), Off the Wall (225 weeks), Bad (187 weeks) and The Essential Michael Jackson (171 weeks). Lady Gaga charted for 313 weeks with her debut album The Fame. Lana Del Rey has charted for 267 weeks with her album Born to Die.
The UK Albums Chart is a weekly record chart based on album sales from Friday to Thursday in the United Kingdom. The Official Charts Company (OCC) defines an "album" as being a type of music release that feature more than four tracks and last longer than 25 minutes; [1] sales of albums in the UK are recorded on behalf of the British music industry by the OCC and compiled weekly as the UK ...
The UK Singles Chart is one of many music charts compiled by the Official Charts Company that calculates the best-selling singles of the week in the United Kingdom. [1] Since 2004 the chart has been based on the sales of both physical singles and digital downloads, with airplay figures excluded from the official chart.
Forty-eight artists scored multiple entries in the top 10 in 1999. Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears, Eminem, Jennifer Lopez, S Club 7 and Westlife were among the many artists who achieved their first UK charting top 10 single in 1999. The first number-one single of the year was "Chocolate Salty Balls" by Chef, the South Park character voiced ...
e. English is the most widely spoken and official language of the United Kingdom. [ 13 ] A number of regional and migrant languages are also spoken. Regional English variant languages are Scots and Ulster Scots; indigenous Celtic languages are Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Welsh.
Contents. Tom Jones (singer) Sir Thomas Jones Woodward OBE [ 1 ][ 2 ] (born Thomas John Woodward; 7 June 1940) is a Welsh singer. His career began with a string of top 10 hits in the 1960s and he has since toured regularly, with appearances in Las Vegas from 1967 to 2011. His voice has been described by AllMusic as a "full-throated, robust ...
Official website. www.churchofengland.org. The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the Crown Dependencies. It is the origin of the Anglican tradition, which combines features of both Reformed and Catholic Christian practices. Its adherents are called Anglicans.