Elton John’s Album Diamonds Makes Quantity One After 374 Weeks On Chart

Elton John is having fun with a return to the highest of the UK album chart, with a document first launched in 2017.

The BBC reviews that Sir Elton’s biggest hits assortment Diamonds has gone to primary within the UK after 374 weeks on the charts, marking the musician’s ninth primary album, on the age of 77.

The album, that includes basic songs together with Tiny Dancer, I’m Nonetheless Standing and Rocket Man, has remained within the charts since its launch seven years in the past, however obtained a gross sales increase final week with re-release on Blu-ray, cassette and diamond-vinyl. The BBC states it has bought extra 1.5million copies in whole.

Sir Elton has additionally seen a spike in streaming numbers because the launch final month of the Disney+ documentary By no means Too Late, which noticed the artist focus on his profession up to now, and the conclusion of his farewell tour in 2023. By means of never-before-seen footage, diaries and audio interviews for his memoir Me and animated sequences that depict Sir Elton’s reminiscences, the movie follows his tumultuous adolescence, his meteoric rise to fame whereas fighting and overcoming drug dependancy, to performing his final reveals in North America resulting in his farewell live performance at Dodgers stadium in Los Angeles. 

Sir Elton’s earlier primary albums span six many years, his first being Don’t Shoot Me I’m Solely The Piano Participant, launched in 1973. His first biggest hits album topped the charts a yr later.

He lately informed Deadline in interview: “I nonetheless love enjoying the piano. I’m ready to get again within the studio. I can’t wait to launch new stuff. I’m raring to go.”