Paul McCartney named UK’s most successful act of all time
Paul McCartney named the UK’s most successful albums act of all time
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McCartney, who has sold 700 million albums across the globe, has now been awarded the Official Chart Record Breaker Award, which recognises him as the UK’s most successful albums act of all time.
Paul McCartney's career in numbers
22 – number one albums across Paul McCartney’s career (15 – The Beatles; 2 – Wings; 4 – solo; 1 – Paul & Linda McCartney)
191 – weeks Paul McCartney has spent at number one on the Official Albums Chart across his career
5.1m – UK copies sold of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Britain’s biggest-selling studio album of all time
30 – weeks that The Beatles's Please Please Me spent at number one, the longest-running debut Number 1 album ever
