What Two Motown Albums Charted Sixty Weeks Or More On Billboard's LP Top 40?

[Boogiedown]

Pre-1986.....?

To restate the question: Two of Motown's LP releases had a chart life span of more than sixty weeks [[a year and a couple of months!) on the Top Forty rungs of Billboard's weekly Top LPs chart.

--According to The Book Of Top 40 Albums by Joel Whitburn released 1986.--

This is just a guessing challenge , so if you have that book , no cheating , please!! :cool:


One album is more apparent , the other , not so much!

Any guesses??

[daviddesper]

Ohhh cool I am first! My first guess would be What's Going On? As for the second I would assume it would be a Stevie album. How about "Talking Book?"

If I had a third guess, it might be the Mahogany soundtrack.

[lefty]

Street Songs
Songs in the Key of Life
Lionel Richie
Can't Slow Down
?

[calvin]

Diana [[the 1980 album)?

and edit: I agree with other posts above and below - Songs In The Key Of Life

[khansperac]

“The woman in red“ soundtrack album?

[jobeterob]

Temptations greatest hits
Diana Ross and the Supremes Greatest Hits

[jack020]

Songs In The Key Of Life - Stevie Wonder
Lady Sings The Blues - Diana Ross

[marybrewster]

Gotta be Stevie's "SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE".

Hmmm. I'll also guess the Supremes "GREATEST HITS"?

[Zantellor]

The Supremes' Where Did Our Love Go? and Diana Ross And The Supremes Greatest Hits

[tamlaboy]

Pre-1986.....?

To restate the question: Two of Motown's LP releases had a chart life span of more than sixty weeks [[a year and a couple of months!) on the Top Forty rungs of Billboard's weekly Top LPs chart.

--According to The Book Of Top 40 Albums by Joel Whitburn released 1986.--

This is just a guessing challenge , so if you have that book , no cheating , please!! :cool:


One album is more apparent , the other , not so much!

Any guesses??

what about the "Big Chill" Soundtrack ?
and SITKOL by Stevie

[Laurent]

The Supremes' Where Did Our Love Go? and Diana Ross And The Supremes Greatest Hits


I would have guessed that too, remembering that WDOLG had a very long life in the top album charts but checking my datas it was "only" in the top 40 from Oct 31, 1964 to Sept 25, 1965, so 48 weeks [[but from Sept 19, 1964 to May 28, 1966 in Billboard's album charts - 165 weeks!).
Their Greatest Hits was 47 weeks in the top 40 [[and 89 weeks in the album charts).

[Boogiedown]

The "sixty months" time frame does seem kind of arbitrary, but it looks like it was chosen to establish a list with a "Top 100" result.

I'll let the intrigue go just a bit more before posting the answer, but you're on the right track.

Albums had a much longer shelf life in the late fifties , early sixties. Less competition? That period occupies the top of the list until Micheal Jackson's THRILLER rates at #41 [[91 weeks). {Correction Springsteen's BORN IN THE USA is at #36 [[96 weeks)}.

Only five[[!) LPs are on the Top 100 that are from the 1970s.

They are:

#70 THE STRANGER Billy Joel [[ 70 weeks)
#74 TAPESTRY Carol King [[68 weeks)
#75 FLEETWOOD MAC Fleetwood Mac [[68 weeks)
#81 JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR [[65 WEEKS)
#87 DARK SIDE OF THE MOON Pink Floyd [[63 weeks)

That takes out several of the Motown guesses.....;)



I didn't think to notice THE BIG CHILL originally , but checking, nope not there!!

[khansperac]

We are still waiting lol.

Ok one more. How about the Marvin/Diana album?

[BayouMotownMan]

Temptations Greatest Hits
Can't Slow Down

[Boogiedown]

The two Motown representatives are:


The Temptations- THE TEMPTATIONS GREATEST HITS ranks at #83 with 65 weeks in the album Top 40.
Lionel Richie - CANT SLOW DOWN ranks at#58 with 78 weeks.

:cool:


The next album in line outside the Top 100 would be Stevie Wonder - SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE with 44 weeks in the LP Top 40.


[[yes its true, SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER was also short of the 60 total Top 40 weeks and failed to make the list with 54 weeks)