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

    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!!


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

    Any guesses??

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    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.

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    Street Songs
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    Diana [[the 1980 album)?

    and edit: I agree with other posts above and below - Songs In The Key Of Life
    Last edited by calvin; 11-11-2020 at 01:34 PM.

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    “The woman in red“ soundtrack album?

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    Temptations greatest hits
    Diana Ross and the Supremes Greatest Hits

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    Songs In The Key Of Life - Stevie Wonder
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    Gotta be Stevie's "SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE".

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

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

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boogiedown View Post
    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!!


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

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

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zantellor View Post
    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).

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    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!!

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    We are still waiting lol.

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

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    Temptations Greatest Hits
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    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.




    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)

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