For seven weeks, Revolver was at the top of the UK Albums Chart.
In January 1989, all the various artist compilation albums were removed from the Top 100 albums chart and given their own Top 20 chart (found in Music Week and Record Mirror), with the main albums chart reformatted as a top 75 (as far as hit albums are concerned) to equal the singles chart
The first studio album and non-soundtrack or cast recording album to top the year-end chart was With the Beatles by The Beatles in 1963  they became the first group to achieve this feat

