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Various Artists, Grease soundtrack, 52 weeks

Released: April 14, 1978

First reached No. 1: Nov. 2, 1996

Billboard 200 peak: No. 1 for 12 weeks (beginning July 29, 1978)

Notes: This is the soundtrack with the longest run at No. 1. This is also the only album to log 10 or more weeks at No. 1 on both Catalog Albums and the Billboard 200. This album spawned four top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 — the Olivia Newton-John/John Travolta collabs “You’re the One That I Want” and “Summer Nights,” Newton-John’s solo smash “Hopelessly Devoted to You” and Frankie Valli’s “Grease.”

This is the only album on this list that received a Grammy nomination for album of the year. (Feel free to inject here, “You mean to tell me [blank] wasn’t nominated for album of the year?” Nope, it wasn’t.) Newton-John received a second nod for best pop vocal performance, female, for “Hopelessly…”

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