Reading every review of every number one album

Oooh, I could spend a lot of time on ‘Then Play Long‘, where Marcello Carlin and Lena Friesen “review every UK number one album so that you might want to hear it.” Here’s part of their look at Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Rumours‘

There is no knowingness or irony on this record. Everything is direct, unambiguous. And so, despite just one week at number one, Britain has kept by it, or kept it by its side; in the intervening years it has to date racked up 489 weeks on our album chart, its most recent appearance being as recently as last month. I would anticipate that people will still be buying and listening to this record long after the people who made it are gone, and their descendants and their families too; like the best art, it will call to people long outside the time when it was felt and made.