3: Why did 1959's album charts vanish?
Lateral with Tom Scott
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Is There Any Entry for 1959?
There is no entry for 1959 on the official UK album charts. The albums were bought and sold entirely normally throughout that entire time. There would have been 52 separate times that it was recorded. None of the number one albums for that year were controversial at all. So there should have been a set of results every week, right? There should have been an album chart week. Is this like best album 1959? It was recorded normally every single week. Does anyone know anything significant that happened in 1959? I don't know. Let me run through the entire lyrics of We Didn't Start the Fire to give you a hint. One of the verses says: 'It's 59' And then he
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