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Bob Dylan Becomes Oldest Male Solo Artist To Score UK No. 1 Album

26.06.2020 - 20:05

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Rough and Rowdy Ways (Columbia/Sony).Dylan's 39th studio release delivers opening combined units of 34,000, of which 29,000 were as CD purchases.

He thus becomes the oldest artist to score a No. 1 of new, original material and, at 79 years and one month, the oldest male solo artist to land a bestseller.

He overtakes Rod Stewart, who was 74 years and 11 months old when his album of orchestral reworkings, You're In My Heart, hit the summit last December.The recently-deceased Dame Vera Lynn still holds the record as the oldest artist overall to reach No.

1, at 92 when she did so in 2009 with We'll Meet Again — The Very Best Of Vera Lynn. Her death on June 18 prompts her more recent compilation 100 to re-enter at No.