Meat Loaf, James Blunt and Leona Lewis feature on a new chart of the most popular debut albums ever.
Meat Loaf's Bat Out Of Hell is the biggest-selling debut album in UK chart history, it has been revealed.
The top 20 will be broadcast on BBC Radio 2 on Saturday, with an extended programme featuring the top 40 available on BBC Sounds. Deeply unfashionable in the era of disco and punk, it was rejected by four record labels. But when it was finally released in 1977, it became an immediate success in the UK, thanks to an unforgettable performance on BBC TV show The Old Grey Whistle Test.The special chart's top 20 largely focuses on debut albums released in the late 1990s and early 2000s - coinciding with the peak in CD sales.
National Album Day is now in its fifth year. It will be marked by the release of 30 debut albums in a collectible format, including Lady Gaga's The Fame on pale blue vinyl, and The Spice Girls' Spice on white vinyl.
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