[highnal]

Only The Beatles have scored more (7).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18051343

I don't get how they're so popular. You hear nothing of them for a couple of years, release an album with almost no airplay/publicity and it gets to #1!

[Jon Ross]

Originally Posted by highnal

I don't get how they're so popular. You hear nothing of them for a couple of years, release an album with almost no airplay/publicity and it gets to #1!

I think they're a band a lot of people like but don't like to admit to it. I never hear people talking about them at work (same goes for Adele though TBH). They get a lot of stick for being sub-Radiohead/Coldplay wannabees (not without some truth to it) but they are relatively inoffensive I suppose.

Good luck to them for hanging on in there. I don't think they'll ever have another album as big as Hopes and Fears though.

[XFactorFanatic1]

Glad for them. I think Keane are brilliant and are overshadowed by Coldplay (Who I also love). Glad they have gone to number 1.

[pikeur]

Delighted they have done so well with 5 in a row, im a fan of the band and have enjoyed all their albums but for me they will never top there bloody fantastic debut.

[Insomniac05]

Originally Posted by pikeur

Delighted they have done so well with 5 in a row, im a fan of the band and have enjoyed all their albums but for me they will never top there bloody fantastic debut.

I agree completely.

I've been a fan of the band since the sublime Hopes and Fears. Watching them top the album charts again is an amazing feeling. It's quite astounding how they've managed to sustain a career for all those years, while so many others have fallen by the wayside. Well done, guys!

[Sweet FA]

Hopes and Fears is a great debut album and window for their musical and songwriting talent...

[Benllech]

Well done to them.

[Salv*]

Brilliant for them. So many #1 albums but no #1 or #2 singles.

[bbclassics]

I really like them. I should listen to their new album when I get a chance.

[Heavenly]

Originally Posted by highnal

I don't get how they're so popular. You hear nothing of them for a couple of years, release an album with almost no airplay/publicity and it gets to #1!

I find them so middle of the road. A lot of people like that.

[Glawster2002]

Originally Posted by Heavenly

I find them so middle of the road. A lot of people like that.

Blandness sells, always has and it always will.

[Heavenly]

Originally Posted by Glawster2002

Blandness sells, always has and it always will.

Indeed.

[thierrynadal]

Keane are amazing. Tom is an exceptional vocalist and Tim is a great song writer. Walnut tree. hambug song, try again, a day like today, sunshine, spiralling are sublime tunes. They might be bland to some people but i think they are one of the best indie bands and definitely underrated.

Hope and fears is a great album and should have sold over ten million copies. It is better than 21 by adele which to me is bland.

[bowland37]

The album had dropped to No.2 on Amazon but is now back to No.1

£7.49 as an MP3 download. Should I wait till the price drops or not. Hmmm

Sod it, I've bought it.

[Gaspanic!]

Originally Posted by highnal

Only The Beatles have scored more (7).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18051343

Oasis have 7 (in a row), 8 if you count the best of. Madonna has 12, Elvis had 11.

[SamGamgee]

I like Keane, but afraid to admit it. Although, their latest album isnt as good as their last 3..theyve gone back to the sickly songs of the first album. Not that keen..although i've only had a brief listen.

[Jon Ross]

Originally Posted by thierrynadal

Keane are amazing. Tom is an exceptional vocalist and Tim is a great song writer. Walnut tree. hambug song, try again, a day like today, sunshine, spiralling are sublime tunes. They might be bland to some people but i think they are one of the best indie bands and definitely underrated.

Hope and fears is a great album and should have sold over ten million copies. It is better than 21 by adele which to me is bland.

Hopes and Fears did sell a lot of copies and won the band plenty of acclaim at the time as I recall.

I bought it at the time because I thought the songs were rather better than the usual radio fodder. The band could certainly write hooks and choruses better than most.

However, I feel they got picked up a bit too enthusiastically by the likes of Radio 2, which their music seemed to be tailor-made for. I think that's why they became rather uncool rather quickly.

Hopes and Fears is a good album but not a great one. The songs are too samey and the songwriting and lyrics are hardly profound, even though they were sung as if they were meant to be.

I never bought any the band's subsequent albums so I can't comment on them.

[CLL Dodge]

Originally Posted by Gaspanic!

Oasis have 7 (in a row), 8 if you count the best of.

But if you count the live album, Familar to Millions (which peaked at 5), Oasis had only 4 in a row. The B sides collection The Masterplan and Best of collection (Stop the Clocks) also failed to make No.1 (they peaked at 2). That knocks it down to 3 in a row. It was their posthumous (for now) singles collection, Time Flies, which made their 8th no.1 album.
.
All of their 7 studio albums made no.1.

Madonna's run was also interspersed with albums that failed to top the UK charts (her debut album, Erotica & Bedtime Stories).

Elvis isn't even close as most of his albums failed to top the chart.

(all data from Wikipedia).

[crazymonk]

Some snobs in here. Keane make some really neat songs and Toms voice is always a pleasure. Good for them, happy and surprised to see a band that were successful a few years back doing well! Having said that I think the album sales are not too good.

[confuddled]

Tom Chaplin can really carry a tune and for me has a great tone...listen to everything changes Chris Martin, now how did he get the gig? he sounds like a cat being buggered by a dog.

[Ally_Bowie]

I do like some of their material, Bad Dream i think is probably the last ever song by them i was into though, nothing stood out for me since then. But well done on them for having another No.1 album to their names, The majority of successful indie acts from in and around that era haven't been so lucky.

[Sweet FA]

Originally Posted by Gaspanic!

Oasis have 7 (in a row), 8 if you count the best of. Madonna has 12, Elvis had 11.

'in a row' = 'consecutive' as in, 'unbroken'...

[Pippa2012]

Their debut will always be there peak, i have bought all of their follow up albums and while none are as good as their debut they are still great albums worth listening to.

[Zeus555]

The UK Media misinterpreted this statistic.

1) Keane & The Beatles are not the only 2 Acts to
have 5, (or more), UK No.1 Albums in a row.

2) Keane, The Beatles & Robbie Williams, are the only 3
Acts to have UK No.1 Albums with their first 5, (or more),
Album Chart Hits.

3) The Beatles first 7 Album Chart Hits were No.1's, & the
first 5 by Robbie Williams, & Keane, were No.1's.

4) That is not the same as those Acts having the most
UK No.1 Albums in a row.

5) Led Zeppeilin & ABBA hold that record - 8 UK No.1
Albums in a row. The Beatles are 2nd - 7 in a row. Then
it is Eminem - 6 in a row.

6) The UK Media think that Keane, & The Beatles, are
the only 2 Acts with 5, (or more), UK No.1 Albums in
a row. They always misunderstand Chart Facts & Feats.

ACTS WITH THE MOST UK No.1 ALBUMS IN A ROW

1)=LED ZEPPELIN - 8 (1970 - 1979)
1)=ABBA - 8 (1976 - 1982)
3) BEATLES - 7 (1963 - 1966) @@@
4) EMINEM - 6 (2000 - 2010)
5)=POLICE - 5 (1979 - 1986)
5)=ERASURE - 5 (1988 - 1994)
5)=BON JOVI - 5 (1988 - 2000)
5)=SIMPLY RED - 5 (1989 - 1998)
5)=PRODIGY - 5 (1994 - 2009)
5)=ROBBIE WILLIAMS - 5 (1998 - 2002) @@@
5)=COLDPLAY - 5 (2000 - 2011)
5)=KEANE - 5 (2004 - 2012) @@@

@@@ = The only 3 Acts who managed it with their 1st
Album Chart Hits

[Smudged]

Originally Posted by Zeus555

@@@ = The only 3 Acts who managed it with their 1st
Album Chart Hits

I'm only guessing as I don't follow charts but I would have thought that every Coldplay album had got to number 1. Or did their debut album not?