The UK Compilation Chart is a record chart based on sales of multi artist compilation albums in the United Kingdom.
TV-advertised hits compilations had been established in the United Kingdom since K-Tel's 20 Dynamic Hits in 1972, but following the December 1983 release of the first album in the Now That's What I Call Music series, compilation albums featuring various artists reached a new level of popularity in the UK during the mid to late 1980s.
[1] As a result of their dominance over the UK Albums Chart, releases from various artists were excluded from the main UK album chart from 14 January 1989.
In 2020, the Official Charts company amended the rules to categorise motion picture cast recordings and stage show albums as compilations alongside various artist film and television soundtracks.
[3][4][5] In addition to The Greatest Showman, the collaborative album JackBoys by Travis Scott and rappers on his record label was also deemed to be a compilation and not an artist album, with the cast recordings of A Star Is Born[6] and Cats also being transferred under the new rules, with Cats having charted for one week at number 44 on the main artist albums chart before being excluded.