‘The Lockdown Sessions’, an album of collaborations recorded during the COVID-19 Pandemic, was released in October 2021 and went straight to number 1 in the UK album Charts, becoming Elton’s 8th UK number 1 album in the process. At present, he has logged 70 Billboard Hot 100 entries, including nine No. August 2018 saw Elton named as the most successful male solo artist in Billboard Hot 100 chart history. This release celebrated 50 years of his songwriting partnership with Bernie Taupin. Released in 2017 ‘Diamonds’ the Ultimate Greatest Hits album, became Elton’s 40th UK Top 40 album and has spent over 200 consecutive weeks in the top 75 of the UK album charts, over 110 of these in the top 20. He holds the record for the biggest-selling single of all time, “Candle in the Wind 1997”, which sold over 33 million copies. He has sold more than 300 million records worldwide.
In the UK and US charts alone he has 1 diamond, 32 platinum or multi-platinum, and 21 gold albums as well as over 70 Top 40 hits. Elton is one of the top-selling solo artists of all time. Elton’s career achievements to date are unsurpassed in their breadth and longevity.
