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Highest
Selling Album, Whispering Jack - Number One in
Five Consecutive Decades - John Farnham 'John Farnham - Live At
The Regent Theatre' was the very first concert
that featured Supertext (closed captions for the
hearing impaired).
John was the first
Australian to be presented with a platinum album
from EMI for record sales in excess of 1
million.
The carefully crafted
album 'Whispering Jack', released in
October 1986, became the highest-selling album
by an Australian act in Australia, and
peaked at number one on the Australian Album
Charts for a total of 25 weeks. As of 2006, it was
24×platinum indicating sales of over 1.68 million
units in Australia alone. The album was released
internationally on RCA/BMG and peaked at No.1 in
Sweden, No. 3 in Austria, and Top 20 in Norway. In
August 1988 it returned to the Australian Top Ten.
John Farnham is the
only Australian artist to have a number one
record in five consecutive decades with
singles: 'Sadie (The Cleaning Lady)' in 1967,
'Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head' in 1969/1970,
and 'Age of Reason' in 1988; and albums: Age of
Reason, Chain Reaction in 1990, Then Again... in
1993, Anthology 1: Greatest Hits 1986-1997 in
1997, 33⅓ in 2000 and The Last Time in 2002
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