Michael Jackson topped the album chart and made six new entries in the singles top 40, yesterday, six years after his last number one. His Number Ones album, that features his biggest hits, raced up the charts from 121 to number one.

That album earned Jackson his last number one hit when it was released in 2003.

Four of his other hit albums also reappeared in the top 20 today.

A total of 11 Michael Jackson or Jackson Five albums were back in this week's Top 200, the Official Charts Company revealed. Thriller, still the biggest-selling album in history, surged from 179 to number seven.

The single, "Man in the Mirror", re-entered the charts at number 11, nearly 20 years after its release.

Jackson hits accounted for all but one of the new entries in this week's top 40 singles. A spokesman for HMV said: "We've seen this [posthumous comeback] with John Lennon, Elvis, Johnny Cash and Frank Sinatra. Michael Jackson in particular, he was just on the cusp of a big comeback anyway."