Brits vote Sgt. Pepper top of the chart toppers

The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was voted by the British public as the best No. 1 album of all time.

The seminal record was one of four Beatles albums to make the Top 10 in a poll broadcast by BBC's Radio 2 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the U.K. album chart.

"It revolutionized music and what we expect from an album," said Radio 2's Simon Mayo, which broadcast the full run-down of the Top 100 albums.

The album, released in 1967, featured both innovative recording techniques and memorable songs such as With a Little Help From My Friends, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds and A Day in the Life.

Just 201 votes separated Sgt. Pepper and Michael Jackson's Thriller, in second.

British artists dominated the list, and none more so than the Beatles. In addition to Sgt. Pepper, Beatles albums came in three more times in the Top 10, with Revolver atNo. 6, Abbey Road at No. 8 and The Beatles also known as The White Album at 10. Their 1965 album Rubber Soul was atNo. 11.

Three Canadian artists made the Top 100 of the poll, which considered only the 787 albums to reach theNo. 1spot of the U.K. charts in the last 50 years.

Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill was the top Canadian album atNo. 16, ahead of Neil Young's Harvest at 37 and Shania Twain's Come On Over, which tied for 97th place with Abba's The Album.

U2's Joshua Tree, which came in third, was the only album from the last 20 years featured in the Top 10.

Fourth was Fleetwood Mac's Rumours and fifth was Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here. Simon and Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water came in seventh, and Queen's A Night At The Opera came ninth.

"With over 220,000 votes received from the great British public, this is the most definitive record of the nation's favourite albums to date," said Darren Haynes of the Official UK Charts Company, which partnered with the BBC to produce the list.