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Lists of UK Albums Chart number ones. This is a list of the number one hits in the UK Albums Chart, from its inception in 1956 to the present. The sources are the Record Mirror chart from 1956 to the end of 1958, the Melody Maker chart from November 1958 to March 1960, the Record Retailer chart from March 1960 to March 1972 and the Music Week ...
In July 2020, On Sunset by Paul Weller became the 1200th album to ever top the UK Albums Chart. In December 2022, This Is What I Mean by Stormzy became the 1300th album to ever top the UK Albums Chart. Taylor Swift broke the record for the fastest time to accumulate twelve consecutive number-one albums (11 years and 6 months).
This list shows the eighteen artists with the most number ones on the UK Albums Chart. English band The Beatles have the most number one albums with sixteen. English singer-songwriter Robbie Williams has the most number one albums for a solo artist, with fourteen. [1] American musician Bruce Springsteen and Australian singer-songwriter Kylie ...
The first number one on the UK Albums Chart was Songs for Swingin' Lovers! by Frank Sinatra for the week ending 22 July 1956. As of the week ending 19 September 2024, the UK Albums Chart has had 1371 different number one albums. The current number one album is Luck and Strange by David Gilmour. [17]
Olivia Rodrigo, Celeste and Arlo Parks were among the many artists who achieved their first top 10 album in 2021. The first new number-one album of the year was Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers Songbook, Vol. 1 by Barry Gibb. Overall, forty different albums peaked at number-one in 2021, with Taylor Swift (2) having the most albums hit that ...
Artists who reached the number one in the UK Albums Chart in six decades Artist Number one album Decade(s) it reached number one Ref. The Rolling Stones: The Rolling Stones: 1960s [3] The Rolling Stones No. 2: Aftermath: Let It Bleed: Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! 1970s Sticky Fingers: Exile on Main St. Goats Head Soup: Emotional Rescue: 1980s Voodoo ...
t. e. Dire Straits had three UK number-one albums during the 1980s. Their second, Brothers in Arms, was the biggest-selling album of the decade. The UK Albums Chart is a weekly record chart based on album sales from Sunday to Saturday in the United Kingdom; during the 1980s, a total of 184 albums reached number one.
The UK Albums Chart is a weekly record chart based on album sales from Friday to Thursday in the United Kingdom; as of 15 February 2019, there had been 266 number-one albums during the 2010s, by 76 artists.