List of UK Albums Chart number ones of the 2020s

The UK Albums Chart is a weekly record chart based on album sales from Friday to Thursday in the United Kingdom. The Official Charts Company (OCC) defines an "album" as being a type of music release that feature more than four tracks and last longer than 25 minutes; sales of albums in the UK are recorded on behalf of the British music industry by the OCC and compiled weekly as the UK Albums Chart.

The chart is based on both physical and digital album sales, as well as audio streaming, and each week's new number one is first announced every Friday on The Official Chart on BBC Radio 1, which is currently hosted by Jack Saunders. The album chart is published online by Radio 1 (Top 40), in Music Week magazine (Top 75), and on the OCC website (Top 100). Lewis Capaldi was the first artist to top the albums chart in the 2020s with Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent. 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 nine consecutive number-one albums (10 years).

The following albums have all been number one in the United Kingdom during the 2020s.

Kylie Minogue became the first female artist to earn a number-one album in five consecutive decades (1980s to 2020s) with Disco.
Adele scored the best-selling album of 2021 with 30.
Robbie Williams became the solo artist with the most UK number-one albums with XXV in September 2022.
Harry Styles earned 2022's UK biggest-selling album with Harry's House, which is the longest-running number of the decade so far.
Bruce Springsteen became the first solo artist to chart at number one in five consecutive decades (1980s to 2020s) with Letter to You.
Coldplay's Music of the Spheres (2021) was the first album of the 2020s decade to sell over 100,000 copies in a single week.
Dua Lipa earned her first number one album Future Nostalgia.
Michael Bublé's Christmas returned to the top in January 2021, the first time since 2011, and again in December 2022.
Celeste became the first British female artist in five years since Jess Glynne in 2015 to debut at number one with Not Your Muse.
Olivia Rodrigo became the youngest artist to earn a "UK chart double" with Sour in May 2021.
ABBA returned to the top of the albums chart in November 2021 earning their tenth number one album with Voyage, the group's first studio album in forty years.
Muse made chart history in September 2022 with their album Will of the People by becoming the first album to reach number one to incorporate NFT technology.
Blackpink became the first K-pop girl group to earn a UK number one album in September 2022 with their second studio album Born Pink.
Courteeners set a new record for the longest time taken for a studio album to reach number one when they earned their first number one album in January 2023 following the 15th anniversary reissue of their debut album St. Jude, which originally peaked at number 4 in April 2008.

Number-one albums

Key
No. nth album to top the UK Albums Chart
re Return of an album to number one
Best-selling album of the year
Contents
← 2010s • 2020 • 2021 • 2022 • 2023 • 2024
Burna Boy became the first global Afrobeats artist to earn a UK number one album with I Told Them... in September 2023.
No. Artist Album Record label Reached number one Weeks at
number one
Certification
2020
re Lewis Capaldi Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent EMI 3 January 2020 1 5× Platinum
1181 Stormzy Heavy Is the Head Atlantic/Merky 10 January 2020 1 Platinum
re Lewis Capaldi Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent EMI 17 January 2020 1 5× Platinum
1182 Eminem Music to Be Murdered By Interscope 24 January 2020 1 Platinum
1183 J Hus Big Conspiracy Black Butter 31 January 2020 1 Gold
1184 Blossoms Foolish Loving Spaces EMI 7 February 2020 1 Silver
1185 Green Day Father of All Motherfuckers Reprise 14 February 2020 1
1186 Justin Bieber Changes Def Jam 21 February 2020 1 Gold
1187 BTS Map of the Soul: 7 Big Hit 28 February 2020 1 Gold
re Lewis Capaldi Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent EMI 6 March 2020 1 5× Platinum
1188 Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott Manchester Calling EMI 13 March 2020 1
1189 Niall Horan Heartbreak Weather Virgin EMI 20 March 2020 1 Gold
1190 The Weeknd After Hours Republic/XO 27 March 2020 1 Platinum
1191 5 Seconds of Summer Calm Interscope 3 April 2020 1 Silver
1192 Dua Lipa Future Nostalgia Warner 10 April 2020 2 2× Platinum
1193 Gerry Cinnamon The Bonny Little Runaway 24 April 2020 1 Gold
re Dua Lipa Future Nostalgia Warner 1 May 2020 1 2× Platinum
1194 Drake Dark Lane Demo Tapes Republic/OVO 8 May 2020 1 Gold
re Dua Lipa Future Nostalgia Warner 15 May 2020 1 2× Platinum
re Lewis Capaldi Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent EMI 22 May 2020 1 5× Platinum
1195 The 1975 Notes on a Conditional Form Dirty Hit/Polydor 29 May 2020 1 Gold
1196 Lady Gaga Chromatica Streamline/Interscope 5 June 2020 2 Gold
1197 Liam Gallagher MTV Unplugged (Live at Hull City Hall) Warner 19 June 2020 1
1198 Bob Dylan Rough and Rowdy Ways Columbia 26 June 2020 1 Gold
1199 Haim Women in Music Pt. III Polydor 3 July 2020 1 Silver
1200 Paul Weller On Sunset Polydor 10 July 2020 1
1201 Juice Wrld Legends Never Die Grade A/Interscope 17 July 2020 1 Platinum
1202 Ellie Goulding Brightest Blue Polydor 24 July 2020 1
1203 Taylor Swift Folklore Republic 31 July 2020 3 2x Platinum
1204 Biffy Clyro A Celebration of Endings Warner 21 August 2020 1 Silver
1205 The Killers Imploding the Mirage EMI 28 August 2020 1 Gold
1206 Nines Crabs in a Bucket Zino/Warner 4 September 2020 1 Gold
re The Rolling Stones Goats Head Soup Rolling Stones 11 September 2020 1 Gold
1207 Doves The Universal Want Virgin 18 September 2020 1
1208 Pop Smoke Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon Victor Victor/Republic 25 September 2020 1 Platinum
1209 Idles Ultra Mono Partisan 2 October 2020 1
1210 Queen + Adam Lambert Live Around the World EMI 9 October 2020 1 Silver
1211 Headie One Edna Relentless 16 October 2020 1 Gold
1212 The Vamps Cherry Blossom Virgin EMI/Universal 23 October 2020 1
1213 Bruce Springsteen Letter to You Columbia 30 October 2020 1 Gold
1214 Ariana Grande Positions Republic 6 November 2020 1 Gold
1215 Kylie Minogue Disco BMG 13 November 2020 1 Gold
1216 AC/DC Power Up Columbia 20 November 2020 1 Gold
1217 Michael Ball and Alfie Boe Together at Christmas Decca 27 November 2020 1 Gold
1218 Gary Barlow Music Played by Humans Polydor 4 December 2020 1 Gold
1219 Yungblud Weird! Interscope 11 December 2020 1 Gold
1220 Taylor Swift Evermore Republic 18 December 2020 1 Platinum
1221 Paul McCartney McCartney III Capitol 25 December 2020 1
2021
re Michael Bublé Christmas Reprise 1 January 2021 1 11× Platinum
re Taylor Swift Evermore Republic 8 January 2021 1 Platinum
1222 Barry Gibb Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers' Songbook, Vol. 1 EMI 15 January 2021 1
1223 You Me at Six Suckapunch Underdog 22 January 2021 1
1224 Bring Me the Horizon Post Human: Survival Horror RCA 29 January 2021 1 Gold
1225 Celeste Not Your Muse Polydor 5 February 2021 1 Silver
1226 Foo Fighters Medicine at Midnight Columbia 12 February 2021 1 Gold
1227 Slowthai Tyron Method 19 February 2021 1 Silver
1228 Mogwai As the Love Continues Rock Action 26 February 2021 1
1229 Architects For Those That Wish to Exist Epitaph 5 March 2021 1
1230 Kings of Leon When You See Yourself Columbia 12 March 2021 1 Silver
1231 Tom Grennan Evering Road Insanity 19 March 2021 1 Gold
1232 Lana Del Rey Chemtrails over the Country Club Polydor 26 March 2021 1 Gold
1233 Ben Howard Collections from the Whiteout Island 2 April 2021 1
1234 The Snuts W.L. Parlophone 9 April 2021 1 Silver
1235 Taylor Swift Fearless (Taylor's Version) EMI 16 April 2021 1 Gold
1236 London Grammar Californian Soil Ministry of Sound 23 April 2021 1 Gold
1237 Tom Jones Surrounded by Time EMI 30 April 2021 1
1238 Royal Blood Typhoons Warner 7 May 2021 1 Silver
1239 Rag'n'Bone Man Life by Misadventure Columbia 14 May 2021 1 Gold
1240 Paul Weller Fat Pop (Volume 1) Polydor 21 May 2021 1
1241 Olivia Rodrigo Sour Geffen 28 May 2021 2 2× Platinum
1242 Wolf Alice Blue Weekend Dirty Hit 11 June 2021 1 Gold
1243 Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Back the Way We Came: Vol. 1 (2011–2021) Sour Mash 18 June 2021 1 Gold
re Olivia Rodrigo Sour Geffen 25 June 2021 1 2× Platinum
1244 Jack Savoretti Europiana EMI 2 July 2021 1 Silver
re Olivia Rodrigo Sour Geffen 9 July 2021 1 2× Platinum
1245 Inhaler It Won't Always Be Like This Polydor 16 July 2021 1
1246 KSI All Over the Place BMG 23 July 2021 1 Gold
1247 Dave We're All Alone in This Together Neighbourhood 30 July 2021 1 Platinum
1248 Billie Eilish Happier Than Ever Interscope 6 August 2021 1 Platinum
re Dave We're All Alone in This Together Neighbourhood 13 August 2021 1 Platinum
1249 The Killers Pressure Machine EMI 20 August 2021 1
re Olivia Rodrigo Sour Geffen 27 August 2021 1 2× Platinum
1250 Kanye West Donda Def Jam 3 September 2021 1 Gold
1251 Drake Certified Lover Boy Republic/OVO 10 September 2021 1 Gold
1252 Manic Street Preachers The Ultra Vivid Lament Columbia 17 September 2021 1
re Drake Certified Lover Boy Republic/OVO 24 September 2021 1 Gold
1253 The Lathums How Beautiful Life Can Be Island 1 October 2021 1 Silver
1254 The Script Tales from the Script: Greatest Hits Phonogenic/Sony 8 October 2021 1 Gold
1255 Sam Fender Seventeen Going Under Polydor 15 October 2021 1 Platinum
1256 Coldplay Music of the Spheres Parlophone 22 October 2021 1 Gold
1257 Elton John The Lockdown Sessions EMI 29 October 2021 1 Gold
1258 Ed Sheeran = Atlantic 5 November 2021 1 3× Platinum
1259 ABBA Voyage Universal 12 November 2021 1 Platinum
1260 Taylor Swift Red (Taylor's Version) EMI 19 November 2021 1 Platinum
1261 Adele 30 Columbia 26 November 2021 5 2× Platinum
re Ed Sheeran = Atlantic 31 December 2021 2 3× Platinum
2022
1262 The Weeknd Dawn FM Republic/XO 14 January 2022 1 Gold
1263 The Wombats Fix Yourself, Not the World AWAL 21 January 2022 1
1264 Years & Years Night Call Polydor 28 January 2022 1 Silver
1265 Don Broco Amazing Things SharpTone 4 February 2022 1
1266 Bastille Give Me the Future EMI 11 February 2022 1 Silver
1267 Frank Turner FTHC Polydor 18 February 2022 1
re Ed Sheeran = Atlantic 25 February 2022 1 3× Platinum
1268 Central Cee 23 Self-released 4 March 2022 1 Gold
1269 Stereophonics Oochya! Stylus 11 March 2022 1
1270 Rex Orange County Who Cares? RCA 18 March 2022 1
1271 Charli XCX Crash Atlantic 25 March 2022 1
1272 Michael Bublé Higher Reprise 1 April 2022 1
1273 Red Hot Chili Peppers Unlimited Love Warner 8 April 2022 1 Silver
1274 Wet Leg Wet Leg Domino 15 April 2022 1 Gold
1275 Digga D Noughty by Nature CGM/EGA 22 April 2022 1 Silver
1276 Fontaines D.C. Skinty Fia Partisan 29 April 2022 1 Silver
1277 Blossoms Ribbon Around the Bomb Virgin EMI 6 May 2022 1
1278 Arcade Fire We Columbia 13 May 2022 1
1279 Florence and the Machine Dance Fever Polydor 20 May 2022 1 Gold
1280 Harry Styles Harry's House Columbia 27 May 2022 1 2× Platinum
1281 Liam Gallagher C'mon You Know Warner 3 June 2022 1 Gold
re Harry Styles Harry's House Columbia 10 June 2022 1 2× Platinum
1282 George Ezra Gold Rush Kid Columbia 17 June 2022 1 Gold
re Harry Styles Harry's House Columbia 24 June 2022 2 2× Platinum
1283 Paolo Nutini Last Night in the Bittersweet Atlantic 8 July 2022 1 Gold
re Harry Styles Harry's House Columbia 15 July 2022 2 2× Platinum
1284 Jamie T The Theory of Whatever Polydor 29 July 2022 1
1285 Beyoncé Renaissance Columbia/Parkwood 5 August 2022 2 Gold
1286 Kasabian The Alchemist's Euphoria Sony 19 August 2022 1
1287 Steps Platinum Collection Sony 26 August 2022 1 Silver
1288 Muse Will of the People Warner 2 September 2022 1 Silver
1289 Yungblud Yungblud Geffen 9 September 2022 1
1290 Robbie Williams XXV Columbia 16 September 2022 1 Silver
1291 Blackpink Born Pink Interscope 23 September 2022 1 Silver
1292 5 Seconds of Summer 5SOS5 BMG 30 September 2022 1
1293 Slipknot The End, So Far Roadrunner 7 October 2022 1
1294 Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott N.K-Pop EMI 14 October 2022 1
1295 The 1975 Being Funny in a Foreign Language Dirty Hit 21 October 2022 1 Gold
1296 Taylor Swift Midnights EMI 28 October 2022 2 2× Platinum
1297 Drake and 21 Savage Her Loss Republic/OVO 11 November 2022 1 Gold
1298 Louis Tomlinson Faith in the Future BMG 18 November 2022 1 Silver
1299 Dermot Kennedy Sonder Island 25 November 2022 1 Gold
1300 Stormzy This Is What I Mean Def Jam/Merky 2 December 2022 1 Silver
1301 Olly Murs Marry Me EMI 9 December 2022 1
1302 Sam Ryder There's Nothing but Space, Man! Parlophone 16 December 2022 1 Silver
re Taylor Swift Midnights EMI 23 December 2022 1 2× Platinum
re Michael Bublé Christmas Reprise 30 December 2022 1 11× Platinum
2023
The best performing album of 2023, The Highlights by The Weeknd peaked at number two on six separate occasions between 2021-2023. †
re Taylor Swift Midnights EMI 6 January 2023 2 2× Platinum
1303 Courteeners St. Jude Polydor 20 January 2023 1 Platinum
1304 The Reytons What's Rock and Roll? Self-released 27 January 2023 1
1305 Sam Smith Gloria Capitol 3 February 2023 1
1306 Shania Twain Queen of Me EMI 10 February 2023 1
1307 Paramore This Is Why Atlantic 17 February 2023 1
1308 Pink Trustfall RCA 24 February 2023 1 Gold
1309 Gorillaz Cracker Island Parlophone 3 March 2023 1
1310 The Lathums From Nothing to a Little Bit More Island 10 March 2023 1
1311 Miley Cyrus Endless Summer Vacation Columbia 17 March 2023 1 Silver
1312 U2 Songs of Surrender Island 24 March 2023 1
1313 Lana Del Rey Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd Polydor 31 March 2023 1 Gold
1314 Boygenius The Record Interscope 7 April 2023 1 Silver
1315 Ellie Goulding Higher Than Heaven Polydor 14 April 2023 1
1316 Metallica 72 Seasons Blackened Recordings 21 April 2023 1 Silver
1317 Enter Shikari A Kiss for the Whole World Ambush Reality 28 April 2023 1
1318 The Lottery Winners Anxiety Replacement Therapy Modern Sky UK 5 May 2023 1
1319 Ed Sheeran - Atlantic 12 May 2023 2 Gold
1320 Lewis Capaldi Broken by Desire to Be Heavenly Sent EMI 26 May 2023 2 Gold
1321 Foo Fighters But Here We Are Columbia 9 June 2023 1 Silver
1322 Niall Horan The Show Capitol 16 June 2023 1
1323 Tom Grennan What Ifs & Maybes Insanity 23 June 2023 1 Gold
1324 Maisie Peters The Good Witch Gingerbread Man 30 June 2023 1
1325 Nothing but Thieves Dead Club City Sony 7 July 2023 1
1326 Taylor Swift Speak Now (Taylor's Version) EMI 14 July 2023 1 Gold
1327 J Hus Beautiful and Brutal Yard Black Butter 21 July 2023 1 Silver
1328 Blur The Ballad of Darren Parlophone 28 July 2023 1 Silver
1329 Travis Scott Utopia Epic/Cactus Jack 4 August 2023 1 Gold
1330 Cian Ducrot Victory Polydor 11 August 2023 1
1331 Liam Gallagher Knebworth 22 Warner 18 August 2023 1
1332 Hozier Unreal Unearth Island 25 August 2023 1 Silver
1333 Burna Boy I Told Them... Atlantic 1 September 2023 1 Silver
1334 Royal Blood Back to the Water Below Warner 8 September 2023 1
1335 Olivia Rodrigo Guts Geffen 15 September 2023 1 Gold
1336 Busted Greatest Hits 2.0 Self-released 22 September 2023 1
1337 Kylie Minogue Tension BMG 29 September 2023 1 Silver
1338 Ed Sheeran Autumn Variations Gingerbread Man 6 October 2023 1 Silver
1339 Drake For All the Dogs Republic/OVO 13 October 2023 1 Gold
1340 Ren Sick Boi The Other Songs 20 October 2023 1
1341 The Rolling Stones Hackney Diamonds Polydor 27 October 2023 1 Gold
1342 Taylor Swift 1989 (Taylor's Version) EMI 3 November 2023 3 Platinum
1343 Madness Theatre of the Absurd Presents C'est la Vie BMG 24 November 2023 1
1344 Take That This Life EMI 1 December 2023 1 Gold
1345 Peter Gabriel I/O EMI 8 December 2023 1
1346 The Killers Rebel Diamonds EMI 15 December 2023 1 Silver
re The Rolling Stones Hackney Diamonds Polydor 22 December 2023 1 Gold
re Michael Bublé Christmas Reprise 29 December 2023 1 11× Platinum
2024
re Lewis Capaldi Broken by Desire to Be Heavenly Sent EMI 5 January 2024 1 Gold
1347 Shed Seven A Matter of Time Cooking Vinyl 12 January 2024 1
1348 D-Block Europe Rolling Stone UMG 19 January 2024 1
1349 Green Day Saviors Reprise 26 January 2024 1
1350 James Arthur Bitter Sweet Love Columbia 2 February 2024 1
1351 The Last Dinner Party Prelude to Ecstasy Island 9 February 2024 1
1352 Noah Kahan Stick Season Republic 16 February 2024 1 Gold
1353 Idles Tangk Partisan 23 February 2024 1
1354 Rod Stewart and Jools Holland Swing Fever Warner 1 March 2024 1
1355 Liam Gallagher and John Squire Liam Gallagher John Squire Warner 8 March 2024 1
1356 Ariana Grande Eternal Sunshine Republic 15 March 2024 2

Artists with the most number ones in the 2020s

Artist Number ones Albums
Taylor Swift 7
Drake 4
Liam Gallagher
Ed Sheeran 3
List
The Killers
Paul Weller 2
List
The Weeknd
List
Michael Bublé
List
Blossoms
Yungblud
List
5 Seconds of Summer
List
Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott
List
The 1975
Stormzy
The Lathums
Lana Del Rey
Ellie Goulding
List
Lewis Capaldi
Niall Horan
List
Tom Grennan
List
J Hus
Royal Blood
List
Olivia Rodrigo
List
Kylie Minogue
List
The Rolling Stones
List
Green Day
Idles
List
Ariana Grande
List
  • † Originally reached number one in the 1970s, but went to number one again during the 2020s.
  • †† Originally reached number one in the 2010s, but went to number one again during the 2020s.

Albums with the most weeks at number one

The following albums spent at least three weeks at number one during the 2020s.

Artist Album Weeks at
number one
Harry Styles Harry's House 6
Adele 30 5
Taylor Swift Midnights
Olivia Rodrigo Sour
Dua Lipa Future Nostalgia 4
Lewis Capaldi Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent
Ed Sheeran =
Taylor Swift Folklore 3
1989 (Taylor's Version)
Michael Bublé Christmas
Lewis Capaldi Broken by Desire to Be Heavenly Sent

Artists with the most weeks at number one

Twelve different artists have spent three weeks or more at number one on the album chart so far during the 2020s. Taylor Swift has spent the most weeks at number one, with a total of 16 weeks.

Artist Weeks at
number one
Albums
Taylor Swift 16
Ed Sheeran 7
Lewis Capaldi
Harry Styles 6
Olivia Rodrigo
Adele 5
Drake
Dua Lipa 4
Michael Bublé
Liam Gallagher
The Killers 3
The Rolling Stones
Ariana Grande

By record label

Twelve different record labels have spent five weeks or more at number one on the album chart so far during the 2020s.

Record label Number-one
albums
Weeks at
number one
EMI 22 33
Columbia 17 27
Polydor 19 19
Republic 11 17
Warner 11 15
Atlantic 7 11
Interscope 8 9
Island 7 7
BMG 6 6
Geffen 2 6
Parlophone 5 5
OVO 4 5

Christmas number ones

In the UK, Christmas number one albums are those that are at the top of the UK Albums Chart on Christmas Day. Typically, this will refer to the album that was announced as number one on the Friday before 25 December—when Christmas Day falls on a Friday itself, the official number one is considered by the OCC to be the one announced on that day's chart. During the 2020s, the following albums were Christmas number ones.

Year Artist Album Record label Weeks at
number one
Ref.
2020 Paul McCartney McCartney III Capitol 1
2021 Adele 30 Columbia 5
2022 Taylor Swift Midnights EMI 5
2023 The Rolling Stones Hackney Diamonds Polydor 2

See also


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