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List of Specialist Classical Albums Chart number ones of the 2020s
This is a list of the number-one albums of the Specialist Classical Albums Chart during the 2020s.
Number ones edit
| Artist[a] | Album[a] | Record label[b] | Reached number one[a] | Weeks at number one[a] | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | |||||
| Gareth Malone | Music for Healing | Decca | 21 November 2019 | 8 | |
| Stephen Hough | Brahms/The Final Piano Pieces | Hyperion | 16 January 2020 | 1 | |
| Sheku Kanneh-Mason, the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle | Elgar | Decca | 23 January 2020 | 6 | |
| Stephen Fry, Debbie Wiseman and the National Symphony Orchestra | The Mythos Suite | Decca | 28 February 2020 | 1 | |
| Sheku Kanneh-Mason, the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle | Elgar | Decca | 6 March 2020 | 4 | |
| Víkingur Ólafsson | Debussy/Rameau | Deutsche Grammophon | 3 April 2020 | 5 | |
| Stephen Hough/Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Hannu Lintu | Beethoven: Piano Concertos | Hyperion | 8 May 2020 | 1 | |
| Ludovico Einaudi | 12 Songs from Home | Decca | 15 May 2020 | 1 | |
| Stjepan Hauser | Classic | Sony Classical | 22 May 2020 | 1 | |
| Sean Shibe | Bach | Delphian | 29 May 2020 | 1 | |
| Alina Ibragimova and Vladimir Jurowski | Shostakovich/Violin concerto | Hyperion | 5 June 2020 | 1 | |
| Sean Shibe | Bach | Delphian | 12 June 2020 | 1 | |
| Jonas Kaufmann | Verdi/Otell | Sony Classical | 19 June 2020 | 1 | |
| Sean Shibe | Bach | Delphian | 26 June 2020 | 1 | |
| Piers Lane/The Orchestra Now/Leon Botstein | The Romantic Piano Concerto Vol. 81 | Hyperion | 3 July 2020 | 1 | |
| Sheku Kanneh-Mason, the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle | Elgar | Decca | 10 July 2020 | 3 | |
| Voces8 | After Silence | VCM | 31 July 2020 | 1 | |
| Sinfonia of London/John Wilson | Respighi/Fontane De Roma/Pini De/Fesse | Chandos | 7 August 2020 | 1 | |
| Nicola Benedetti | Elgar/Violin Concerto | Decca | 14 August 2020 | 2 | |
| Suzi Digby/Ora Singers | Thomas Tallis: Spem In Alium/James Macmillan: Vidi Aquam | Harmonia Mundi | 28 August 2020 | 1 | |
| Craig Armstrong/Calum Martin | The Edge of the Sea | BMG | 4 September 2020 | 1 | |
| Lang Lang | Bach/Goldberg Variations | Deutsche Grammophon | 11 September 2020 | 2 | |
| Sheku Kanneh-Mason, the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle | Elgar | Decca | 25 September 2020 | 1 | |
| Ermonela Jaho | Anima Rara | Opera Rara | 2 October 2020 | 2 | |
| Black Dyke Band/Nicholas Childs | Rutter/Anthems Hymns & Gloria For Brass | Naxos | 16 October 2020 | 1 | |
| Poor Clares of Arundel | Light for the World | Decca | 23 October 2020 | 10 | |
| 2021 | |||||
| Choir of King's College, Cambridge | Carols From King's - 2020 Collection | King's College Cambridge | 1 January 2021 | 1 | |
| Poor Clares of Arundel | Light for the World | Decca | 8 January 2021 | 9 | |
| Pat Metheny | Road to the Sun | BMG | 12 March 2021 | 1 | |
| Steven Osborne and Paul Lewis | French Duets | Hyperion | 19 March 2021 | 2 | |
| Lise Davidsen, London Philharmonic and Mark Elder | Bethoven/Wagner/Verdi | Decca | 2 April 2021 | 1 | |
| Poor Clares of Arundel | Light for the World | Decca | 9 April 2021 | 1 | |
| Max Richter | Voices 2 | Decca | 16 April 2021 | 1 | |
| Freddie De Tommaso/London Philharmonic Orchestra/Renato Balsadonna | Passione | Decca | 23 April 2021 | 2 | |
| Alina Ibragimova | Paganini/24 Caprices | Hyperion | 7 May 2021 | 1 | |
| Freddie De Tommaso/London Philharmonic Orchestra/Renato Balsadonna | Passione | Decca | 14 May 2021 | 1 | |
| Lucy Crowe/The English Concert/Harry Bicket | Handel/Rodelinda | Linn | 21 May 2021 | 1 | |
| Freddie De Tommaso/London Philharmonic Orchestra/Renato Balsadonna | Passione | Decca | 28 May 2021 | 1 | |
| Leif Ove Andsnes/Mahler Chamber Orchestra | Mozart Momentum - 1785 | Sony Classical | 4 June 2021 | 1 | |
| Andras Schiff/Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment | Brahms/Piano Concertos | ECM New Series | 11 June 2021 | 1 | |
| Helen Mirren/Damian Lewis | Wisemen/The Music of Kings & Queens | Classic FM | 18 June 2021 | 1 | |
| Andras Schiff/Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment | Brahms/Piano Concertos | ECM New Series | 25 June 2021 | 1 | |
| Boston Symphony Orchestra/Andris Nelson | Shostakovich/Symphonies Nos 1, 14 & 15 | Deutsche Grammophon | 2 July 2021 | 1 | |
| Angela Hewitt | Love Songs | Hyperion | 9 July 2021 | 1 | |
| Isata Kanneh-Mason | Summertime | Decca | 16 July 2021 | 1 | |
| Nicola Benedetti | Baroque | Decca | 23 July 2021 | 3 | |
| Max Richter/Baltic Sea Philharmonic/Kristjan Järvi | Exiles | Deutsche Grammophon | 13 August 2021 | 2 | |
| Sean Shibe | Camino | Pentatone | 27 August 2021 | 1 | |
| Voces8 | Infinity | Decca | 3 September 2021 | 1 | |
| Víkingur Ólafsson | Mozart & Contemporaries | Deutsche Grammophon | 10 September 2021 | 1 | |
| Janine Jansenn | 12 Stradivari | Decca | 17 September 2021 | 1 | |
| Víkingur Ólafsson | Mozart & Contemporaries | Deutsche Grammophon | 24 September 2021 | 3 | |
| Daniil Trifonov | Bach/The Art of Life | Deutsche Grammophon | 15 October 2021 | 1 | |
| Dunedin Concert/John Butt | Bach/Ich habe genug/Cantatas | Decca | 22 October 2021 | 1 | |
| Víkingur Ólafsson | Mozart & Contemporaries | Deutsche Grammophon | 29 October 2021 | 1 | |
| Stephen Hough | Chopin/Nocturnes | Hyperion | 5 November 2021 | 1 | |
| Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Isata Kanneh-Mason | Muse | Decca | 12 November 2021 | 4 | |
| Choir of King's College, Cambridge | In the Bleak Midwinter - Christmas Carols | King's College Cambridge | 10 December 2021 | 1 | |
| Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Isata Kanneh-Mason | Muse | Decca | 17 December 2021 | 1 | |
| Choir of King's College, Cambridge | In the Bleak Midwinter - Christmas Carols | King's College Cambridge | 24 December 2021 | 2 | |
| 2022 | |||||
| Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Isata Kanneh-Mason | Muse | Decca | 7 January 2022 | 1 | |
| Lise Davidsen and Leif Ove Andsnes | Edvard Grieg | Decca | 14 January 2022 | 2 | |
| Ludovico Einaudi | Underwater | Decca | 28 January 2022 | 20 | |
| Max Richter | The New Four Seasons – Recomposed Vivaldi Recomposed | Deutsche Grammophon | 17 June 2022 | 2 | |
| Freddie De Tommaso/Philharmonia Orchestra/Paolo Arrivabeni | Il Tenore | Decca | 1 July 2022 | 1 | |
| Ludovico Einaudi | Underwater | Decca | 8 July 2022 | 8 | |
| Alison Balsom | Quiet City | Warner Classics | 2 September 2022 | 1 | |
| Ludovico Einaudi | Underwater | Decca | 9 September 2022 | 5 | |
| Víkingur Ólafsson | From Afar | Deutsche Grammophon | 14 October 2022 | 1 | |
| Ludovico Einaudi | Underwater | Decca | 21 October 2022 | 7 | |
| Choir of King's College, Cambridge | Carols from King's College, Cambridge | Warner Classics | 9 December 2022 | 5 | |
| 2023 | |||||
| Ludovico Einaudi | Underwater | Decca | 12 January 2023 | 3 | |
| Franz Welser-Möst | Neujahrskonzert 2023 | Sony Classical | 3 February 2023 | 1 | |
| Sinfonia of London, John Wilson | Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia On a Theme by Thomas Tallis; Herbert Howells; Concerto for String Orchestra; Frederick Delius: Late Swallows; Sir Edward Elgar: Introduction and Allegro | Chandos | 10 February 2023 | 2 | |
| Christina Pluhar, L' Arpeggiata and Philppe Jaroussky | Passacalle de la Follie | Erato | 24 February 2023 | 1 | |
| Seong-Jin Cho | Handel/Brahms/The Handel Project | Deutsche Grammophon | 3 March 2023 | 1 | |
| Martyn Brabbins and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra | Vaughan Williams/Sinfonia Antartica | Hyperion | 10 March 2023 | 1 | |
| Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and Antonio Pappano | Puccini/Turandot | Warner Classics | 17 March 2023 | 2 | |
| Jessye Norman | The Unreleased Masters | Decca | 31 March 2023 | 1 | |
| John Wilson/Sinfonia of London | Rachmaninoff/Symphony No.2 | Chandos | 7 April 2023 | 1 | |
| On Bordeaux Aquitaine/Dumas | Bangalter/Mythologies | Erato | 14 April 2023 | 1 | |
| Eric Whitacre/Voces8 | Home | Decca | 21 April 2023 | 1 | |
| Los Angeles Philharmonic/Gustavo Dudamel | Ades/Dante | NoneSuch | 28 April 2023 | 1 | |
| Chad Lawson | Breathe | Decca | 5 May 2023 | 1 | |
| Bham Voices/CBSO/Martyn Brabbins | Stanford/Requiem | Hyperion | 12 May 2023 | 1 | |
| Karim Sulayman/Sean Shibe | Broken Branches | Pentatone | 19 May 2023 | 1 | |
| Sufjan Stevens/Timo Andres/Conor Hanick | Reflections | Asthmatic Kitty | 26 May 2023 | 1 | |
| Isata Kanneh-Mason | Childhood Tales | Decca | 2 June 2023 | 1 | |
| Gesualdo Six/Owain Park | Byrd/Mass for Five Voices | Hyperion | 9 June 2023 | 1 | |
| John Wilson and BBC Philharmonic | Coates/Orchestral Works Vol.3 | Chandos | 16 June 2023 | 1 | |
| Chad Lawson | Breathe | Decca | 23 June 2023 | 2 | |
| Debbie Wiseman/City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra | Signature | Silva Classics | 7 July 2023 | 1 | |
| Karl Jenkins | One World | Decca | 14 July 2023 | 1 | |
| Hilary Hahn | Eugène Ysaÿe Six Sonatas for Violin Solo Op.27 | Deutsche Grammophon | 21 July 2023 | 1 | |
| Bojan Cicic | Bach/Partitas & Sonatas Bwv 1001-1006 | Delphian | 28 July 2023 | 1 | |
| Chad Lawson | Breathe | Decca | 4 August 2023 | 2 | |
| Francesa Dego/Timothy Ridout/Laura van der Heijden/Federico Colli | Mozart/The Piano Quartetes | Chandos | 18 August 2023 | 1 | |
| Chad Lawson | Breathe | Decca | 25 August 2023 | 1 | |
| Westminster Abbey Choir School/James O'Donnell | Vaughan Williams/Tavener/Macmillan | Hyperion | 1 September 2023 | 1 | |
| Yuja Wang/Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel | Rachmaninoff/Piano Concertos/Paganini Rhapsody | Deutsche Grammophon | 8 September 2023 | 2 | |
| Sinfonia of London/John Wilson | Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! - OST | Chandos | 22 September 2023 | 1 | |
| Joe Hisaishi/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Hisaishi/a Symphonic Celebration | Deutsche Grammophon | 29 September 2023 | 1 | |
| Anna Lapwood | Luna | Sony Classical | 6 October 2023 | 1 | |
| Víkingur Ólafsson | J.S Bach/Goldberg Variations | Deutsche Grammophon | 13 October 2023 | 4 | |
| John Wilson and Sinfonia of London | Ravel/Daphnis et Chloe | Chandos | 10 November 2023 | 1 | |
| Víkingur Ólafsson | J.S Bach/Goldberg Variations | Deutsche Grammophon | 17 November 2023 | 9 | |
| 2024 | |||||
| Vienna Philharmonic/Christian Thielemann | Neujahrskonzert 2024/New Year's Concert | Sony Classical | 19 January 2024 | 1 | |
| Jonathan Tetelman | The Great Puccini | Deutsche Grammophon | 26 January 2024 | 1 | |
| Philip Glass | Solo | Orange Mountain Music | 2 February 2024 | 1 | |
| Marc-Andre Hamelin | Hamelin /New Piano Works | Hyperion | 9 February 2024 | 1 | |
| Sinfonia of London/John Wilson | Ravel/Berkeley/Pounds/Orchestral Works | Chandos | 9 February 2024 | 1 | |
By artist edit
As of 22 September 2023[update], Seven artists have spent six or more weeks at the top of the Specialist Classical Albums Chart so far during the 2020s. The totals below include only credited performances.
| Artist | Number-one albums | Weeks at number one |
|---|---|---|
| Ludovico Einaudi | 2 | 43 |
| Víkingur Ólafsson | 4 | 24 |
| Poor Clares of Arundel | 1 | 20 |
| Sheku Kanneh-Mason | 2 | 20 |
| Choir of King's College, Cambridge | 3 | 9 |
| John Wilson | 7 | 8 |
| Chad Lawson | 1 | 6 |
By record label edit
As of 3 February 2024[update], Twenty two record labels have released chart-topping albums so far during the 2020s.
| Record label | Number-one albums | Weeks at number one |
|---|---|---|
| Decca | 24 | 112 |
| Deutsche Grammophon | 14 | 38 |
| Hyperion | 13 | 13 |
| Warner Classics | 3 | 8 |
| Chandos | 7 | 8 |
| Sony Classical | 5 | 5 |
| Delphian | 2 | 4 |
| Opera Rara | 1 | 2 |
| VCM | 1 | 1 |
| Harmonia Mundi | 1 | 1 |
| BMG | 2 | 2 |
| Pentatone | 2 | 2 |
| Naxos | 1 | 1 |
| King's College Cambridge | 2 | 4 |
| Erato | 2 | 2 |
| Linn | 1 | 1 |
| ECM | 1 | 2 |
| Classic FM | 1 | 1 |
| NoneSuch | 1 | 1 |
| Asthmatic Kitty | 1 | 1 |
| Silva Classics | 1 | 1 |
| Orange Mountain Music | 1 | 1 |
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "Top 40 Specialist Classical Albums Archive". Official Charts Company. 2010. Retrieved 1 August 2011.
- ^ "Top 40 Specialist Classical Albums Archive". Official Charts Company. 2011. Retrieved 1 August 2011.
- ^ "Top 40 Specialist Classical Albums Archive". Official Charts Company. 2012. Retrieved 8 April 2012.
- ^ "Top 40 Specialist Classical Albums Archive". Official Charts Company. 2013. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
- ^ "Artist Chart History". London: Official Charts Company. 2020. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
External links edit
- Specialist Classical Albums Top 20 at the Official Charts Company