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;^[1] 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.^[2]

The chart is based on both physical and digital album sales,^[3] as well as audio streaming,^[4] 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.^[5] The album chart is published online by Radio 1 (Top 40),^[6] in Music Week magazine (Top 75),^[7] and on the OCC website (Top 100).^[8] 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.^[8][6]

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

 

Burna Boy became the first global Afrobeats artist to earn a UK number one album with I Told Them... in September 2023.

 

Beyoncé earned her fifth number-one album in April 2024 with Cowboy Carter, which also became the first country album to top the UK charts by a black artist.

No.	Artist^[a]	Album^[a]	Record label^[b]	Reached number one^[a]	Weeks at number one^[a]	Certification^[c]
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^[A]
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	3× 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	3× Platinum
1244	Jack Savoretti	Europiana	EMI	2 July 2021	1	Silver
re	Olivia Rodrigo	Sour	Geffen	9 July 2021	1	3× 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	3× Platinum
1250	Kanye West	Donda	Def Jam	3 September 2021	1	Gold
1251	Drake	Certified Lover Boy	Republic/OVO	10 September 2021	1	Platinum
1252	Manic Street Preachers	The Ultra Vivid Lament	Columbia	17 September 2021	1
re	Drake	Certified Lover Boy	Republic/OVO	24 September 2021	1	Platinum
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	Silver
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	Gold
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	Platinum
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	Silver
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	Silver
1357	Elbow	Audio Vertigo	Polydor	29 March 2024	1
1358	Beyoncé	Cowboy Carter	Columbia/Parkwood	5 April 2024	1	Silver
1359	The Libertines	All Quiet on the Eastern Esplanade	EMI	12 April 2024	1
1360	James	Yummy	Nothing But Love	19 April 2024	1
1361	Taylor Swift	The Tortured Poets Department	EMI	26 April 2024	1	Gold

Artists with the most number ones in the 2020s

Artist	Number ones	Albums
Taylor Swift	8	List Folklore (2020) Evermore (2020) Fearless (Taylor's Version) (2021) Red (Taylor's Version) (2021) Midnights (2022) Speak Now (Taylor's Version) (2023) 1989 (Taylor's Version) (2023) The Tortured Poets Department (2024)
Drake	4	List Dark Lane Demo Tapes (2020) Certified Lover Boy (2021) Her Loss (2022) For All the Dogs (2023)
Liam Gallagher		List MTV Unplugged (Live at Hull City Hall) (2020) C'mon You Know (2022) Knebworth 22 (2023) Liam Gallagher John Squire (2024)
Ed Sheeran	3	List = (2021) - (2023) Autumn Variations (2023)
The Killers		List Imploding the Mirage (2020) Pressure Machine (2021) Rebel Diamonds (2023)
Paul Weller	2	List On Sunset (2020) Fat Pop (Volume 1) (2021)
The Weeknd		List After Hours (2020) Dawn FM (2022)
Michael Bublé		List Christmas (2021)†† Higher (2022)
Blossoms		List Foolish Loving Spaces (2020) Ribbon Around the Bomb (2022)
Yungblud		List Weird! (2020) Yungblud (2022)
5 Seconds of Summer		List Calm (2020) 5SOS5 (2022)
Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott		List Manchester Calling (2020) N.K-Pop (2022)
The 1975		List Notes on a Conditional Form (2020) Being Funny in a Foreign Language (2022)
Stormzy		List Heavy Is the Head (2020) This Is What I Mean (2022)
The Lathums		List How Beautiful Life Can Be (2021) From Nothing to a Little Bit More (2023)
Lana Del Rey		List Chemtrails over the Country Club (2021) Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd (2023)
Ellie Goulding		List Brightest Blue (2020) Higher Than Heaven (2023)
Lewis Capaldi		List Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent (2020)†† Broken by Desire to Be Heavenly Sent (2023)
Niall Horan		List Heartbreak Weather (2020) The Show (2023)
Tom Grennan		List Evering Road (2021) What Ifs & Maybes (2023)
J Hus		List Big Conspiracy (2020) Beautiful and Brutal Yard (2023)
Royal Blood		List Typhoons (2021) Back to the Water Below (2023)
Olivia Rodrigo		List Sour (2021) Guts (2023)
Kylie Minogue		List Disco (2020) Tension (2023)
The Rolling Stones		List Goats Head Soup (2020)† Hackney Diamonds (2023)
Green Day		List Father of All Motherfuckers (2020) Saviors (2024)
Idles		List Ultra Mono (2020) Tangk (2024)
Ariana Grande		List Positions (2020) Eternal Sunshine (2024)
Beyoncé		List Renaissance (2022) Cowboy Carter (2024)

• † 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

Fourteen 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 17 weeks.

Artist	Weeks at number one	Albums
Taylor Swift	17	Folklore (3) Evermore (2) Fearless (Taylor's Version) (1) Red (Taylor's Version) (1) Midnights (5) Speak Now (Taylor's Version) (1) 1989 (Taylor's Version) (3) The Tortured Poets Department (1)
Ed Sheeran	7	= (4) - (2) Autumn Variations (1)
Lewis Capaldi		Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent (4) Broken by Desire to Be Heavenly Sent (3)
Harry Styles	6	Harry's House (6)
Olivia Rodrigo		Sour (5) Guts (1)
Adele	5	30 (5)
Drake		Dark Lane Demo Tapes (1) Certified Lover Boy (2) Her Loss (1) For All the Dogs (1)
Dua Lipa	4	Future Nostalgia (4)
Michael Bublé		Christmas (3) Higher (1)
Liam Gallagher		MTV Unplugged (Live at Hull City Hall) (1) C'mon You Know (1) Knebworth 22 (1) Liam Gallagher John Squire (1)
The Killers	3	Imploding the Mirage (1) Pressure Machine (1) Rebel Diamonds (1)
The Rolling Stones		Goats Head Soup (1) Hackney Diamonds (2)
Ariana Grande		Positions (1) Eternal Sunshine (2)
Beyoncé		Renaissance (2) Cowboy Carter (1)

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	24	35
Columbia	18	28
Polydor	20	20
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

Main article: List of UK Albums Chart 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.^[12] 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	^[13]
2021	Adele	30	Columbia	5	^[14]
2022	Taylor Swift	Midnights	EMI	5	^[15]
2023	The Rolling Stones	Hackney Diamonds	Polydor	2	^[16]

See also

• List of UK Singles Chart number ones of the 2020s

Notes

• A ^ Certification achieved in 1973.

1. The artist, album, date of reaching number one and number of weeks at number one are those given by the Official Charts Company.^[9]
2. The record labels are those given by the Official Charts Company.^[10]
3. The certifications are those given by the British Phonographic Industry.^[11]

References

1. (PDF). Official Charts Company. January 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 June 2007. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
2. "Who We Are – Our Charts & data". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
3. "Getting into the charts – Meeting the chart rules". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
4. "UK's Official Albums Chart to include streaming data for first time". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
5. BBC Radio 1. "The Official Chart with Jack Saunders". Retrieved 4 January 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
6. "The Official UK Top 40 Albums Chart". BBC Radio 1. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
7. Music Week. "Music Week – Music Week – Music business magazine". Retrieved 4 January 2020.
8. "The Official UK Top 100 Albums Chart". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
9. "All the Official Albums Chart Number 1s". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
10. "Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
11. "BRIT Certified". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
12. "Get into The Festive Spirit With Music". Easier. 20 December 2006. from the original on 26 March 2012. Retrieved 27 June 2011.
13. "Top 40 Official UK Albums Archive: 31st December 2020". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
14. "Top 40 Official UK Albums Archive: 30th December 2021". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
15. "Top 40 Official UK Albums Archive: 29th December 2022". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 23 December 2022.
16. "Top 40 Official UK Albums Archive: 28th December 2023". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 22 December 2023.

External links

• Official Albums Chart Top 100 at the Official Charts Company
• The Official UK Top 40 Albums Chart at BBC Radio 1