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Of the UK's top 60 best-selling albums, more than half are by British artists. [1] Fourteen are by American artists, with the rest being from Ireland, Canada, Sweden and Jamaica. [6] Ten acts feature on the chart with more than one album, with Queen and Michael Jackson both featuring twice within the top ten. [1]
The Official UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by sales and audio streaming [1] in the United Kingdom. It was published for the first time on 22 July 1956 and is compiled every week by the Official Charts Company (OCC) on Fridays (previously Sundays).
Other Adele albums also appear on the list with 25 at number three and 19 at number 31 respectively. The UK Albums Chart is a music chart compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC) that calculates the best-selling albums of the week in the United Kingdom. Initially based solely on the sales of albums in the vinyl and CD formats, digital ...
Adele had the best-selling album four times, the most for a female artist with 21 (2011), 25 (2015, 2016) and 30 (2021). ABBA had the best-selling album of the year three times with Greatest Hits (1976), Arrival (1977) and Super Trouper (1980). Ed Sheeran has earned the best-selling album of the year twice with X (2014) and รท (2017).
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 position.
This list shows the sixteen artists with the most top-ten albums on the UK Albums Chart. American singer-actor Elvis Presley holds the record for the most top-ten albums with fifty-three entries. British musician Cliff Richard is in second place, with forty-eight. American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan and English band The Rolling Stones both in ...
The UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal albums in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each album's weekly physical sales, and digital downloads. [1]
From 10 July 2015, it has been based on a Friday to Thursday album sales. 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]