List of artists with the most UK Albums Chart number ones information
The UK Albums Chart is a weekly record chart compiled by the Official Charts Company, which for most of its history was based on album sales from Sunday to Saturday in the United Kingdom. The chart was founded in 1956, compiling physical format album sales until 2007, after which it has included albums sold digitally. Since July 2014, it has incorporated music streaming service data. 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 has 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-actress-businesswoman Kylie Minogue are the only solo artists to score a number one album in five consecutive decades.[2]
^"Acts with the most Number 1 albums on the Official UK Chart". Official Charts Company. 27 October 2023. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
^"Kylie Minogue 'lost for words' after latest album hits UK number 1, her fifth decade as a chart-topper". ABC News. 14 November 2020. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
and 25 Related for: List of artists with the most UK Albums Chart number ones information
Downloads Chartnumberonesofthe 2000s ListofUK Compilation Chartnumberonesofthe 2000s Theartist, album, date of reaching numberone and numberof weeks...
TheUKAlbumsChart is a weekly record chart based on album sales from Friday to Thursday in the United Kingdom. The Official Charts Company (OCC) defines...
TheUKAlbumsChart is a weekly record chart based on album sales from Sunday to Saturday in the United Kingdom; during the 1990s, a total of 216 albums...
TheUK Singles Chart is the official record chart in the United Kingdom. Until 1983, it was compiled weekly by the British Market Research Bureau (BMRB)...
Retailer chart from 1960 to 1969; and the Official UK Singles Chart from 1969 onwards. The calendar year that has featured themostUKnumberones is 2000...
TheUK Singles Chart is a record chart compiled on behalf ofthe British record industry. Until 1 February 1994, thechart was compiled each week by Gallup –...
total of 18 weeks at numberone. The following record labels had five or more numberones on theUK Singles Chart during the 1950s. Although The Official...
In the United Kingdom, Christmas numberones are singles that top theUK Singles Chart in the week in which Christmas Day falls. The singles have often...
TheUK Singles Chart is the official record chart in the United Kingdom. Prior to 1969 there was no official singles chart; however, The Official Charts...
performance of Wham!'s "Last Christmas" just over four years after George Michael's death, are not included. Listof posthumous numberones on theUKAlbums Chart...
album sales. This list shows the fifteen artistswiththemost top-ten albums on theUKAlbumsChart. American singer-actor Elvis Presley holds the record...
as of 13 April 2013[update], 200 different artists have reached number-one on theUK Singles Downloads Chart as either a main or featured artist. The following...