The UK Albums Chart is a weekly record chart compiled by Official Charts, 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 March 2015, 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 seventeen artists with the most number ones on the UK Albums Chart. English singer-songwriter Robbie Williams has the most number one albums with sixteen. American musician Bruce Springsteen is the first male solo artist and Australian singer-songwriter Kylie Minogue is the first female solo artist to score a number one album in five consecutive decades.
Tally + Artists with the most number one albums in the UK Albums Chart Artist Number one albums Number one album Record label(s) First reached number one Robbie Williams Life thru a Lens Chrysalis I've Been Expecting You Sing When You're Winning Swing When You're Winning Escapology EMI Greatest Hits Chrysalis Intensive Care Rudebox In and Out of Consciousness: Greatest Hits 1990–2010 Virgin Take the Crown Island Swings Both Ways The Heavy Entertainment Show Columbia The Christmas Present XXV Better Man (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Britpop The Beatles Please Please Me Parlophone With the Beatles A Hard Day's Night Beatles for Sale Help! Rubber Soul Revolver Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band The Beatles Apple Abbey Road Let It Be The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl Parlophone Live at the BBC Apple Anthology 2 1 The Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones Decca The Rolling Stones No. 2 Aftermath Let It Bleed Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! Sticky Fingers Rolling Stones Exile on Main St. Goats Head Soup Emotional Rescue Voodoo Lounge Virgin Exile on Main St. Polydor Blue & Lonesome Goats Head Soup Hackney Diamonds Foreign Tongues Taylor Swift Red Mercury 1989 EMI Reputation Lover Folklore Evermore Fearless (Taylor's Version) Red (Taylor's Version) Midnights Speak Now (Taylor's Version) 1989 (Taylor's Version) The Tortured Poets Department Lover (Live from Paris) The Life of a Showgirl Madonna Like a Virgin Sire True Blue Like a Prayer The Immaculate Collection Evita Warner Bros. Ray of Light Maverick Music American Life Confessions on a Dance Floor Warner Bros. Hard Candy Celebration MDNA Interscope Confessions II Warner Elvis Presley Rock 'N' Roll His Master's Voice Loving You RCA King Creole Elvis Is Back! G.I. Blues Blue Hawaii Pot Luck From Elvis in Memphis RCA Victor Elvis' 40 Greatest Arcade ELV1S: 30 No. 1 Hits RCA The King If I Can Dream RCA, Legacy Recordings The Wonder of You Bruce Springsteen Born in the U.S.A. CBS Tunnel of Love Human Touch Columbia Greatest Hits The Rising Devils & Dust Magic Working on a Dream Wrecking Ball High Hopes Western Stars Letter to You David Bowie Aladdin Sane RCA Pin Ups Diamond Dogs Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) Let's Dance EMI America Tonight Changesbowie Black Tie White Noise Arista The Next Day ISO, Columbia Blackstar RCA Best of Bowie EMI Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP Interscope The Eminem Show Encore Curtain Call: The Hits Relapse Recovery The Marshall Mathers LP 2 Revival Kamikaze Music to Be Murdered By The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) Kylie Minogue Kylie PWL Enjoy Yourself Greatest Hits Fever Parlophone Aphrodite Golden BMG Rights Management Step Back in Time: The Definitive Collection Disco Tension Tension II Kylie Christmas (Fully Wrapped) Parlophone Rod Stewart Every Picture Tells a Story Mercury Never a Dull Moment Philips Sing It Again Rod Mercury Smiler Atlantic Crossing Warner Bros. A Night on the Town Riva Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 Time Capitol Blood Red Roses Decca You're in My Heart: Rod Stewart with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Rhino Swing Fever Warner U2 War Island The Unforgettable Fire The Joshua Tree Rattle and Hum Zooropa Pop The Best of 1980–1990 All That You Can't Leave Behind How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb No Line on the Horizon Vertigo Songs of Surrender Island ABBA Greatest Hits Epic Arrival ABBA: The Album Voulez-Vous Greatest Hits Vol. 2 Super Trouper The Visitors The Singles: The First Ten Years Gold: Greatest Hits Polydor Voyage Universal Coldplay Parachutes Parlophone A Rush of Blood to the Head X&Y Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends Mylo Xyloto Ghost Stories A Head Full of Dreams Everyday Life Music of the Spheres Moon Music Michael Jackson Thriller Epic 18 Greatest Hits Telstar Bad Epic Dangerous HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix Invincible Number Ones The Essential Michael Jackson Xscape Elton John Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player DJM Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Caribou Greatest Hits Sleeping with the Past The Rocket Record Company The Very Best of Elton John PolyGram Good Morning to the Night Mercury The Lockdown Sessions EMI Diamonds The Rocket Record Company Who Believes in Angels? Interscope Queen A Night at the Opera EMI A Day at the Races The Game Greatest Hits A Kind of Magic The Miracle Parlophone Innuendo Greatest Hits II Made in Heaven Live Around the World EMI
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