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, digital downloads (since 2007) and streams (since 2015), and is currently published every Friday. As of the chart published on 2 October 2026, a total of 837 albums by 362 artists have topped the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart. The most successful artist are American pop punk band Green Day, who have topped the chart with 15 releases and spent a total of 76 weeks at number one.
Artists
The following artists have been credited on at least seven different number one albums, as recognised by the OCC. Appearances on compilation albums featuring various artists are not included. +KeyIndicates that the album reached number 1 on the UK Albums Chart ArtistNumber-onealbumsNumber-onestudio albumsTotal weeks atnumber oneAlbumsRecord label(s)First reachednumber oneWeeks atnumber oneRef.Green Day151176DookieReprise11Insomniac2Nimrod2Warning1International Superhits!1American Idiot 36Bullet in a Bible421st Century Breakdown 11Awesome as Fuck1¡Uno!1¡Dos!1Revolution Radio 1Father of All... 1BBC Sessions1Saviors2Iron Maiden14819Best of the BeastEMI1Virtual XI2Brave New World3Death on the Road1A Matter of Life and Death1Somewhere Back in Time2The Final Frontier 2The Book of Souls Parlophone1The Book of Souls: Live Chapter1The Number of the Beast Rhino1Iron Maiden1Nights of the DeadParlophone1Senjutsu1Live After DeathEMI1Metallica12827Load Vertigo2Garage Inc.5St. Anger1Death Magnetic 3Beyond Magnetic1Metallica 2Hardwired... to Self-DestructBlackened6Master of PuppetsVertigo1The $5.98 E.P. - Garage Days Re-RevisitedUMC/Virgin1...And Justice for AllUMC1S&M2Vertigo272 Seasons2Foo Fighters121084The Colour and the ShapeRoswell4One by One RCA3In Your Honor13Skin and Bones1Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace 8Greatest Hits22Wasting Light 16Sonic Highways1Concrete and Gold Columbia11Medicine at Midnight 2But Here We Are 3Your Favorite Toy2Led Zeppelin10435RemastersAtlantic7BBC Sessions2Mothership15Celebration Day5Led ZeppelinRhino1Led Zeppelin IV 1Physical Graffiti 1Presence 1The Complete BBC Sessions1How the West Was Won1Muse10760Origin of SymmetryMushroom4Hullabaloo Soundtrack1Absolution East West3Black Holes and Revelations Helium 3Warner Bros.15HAARP3The Resistance 16The 2nd Law 6Live at Rome Olympic Stadium3Drones 8The Wow! Signal 1Korn9910Follow the LeaderEpic2Issues1Untouchables1Untitled Korn albumVirgin1Korn III: Remember Who You AreRoadrunner1The Paradigm ShiftSpinefarm1The Serenity of SufferingRoadrunner1The Nothing1RequiemLoma Vista1The Darkness9829Permission to Land Must Destroy21One Way Ticket to Hell... and BackAtlantic1Hot CakesPIAS1Last of Our KindCanary Dwarf1Pinewood SmileCooking Vinyl1Live at Hammersmith1Easter Is Cancelled1Motorheart1Dreams on Toast1Blink-1828713Enema of the StateMCA3Take Off Your Pants and Jacket1Blink-182Geffen2Greatest Hits2NeighborhoodsIsland1California BMG2NineColumbia1One More Time...2Linkin Park8756Hybrid TheoryWarner Bros.21Meteora 6Minutes to Midnight 6A Thousand Suns8Living Things 4The Hunting Party2One More Light Live1From Zero 8Pink Floyd8548The Endless RiverRhino7The Early Years 1965–19721The Dark Side of the Moon32The Division Bell1Transmissions + 19691Animals1Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII Sony2Wish You Were Here Harvest4Architects888The Here and NowCentury Media1Daybreaker1Lost Forever // Lost TogetherEpitaph1All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us1Holy Hell1For Those That Wish to Exist 1The Classic Symptoms of a Broken Spirit1The Sky, the Earth & All Between1Slipknot7714Iowa Roadrunner2Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)2All Hope Is Gone2.5: The Gray Chapter2We Are Not Your Kind 3Slipknot2The End, So Far 1Black Stone Cherry768Folklore and SuperstitionRoadrunner1Between the Devil & the Deep Blue Sea1Magic Mountain2KentuckyMascot1Family Tree1Black to Blues Vol. 21The Human Condition1Trivium777AscendancyRoadrunner1The Crusade1Shogun1In Waves1The Sin and the Sentence1What the Dead Men Say1In the Court of the Dragon1Biffy Clyro7416Revolutions: Live at Wembley14th Floor Records1Opposites6Similarities1Ellipsis5Balance, Not Symmetry1The Myth of the Happily Ever After1FutiqueWarner1Aerosmith7310Nine Lives Columbia1A Little South of Sanity Geffen3Just Push Play Columbia1The Very Best Of Geffen/Columbia2Music from Another Dimension! Columbia1Greatest Hits Capitol1One More Time Island1Deep Purple75930: Very Best of Deep Purple EMI1In Concert with The London Symphony Orchestra Eagle1Now What?!EarMusic1Infinite2Whoosh!2Turning to Crime1Splat!1
See also List of artists by number of UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart number ones List of artists by number of UK Albums Chart number ones List of artists by number of UK Singles Chart number ones
References
External links Official UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company The Official UK Top 40 Rock Albums at BBC Radio 1