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 and streams. In 2018 to date, 20 albums have topped the 25 published charts. The first (and to date most successful) number one of the year was Concrete and Gold, the ninth studio album by American alternative rock band Foo Fighters, which spent the first three weeks of the year atop the chart.

Chart history

Issue dateAlbumArtist(s)Record label(s)Ref.4 JanuaryConcrete and GoldFoo FightersColumbia11 January18 January25 JanuaryValeBlack Veil BridesRepublic1 FebruaryManiaFall Out BoyDef Jam8 FebruaryCatharsisMachine HeadNuclear Blast15 FebruaryTechnologyDon BrocoSharpTone22 FebruaryNevermindNirvanaGeffen1 MarchA Deeper CutThe Temperance MovementEarache8 MarchDeadwingPorcupine TreeKscope15 MarchAll NerveThe Breeders4AD22 MarchFirepowerJudas PriestColumbia29 March5 AprilHow the West Was WonLed ZeppelinRhino12 AprilFirepowerJudas PriestColumbia19 AprilFind a LightBlackberry SmokeEarache26 AprilThe $5.98 E.P. - Garage Days Re-RevisitedMetallicaUMC/Virgin3 MayFamily TreeBlack Stone CherryMascot10 MayBig TingsSkindredNapalm17 MayAttention AttentionShinedownAtlantic24 MayDisobeyBad WolvesEleven Seven31 MayAnd Justice for NoneFive Finger Death Punch7 June14 JunePrequelleGhostSpinefarm21 JuneA Dying MachineTremontiNapalm28 JuneLive at HammersmithThe DarknessCooking Vinyl5 JulyBad WitchNine Inch NailsNull Corporation12 July Appetite for Destruction Guns N' Roses Polydor19 July26 JulyDareThe HunnaNull Corporation2 AugustAppetite for DestructionGuns N' RosesPolydor9 August Vicious Halestorm Atlantic16 August23 AugustFull NelsonMassive WagonsEarache30 AugustSmote reverserOh SeesCastleface6 SeptemberRainier FogAlice in ChainsBMG13 SeptemberDissolutionThe Pineapple ThiefKscope20 SeptemberBook of Bad DecisionsClutchWeather Maker27 SeptemberGeneration RxGood CharlotteBMG4 October Living the Dream Slash featuring Myles Kennedy & the Conspirators Roadrunner11 October18 OctoberVaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly CreaturesCoheed & Cambria25 OctoberLiving the DreamSlash featuring Myles Kennedy & the Conspirators1 NovemberEvolutionDisturbedReprise8 NovemberAnthem of the Peaceful ArmyGreta Van FleetEMI15 November...And Justice For AllMetallicaUMC22 NovemberHoly HellArchitectsEpitaph29 NovemberThe Number of the BeastIron MaidenRhino6 DecemberClutching at StrawsMarillionParlophone13 DecemberNevermindNirvanaGeffen20 December The Dark Side of the MoonPink Floyd Rhino27 December

See also List of UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart number ones of 2018

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