The UK Albums Chart is one of many music charts compiled by the Official Charts Company that calculates the best-selling albums of the week in the United Kingdom. Since 2004 the chart has been based on the sales of both physical albums and digital downloads. Since 2015, the album chart has been based on both sales and streaming. This list shows albums that peaked in the top ten of the UK Albums Chart during 2020, as well as albums which peaked in 2019 and 2021 but were in the top 10 in 2020. The entry date is when the album appeared in the top 10 for the first time (week ending, as published by the Official Charts Company, which is six days after the chart is announced).
One-hundred and ninety-eight albums were in the top ten this year. Thirteen albums from 2019 remained in the top ten for several weeks at the beginning of the year, while Post Human: Survival Horror by Bring Me the Horizon was released in 2020, but did not reach its peak until 2021. Fine Line by Harry Styles debuted in 2019 and re-entered the top 10 in 2020, but its peak position was not until 2021. Christmas by Michael Bublé was originally released in 2011, launched a new chart run in 2019, reaching a peak on its latest run in 2020 and again in 2021, when it returned to number-one. Heavy is the Head by Stormzy was the only album from 2019 to reach its peak in 2020. Little Mix scored the fastest-selling album of 2020 by a British act with Confetti. Thirteen albums from 2019 remained in the top ten for several weeks at the beginning of the year. Lil Uzi Vert was among the many artists who achieved their first top 10 album in 2020.
The first new number-one album of the year was Heavy Is the Head by Stormzy. Overall, forty-one different albums peaked at number-one so in 2020, with Taylor Swift (2) having the most albums hit that position.
Background Chart debuts The following table (collapsed on desktop site) does not include acts who had previously charted as part of a group and secured their first top-ten solo album, or featured appearances on compilations or other artists recordings.
Artist Number of top 10s First entry Chart position Other entriesSelena Gomez1Rare2—Easy Life1Junk Food7—Sheku Kanneh-Mason1Elgar8—Mac Miller1Circles8—M Huncho2Huncholini the 1st5DNA (6)New Hope Club1New Hope Club5—Grimes1Miss Anthropocene10—Lil Baby1My Turn6—Lil Uzi Vert1Eternal Atake3—Lauv1How I'm Feeling9—The Slow Readers Club1The Joy of the Return9—PartyNextDoor1Partymobile7—Gerry Cinnamon1The Bonny1—DaBaby1Blame It on Baby8—Yussef Dayes1What Kinda Music4—The D-Day Darlings1I'll Remember You5—Kehlani1It Was Good Until It Wasn't10—Polo G1The Goat6—KSI1Dissimulation2—Gunna1Wunna5—Sports Team1Deep Down Happy2—Phoebe Bridgers1Punisher6—Khruangbin1Mordechai7—Pop Smoke1Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon1—Bury Tomorrow1Cannibal10—Juice Wrld1Legends Never Die1—DMA's1The Glow4—Massive Wagons1House of Noise9—Creeper1Sex, Death & the Infinite Void5—Glass Animals1Dreamland2—Sea Girls1Open Up Your Head3—Jamie Webster1We Get By6—San Francisco Symphony1S&M22—Declan McKenna1Zeros2—Ava Max1Heaven & Hell2—Potter Payper1Training Day 33—Run the Jewels1RTJ49—Machine Gun Kelly1Tickets to My Downfall3—Joji1Nectar6—Blackpink1The Album2—Amanda Holden1Songs from My Heart4—21 Savage1Savage Mode II10—Metro Boomin1—Beabadoobee1Fake It Flowers8—Nafe Smallz1DNA6—Dutchavelli1Dutch from the 5th8—
Notes
Louis Tomlinson of the group One Direction reached the top 10 with his debut solo album this year, Walls. This added to his haul of five top 10 albums with One Direction to date, including four which had topped the chart.
Best-selling albums For the second year in a row, Lewis Capaldi had the best-selling album of the year with Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent. The album has now sold over 900,000 copies in the UK alone and has been certified 3× platinum by the BPI. Fine Line by Harry Styles came in second place. Dua Lipa's Future Nostalgia, When We Fall Asleep Where Do We Go by Billie Eilish and Stormzy's Heavy Is the Head made up the top five. Albums by Pop Smoke, Ed Sheeran, Queen, Elton John and Fleetwood Mac were also in the top ten best-selling albums of the year.
Top-ten albums Key SymbolMeaning‡Album peaked in 2019 but still in chart in 2020.♦Album released in 2019 or 2020 but peaked in 2021.(#)Year-end top ten album position and rankEnteredThe date that the album first appeared in the chart.PeakHighest position that the song reached in the UK Albums Chart.
Entered (week ending)Weeksintop10 Album ArtistPeak Peakreached (week ending)WeeksatpeakAlbums in 2019 14What a Time to Be Alive ‡Tom Walker 1 1 50When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? ‡ (#4)Billie Eilish 1 3 85Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent ‡ (#1)Lewis Capaldi 1 10 48No.6 Collaborations Project ‡ (#7)Ed Sheeran 1 5 13Hollywood's Bleeding ‡Post Malone 1 1 2Kiwanuka ‡Michael Kiwanuka 2 1 9Back Together ‡Michael Ball & Alfie Boe 2 1 7Everyday Life ‡Coldplay 1 1 5The Christmas Present ‡Robbie Williams 1 1 8You're in My Heart: Rod Stewart with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ‡ Rod Stewart with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 1 3 9Christmas ♦Michael Bublé 1 1 15Heavy Is the Head (#5)Stormzy 1 1 57Fine Line ♦ (#2)Harry Styles 2 1Albums in 2020 1Street TraumaD-Block Europe 9 1 1RareSelena Gomez 2 1 1Junk FoodEasy Life 7 1 1ElgarSheku Kanneh-Mason 8 1 11Music to Be Murdered ByEminem 1 1 1More. Again. Forever.The Courteeners 2 1 1Everything Else Has Gone WrongBombay Bicycle Club 4 1 1ManicHalsey 6 1 1CirclesMac Miller 8 1 4Big ConspiracyJ Hus 1 1 1HotspotPet Shop Boys 3 1 3Huncholini the 1stM Huncho 5 1 1All the HitsThe Dave Clark Five 10 1 1Foolish Loving SpacesBlossoms 1 1 1WallsLouis Tomlinson 4 1 1Father of All...Green Day 1 1 1No One Else Can Wear Your CrownOh Wonder 8 1 3ChangesJustin Bieber 1 1 1The Slow RushTame Impala 3 1 1New Hope ClubNew Hope Club 5 1 2Map of the Soul: 7BTS 1 1 1Ordinary ManOzzy Osbourne 3 1 1Miss AnthropoceneGrimes 10 1 1My TurnLil Baby 6 1 1F8Five Finger Death Punch 7 1 2Manchester CallingPaul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott 1 1 2Eternal AtakeLil Uzi Vert 3 1 1City of LoveDeacon Blue 4 1 1How I'm FeelingLauv 9 1 1Heartbreak WeatherNiall Horan 1 1 1Good YearsThe Shires 3 1 1Sad HappyCirca Waves 4 1 1Stranger in Paradise – The Lost New YorkMatt Monro 8 1 7After HoursThe Weeknd 1 1 1I Am Not a Dog on a ChainMorrissey 3 1 1All the Hits & All New Love SongsKenny Rogers 6 1 1The Joy of the ReturnThe Slow Readers Club 9 1 1Is It Any Wonder? (EP)David Bowie 10 1 1Calm5 Seconds of Summer 1 1 51Future Nostalgia (#3)Dua Lipa 1 4 2InsomniaSkepta, Chip & Young Adz 3 1 1GigatonPearl Jam 6 1 1PartymobilePartyNextDoor 7 1 13Diamonds (#9)Elton John 7 1 3Greatest Hits (#8)Queen 7 1 1The Ultimate CollectionBill Withers 10 1 2The New AbnormalThe Strokes 3 1 1The New Toronto 3Tory Lanez 4 1 3The BonnyGerry Cinnamon 1 1 1Nothing Is True & Everything Is PossibleEnter Shikari 2 1 1Blame It on BabyDaBaby 8 1 1What Kinda MusicTom Misch & Yussef Dayes 4 1 3Dark Lane Demo TapesDrake 1 1 1Petals for ArmorHayley Williams 4 1 1I'll Remember YouThe D-Day Darlings 5 1 1It Was Good Until It Wasn'tKehlani 10 1 1High Off LifeFuture 5 1 1The GoatPolo G 6 1 1All That GlueSleaford Mods 10 1 2Notes on a Conditional FormThe 1975 1 1 4DissimulationKSI 2 2 1WunnaGunna 5 1 1D-2Agust D 7 1 7ChromaticaLady Gaga 1 2 1Golden HourKygo 6 1 1Polaris (EP)Aitch 7 1 750 Years – Don't Stop (#10)Fleetwood Mac 9 3 1Deep Down HappySports Team 2 1 1Wake Up, SunshineAll Time Low 3 1 2MTV Unplugged (Live at Hull City Hall)Liam Gallagher 1 1 1Love, Death & DancingJack Garratt 8 1 4Rough and Rowdy WaysBob Dylan 1 1 1HomegrownNeil Young 2 1 1PunisherPhoebe Bridgers 6 1 3LegendBob Marley and the Wailers 9 1 1Women in Music Pt. IIIHaim 1 1 3What's Your Pleasure?Jessie Ware 3 1 1MordechaiKhruangbin 7 1 2On SunsetPaul Weller 1 1 34Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon (#6)Pop Smoke 1 1 1Cinema ParadisoKatherine Jenkins 3 1 1A Steady Drip, Drip, DripSparks 7 1 1CannibalBury Tomorrow 10 1 13Legends Never DieJuice Wrld 1 1 1None of Us Are Getting Out of This Life AliveThe Streets 2 1 1The GlowDMA's 4 1 1Song for Our DaughterLaura Marling 6 1 1Brightest BlueEllie Goulding 1 1 1GaslighterThe Chicks 5 1 1CloserJoy Division 6 1 1Lianne La HavasLianne La Havas 7 1 1House of NoiseMassive Wagons 9 1 10FolkloreTaylor Swift 1 3 2Twenty TwentyRonan Keating 2 1 1All Distortions Are IntentionalNeck Deep 4 1 1A Hero's DeathFontaines D.C. 2 1 1Sex, Death & the Infinite VoidCreeper 5 1 1Such Pretty Forks in the RoadAlanis Morissette 8 1 1DreamlandGlass Animals 2 1 1Whoosh!Deep Purple 4 1 2A Celebration of EndingsBiffy Clyro 1 1 1Open Up Your HeadSea Girls 3 1 1Even in ExileJames Dean Bradfield 6 1 1PeaceLevellers 8 1 2Imploding the MirageThe Killers 1 1 1NeonErasure 4 1 1We Get ByJamie Webster 6 1 3Crabs in a BucketNines 1 1 1S&M2Metallica & the San Francisco Symphony 2 1 2All RiseGregory Porter 3 1 1EnergyDisclosure 4 1 1SmileKaty Perry 5 1 1Goats Head SoupThe Rolling Stones 1 1 1ZerosDeclan McKenna 2 1 1The Universal WantDoves 1 1 1Re-AnimatorEverything Everything 5 1 1We Are ChaosMarilyn Manson 7 1 1Heaven & HellAva Max 2 1 1Training Day 3Potter Payper 3 1 1Tea for the Tillerman²Cat Stevens 4 1 1Live at the RoundhouseNick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets 5 1 1RTJ4Run the Jewels 9 1 1Ultra MonoIdles 1 1 1Tickets to My DownfallMachine Gun Kelly 3 1 1OhmsDeftones 5 1 1NectarJoji 6 1 1Sign o' the TimesPrince 7 1 1Cum on Feel the Hitz – The Best ofSlade 8 1 2Live Around the WorldQueen + Adam Lambert 1 1 1The AlbumBlackpink 2 1 1(What's the Story) Morning Glory?Oasis 3 1 2Songs from My HeartAmanda Holden 4 1 12020Bon Jovi 5 1 1Melanie CMelanie C 8 1 1Us + ThemRoger Waters 9 1 1Savage Mode II21 Savage & Metro Boomin 10 1 2EdnaHeadie One 1 1 2The Blue Print: Us vs. ThemD-Block Europe 2 1 1Gimme Some Truth. The Ultimate MixesJohn Lennon 3 1 110 SongsTravis 5 1 1The Studio Albums 1978-1991Dire Straits 9 1 1Cherry BlossomThe Vamps 1 1 1DanielDaniel O'Donnell 3 1 1Album No. 8Katie Melua 7 1 1Fake It FlowersBeabadoobee 8 1 3Letter to YouBruce Springsteen 1 1 1Song Machine, Season One: Strange TimezGorillaz 2 1 1Moral PanicNothing but Thieves 3 1 1In Isolation/Live from the Plaza Theatre, StockportBlossoms 5 1 1All BlessedFaithless 6 1 1Royal TeaJoe Bonamassa 7 1 120Russell Watson 10 1 5PositionsAriana Grande 1 1 4Love GoesSam Smith 2 1 2Music... The Air That I BreatheCliff Richard 3 1 2Post Human: Survival Horror ♦Bring Me the Horizon 1 1 1DNAM Huncho & Nafe Smallz 6 1 1Long Hot Summers – The Story of The Style CouncilThe Style Council 8 1 1The Human DemandsAmy Macdonald 10 1 5DiscoKylie Minogue 1 1 11ConfettiLittle Mix 2 1 1I Owe It All to YouShirley Bassey 5 1 1Dutch from the 5thDutchavelli 8 1 5Power UpAC/DC 1 1 1Young Dumb ThrillsMcFly 2 1 5BelieveAndrea Bocelli 3 1 1Infinite ThingsPaloma Faith 4 1 5Jolly HolidayAndre Rieu & the Johann Strauss Orchestra 4 1 1Songs from the Kitchen DiscoSophie Ellis-Bextor 8 1 3Johnny Cash and the Royal Philharmonic OrchestraJohnny Cash & the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 8 1 5Together at ChristmasMichael Ball & Alfie Boe 1 1 1BeBTS 2 1 5Classic DiamondsNeil Diamond & the London Symphony Orchestra 2 1 1Nights of the Dead – Legacy of the BeastIron Maiden 7 1 4Music Played by HumansGary Barlow 1 1 1What the Future HoldsSteps 2 1 1Plastic HeartsMiley Cyrus 4 1 1Singled OutShakin' Stevens 10 1 2Weird!Yungblud 1 1 1Live at the Royal Albert HallArctic Monkeys 3 1 1Don't Let the Devil Take Another DayKelly Jones 8 1 9EvermoreTaylor Swift 1 2 1McCartney IIIPaul McCartney 1 1
Entries by artist
The following table shows artists who have achieved two or more top 10 entries in 2020, including albums that reached their peak in 2019. The figures only include main artists, with featured artists and appearances on compilation albums not counted individually for each artist. The total number of weeks an artist spent in the top ten in 2020 is also shown.