Dua Lipa 's second studio album Future Nostalgia 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.[ 1] digital downloads .[ 2] [ 3] 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 Bring Me the Horizon was released in 2020, but did not reach its peak until 2021. Fine Line Harry Styles debuted in 2019 and re-entered the top 10 in 2020, but its peak position was not until 2021. Christmas Michael Bublé Heavy is the Head 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. [ 4] 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 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.
Notes Louis Tomlinson of the group One Direction reached the top 10 with his debut solo album this year, Walls
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 BPI . Fine Line Harry Styles came in second place. Dua Lipa 's Future Nostalgia When We Fall Asleep Where Do We Go Billie Eilish and Stormzy 's Heavy Is the Head 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
Symbol
Meaning
‡
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 rank
Entered
The date that the album first appeared in the chart.
Peak
Highest position that the song reached in the UK Albums Chart.
Entered
Weeks
Album
Artist
Peak
Peak
Weeks
Albums in 2019
14 March 2019
14
What a Time to Be Alive Tom Walker
1
14 March 2019
1
11 April 2019
50
When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (#4)
Billie Eilish
1
11 April 2019
3
30 May 2019
85
Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent (#1)
Lewis Capaldi
1
30 May 2019
10
25 July 2019
48
No.6 Collaborations Project (#7)
Ed Sheeran
1
25 July 2019
5
19 September 2019
13
Hollywood's Bleeding Post Malone
1
19 September 2019
1
14 November 2019
2
Kiwanuka Michael Kiwanuka
2
14 November 2019
1
21 November 2019
9
Back Together Michael Ball & Alfie Boe
2
21 November 2019
1
5 December 2019
7
Everyday Life Coldplay
1
5 December 2019
1
5
The Christmas Present Robbie Williams
1
12 December 2019
1
8
You're in My Heart: Rod Stewart with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Rod Stewart with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
1
19 December 2019
3
12 December 2019
9
Christmas Michael Bublé
1
7 January 2021
1
26 December 2019
15
Heavy Is the Head (#5)
Stormzy
1
16 January 2020
1
57
Fine Line (#2)
Harry Styles
2
14 January 2021
1
Albums in 2020
9 January 2020
1
Street Trauma D-Block Europe
9
9 January 2020
1
23 January 2020
1
Rare Selena Gomez
2
23 January 2020
1
1
Junk Food
Easy Life
7
23 January 2020
1
1
Elgar
Sheku Kanneh-Mason
8
23 January 2020
1
30 January 2020
11
Music to Be Murdered By Eminem
1
30 January 2020
1
1
More. Again. Forever.
The Courteeners
2
30 January 2020
1
1
Everything Else Has Gone Wrong Bombay Bicycle Club
4
30 January 2020
1
1
Manic Halsey
6
30 January 2020
1
1
Circles Mac Miller
8
30 January 2020
1
6 February 2020
4
Big Conspiracy J Hus
1
6 February 2020
1
1
Hotspot Pet Shop Boys
3
6 February 2020
1
3
Huncholini the 1st M Huncho
5
6 February 2020
1
1
All the Hits
The Dave Clark Five
10
6 February 2020
1
13 February 2020
1
Foolish Loving Spaces Blossoms
1
13 February 2020
1
1
Walls Louis Tomlinson
4
13 February 2020
1
20 February 2020
1
Father of All... Green Day
1
20 February 2020
1
1
No One Else Can Wear Your Crown Oh Wonder
8
20 February 2020
1
27 February 2020
3
Changes Justin Bieber
1
27 February 2020
1
1
The Slow Rush Tame Impala
3
27 February 2020
1
1
New Hope Club New Hope Club
5
27 February 2020
1
5 March 2020
2
Map of the Soul: 7 BTS
1
5 March 2020
1
1
Ordinary Man Ozzy Osbourne
3
5 March 2020
1
1
Miss Anthropocene Grimes
10
5 March 2020
1
12 March 2020
1
My Turn Lil Baby
6
12 March 2020
1
1
F8 Five Finger Death Punch
7
12 March 2020
1
19 March 2020
2
Manchester Calling Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott
1
19 March 2020
1
2
Eternal Atake Lil Uzi Vert
3
19 March 2020
1
1
City of Love Deacon Blue
4
19 March 2020
1
1
How I'm Feeling Lauv
9
19 March 2020
1
26 March 2020
1
Heartbreak Weather Niall Horan
1
26 March 2020
1
1
Good Years
The Shires
3
26 March 2020
1
1
Sad Happy Circa Waves
4
26 March 2020
1
1
Stranger in Paradise – The Lost New York
Matt Monro
8
26 March 2020
1
2 April 2020
7
After Hours The Weeknd
1
2 April 2020
1
1
I Am Not a Dog on a Chain Morrissey
3
2 April 2020
1
1
All the Hits & All New Love Songs
Kenny Rogers
6
2 April 2020
1
1
The Joy of the Return
The Slow Readers Club
9
2 April 2020
1
1
Is It Any Wonder? (EP) David Bowie
10
2 April 2020
1
9 April 2020
1
Calm 5 Seconds of Summer
1
9 April 2020
1
51
Future Nostalgia (#3)
Dua Lipa
1
16 April 2020
4
2
Insomnia Skepta , Chip & Young Adz
3
9 April 2020
1
1
Gigaton Pearl Jam
6
9 April 2020
1
1
Partymobile PartyNextDoor
7
9 April 2020
1
13
Diamonds (#9)
Elton John
7
25 June 2020
1
16 April 2020
3
Greatest Hits (#8)
Queen
7
16 April 2020
1
1
The Ultimate Collection
Bill Withers
10
16 April 2020
1
23 April 2020
2
The New Abnormal The Strokes
3
23 April 2020
1
1
The New Toronto 3 Tory Lanez
4
23 April 2020
1
30 April 2020
3
The Bonny Gerry Cinnamon
1
30 April 2020
1
1
Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible Enter Shikari
2
30 April 2020
1
1
Blame It on Baby DaBaby
8
30 April 2020
1
7 May 2020
1
What Kinda Music
Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes
4
7 May 2020
1
14 May 2020
3
Dark Lane Demo Tapes Drake
1
14 May 2020
1
21 May 2020
1
Petals for Armor Hayley Williams
4
21 May 2020
1
1
I'll Remember You
The D-Day Darlings
5
21 May 2020
1
1
It Was Good Until It Wasn't Kehlani
10
21 May 2020
1
28 May 2020
1
High Off Life Future
5
28 May 2020
1
1
The Goat Polo G
6
28 May 2020
1
1
All That Glue Sleaford Mods
10
28 May 2020
1
4 June 2020
2
Notes on a Conditional Form The 1975
1
4 June 2020
1
4
Dissimulation KSI
2
4 June 2020
2
1
Wunna Gunna
5
4 June 2020
1
1
D-2 Agust D
7
4 June 2020
1
11 June 2020
7
Chromatica Lady Gaga
1
11 June 2020
2
1
Golden Hour Kygo
6
11 June 2020
1
1
Polaris (EP)
Aitch
7
11 June 2020
1
7
50 Years – Don't Stop (#10)
Fleetwood Mac
9
25 June 2020
3
18 June 2020
1
Deep Down Happy Sports Team
2
18 June 2020
1
1
Wake Up, Sunshine All Time Low
3
18 June 2020
1
25 June 2020
2
MTV Unplugged (Live at Hull City Hall) Liam Gallagher
1
25 June 2020
1
1
Love, Death & Dancing Jack Garratt
8
25 June 2020
1
2 July 2020
4
Rough and Rowdy Ways Bob Dylan
1
2 July 2020
1
1
Homegrown Neil Young
2
2 July 2020
1
1
Punisher Phoebe Bridgers
6
2 July 2020
1
3
Legend Bob Marley and the Wailers
9
6 August 2020
1
9 July 2020
1
Women in Music Pt. III Haim
1
9 July 2020
1
3
What's Your Pleasure? Jessie Ware
3
9 July 2020
1
1
Mordechai Khruangbin
7
9 July 2020
1
16 July 2020
2
On Sunset Paul Weller
1
16 July 2020
1
34
Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon (#6)
Pop Smoke
1
1 October 2020
1
1
Cinema Paradiso
Katherine Jenkins
3
16 July 2020
1
1
A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip Sparks
7
16 July 2020
1
1
Cannibal Bury Tomorrow
10
16 July 2020
1
23 July 2020
13
Legends Never Die Juice Wrld
1
23 July 2020
1
1
None of Us Are Getting Out of This Life Alive The Streets
2
23 July 2020
1
1
The Glow DMA's
4
23 July 2020
1
1
Song for Our Daughter Laura Marling
6
23 July 2020
1
30 July 2020
1
Brightest Blue Ellie Goulding
1
30 July 2020
1
1
Gaslighter The Chicks
5
30 July 2020
1
1
Closer Joy Division
6
30 July 2020
1
1
Lianne La Havas Lianne La Havas
7
30 July 2020
1
1
House of Noise
Massive Wagons
9
30 July 2020
1
6 August 2020
10
Folklore Taylor Swift
1
6 August 2020
3
2
Twenty Twenty Ronan Keating
2
6 August 2020
1
1
All Distortions Are Intentional Neck Deep
4
6 August 2020
1
13 August 2020
1
A Hero's Death Fontaines D.C.
2
13 August 2020
1
1
Sex, Death & the Infinite Void Creeper
5
13 August 2020
1
1
Such Pretty Forks in the Road Alanis Morissette
8
13 August 2020
1
20 August 2020
1
Dreamland Glass Animals
2
20 August 2020
1
1
Whoosh! Deep Purple
4
20 August 2020
1
27 August 2020
2
A Celebration of Endings Biffy Clyro
1
27 August 2020
1
1
Open Up Your Head Sea Girls
3
27 August 2020
1
1
Even in Exile James Dean Bradfield
6
27 August 2020
1
1
Peace Levellers
8
27 August 2020
1
3 September 2020
2
Imploding the Mirage The Killers
1
3 September 2020
1
1
Neon Erasure
4
3 September 2020
1
1
We Get By
Jamie Webster
6
3 September 2020
1
10 September 2020
3
Crabs in a Bucket Nines
1
10 September 2020
1
1
S&M2 Metallica & the San Francisco Symphony
2
10 September 2020
1
2
All Rise
Gregory Porter
3
10 September 2020
1
1
Energy Disclosure
4
10 September 2020
1
1
Smile Katy Perry
5
10 September 2020
1
17 September 2020
1
Goats Head Soup The Rolling Stones
1
17 September 2020
1
1
Zeros Declan McKenna
2
17 September 2020
1
24 September 2020
1
The Universal Want Doves
1
24 September 2020
1
1
Re-Animator Everything Everything
5
24 September 2020
1
1
We Are Chaos Marilyn Manson
7
24 September 2020
1
1 October 2020
1
Heaven & Hell Ava Max
2
1 October 2020
1
1
Training Day 3
Potter Payper
3
1 October 2020
1
1
Tea for the Tillerman² Cat Stevens
4
1 October 2020
1
1
Live at the Roundhouse
Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets
5
1 October 2020
1
1
RTJ4 Run the Jewels
9
1 October 2020
1
8 October 2020
1
Ultra Mono Idles
1
8 October 2020
1
1
Tickets to My Downfall Machine Gun Kelly
3
8 October 2020
1
1
Ohms Deftones
5
8 October 2020
1
1
Nectar Joji
6
8 October 2020
1
1
Sign o' the Times Prince
7
8 October 2020
1
1
Cum on Feel the Hitz – The Best of
Slade
8
8 October 2020
1
15 October 2020
2
Live Around the World Queen + Adam Lambert
1
15 October 2020
1
1
The Album Blackpink
2
15 October 2020
1
1
(What's the Story) Morning Glory? Oasis
3
15 October 2020
1
2
Songs from My Heart Amanda Holden
4
15 October 2020
1
1
2020 Bon Jovi
5
15 October 2020
1
1
Melanie C Melanie C
8
15 October 2020
1
1
Us + Them Roger Waters
9
15 October 2020
1
1
Savage Mode II 21 Savage & Metro Boomin
10
15 October 2020
1
22 October 2020
2
Edna Headie One
1
22 October 2020
1
2
The Blue Print: Us vs. Them D-Block Europe
2
22 October 2020
1
1
Gimme Some Truth. The Ultimate Mixes John Lennon
3
22 October 2020
1
1
10 Songs Travis
5
22 October 2020
1
1
The Studio Albums 1978-1991
Dire Straits
9
22 October 2020
1
29 October 2020
1
Cherry Blossom The Vamps
1
29 October 2020
1
1
Daniel Daniel O'Donnell
3
29 October 2020
1
1
Album No. 8 Katie Melua
7
29 October 2020
1
1
Fake It Flowers Beabadoobee
8
29 October 2020
1
5 November 2020
3
Letter to You Bruce Springsteen
1
5 November 2020
1
1
Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez Gorillaz
2
5 November 2020
1
1
Moral Panic Nothing but Thieves
3
5 November 2020
1
1
In Isolation/Live from the Plaza Theatre, Stockport
Blossoms
5
5 November 2020
1
1
All Blessed Faithless
6
5 November 2020
1
1
Royal Tea
Joe Bonamassa
7
5 November 2020
1
1
20
Russell Watson
10
5 November 2020
1
12 November 2020
5
Positions Ariana Grande
1
12 November 2020
1
4
Love Goes Sam Smith
2
12 November 2020
1
2
Music... The Air That I Breathe Cliff Richard
3
12 November 2020
1
2
Post Human: Survival Horror Bring Me the Horizon
1
4 February 2021
1
1
DNA
M Huncho & Nafe Smallz
6
12 November 2020
1
1
Long Hot Summers – The Story of The Style Council
The Style Council
8
12 November 2020
1
1
The Human Demands Amy Macdonald
10
12 November 2020
1
19 November 2020
5
Disco Kylie Minogue
1
19 November 2020
1
11
Confetti Little Mix
2
19 November 2020
1
1
I Owe It All to You Shirley Bassey
5
19 November 2020
1
1
Dutch from the 5th
Dutchavelli
8
19 November 2020
1
26 November 2020
5
Power Up AC/DC
1
26 November 2020
1
1
Young Dumb Thrills McFly
2
26 November 2020
1
5
Believe Andrea Bocelli
3
26 November 2020
1
1
Infinite Things Paloma Faith
4
26 November 2020
1
5
Jolly Holiday
Andre Rieu & the Johann Strauss Orchestra
4
24 December 2020
1
1
Songs from the Kitchen Disco Sophie Ellis-Bextor
8
26 November 2020
1
3
Johnny Cash and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Johnny Cash & the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
8
24 December 2020
1
3 December 2020
5
Together at Christmas Michael Ball & Alfie Boe
1
3 December 2020
1
1
Be BTS
2
3 December 2020
1
5
Classic Diamonds
Neil Diamond & the London Symphony Orchestra
2
24 December 2020
1
1
Nights of the Dead – Legacy of the Beast
Iron Maiden
7
3 December 2020
1
10 December 2020
4
Music Played by Humans Gary Barlow
1
10 December 2020
1
1
What the Future Holds Steps
2
10 December 2020
1
1
Plastic Hearts Miley Cyrus
4
10 December 2020
1
1
Singled Out Shakin' Stevens
10
10 December 2020
1
17 December 2020
2
Weird! Yungblud
1
17 December 2020
1
1
Live at the Royal Albert Hall Arctic Monkeys
3
17 December 2020
1
1
Don't Let the Devil Take Another Day
Kelly Jones
8
17 December 2020
1
24 December 2020
9
Evermore Taylor Swift
1
24 December 2020
2
31 December 2020
1
McCartney III Paul McCartney
1
31 December 2020
1
Entries by artist
Irish singer-songwriter and former One Direction member Niall Horan reached number-one in the UK Albums Chart in March of this year with his second studio album Heartbreak Weather 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.
Entries
Artist
Weeks
Albums
2
BTS
3
Map of the Soul: 7 Be
Taylor Swift
12
Folklore Evermore
Alfie Boe
8
Back Together Together at Christmas
Blossoms
3
Foolish Loving Spaces In Isolation/Live from the Plaza Theatre, Stockport
D-Block Europe
3
Street Trauma The Blue Print: Us vs. Them
Liam Gallagher
3
MTV Unplugged (Live at Hull City Hall) (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
Michael Ball
8
Back Together Together at Christmas
Queen
5
Greatest Hits Live Around the World
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
7
You're in My Heart: Rod Stewart with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Johnny Cash with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
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