List of artists by number of UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number ones
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.[1] The chart was first published on 9 October 1994, when American thrash metal band Slayer was number one with its sixth studio album Divine Intervention.[2] The current UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number one is The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd.[3]
As of the chart published for the week ending 5 September 2019, a total of 534 albums have topped the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart. 11 artists have topped the chart with six or more different albums. The most successful is American pop punk band Green Day, who have reached number one with twelve different albums and spent 72 weeks atop the chart. Three artists have topped the chart with ten different releases: Led Zeppelin for 35 weeks, Metallica for 21 weeks and Iron Maiden for 15 weeks. Two artists have topped the chart with nine releases each: Foo Fighters for 78 weeks and Muse for 58 weeks.
Artists
The following artists have been credited on at least six different number one albums, as recognised by the OCC. Appearances on compilation albums featuring various artists are not included.
Indicates that the album reached number 1 on the UK Albums Chart |
Artist | Number-one albums |
Number-one studio albums |
Total weeks at number one |
Albums | Record label(s) | First reached number one |
Weeks at number one |
Ref. |
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Green Day | 13 | 10 | 73 | Dookie | Reprise | 18 February 1995 | 11 | [4] |
Insomniac | 21 October 1995 | 2 | [5] | |||||
Nimrod | 25 October 1997 | 2 | [6] | |||||
Warning | 14 October 2000 | 1 | [7] | |||||
International Superhits! | 24 November 2001 | 1 | [8] | |||||
American Idiot |
2 October 2004 | 36 | [9] | |||||
Bullet in a Bible | 26 November 2005 | 4 | [10] | |||||
21st Century Breakdown |
23 May 2009 | 11 | [11] | |||||
Awesome as Fuck | 2 April 2011 | 1 | [12] | |||||
¡Uno! | 6 October 2012 | 1 | [13] | |||||
¡Dos! | 24 November 2012 | 1 | [14] | |||||
Revolution Radio |
20 October 2016 | 1 | [15] | |||||
Father of All... |
14 February 2020 | 1 | [16] | |||||
Led Zeppelin | 10 | 4 | 35 | Remasters | Atlantic | 6 September 1997 | 7 | [17] |
BBC Sessions | 29 November 1997 | 2 | [18] | |||||
Mothership | 24 November 2007 | 15 | [19] | |||||
Celebration Day | 1 December 2012 | 5 | [20] | |||||
Led Zeppelin (reissue) | Rhino | 14 June 2014 | 1 | [21] | ||||
Led Zeppelin IV (reissue) |
8 November 2014 | 1 | [22] | |||||
Physical Graffiti (reissue) |
7 March 2015 | 1 | [23] | |||||
Presence (reissue) |
13 August 2015 | 1 | [24] | |||||
The Complete BBC Sessions | 29 September 2016 | 1 | [25] | |||||
How the West Was Won | 5 April 2018 | 1 | [26] | |||||
Metallica | 10 | 7 | 21 | Load |
Vertigo | 15 June 1996 | 1 | [27] |
Garage Inc. | 5 December 1998 | 5 | [28] | |||||
St. Anger | 14 June 2003 | 1 | [29] | |||||
Death Magnetic |
20 September 2008 | 3 | [30] | |||||
Beyond Magnetic | 11 February 2012 | 1 | [31] | |||||
Metallica |
12 July 2014 | 1 | [32] | |||||
Hardwired... to Self-Destruct | Blackened | 1 December 2016 | 6 | [33] | ||||
Master of Puppets | Vertigo | 23 November 2017 | 1 | [34] | ||||
The $5.98 E.P. - Garage Days Re-Revisited | UMC/Virgin | 26 April 2018 | 1 | [35] | ||||
...And Justice for All | UMC | 15 November 2018 | 1 | [36] | ||||
Iron Maiden | 10 | 6 | 15 | Best of the Beast | EMI | 5 October 1996 | 1 | [37] |
Virtual XI | 4 April 1998 | 2 | [38] | |||||
Brave New World | 10 June 2000 | 3 | [39] | |||||
Death on the Road | 10 September 2005 | 1 | [40] | |||||
A Matter of Life and Death | 9 September 2006 | 1 | [41] | |||||
Somewhere Back in Time | 24 May 2008 | 2 | [42] | |||||
The Final Frontier |
28 August 2010 | 2 | [43] | |||||
The Book of Souls |
Parlophone | 17 September 2015 | 1 | [44] | ||||
The Book of Souls: Live Chapter | Parlophone | 30 November 2017 | 1 | [45] | ||||
The Number of the Beast | Rhino | 29 November 2018 | 1 | [46] | ||||
Foo Fighters | 9 | 7 | 78 | The Colour and the Shape | Roswell | 24 May 1997 | 4 | [47] |
One by One |
RCA | 2 November 2002 | 3 | [48] | ||||
In Your Honor | 25 June 2005 | 13 | [49] | |||||
Skin and Bones | 2 December 2006 | 1 | [50] | |||||
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace |
6 October 2007 | 8 | [51] | |||||
Greatest Hits | 14 November 2009 | 21 | [52] | |||||
Wasting Light |
23 April 2011 | 16 | [53] | |||||
Sonic Highways | 10 January 2015 | 1 | [54] | |||||
Concrete and Gold |
Columbia | 28 September 2017 | 11 | [55] | ||||
Muse | 9 | 6 | 58 | Origin of Symmetry | Mushroom | 30 June 2001 | 3 | [56] |
Hullabaloo Soundtrack | 13 July 2002 | 1 | [57] | |||||
Absolution |
East West | 4 October 2003 | 3 | [58] | ||||
Black Holes and Revelations |
Helium 3 Warner Bros. |
15 July 2006 | 15 | [59] | ||||
HAARP | 29 March 2008 | 3 | [60] | |||||
The Resistance |
26 September 2009 | 16 | [61] | |||||
The 2nd Law |
13 October 2012 | 6 | [62] | |||||
Live at Rome Olympic Stadium | 14 December 2013 | 3 | [63] | |||||
Drones |
20 June 2015 | 8 | [64] | |||||
Linkin Park | 7 | 6 | 46 | Hybrid Theory | Warner Bros. | 14 April 2001 | 21 | [65] |
Meteora |
5 April 2003 | 4 | [66] | |||||
Minutes to Midnight |
26 May 2007 | 6 | [67] | |||||
A Thousand Suns | 25 September 2010 | 8 | [68] | |||||
Living Things |
7 July 2012 | 4 | [69] | |||||
The Hunting Party | 28 June 2014 | 2 | [70] | |||||
One More Light Live | 28 December 2017 | 1 | [71] | |||||
Korn | 7 | 7 | 8 | Follow the Leader | Epic | 5 September 1998 | 2 | [72] |
Issues | 27 November 1999 | 1 | [73] | |||||
Untouchables | 22 June 2002 | 1 | [74] | |||||
Untitled Korn album | Virgin | 11 August 2007 | 1 | [75] | ||||
Korn III: Remember Who You Are | Roadrunner | 24 July 2010 | 1 | [76] | ||||
The Paradigm Shift | Spinefarm | 19 October 2013 | 1 | [77] | ||||
The Serenity of Suffering | Roadrunner | 3 November 2016 | 1 | [78] | ||||
The Darkness | 6 | 5 | 26 | Permission to Land | Must Destroy | 19 July 2003 | 21 | [79] |
One Way Ticket to Hell... and Back | Atlantic | 10 December 2005 | 1 | [80] | ||||
Hot Cakes | PIAS | 1 September 2012 | 1 | [81] | ||||
Last of Our Kind | Canary Dwarf | 13 June 2015 | 1 | [82] | ||||
Pinewood Smile | Cooking Vinyl | 19 October 2017 | 1 | [83] | ||||
Live at Hammersmith | 28 June 2018 | 1 | [84] | |||||
Bon Jovi | 6 | 3 | 21 | Cross Road |
Mercury | 22 October 1994 | 5 | [85] |
These Days |
1 July 1995 | 10 | [86] | |||||
One Wild Night: Live 1985–2001 | 26 May 2001 | 2 | [87] | |||||
Bounce |
5 October 2002 | 1 | [88] | |||||
This Left Feels Right | 15 November 2003 | 1 | [89] | |||||
Lost Highway | 23 June 2007 | 2 | [90] | |||||
Blink-182 | 6 | 5 | 11 | Enema of the State | MCA | 20 May 2000 | 3 | [91] |
Take Off Your Pants and Jacket | 23 June 2001 | 1 | [92] | |||||
Blink-182 | Geffen | 29 November 2003 | 2 | [93] | ||||
Greatest Hits | 12 November 2005 | 2 | [94] | |||||
Neighborhoods | Island | 8 October 2011 | 1 | [95] | ||||
California |
BMG | 14 July 2016 | 2 | [96] |
See also
References
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- "Official Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40: 18 May 1997 - 24 May 1997". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
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- "Official Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40: 22 June 2014 - 28 June 2014". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
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- "Official Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40: 30 August 1998 - 05 September 1998". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
- "Official Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40: 21 November 1999 - 27 November 1999". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
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- "Official Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40: 05 August 2007 - 11 August 2007". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
- "Official Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40: 18 July 2010 - 24 July 2010". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
- "Official Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40: 13 October 2013 - 19 October 2013". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
- "Official Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40: 28 October 2016 - 03 November 2016". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
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- "Official Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40: 04 December 2005 - 10 December 2005". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
- "Official Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40: 26 August 2012 - 01 September 2012". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
- "Official Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40: 07 June 2015 - 13 June 2015". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
- "Official Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40: 13 October 2017 - 19 October 2017". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
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- "Official Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40: 16 October 1994 - 22 October 1994". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
- "Official Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40: 25 June 1995 - 01 July 1995". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
- "Official Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40: 20 May 2001 - 26 May 2001". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
- "Official Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40: 29 September 2002 - 05 October 2002". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
- "Official Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40: 09 November 2003 - 15 November 2003". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
- "Official Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40: 17 June 2007 - 23 June 2007". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
- "Official Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40: 14 May 2000 - 20 May 2000". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
- "Official Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40: 17 June 2001 - 23 June 2001". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
- "Official Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40: 23 November 2003 - 29 November 2003". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
- "Official Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40: 06 November 2005 - 12 November 2005". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
- "Official Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40: 02 October 2011 - 08 October 2011". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
- "Official Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40: 08 July 2016 - 14 July 2016". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
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