List of artists with the most UK top-ten albums
The UK Album Chart is a weekly record chart which for most of its history was based on album sales from Sunday to Saturday in the United Kingdom. Since July 2014 it has also incorporated streaming data, and from 10 July 2015 has been based on a Friday to Thursday week. The chart was founded in 1956 and began with just a top 5 being unveiled; this was extended to a top 10 from November 1958 onwards. The first album to top the chart was Songs for Swingin' Lovers! by Frank Sinatra.
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The sources, in accordance with the official canon of the Official Charts Company, are the Melody Maker chart from 1956 to 1960; the Record Retailer chart from 1960 to 1969; and the Official UK Albums Chart from 1969 onwards.
This list shows the artists who have had the most top-ten albums on the UK Albums Chart, as of 5 September 2019 (week ending). Paul McCartney holds the record for most top 10 albums with 61, having first entered the chart in Please Please Me as part of The Beatles. His most recent entry was in 2018, the solo album Egypt Station. Elvis Presley is in second place. McCartney's bandmate, the late John Lennon, has the third most entries of all time in the top 10. Albums by "Various Artists" are excluded from this list because they all feature different acts under that banner.
Yet again Depeche Mode missed out on the list with 17 top 10 UK albums. Credit to Official UK Charts Co.
Most top-ten albums
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Notes
- Annie Lennox's total includes albums with the group Eurythmics (9).
- Cheryl's total includes albums with the group Girls Aloud (6).
- Beyoncé's total includes albums with the groups Destiny's Child (4) and The Carters (1).
- Barry Gibb's total includes albums with the group Bee Gees (16).
- Michael Jackson's total includes albums with the group The Jackson 5 (3).
- Paul McCartney's total includes albums with the groups The Beatles (32) and Wings (8)
- John Lennon's total includes albums with the group The Beatles (32) and alongside Yoko Ono (1).
- George Harrison's total includes albums with the group The Beatles (32).
- Ringo Starr's total includes albums with the group The Beatles (32).
- Jon Bon Jovi's total includes albums with the group Bon Jovi (16).
- Robbie Williams' total includes albums with the group Take That (6).
- Mick Jagger's total includes albums with the group The Rolling Stones (39).
- Keith Richards' total includes albums with the group The Rolling Stones (39).
- Agnetha Fältskog's total includes albums with the group ABBA (9).
- Freddie Mercury's total includes albums with the group Queen (26). The only Queen recording he was not part of was The Cosmos Rocks (2008) which the remaining members of the group (Brian May and Roger Taylor) collaborated on with Paul Rodgers.
- Rod Stewart's total includes albums with the group Faces (3).
- George Michael's total includes albums with the group Wham! (4).
- Liam Gallagher's total includes albums with the group Oasis (11) and Beady Eye (2).
- Noel Gallagher's total includes albums with the group Oasis (11) and Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds (3).
- Gem Archer's total includes albums with the group Oasis (6), Beady Eye (2) and Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds (3).
- David Gilmour's total includes albums with the group Pink Floyd (17).
- Mark Knopfler's total includes albums with the group Dire Straits (10) and a collaborative album with Emmylou Harris.
- John McVie's total includes albums with the group Fleetwood Mac (13), John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers (2) and an album with John Mayall in collaboration with Eric Clapton.
- Stevie Nicks' total includes albums with the group Fleetwood Mac (9).
- Christine McVie's total includes albums with the group Fleetwood Mac (12) and in collaboration with her bandmate Lindsey Buckingham. She performed on the album Then Play On and was not officially credited, but is included in her figure.
- Mick Hucknall's total includes albums with the group Simply Red (13).
- Paul Simon's total includes albums with the group Simon & Garfunkel (8).
- Art Garfunkel's total includes albums with the group Simon & Garfunkel (8).
- Gary Barlow's total includes albums with the group Take That (12).
- Phil Collins' total includes albums with the group Genesis (19).
- Peter Gabriel's total includes albums with the group Genesis (19).
- Debbie Harry's total includes albums with the group Blondie (9).
- Barbra Streisand's total is listed as fourteen by the Official Charts Company, but she also reached the top 10 alongside Kris Kristofferson with A Star Is Born. It shows a peak of number 86 from 1982, but the album reached number-one in 1977.[100]
- Lionel Richie's total includes albums with the group Commodores (2).
- Brian Wilson's total includes albums with The Beach Boys (15).
- ELO's total includes two albums credited to Jeff Lynne's ELO and the soundtrack to the film Xanadu, listed as Olivia Newton John and Electric Light Orchestra.[101]
- Jeff Lynne's total includes albums with the group Electric Light Orchestra/Jeff Lynne's ELO (13).
- Paul Heaton's total includes albums with the group The Housemartins (3) and The Beautiful South (10).
- Dave Hemingway's total includes albums with the group The Housemartins (3) and The Beautiful South (10).
- Robert Plant's total includes albums with the group Led Zeppelin (16), in the duo Page and Plant with Jimmy Page (2), and in collaboration with Alison Krauss (1).
- Jimmy Page's total includes albums with the group Led Zeppelin (16), in the duo Page and Plant with Robert Plant (2), and with David Coverdale as Coverdale–Page (1).
- Eric Clapton's total includes albums with the group John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers (1), Cream (8) and Blind Faith (1).
References
- "Paul McCartney full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "The Beatles full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "Wings full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "Barry Gibb full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "Bee Gees full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "John Lennon full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "John Lennon & Yoko Ono full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "Frank Sinatra full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "Keith Richards full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "The Rolling Stones full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "Mick Jagger full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "George Harrison full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "Rod Stewart full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "Faces full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "Ringo Starr full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "David Bowie full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "Elton John full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "Phil Collins full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "Genesis full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "Freddie Mercury full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "Queen full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "Eric Clapton full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "Cream full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "Blind Faith full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "Robert Plant full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "Jimmy Page and Robert Plant full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "Led Zeppelin full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "Queen full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "Madonna full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "Michael Jackson full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "The Jackson 5 full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "Bruce Springsteen full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "David Gilmour full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "Pink Floyd full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "Paul Simon full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "Simon & Garfunkel full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "Robbie Williams full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "Take That full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "Coverdale Page full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "Jon Bon Jovi full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "Bon Jovi full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "Mark Knopfler full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "Dire Straits full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "Barry Gibb full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "Kylie Minogue full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "U2 full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "Brian Wilson full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "Beach Boys full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "Fleetwood Mac full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "John Mayall's Bluesbreakers full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "John Mayall with Eric Clapton full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "Eurythmics full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "Annie Lennox full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "Barbra Streisand full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "Gary Barlow full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "Jeff Lynne full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "E.L.O. full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "Jeff Lynne's ELO full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "Jim Reeves full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "Liam Gallagher full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "Oasis full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "Beady Eye full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "Mick Hucknall full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "Simply Red full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "Buckingham/McVie full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "Beautiful South full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "Housemartins full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "Diana Ross full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "Lionel Richie full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "Manic Street Preachers full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "Mariah Carey full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "AC/DC full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "Beyoncé full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "The Carters full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "Destiny's Child full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "Celine Dion full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "George Michael full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "Wham! full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "Kate Bush full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "Meat Loaf full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "Art Garfunkel full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "Carpenters full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "Beady Eye full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "Mike Oldfield full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "R.E.M. full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "Stereophonics full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "Agnetha Fältskog full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "ABBA full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "Girls Aloud full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "Cheryl full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "Debbie Harry full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "Blondie full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "Dire Straits full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "Duran Duran full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "Eminem full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "Madness full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- "Stevie Nicks full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "A Star is Born full chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "Xanadu". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2019.