The UK Albums Chart is a weekly record chart based on album sales from Sunday to Saturday in the United Kingdom; during the 2000s, a total of 274 different albums by 170 artists reached number one. The chart was compiled weekly by the Official Charts Company (OCC) on behalf of the British music industry—it listed only physical album sales until 2007, after which it also included albums sold digitally.[1] The OCC defined an "album" to be any music release that featured more than four tracks or lasted longer than 25 minutes.[2] Each week's new number one was first announced on Sunday evenings by BBC Radio 1 on their weekly chart show.[3]
The most successful albums during the 2000s were Life for Rent by Dido and Back to Bedlam by James Blunt. Released in 2003 and 2004 respectively, each spent ten weeks at number one[4] [5] —Back to Bedlam was also the biggest-selling album of the decade.[6] Dido and Blunt also topped the chart with one other album each. Irish boy band Westlife reached number one with seven different releases, the most of any act. British singer Robbie Williams released six number one albums, which spent a total of 23 weeks on the top of the chart, longer than any other artist[7] —by 2005, Williams had sold more albums during the 2000s than any other act.[8]
The most successful record label during this period was Polydor Records—benefitting from strong sales from artists such as Ronan Keating, Scissor Sisters and Take That,[9] Polydor topped the chart with 13 different albums which spent 33 weeks at number one, longer than any other company. Columbia Records released 17 albums that reached number one, the most of any label; its artists roster featured Barbra Streisand and Bruce Springsteen.[10] In August 2003, Magic and Medicine by The Coral became the 700th album to top the UK chart[11] —fewer than four years later, Not Too Late by Norah Jones became the 800th album to do so.[12]
Following its significantly increased popularity in the early 21st century, reality television began to have a significant impact on the British music industry. Of the 274 albums that reached number one in the UK charts, 15 were by artists that had found fame through a reality TV programme. The first such act was Hear'Say, a British pop group formed by the television show Popstars. In March 2001, their debut album Popstars topped the chart and became the fastest-selling debut in UK chart history to that date.[13] The only reality television stars to top the album chart with two different releases were Will Young, the 2002 winner of Pop Idol,[14] Girls Aloud, the girl group formed by the TV series ,[15] and Leona Lewis, the 2006 winner of The X Factor.[16] Like Hear'Say, Lewis's first album Spirit broke the record for the fastest-selling debut in UK chart history.[17]
| nth album to top the UK Albums Chart | |||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | re | Return of an album to number one | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Silver | Silver certification (60,000 units) | ||
| Gold | Gold certification (100,000 units) | ||
| Platinum | Platinum certification (300,000 units) | ||
| bgcolor=#FFFF99 align=center | Best-selling album of the year | ||
| bgcolor=lightblue align=center | Best-selling album of the decade |
| scope=col | scope=col | Artist | scope=col | Album | scope=col | Record label | scope=col | Reached number one | scope=col | Weeks at number one | scope=col | Certification | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" colspan=7 | |||||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Come On Over | Mercury | 5 | ||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Travis | Independiente | 5 | ||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 618 | Gabrielle | Rise | Go! Beat | 3 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 619 | Oasis | Standing on the Shoulder of Giants | Big Brother | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Travis | Independiente | 2 | ||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 620 | Santana | Supernatural | Arista | 2 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 621 | Moby | Play | Mute | 5 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Reload | Gut | 1 | ||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 622 | Arista | 2 | ||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 623 | Bon Jovi | Crush | Mercury | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Reload | Gut | 1 | ||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 624 | S Club 7 | Polydor | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 625 | Eminem | Interscope | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 626 | Alone with Everybody | Hut | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Eminem | Interscope | 1 | ||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 627 | Coldplay | Parachutes | Parlophone | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 628 | In Blue | Atlantic | 2 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 629 | Ronan | Polydor | 2 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 630 | Born to Do It | Wildstar | 2 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 631 | Sing When You're Winning | Chrysalis | 3 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 632 | Madonna | Music | Maverick | 2 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 633 | Radiohead | Kid A | Parlophone | 2 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 634 | All Saints | Saints & Sinners | London | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 635 | Texas | Mercury | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 636 | U2 | All That You Can't Leave Behind | Island | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 637 | Westlife | Coast to Coast | RCA | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 638 | Apple | 9 | ||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" colspan=7 | |||||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Texas | Mercury | 1 | ||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 639 | Limp Bizkit | Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water | Interscope | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 640 | Dido | No Angel | Arista | 6 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 641 | Songbird | Blix Street/Hot | 2 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 642 | Hear'Say | Popstars | Polydor | 2 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 643 | Stereophonics | Just Enough Education to Perform | V2 | 2 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 644 | Ash | Free All Angels | Infectious | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 645 | Destiny's Child | Survivor | Columbia | 2 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 646 | R.E.M. | Reveal | Warner Bros. | 2 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 647 | Shaggy | Hot Shot | MCA | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 648 | Radiohead | Amnesiac | Parlophone | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 649 | Travis | Independiente | 4 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 650 | Usher | Arista | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Destiny's Child | Survivor | Columbia | 2 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 651 | White Ladder | IHT/East West | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 652 | Atomic Kitten | Right Now | Innocent | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | White Ladder | IHT/East West | 1 | ||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 653 | Staind | Break the Cycle | Elektra | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 654 | Slipknot | Iowa | Roadrunner | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 655 | Jamiroquai | Sony S2 | 2 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 656 | Macy Gray | Epic | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Dido | No Angel | Arista | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 657 | Fever | Parlophone | 2 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 658 | Steps | Gold: Greatest Hits | Jive | 2 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 659 | Invincible | Epic | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Steps | Gold: Greatest Hits | Jive | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 660 | Westlife | World of Our Own | RCA | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 661 | Swing When You're Winning | Chrysalis | 7 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" colspan=7 | |||||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Stereophonics | Just Enough Education to Perform | V2 | 3 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 662 | Come with Us | Virgin | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 663 | Escape | Interscope | 2 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 664 | Sting and The Police | A&M | 2 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 665 | Columbia | 1 | ||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 666 | Nickelback | Silver Side Up | Roadrunner | 2 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 667 | Epic | 4 | ||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 668 | Blue | All Rise | Innocent | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 669 | Doves | Heavenly | 2 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 670 | Moby | Mute | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 671 | Destination | Polydor | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 672 | Eminem | Interscope | 5 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 673 | Oasis | Heathen Chemistry | Big Brother | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 674 | Red Hot Chili Peppers | By the Way | Warner Bros. | 3 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 675 | Columbia | 1 | ||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Red Hot Chili Peppers | By the Way | Warner Bros. | 2 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 676 | Imagine | Blix Street/Hot | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 677 | Coldplay | Parlophone | 2 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 678 | Atomic Kitten | Feels So Good | Innocent | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 679 | Illumination | Independiente | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 680 | RCA | 2 | ||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 681 | From Now On | S | 2 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 682 | Foo Fighters | One by One | RCA | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 683 | East West | 1 | ||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 684 | Blue | One Love | Innocent | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 685 | Westlife | Unbreakable – The Greatest Hits Volume 1 | S | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 686 | Escapology | EMI | 6 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" colspan=7 | |||||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 687 | Let Go | Arista | 3 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 688 | Justified | Jive | 2 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 689 | Simply Deep | Columbia | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 690 | Massive Attack | Virgin | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Justified | Jive | 1 | ||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 691 | Come Away with Me | Parlophone | 4 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 692 | Linkin Park | Meteora | Warner Bros. | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 693 | Elephant | XL | 2 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Coldplay | Parlophone | 1 | ||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 694 | Madonna | American Life | Maverick | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Justified | Jive | 1 | ||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 695 | Blur | Think Tank | Parlophone | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Justified | Jive | 3 | ||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 696 | Stereophonics | You Gotta Go There to Come Back | V2 | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 697 | Radiohead | Hail to the Thief | Parlophone | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 698 | Evanescence | Fallen | Epic/Wind-up | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 699 | Beyoncé | Dangerously in Love | Columbia | 5 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 700 | Magic and Medicine | Deltasonic | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Escapology | EMI | 1 | ||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 701 | American Tune | Blix Street/Hot | 2 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 702 | Permission to Land | Must Destroy | 4 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 703 | Muse | Absolution | East West | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 704 | Dido | Life for Rent | Cheeky | 4 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 705 | R.E.M. | Warner Bros. | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 706 | Blue | Guilty | Innocent | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Dido | Life for Rent | Cheeky | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 707 | Number Ones | Epic | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 708 | Westlife | Turnaround | S | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 709 | Friday's Child | S | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Dido | Life for Rent | Cheeky | 3 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" colspan=7 | |||||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Friday's Child | S | 1 | ||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Dido | Life for Rent | Cheeky | 2 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 710 | Call Off the Search | Dramatico | 3 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 711 | Feels like Home | Blue Note | 2 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Call Off the Search | Dramatico | 3 | ||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 712 | Patience | Aegean | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 713 | Usher | Confessions | LaFace/Arista | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 714 | Anastacia | Anastacia | Epic | 2 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 715 | Guns N' Roses | Greatest Hits | Geffen | 2 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 716 | D12 | D12 World | Interscope | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Guns N' Roses | Greatest Hits | Geffen | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 717 | Keane | Hopes and Fears | Island | 2 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 718 | Under My Skin | Arista | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Keane | Hopes and Fears | Island | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 719 | Faithless | No Roots | Cheeky | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Keane | Hopes and Fears | Island | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 720 | 1 | |||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 721 | Scissor Sisters | Scissor Sisters | Polydor | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 722 | McFly | Room on the 3rd Floor | Universal | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Scissor Sisters | Scissor Sisters | Polydor | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 1 | ||||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 723 | Red Hot Chili Peppers | Live in Hyde Park | Warner Bros. | 2 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Anastacia | Anastacia | Epic | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 724 | Maroon 5 | Songs About Jane | J | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 725 | Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned | XL | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 726 | Rough Trade | 1 | ||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 727 | Unwritten | Phonogenic | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 728 | Embrace | Out of Nothing | Independiente | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 729 | Green Day | American Idiot | Reprise | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 730 | Mind Body & Soul | Relentless/Virgin | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 731 | R.E.M. | Around the Sun | Warner Bros. | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 732 | Polydor | 1 | ||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 733 | Greatest Hits | Chrysalis | 2 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 734 | Il Divo | Il Divo | Syco | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 735 | Eminem | Encore | Interscope | 2 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 736 | U2 | How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb | Island | 3 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Greatest Hits | Chrysalis | 2 | ||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" colspan=7 | |||||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Green Day | American Idiot | Reprise | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Scissor Sisters | Scissor Sisters | Polydor | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 737 | Hot Fuss | Lizard King | 2 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 738 | Push the Button | Virgin | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 739 | Athlete | Tourist | Parlophone | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Keane | Hopes and Fears | Island | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Scissor Sisters | Scissor Sisters | Polydor | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 740 | Doves | Some Cities | Heavenly | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 741 | G4 | G4 | Sony | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 742 | 50 Cent | Interscope | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 743 | Stereophonics | Language. Sex. Violence. Other? | V2 | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 744 | Definitive Collection | UMTV | 2 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 745 | Counting Down the Days | Brightside | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 746 | Basement Jaxx | The Singles | XL | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 747 | Akon | Trouble | Universal | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 748 | Devils & Dust | Columbia | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Akon | Trouble | Universal | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 749 | Heart and Soul | Syco | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 750 | Faithless | Forever Faithless – The Greatest Hits | Cheeky | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 751 | Gorillaz | Demon Days | Parlophone | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 752 | Oasis | Don't Believe the Truth | Big Brother | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 753 | Coldplay | X&Y | Parlophone | 4 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 754 | Back to Bedlam | Atlantic | 8 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 755 | McFly | Wonderland | Island | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Back to Bedlam | Atlantic | 1 | ||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 756 | Life in Slow Motion | Atlantic | 2 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 757 | Piece by Piece | Dramatico | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 758 | Franz Ferdinand | You Could Have It So Much Better | Domino | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 759 | Sugababes | Taller in More Ways | Island | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 760 | XL | 1 | ||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 761 | Intensive Care | Chrysalis | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 762 | Westlife | Face to Face | S | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 763 | Il Divo | Ancora | Syco | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 764 | Madonna | Confessions on a Dance Floor | Warner Bros. | 2 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 765 | Eminem | Interscope | 5 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" colspan=7 | |||||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 766 | First Impressions of Earth | Rough Trade | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Back to Bedlam | Atlantic | 1 | ||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 767 | Hard-Fi | Stars of CCTV | Atlantic/Necessary | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 768 | Arctic Monkeys | Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not | Domino | 4 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 769 | In Between Dreams | Brushfire/Island | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 770 | Corinne Bailey Rae | EMI | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 771 | On an Island | EMI | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Corinne Bailey Rae | EMI | 1 | ||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 772 | Journey South | Journey South | Syco | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 773 | Embrace | This New Day | Independiente | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 774 | Morrissey | Ringleader of the Tormentors | Attack | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 775 | 1 | |||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 776 | Shayne Ward | Syco | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 777 | Gnarls Barkley | St. Elsewhere | Warner Bros. | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 778 | Snow Patrol | Eyes Open | Fiction | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 779 | Red Hot Chili Peppers | Stadium Arcadium | Warner Bros. | 3 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 780 | Orson | Bright Idea | Mercury | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 781 | Smile... It Confuses People | RCA | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 782 | Keane | Under the Iron Sea | Island | 2 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 783 | Lostprophets | Liberation Transmission | Visible Noise | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 784 | Muse | Black Holes and Revelations | Helium 3/Warner Bros. | 2 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 785 | Razorlight | Razorlight | Vertigo | 2 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 786 | Undiscovered | Polydor | 2 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 787 | Back to Basics | RCA | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Snow Patrol | Eyes Open | Fiction | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 788 | Kasabian | Empire | Columbia | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Snow Patrol | Eyes Open | Fiction | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 789 | FutureSex/LoveSounds | Jive | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 790 | Scissor Sisters | Ta-Dah | Polydor | 2 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 791 | Sam's Town | Vertigo | 3 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 792 | Rudebox | Chrysalis | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 793 | Girls Aloud | Fascination | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 794 | Jamiroquai | Columbia | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 795 | Twenty Five | Aegean | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 796 | Westlife | S | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 797 | Take That | Beautiful World | Polydor | 6 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" colspan=7 | |||||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 798 | Back to Black | Island | 2 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 799 | Hats Off to the Buskers | 1 | ||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 800 | Not Too Late | Blue Note | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 801 | Mika | Life in Cartoon Motion | Casablanca/Island | 2 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Back to Black | Island | 1 | ||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 802 | Kaiser Chiefs | Yours Truly, Angry Mob | B-Unique/Polydor | 2 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 803 | Doing It My Way | Syco | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Take That | Beautiful World | Polydor | 2 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 804 | Kings of Leon | Because of the Times | Hand Me Down | 2 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 805 | RCA | 1 | ||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 806 | Arctic Monkeys | Favourite Worst Nightmare | Domino | 3 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 807 | Linkin Park | Minutes to Midnight | Warner Bros. | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 808 | Maroon 5 | It Won't Be Soon Before Long | A&M/Octone | 2 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 809 | Rihanna | Good Girl Gone Bad | Def Jam | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 810 | Traveling Wilburys | Rhino | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 811 | Icky Thump | XL | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 812 | Editors | Kitchenware | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 813 | We Are the Night | Virgin | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 814 | We'll Live and Die in These Towns | Warner Bros. | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 815 | One Chance | Syco | 3 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 816 | Made of Bricks | Fiction | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 817 | RCA | 1 | ||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 818 | Hand Built by Robots | Ugly Truth | 2 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 819 | Hard-Fi | Once Upon a Time in the West | Atlantic/Necessary | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 820 | Graduation | Roc-A-Fella | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 821 | All the Lost Souls | Custard/Atlantic | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 822 | Foo Fighters | Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace | RCA | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 823 | Magic | Columbia | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 824 | Sugababes | Change | Island | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 825 | Stereophonics | Pull the Pin | V2 | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 826 | RCA | 1 | ||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 827 | Eagles | Long Road out of Eden | Polydor | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 828 | Westlife | Back Home | S | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 829 | Spirit | Syco | 7 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" colspan=7 | |||||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 830 | Radiohead | In Rainbows | XL | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 831 | This Is the Life | Vertigo | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 832 | Scouting for Girls | Scouting for Girls | Epic | 2 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 833 | Adele | XL | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 834 | Sleep Through the Static | Brushfire/Island | 2 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 835 | Join With Us | Island | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 836 | Back to Black – The Deluxe Edition | Island | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 837 | Duffy | Rockferry | A&M | 4 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 838 | R.E.M. | Accelerate | Warner Bros. | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Duffy | Rockferry | A&M | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 839 | Konk | Virgin | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 840 | Domino | 1 | ||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 841 | Madonna | Hard Candy | Warner Bros. | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 842 | Scooter | Jumping All Over the World | All Around the World/ Universal TV | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 843 | Home Before Dark | Columbia | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 844 | We Started Nothing | Columbia | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 845 | Usher | Here I Stand | LaFace | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 846 | Island | 1 | ||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 847 | Coldplay | Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | Parlophone | 5 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 848 | Basshunter | Now You're Gone – The Album | Hard2Beat | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Coldplay | Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | Parlophone | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | ABBA | Gold: Greatest Hits | Polydor | 2 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 849 | Phonogenic | 2 | ||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 850 | Forth | Parlophone | 2 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 851 | Metallica | Death Magnetic | Vertigo | 2 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 852 | Kings of Leon | Only by the Night | Hand Me Down | 2 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 853 | Oasis | Dig Out Your Soul | Big Brother | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 854 | Keane | Perfect Symmetry | Island | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 855 | AC/DC | Black Ice | Columbia | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 856 | Pink | Funhouse | LaFace | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 857 | Girls Aloud | Out of Control | Fascination | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 858 | Il Divo | Syco | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Spirit | Syco | 1 | ||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 859 | Day & Age | Vertigo | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 860 | Take That | Polydor | 5 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" colspan=7 | |||||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Kings of Leon | Only by the Night | Hand Me Down | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Phonogenic | 1 | |||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 861 | White Lies | To Lose My Life... | Fiction | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 862 | Working on a Dream | Columbia | 2 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 863 | It's Not Me, It's You | Regal | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Kings of Leon | Only by the Night | Hand Me Down | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 864 | Invaders Must Die | Take Me to the Hospital | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 865 | U2 | No Line on the Horizon | Mercury | 2 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 866 | Songs for My Mother | Polydor | 2 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 867 | Lady Gaga | Interscope | 4 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 868 | Together Through Life | Columbia | 2 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 869 | Green Day | Reprise | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 870 | Eminem | Relapse | Interscope | 2 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 871 | Sunny Side Up | Atlantic | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 872 | Kasabian | West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum | Columbia | 2 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Number Ones | Epic | 1 | ||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 873 | Epic | 7 | ||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 874 | Ready for the Weekend | Columbia | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 875 | Arctic Monkeys | Humbug | Domino | 2 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 876 | Decca | 1 | ||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 877 | Muse | Helium 3/Warner Bros. | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 878 | Madonna | Celebration | Warner Bros. | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 879 | Paramore | Brand New Eyes | Fueled by Ramen | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 880 | Love Is the Answer | Columbia | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 881 | Editors | In This Light and on This Evening | Kitchenware | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 882 | Overcome | Syco | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 883 | Fascination | 2 | ||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 884 | JLS | JLS | Epic | 1 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 885 | Echo | Syco | 1 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 886 | I Dreamed a Dream | Syco | 4 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 887 | Crazy Love | Reprise | 1 |
Eight artists spent 10 weeks or more at number one on the album chart during the 2000s.
| scope=col | Artist | scope=col | Number ones | scope=col | Weeks at number one | scope=col class=unsortable | Albums |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| scope=row | 6 | 23 | Sing When You're Winning (2000, three weeks at number one) Swing When You're Winning (2001, seven weeks) Escapology (2002–03, seven weeks) Greatest Hits (2004, four weeks) Intensive Care (2005, one week) Rudebox (2006, one week) | ||||
| scope=row | Dido | 2 | 17 | No Angel (2001, seven weeks at number one) Life for Rent (2003–04, ten weeks) | |||
| scope=row | Eminem | 5 | 16 | The Marshall Mathers LP (2000, two weeks at number one) The Eminem Show (2002, five weeks) Encore (2004, two weeks) (2005, five weeks) Relapse (2009, two weeks) | |||
| scope=row | Coldplay | 4 | 14 | Parachutes (2000, one week at number one) A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002–03, three weeks) X&Y (2005, four weeks) Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends (2008, six weeks) | |||
| scope=row | Take That | 2 | 13 | Beautiful World (2006–07, eight weeks at number one) The Circus (2008, five weeks) | |||
| scope=row | 2 | 11 | Back to Bedlam (2005–06, ten weeks at number one) All the Lost Souls (2007, one week) | ||||
| scope=row | Travis | 2 | 11 | The Man Who (2000, seven weeks at number one) The Invisible Band (2001, four weeks) | |||
| scope=row | 3 | 10 | Invincible (2001, one week at number one) Number Ones (2003–09, two weeks) The Essential Michael Jackson (2009, seven weeks) |
Eight record labels spent 20 weeks or more at number one on the album chart during the 2000s.
| scope=col | Record label | scope=col | Number-one albums | scope=col | Weeks at number one |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| scope=row | Polydor Records | 13 | 33 | ||
| scope=row | Warner Bros. Records | 16 | 29 | ||
| scope=row | Parlophone | 13 | 29 | ||
| scope=row | Columbia Records | 17 | 27 | ||
| scope=row | Interscope Records | 10 | 25 | ||
| scope=row | Syco Music | 13 | 24 | ||
| scope=row | Epic Records | 9 | 22 | ||
| scope=row | Island Records | 12 | 21 |
See main article: List of UK Albums Chart Christmas number ones. In the UK, Christmas number one albums are those that are at the top of the UK Albums Chart on Christmas Day. Typically, this will refer to the album that was announced as number one on the Sunday before 25 December—when Christmas Day falls on a Sunday itself, the official number one is considered by the OCC to be the one announced on that day's chart.[18] During the 2000s, the following albums were Christmas number ones.
| scope=col | Year | scope=col | Artist | scope=col | Album | scope=col | Record label | scope=col | Weeks at number one | scope=col class=unsortable | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 1 | 9 | [19] | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Swing When You're Winning | 7 | [20] | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 2002 | Robbie Williams | Escapology | EMI | 7 | [21] | |||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Dido | Life for Rent | Cheeky | 10 | [22] | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Robbie Williams | Greatest Hits | Chrysalis | 4 | [23] | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Eminem | Interscope | 5 | [24] | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Take That | Beautiful World | Polydor | 8 | [25] | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Spirit | Syco | 7 | [26] | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | Take That | Polydor | 5 | [27] | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | I Dreamed a Dream | Syco | 4 | [28] |