List of UK Country Albums Chart number ones of 2016 explained

These are the Official Charts Company's UK Country Albums Chart number ones of 2016. The chart week runs from Friday to Thursday with the chart-date given as the following Thursday. Chart positions are based the multi-metric consumption of country music in the United Kingdom, blending traditional album sales, track equivalent albums, and streaming equivalent albums. The chart contains 20 positions.

In the iteration of the chart dated 1 January, Brave, the debut album by British duo The Shires, spent it's thirty fifth total week at number one, and was briefly displaced by Rhiannon Giddens' Tomorrow Is My Turn (which reached the summit after eighteen weeks on the chart), before returning to the top spot for another two weeks. Later in the year, The Shires released their second album My Universe, which spent eleven consecutive weeks at number one. Beginning on 12th February, Chris Isaak debuted with First Comes the Night, which went on to hold the top spot for four weeks until it was replaced by country legend Loretta Lynn and her album Full Circle, becoming her second album to hit number one in the UK and her final number one before her death in 2022. Chris Stapleton's first album Traveller premiered on the chart in mid-March and would go on to spend four nonconsecutive weeks at the top. On 11 May, 80s pop star Cyndi Lauper achieved her first country number one with Detour, a collection of country music covers that inspired her as a child. Colvin & Earle, a collaborative project by Shawn Colvin and Steve Earle spent four weeks at number one, becoming Colvin's first number one country album and Earle's ninth. Following this, Ward Thomas' debut record From Where We Stand returned to the chart peak for two weeks, and their second album Cartwheels spent five non-consecutive weeks at number one and became the first British country album to reach the top spot on the all genre UK Albums Chart. Other artists who spent multiple weeks at number one include Lucinda Williams, Steven Tyler, and The Cadillac Three, which each spent two weeks, and Dolly Parton, who spent three weeks with Pure & Simple. The final number one of the year was Cartwheels.

Chart history

Issue date	Album	Artist(s)	Record label	Ref.
1 January	Brave	The Shires	Decca	^[1]
8 January	Tomorrow Is My Turn	Rhiannon Giddens	Nonesuch	^[2]
15 January	Brave	The Shires	Decca	^[3]
22 January	^[4]
29 January	The Ghosts of Highway 20	Lucinda Williams	Highway 20	^[5]
5 February	^[6]
12 February	First Comes the Night	Chris Isaak	Rhino	^[7]
19 February	^[8]
26 February	^[9]
4 March	^[10]
11 March	Full Circle	Loretta Lynn	Legacy	^[11]
18 March	Traveller	Chris Stapleton	UCJ	^[12]
25 March	You Can't Go Back If There's Nothing To Go Back To	Richmond Fontaine	Decor	^[13]
1 April	Traveller	Chris Stapleton	UCJ	^[14]
8 April	Little Windows	Teddy Thompson & Kelly Jones	Cooking Vinyl	^[15]
15 April	Traveller	Chris Stapleton	UCJ	^[16]
22 April	^[17]
29 April	A Sailor's Guide to Earth	Sturgill Simpson	Atlantic	^[18]
6 May	Stayin' Up All Night	Nathan Carter	Decca	^[19]
13 May	Detour	Cyndi Lauper	Rhino	^[20]
20 May	The Things That We Are Made Of	Mary Chapin Carpenter	Lambent Light	^[21]
27 May	Midwest Farmer's Daughter	Margo Price	Third Man	^[22]
3 June	Black	Dierks Bentley	Capitol	^[23]
10 June	Obsessed	Dan + Shay	Warner Bros	^[24]
17 June	Colvin & Earle	Shawn Colvin & Steve Earle	Concord Records	^[25]
24 June	^[26]
1 July	^[27]
8 July	^[28]
15 July	From Where We Stand	Ward Thomas	WTW Music	^[29]
22 July	^[30]
26 July	We're All Somebody from Somewhere	Steven Tyler	Dot/Republic	^[31]
5 August	^[32]
12 August	Bury Me in My Boots	The Cadillac Three	Big Machine	^[33]
19 August	^[34]
26 August	Pure & Simple	Dolly Parton	RCA Nashville	^[35]
2 September	^[36]
9 September	^[37]
16 September	Cartwheels	Ward Thomas	Sony/WTW	^[38]
23 September	^[39]
30 September	^[40]
7 October	My Universe	The Shires	Decca	^[41]
14 October	^[42]
21 October	^[43]
28 October	^[44]
4 November	^[45]
11 November	^[46]
18 November	^[47]
25 November	^[48]
25 November	^[49]
2 December	^[50]
9 December	^[51]
16 December	^[52]
23 December	Cartwheels	Ward Thomas	Sony/WTW	^[53]
30 December	^[54]

Most weeks at number one

scope=col	Weeks at number one	scope=col	Artist
15	The Shires
7	Ward Thomas
4	Chris Isaak
Chris Stapleton
Shawn Colvin & Steve Earle
3	Dolly Parton
3	Lucinda Williams
Steven Tyler
2	The Cadillac Three

See also

• List of UK Albums Chart number ones of 2016
• List of UK Dance Singles Chart number ones of 2016
• List of UK Album Downloads Chart number ones of 2016
• List of UK Independent Albums Chart number ones of 2016
• List of UK R&B Albums Chart number ones of 2016
• List of UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number ones of 2016
• List of UK Compilation Chart number ones of the 2010s

External links

• UK Country Albums Chart

Notes and References

1. Web site: 1st January 2016. 1 January 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
2. Web site: 15th January 2016. 15 January 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
3. Web site: 15th January 2016. 15 January 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
4. Web site: 29th January 2016. 29 January 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
5. Web site: 29th January 2016. 29 January 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
6. Web site: 5th February 2016. 5 February 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
7. Web site: 12th February 2016. 12 February 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
8. Web site: 19th February 2016. 19 February 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
9. Web site: 26th February 2016. 26 February 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
10. Web site: 4th March 2016. 4 March 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
11. Web site: 11th March 2016. 11 March 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
12. Web site: 18th March 2016. 18 March 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
13. Web site: 25th March 2016. 25 March 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
14. Web site: 1st April 2016. 1 April 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
15. Web site: 8th April 2016. 8 April 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
16. Web site: 15th April 2016. 15 April 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
17. Web site: 22nd April 2016. 22 April 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
18. Web site: 29th April 2016. 29 April 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
19. Web site: 6th May 2016. 6 May 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
20. Web site: 13th May 2016. 13 May 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
21. Web site: 20th May 2016. 20 May 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
22. Web site: 27th May 2016. 27 May 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
23. Web site: 3rd June 2016. 3 June 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
24. Web site: 10th June 2016. 10 June 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
25. Web site: 17th June 2016. 17 June 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
26. Web site: 24th June 2016. 24 June 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
27. Web site: 1st July 2016. 1 July 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
28. Web site: 8th July 2016. 8 July 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
29. Web site: 15th July 2016. 15 July 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
30. Web site: 22nd July 2016. 22 July 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
31. Web site: 26th July 2016. 26 July 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
32. Web site: 5th August 2016. 5 August 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
33. Web site: 12th August 2016. 12 August 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
34. Web site: 19th August 2016. 19 August 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
35. Web site: 26th August 2016. 26 August 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
36. Web site: 2nd September 2016. 2 September 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
37. Web site: 9th September 2016. 9 September 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
38. Web site: 16th September 2016. 16 September 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
39. Web site: 23rd September 2016. 23 September 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
40. Web site: 30th September 2016. 30 September 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
41. Web site: 7th October 2016. 7 October 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
42. Web site: 14th October 2016. 14 October 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
43. Web site: 21st October 2016. 21 October 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
44. Web site: 28th October 2016. 28 October 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
45. Web site: 4th November 2016. 4 November 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
46. Web site: 11th November 2016. 11 November 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
47. Web site: 18th November 2016. 18 November 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
48. Web site: 25th November 2016. 25 November 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
49. Web site: 25th November 2016. 25 November 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
50. Web site: 2nd December 2016. 2 December 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
51. Web site: 9th December 2016. 9 December 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
52. Web site: 16th December 2016. 16 December 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
53. Web site: 23rd December 2016. 23 December 2016. Official Charts Company. London.
54. Web site: 30th December 2016. 30 December 2016. Official Charts Company. London.