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] [2] [3] Before 2004, the chart was only based on the sales of physical albums. This list shows albums that peaked in the top 10 of the UK Albums Chart during 1961, as well as albums which peaked in 1960 or 1962 but were in the top 10 in 1960. 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).
| Symbol | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| bgcolor=lightblue | ‡ | Album peaked between 1958 and 1960 but still in chart in 1961. |
| ♦ | Album released in 1961 but peaked in 1962. | |
| (#) | Year-end top-ten album position and rank | |
| Entered | The date that the album first appeared in the chart. | |
| Peak | Highest position that the album reached in the UK Albums Chart. |
| Entered (week ending) | data-sort-type="number" | Weeks in top 10 | Single | Artist | data-sort-type="number" | Peak | Peak reached (week ending) | data-sort-type="number" | Weeks at peak |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albums in 1956 | |||||||||
| 112 | Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!: Original Soundtrack ‡ | Various artists | 1 | 3 | |||||
| Albums in 1958 | |||||||||
| 276 | South Pacific: Original Soundtrack ‡ | Various artists | 1 | 115 | |||||
| Albums in 1959 | |||||||||
| 43 | The Buddy Holly Story ‡ | Buddy Holly and The Crickets | 2 | 1 | |||||
| Albums in 1960 | |||||||||
| 55 | Oliver! | Original London Cast | 4 | 1 | |||||
| 28 | Me and My Shadows ‡ | Cliff Richard and The Shadows | 2 | 6 | |||||
| 5 | The Fabulous Style of the Everly Brothers ‡ | The Everly Brothers | 4 | 1 | |||||
| 13 | The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart ‡ | Bob Newhart | 2 | 2 | |||||
| 120 | The Black and White Minstrel Show | 1 | 9 | ||||||
| 25 | The Ray Conniff Hi-Fi Companion ‡ | Ray Conniff, His Orchestra & Chorus | 3 | 2 | |||||
| 9 | Peter and Sophia | Peter Sellers & Sophia Loren | 5 | 2 | |||||
| 49 | G.I. Blues | Elvis Presley | 1 | 22 | |||||
| 5 | Rhythms and Ballads of Broadway ‡ | Johnny Mathis | 6 | 1 | |||||
| 7 | Party Time ‡ | Russ Conway | 7 | 3 | |||||
| Albums in 1961 | |||||||||
| 16 | Adam | Adam Faith | 5 | 1 | |||||
| 22 | Nice 'n' Easy | Frank Sinatra | 4 | 4 | |||||
| 1 | Glenn Miller Plays Selections From The Glenn Miller Story | Glenn Miller | 10 | 1 | |||||
| 5 | Song Without End: Original Soundtrack | Various Artists | 8 | 1 | |||||
| 12 | A Date With the Everly Brothers | The Everly Brothers | 3 | 1 | |||||
| 1 | Shirley | Shirley Bassey | 9 | 1 | |||||
| 1 | Huckleberry Hound: Original Television Soundtrack | Various artists | 10 | 1 | |||||
| 6 | $1,000,000.00 Worth of Twang | Duane Eddy | 5 | 1 | |||||
| 19 | Listen to Cliff! | Cliff Richard | 2 | 1 | |||||
| 11 | Seven Brides for Seven Brothers: Original Soundtrack | Various artists | 6 | 3 | |||||
| 16 | His Hand in Mine | Elvis Presley | 3 | 1 | |||||
| 2 | The Best of Barber and Bilk Volume 1 | Chris Barber and Acker Bilk | 4 | 9 | |||||
| 7 | The Music Man | Original London Cast | 8 | 3 | |||||
| 12 | The Sound of Music | Original Broadway Cast | 4 | 2 | |||||
| 6 | Tony | Anthony Newley | 5 | 1 | |||||
| 37 | The Sound of Music | Original London Cast | 3 | 1 | |||||
| 7 | When Your Lover Has Gone | Frank Sinatra | 6 | 1 | |||||
| 1 | The Student Prince/The Vagabond King | John Hanson | 9 | 1 | |||||
| 51 | The Shadows | 1 | 5 | ||||||
| 2 | Hell Bent for Leather | Frankie Laine | 7 | 1 | |||||
| 4 | Halfway to Paradise | Billy Fury | 5 | 1 | |||||
| 2 | Stop the World – I Want to Get Off | Original London Cast | 8 | 2 | |||||
| 2 | Sinatra's Swingin' Session!!! | Frank Sinatra | 6 | 1 | |||||
| 24 | Another Black and White Minstrel Show | 1 | 8 | ||||||
| 8 | 21 Today | Cliff Richard | 1 | 1 | |||||
| 7 | That'll Be the Day | Buddy Holly | 5 | 1 | |||||
| 10 | Something for Everybody | Elvis Presley | 2 | 2 | |||||
| 4 | Sinatra Swings | Frank Sinatra | 8 | 3 | |||||
| 2 | The Best of Barber and Bilk Volume 2 ♦ | Chris Barber and Acker Bilk | 8 | 1 | |||||
| 1 | Sinatra Plus | Frank Sinatra | 7 | 1 | |||||
| 47 | Blue Hawaii ♦ | Elvis Presley | 1 | 18 | |||||
| 26 | The Roaring 20's: Songs from the TV Series | Dorothy Provine | 3 | 2 | |||||
| 30 | The Young Ones ♦ | Cliff Richard | 1 | 6 | |||||
| 1 | Christmas Carols | Temple Church Choir | 8 | 1 | |||||
| 4 | Ring-a-Ding-Ding! ♦ | Frank Sinatra | 8 | 1 | |||||
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