The UK Albums Chart is a music chart compiled by the Official Charts Company that calculates the best-selling albums of the week in the United Kingdom.[1] Since 2005, it has been based on the sales of both physical and digital albums, on the condition that the album was available in both formats. In 2007, the rules were changed so that legal downloads of all albums, irrespective of whether a physical copy was available, were eligible to chart.[2]
Between 2000 and 2009, more than 100 albums sold more than 1 million copies in the United Kingdom. At the end of the decade, a retrospective chart was compiled by the Official Charts Company to determine the best-selling artist album of this ten-year period. The title was won by James Blunt, with his debut album Back to Bedlam, released in 2004.[3] The album sold 3.19 million copies, finishing ahead of Dido's album No Angel, which sold 3.05 million copies.[4] Dido featured twice in the top 10 best-sellers, with Life for Rent being the seventh best-seller of the decade. Amy Winehouse (3), Leona Lewis (4) and David Gray (5) were the other solo-artists to feature.[5] The Beatles' compilation album 1 was the highest entry by a group in the chart at number 6; Coldplay (8), Keane (9) and Scissor Sisters (10) made up the rest of the top ten.[6] [7] Robbie Williams had the most albums on the list with five entries.
BBC Radio 1 announced the chart in a programme, presented by DJ Nihal, on 28 December 2009.[8] The list of the best-selling albums of the decade in the United Kingdom was also announced in a series of three shows between 29 and 31 December 2009. As it was broadcast during the last week of December, the chart did not include sales from the final week of the year. An updated chart, including sales up to 31 December 2009 and containing some minor changes from the chart broadcast on Radio 1, was published in the UK trade magazine Music Week in the issue dated 30 January 2010.
The list of the best-selling compilation albums of the decade in the UK Compilation Chart was dominated by the Now That's What I Call Music! series of albums. The best-selling compilation album of the 2000s was Now 47 with 1,371,324 copies sold, ahead of Now 50 with 1,367,380 copies. The best-selling soundtrack album of the decade was Mamma Mia! The Movie Soundtrack, with a total of 1,320,357 to the end of 2009.[9]
| scope=col | scope=col | Title | scope=col | Artist | scope=col | Peak position | scope=col | Year of release | scope=col | Sales | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 1 | Back to Bedlam | 1 | 2004 | 3,191,393 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 2 | No Angel | Dido | 1 | 2000 | 3,052,901 | |||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 3 | Back to Black | 1 | 2006 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 4 | Spirit | 1 | 2007 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 5 | White Ladder | 1 | 1998 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2000 | 2,867,152 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 7 | Life for Rent | Dido | 1 | 2003 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 8 | A Rush of Blood to the Head | Coldplay | 1 | 2002 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 9 | Hopes and Fears | Keane | 1 | 2004 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 10 | Scissor Sisters | Scissor Sisters | 1 | 2004 | 2,707,567 | |||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 11 | Beautiful World | Take That | 1 | 2006 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 12 | X&Y | Coldplay | 1 | 2005 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 13 | Parachutes | Coldplay | 1 | 2000 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 14 | Come Away with Me | 1 | 2002 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 15 | Eyes Open | Snow Patrol | 1 | 2006 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 16 | The Marshall Mathers LP | Eminem | 1 | 2000 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 17 | Swing When You're Winning | 1 | 2001 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 18 | Only by the Night | Kings of Leon | 1 | 2008 | 2,260,195[11] | |||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 19 | Greatest Hits | 1 | 2004 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 20 | Sing When You're Winning | 1 | 2000 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 21 | Rockferry | Duffy | 1 | 2008 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 22 | Escapology | 1 | 2002 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 23 | Employment | Kaiser Chiefs | 2 | 2005 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 24 | The Circus | Take That | 1 | 2008 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 25 | Gold: Greatest Hits | ABBA | 1 | 1992 | 1,995,170 | |||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 26 | Hot Fuss | 1 | 2004 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 27 | American Idiot | Green Day | 1 | 2004 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 28 | By the Way | Red Hot Chili Peppers | 1 | 2002 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 29 | Stripped | 2 | 2002 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 30 | Songs About Jane | Maroon 5 | 1 | 2002 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 31 | Justified | 1 | 2002 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 32 | Never Forget – The Ultimate Collection | Take That | 2 | 2005 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 33 | The Greatest Hits | Texas | 1 | 2000 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 34 | Call Off the Search | 1 | 2003 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 35 | Born to Do It | 1 | 2000 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 36 | Play | Moby | 1 | 1999 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 37 | Number Ones | 1 | 2003 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 38 | Missundaztood | Pink | 3 | 2002 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 39 | Just Enough Education to Perform | Stereophonics | 1 | 2001 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 40 | Let Go | 1 | 2002 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 41 | Final Straw | Snow Patrol | 3 | 2003 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 42 | Unbreakable – The Greatest Hits Vol. 1 | Westlife | 1 | 2002 | 1,730,028 | |||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 43 | Friday's Child | 1 | 2003 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 44 | Songbird | 1 | 1998 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 45 | Demon Days | Gorillaz | 1 | 2005 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 46 | Fever | 1 | 2001 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 47 | Coast to Coast | Westlife | 1 | 2000 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 48 | The Platinum Collection (Greatest Hits I, II, III) | Queen | 2 | 2000 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 49 | 1 | 2000 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 50 | R.E.M. | 1 | 2003 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 51 | Eye to the Telescope | 3 | 2004 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 52 | I Dreamed a Dream | 1 | 2009 | 1,632,732 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 53 | Gotta Get Thru This | 2 | 2002 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 54 | Music | Madonna | 1 | 2000 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 55 | Intensive Care | 1 | 2005 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 56 | Elephunk | 3 | 2003 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 57 | Good Girl Gone Bad | Rihanna | 1 | 2007 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 58 | Life in Cartoon Motion | Mika | 1 | 2007 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 59 | ELV1S | 1 | 2002 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 60 | Breakaway | 3 | 2005 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 61 | The Eminem Show | Eminem | 1 | 2002 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 62 | Il Divo | Il Divo | 1 | 2004 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 63 | Escape | 1 | 2001 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 64 | Undiscovered | 1 | 2006 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 65 | Razorlight | Razorlight | 1 | 2006 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 66 | In Between Dreams | 1 | 2005 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 67 | Greatest Hits | Guns N' Roses | 1 | 2004 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 68 | Greatest Hits 1970–2002 | 3 | 2002 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 69 | Ta-Dah | Scissor Sisters | 1 | 2006 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 70 | Sam's Town | 1 | 2006 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 71 | Confessions | Usher | 1 | 2004 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 72 | The Story So Far: The Very Best of Rod Stewart | 7 | 2001 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 73 | The Fame | Lady Gaga | 1 | 2009 | 1,388,847 | |||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 74 | Inside In/Inside Out | 2 | 2006 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 75 | Permission to Land | 1 | 2003 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 76 | One Love | Blue | 1 | 2002 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 77 | Dreams Can Come True, Greatest Hits Vol. 1 | Gabrielle | 2 | 2001 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 78 | Hybrid Theory | Linkin Park | 4 | 2000 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 79 | Stop the Clocks | Oasis | 2 | 2006 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 80 | 7 | 1997 | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 81 | Ronan | 1 | 2000 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 82 | Confessions on a Dance Floor | Madonna | 1 | 2005 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 83 | Face to Face | Westlife | 1 | 2005 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 84 | Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not | Arctic Monkeys | 1 | 2006 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 85 | Forever Faithless – The Greatest Hits | Faithless | 1 | 2005 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 86 | Piece by Piece | 1 | 2005 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 87 | Fallen | Evanescence | 1 | 2003 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 88 | I'm Not Dead | Pink | 3 | 2006 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 89 | Eminem | 1 | 2005 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 90 | Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | Coldplay | 1 | 2008 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 91 | All Rise | Blue | 1 | 2001 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 92 | The Man Who | Travis | 1 | 1999 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 93 | 10 Years of Hits | 1 | 2004 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 94 | Franz Ferdinand | Franz Ferdinand | 3 | 2004 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 95 | PCD | 7 | 2005 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 96 | Rise | Gabrielle | 1 | 1999 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 97 | How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb | U2 | 1 | 2004 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 98 | The Invisible Band | Travis | 1 | 2001 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 99 | Anastacia | Anastacia | 1 | 2004 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 100 | A New Day at Midnight | 1 | 2002 |
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