The UK Country Artists Albums Chart is a music charts compiled in the United Kingdom by the Official Charts Company from sales of songs in the country music genre in record stores and digital downloads. The chart can be viewed on the Official Charts Company's website and is released weekly. The archive on the Official Charts Company website goes back to 30 January 1994, with the first listed number one album being K.d. lang's Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, the soundtrack to the film of the same name.[1]
Digital downloads became eligible on the Country Albums chart in June 2009. Prior to that, only vinyl and CD sales were compiled into the chart.
The Official Country Artists Albums Chart contains 20 positions.
Another chart complied by the Official Charts Company, the UK Country Compilations Chart, collates data on the sales of compilation albums. On March 10, 2024, the UK Country Airplay chart debuted. Monitored by Radiomonitor and the UK wing of the Country Music Association, chart rankings collate information from a range of participating radio stations to identify the most listened to country music single in the UK each week. The chart itself is posted on Holler Country.[2]
The following artists have had five or more of their albums reach number one on the UK Country Albums Chart:
| scope=col | Albums | scope=col | Artist | scope=col | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | Daniel O'Donnell | [3] | |||
| 13 | Steve Earle | [4] [5] | |||
| 9 | Lady A | [6] [7] | |||
| 8 | Dolly Parton | [8] | |||
| 7 | Carrie Underwood | [9] | |||
| Johnny Cash | [10] | ||||
| LeAnn Rimes | [11] | ||||
| 6 | |||||
| Nathan Carter | [12] | ||||
| 5 | Alison Krauss | [13] | |||
| Chris Stapleton | [14] | ||||
| Garth Brooks | [15] | ||||
| Glen Campbell | [16] | ||||
| Kacey Musgraves | [17] | ||||
| Mary Chapin Carpenter | [18] | ||||
| The Shires | [19] | ||||
| Willie Nelson | [20] |
Notes
The following artists have spent more than 40 weeks at number one overall on the UK Country Albums Chart:
| scope=col | Weeks at no.1 | scope=col | Artist | scope=col | Albums (Weeks at number one) | scope=col | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 161 | Daniel O'Donnell | The Very Best Of (4), A Date with Daniel Live (4), Last Waltz (9), Especially for You (11), Timeless (8), Songs of Inspiration (36), Love Songs (7), Faith & Inspiration (10), Live Laugh Love (6), Yesterday's Memories (1), At the End of the Day (11), The Jukebox Years (15), Welcome to My World (15), Country Boy (15), Peace in the Valley (9), Wish You Well (1) | |||||
| 137 | Shania Twain | The Woman in Me (6), Come On Over (118), Up! (49) | |||||
| 107 | Lady A | Need You Now (41), Own the Night (36), Need You Now/Own the Night (2), Golden (13) 747 (9), Ocean (3), What a Song Can Do: Chapter One (1), What a Song Can Do (2) | |||||
| 96 | Taylor Swift | Fearless (46), Taylor Swift (4), Fearless (Taylor's Version) (46) | [21] | ||||
| 87 | The Shires | Brave (37), My Universe (11), Accidentally on Purpose (15), Good Years (11), 10 Year Plan (12) | |||||
| Johnny Cash | (43), At San Quentin (10), (11), (4), The Classics (1), Out Among the Stars (15), Songwriter (3) | ||||||
| 45 | Garth Brooks | In Pieces (13), Fresh Horses (16), Sevens (9), Scarecrow (1), Man Against Machine (6) | |||||
| 42 | Eagles | The Very Best Of (1), Long Road Out of Eden (41) | [22] | ||||
The following albums have spent more than 30 weeks at number one:
| scope=col | Weeks | scope=col | Album | scope=col | Artist | scope=col | Year(s) | scope=col | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 118 | Come On Over | Shania Twain | 1997-2024 | [23] | |||||
| 49 | Up! | 2002-2004 | [24] | ||||||
| 46 | Fearless | Taylor Swift | 2008-2010 | [25] | |||||
| Fearless (Taylor's Version) | 2021-2024 | [26] | |||||||
| 43 | Johnny Cash | 2003-2007 | [27] | ||||||
| 41 | Long Road Out of Eden | Eagles | 2007-2009 | [28] | |||||
| 39 | Need You Now | Lady Antebellum | 2010-2013 | [29] | |||||
| 37 | Brave | The Shires | 2015-2016 | [30] | |||||
| 36 | Own the Night | Lady Antebellum | 2011-2012 | [31] | |||||
| Songs of Inspiration | Daniel O'Donnell | 1996-1997 | [32] | ||||||
| 30 | Trampoline | The Mavericks | 1999-1999 | [33] |
The following albums spent the most cumulative weeks at number one in the respective year: