The Official Vinyl Albums Chart is a weekly record chart compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC) on behalf of the music industry in the United Kingdom since April 2015. It lists the 40 most popular albums in the gramophone record (or "vinyl") format. [1] This is a list of the albums which reached number one on the Official Vinyl Albums Chart in the 2010s.
No. | nth album to top the Official Vinyl Albums Chart |
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re | Return of an album to number one |
† | Best-selling vinyl album of the year |
‡ | Best-selling vinyl album of the decade [2] |
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2015 • 2016 • 2017 • 2018 • 2019 • 2020s → |
18 record labels have topped the chart for at least three weeks.
Record label | Number-one albums | Weeks at number one |
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Columbia | 18 | 19 |
Parlophone | 13 | 13 |
XL | 5 | 12 |
Polydor | 11 | 11 |
RCA | 6 | 11 |
Island | 6 | 11 |
Warner | 10 | 11 |
BMG | 10 | 10 |
EMI | 9 | 9 |
Rhino | 9 | 9 |
Asylum | 1 | 6 |
Sony | 5 | 6 |
UMC | 2 | 6 |
Apple Corps | 2 | 5 |
Dirty Hit | 2 | 4 |
Domino | 3 | 3 |
International Death Cult | 3 | 3 |
Virgin | 3 | 3 |
10 artists topped the chart for at least three weeks.
Artist | Number-one albums | Weeks at number one |
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David Bowie | 8 | 13 |
Amy Winehouse | 1 | 7 |
Ed Sheeran | 1 | 6 |
Queen | 2 | 6 |
The Beatles | 2 | 5 |
Radiohead | 1 | 5 |
Adele | 1 | 4 |
Elvis Presley | 2 | 3 |
Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes | 3 | 3 |
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds | 3 | 3 |
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