List of Official Vinyl Albums Chart number ones of the 2020s

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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. It lists the 40 most popular albums in the gramophone record (or "vinyl") format. [1] This is a list of the albums which have been number one on the Official Vinyl Albums Chart in the 2020s.

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Number ones

Key
No.nth album to top the Official Vinyl Albums Chart
reReturn of an album to number one
Dagger-14-plain.png Best-selling vinyl album of the year
Contents
← 2010s   2020
No.Artist [lower-alpha 1] Album [lower-alpha 1] Record label [lower-alpha 2] Reached number one
(for the week ending) [lower-alpha 1]
Weeks at
number one [lower-alpha 1]
Ref.
2020
re Fleetwood Mac Rumours Dagger-14-plain.png WEA 2 January 20201 [3]
re Amy Winehouse Back to Black Island 9 January 20201 [4]
re Fleetwood Mac Rumours Dagger-14-plain.png WEA 16 January 20201 [5]
208 Easy Life Junk Food Island 23 January 20201 [6]
209 Courteeners More. Again. Forever. Ignition 30 January 20201 [7]
210 Pet Shop Boys Hotspot x26 February 20201 [8]
211 Blossoms Foolish Loving Spaces EMI 13 February 20201 [9]
212 Green Day Father of All... Reprise 20 February 20201 [10]
213 Tame Impala The Slow Rush Fiction 27 February 20201 [11]
214 Ozzy Osbourne Ordinary Man Epic 5 March 20201 [12]
215 The Orielles Disco Volador Heavenly 12 March 20201 [13]
216 Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott Manchester Calling EMI 19 March 20201 [14]
217 The Snuts Mixtape Parlophone 26 March 20201 [15]
218 David Bowie Is It Any Wonder? (EP) Parlophone 2 April 20201 [16]
219 Dua Lipa Future Nostalgia Warner 9 April 20201 [17]
220 The Lovely Eggs I Am Moron Egg16 April 20201 [18]
221 The Killers Hot Fuss UMC/Virgin 23 April 20201 [19]
222 Gerry Cinnamon The Bonny Little Runaway30 April 20201 [20]
223 Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes What Kinda Music Beyond the Groove/Blue Note7 May 20201 [21]
224 The Strokes The New Abnormal Cult 14 May 20201 [22]
225 Hayley Williams Petals for Armor Atlantic 21 May 20201 [23]
226 Sleaford Mods All That Glue Rough Trade 28 May 20201 [24]
227 The 1975 Notes on a Conditional Form Dirty Hit/Polydor 4 June 20201 [25]
228 Lady Gaga Chromatica Interscope 11 June 20201 [26]
229 Sports Team Deep Down Happy Big Desert/Island 18 June 20201 [27]
230 Liam Gallagher MTV Unplugged (Live at Hull City Hall) Warner 25 June 20201 [28]
231 Neil Young Homegrown Reprise 2 July 20201 [29]
232 Haim Women in Music Pt. III Polydor/Vertigo Berlin/Columbia 9 July 20201 [30]
233 Paul Weller On Sunset Polydor 16 July 20201 [31]
234 The Streets None of Us Are Getting Out of This Life Alive Island 23 July 20201 [32]
235 Bob Dylan Rough and Rowdy Ways Columbia 30 July 20201 [33]
236Various artistsSongs for the National Health Service Blood Records/Flying Vinyl6 August 20201 [34]
237 Fontaines D.C. A Hero's Death Partisan 13 August 20201 [35]
238 Glass Animals Dreamland Polydor 20 August 20201 [36]
239 Biffy Clyro A Celebration of Endings Warner 27 August 20201 [37]
240 Erasure The Neon Mute 3 September 20201 [38]
241 David Bowie ChangesNowBowie Parlophone 10 September 20201 [39]
242 The Rolling Stones Goats Head Soup Polydor 17 September 20201 [40]
243 Doves The Universal Want EMI 24 September 20201 [41]
244 Run the Jewels RTJ4 BMG 1 October 20201 [42]
245 Idles Ultra Mono Partisan 8 October 20201 [43]
246 Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? Big Brother 15 October 20201 [44]
247 Iron Maiden Iron Maiden Parlophone 22 October 20201 [45]
248 The Vamps Cherry Blossom EMI 29 October 20201 [46]
249 Bruce Springsteen Letter to You Columbia 5 November 20201 [47]
250 The Style Council Long Hot Summers: The Story of The Style Council Polydor/UMC 12 November 20201 [48]
251 Kylie Minogue Disco BMG 19 November 20201 [49]
252 AC/DC Power Up Columbia 26 November 20201 [50]
253 Taylor Swift Folklore EMI 3 December 20201 [51]
254 Steps What the Future Holds BMG 10 December 20201 [52]
255 Arctic Monkeys Live at the Royal Albert Hall Domino 17 December 20201 [53]
256 The Killers Imploding the Mirage EMI 24 December 20201 [54]
257 Paul McCartney McCartney III EMI 31 December 20201 [55]

By record label

As of 31 December 2020 Seven record labels have topped the chart for at least three weeks.

Record labelNumber-one albumsWeeks at number one
EMI 77
Polydor 66
Columbia 44
Island 44
Parlophone 44
BMG 33
Warner 33

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 The artist, album, date of reaching number one and number of weeks at number one are those given by the OCC.
  2. The record labels are those given by the OCC. [2]

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