| Specialist Classical Albums Chart number ones |
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| Specialist Classical Albums Chart Official Charts Company |
This is a list of the number-one albums of the Specialist Classical Albums Chart during the 2020s.
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As of 14 September 2024 [update] , Nine artists have spent six or more weeks at the top of the Specialist Classical Albums Chart so far during the 2020s. The totals below include only credited performances.
| Artist | Number-one albums | Weeks at number one |
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| Ludovico Einaudi | 2 | 43 |
| Víkingur Ólafsson | 4 | 24 |
| Poor Clares of Arundel | 2 | 22 |
| Sheku Kanneh-Mason | 2 | 20 |
| Max Richter | 4 | 20 |
| Choir of King's College, Cambridge | 3 | 9 |
| John Wilson | 7 | 8 |
| Lang Lang | 2 | 8 |
| Chad Lawson | 1 | 6 |
As of 7 September 2024 [update] , Twenty five record labels have released chart-topping albums so far during the 2020s.
| Record label | Number-one albums | Weeks at number one |
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| Decca | 32 | 137 |
| Deutsche Grammophon | 17 | 45 |
| Hyperion | 15 | 15 |
| Chandos | 9 | 10 |
| Warner Classics | 3 | 8 |
| Sony Classical | 5 | 5 |
| Delphian | 2 | 4 |
| Harmonia Mundi | 4 | 4 |
| Opera Rara | 1 | 2 |
| VCM | 1 | 1 |
| BMG | 2 | 2 |
| Pentatone | 2 | 2 |
| Naxos | 1 | 1 |
| King's College Cambridge | 2 | 4 |
| Erato | 2 | 2 |
| Linn | 1 | 1 |
| ECM | 1 | 2 |
| Classic FM | 1 | 1 |
| NoneSuch | 1 | 1 |
| Asthmatic Kitty | 1 | 1 |
| Silva Classics | 1 | 1 |
| Orange Mountain Music | 1 | 1 |
| LSO Live | 1 | 1 |
| Signum | 1 | 1 |
| ECM New Series | 1 | 1 |
The UK Classical Charts are three record charts based on classical music in the United Kingdom: the Classical Artist Albums Chart, the Classical Compilation Albums Chart and the Specialist Classical Albums Chart. The charts are commercial monitoring and marketing devices used by the UK music industry to measure its effectiveness in promoting and selling albums, nominally in the field of classical music. All three charts are compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC). The measurements are made by collating the returns of sales from a number of well-known music stores on a regular basis, and this enables a ranking to be established. Most classical artist album sales in the UK are from crossover artists. For an album to be classified as classical in the charts, it has to have 60% of the playing time dedicated to "classical or traditional music". Only albums that entirely classical or traditional music qualify for inclusion in the Specialist Classical Albums Chart.
