These are the Official Charts Company's UK Country Albums Chart number ones of 2007. The chart week runs from Friday to Thursday with the chart-date given as the following Thursday. Chart positions are based the multi-metric consumption of country music in the United Kingdom, blending traditional album sales, track equivalent albums, and streaming equivalent albums. The chart contains 20 positions.
In the iteration of the chart dated 7 January, Johnny Cash's 2002 release American IV: The Man Comes Around spent its thirty seventh week at number one, having also held the top spot in the final week of 2006. The album remained there for the first five weeks of 2007, and later returned for a week in May. Cash's seminal live album At San Quentin also spent ten weeks at number one throughout the year. Taking the Long Way by the Dixie Chicks spent a fifth and sixth total week at number one, having previously reached the chart peak the previous year, while Alison Krauss held the top spot for two weeks with her greatest hits collection A Hundred Miles or More . Carrie Underwood's debut album Some Hearts also earned its first and only week at number one on the chart dated 3 June, having first debuted in January 2006. Ryan Adams' Easy Tiger spent the most weeks at number one in 2007, holding the top spot for eleven consecutive weeks from July to September before being displaced by Prism by Beth Nielsen Chapman, her second UK number one. LeAnn Rimes achieved her seventh UK number one when her Family album spent three consecutive weeks at number one. It was displaced on 4 November by Long Road Out of Eden , the final studio release by the Eagles, which remained there for the remaining nine weeks of the year.
Issue date | Album | Artist(s) | Record label | Ref. |
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7 January | American IV: The Man Comes Around | Johnny Cash | American Recordings | [1] |
14 January | [2] | |||
21 January | [3] | |||
28 January | [4] | |||
4 February | [5] | |||
11 February | 13 Cities | Richmond Fontaine | Decor | [6] |
18 February | Taking the Long Way | Dixie Chicks | Open Wide | [7] |
25 February | At San Quentin | Johnny Cash | Columbia | [8] |
4 March | [9] | |||
11 March | [10] | |||
18 March | [11] | |||
25 March | [12] | |||
1 April | [13] | |||
8 April | A Hundred Miles or More: A Collection | Alison Krauss | Rounder | [14] |
15 April | [15] | |||
22 April | Weapons of Grass Destruction | Hayseed Dixie | Cooking Vinyl | [16] |
29 April | At San Quentin | Johnny Cash | Columbia | [17] |
6 May | [18] | |||
13 May | American IV: The Man Comes Around | American Recordings | [19] | |
20 May | At San Quentin | Columbia | [20] | |
27 May | One of the Boys | Gretchen Wilson | [21] | |
3 June | Some Hearts | Carrie Underwood | Arista Nashville | [22] |
10 June | Taking the Long Way | Dixie Chicks | Open Wide | [23] |
17 June | At San Quentin | Johnny Cash | Columbia | [24] |
24 June | Little Amber Bottles | Blanche | Loose | [25] |
1 July | Easy Tiger | Ryan Adams | Lost Highway | [26] |
8 July | [27] | |||
15 July | [28] | |||
22 July | [29] | |||
29 July | [30] | |||
5 August | [31] | |||
12 August | [32] | |||
19 August | [33] | |||
26 August | [34] | |||
2 September | [35] | |||
9 September | [36] | |||
23 September | Prism | Beth Nielsen Chapman | BNC | [37] |
30 September | [38] | |||
7 October | Washington Square Serenade | Steve Earle | New West | [39] |
14 October | Family | LeAnn Rimes | Curb | [40] |
21 October | [41] | |||
28 October | [42] | |||
4 November | Long Road Out of Eden | Eagles | Polydor | [43] |
11 November | [44] | |||
18 November | [45] | |||
25 November | [46] | |||
2 December | [47] | |||
9 December | [48] | |||
16 December | [49] | |||
23 December | [50] | |||
30 December | [51] | |||
Weeks at number one | Artist |
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16 | Johnny Cash |
11 | Ryan Adams |
9 | Eagles |
3 | LeAnn Rimes |
2 | Alison Krauss |
Beth Nielsen Chapman | |
Dixie Chicks |