List of UK Country Albums Chart number ones of 2015
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These are the Official Charts Company's UK Country Albums Chart number ones of 2015. 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 4 January, 747 by Lady Antebellum was at number one, having returned there in the last week of 2014. The album would remain at the top spot for another week, and returned in February for its ninth total week at number one. On 8 March, British duo The Shires charted at the peak with their debut album Brave and remained there for ten consecutive weeks. They would return to the top spot several times over the year, spending a minimum of four consecutive weeks there each time, and ultimately spent thirty three weeks at number one. Kacey Musgraves also spent four consecutive weeks at the chart summit with her second album Pageant Material. Carrie Underwood's Storyteller became her fourth UK country number one, and spent two nonconsecutive weeks in the top spot in October and December. Likewise, Hair Down To My Grass became Hayseed Dixie's fourth number one on the chart when it spent two consecutive weeks in January, while Steve Earle's Terraplane held the top spot for two weeks in February/March, becoming his eighth number one. The final number one of the year was Brave by The Shires.
The Official UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by sales and audio streaming in the United Kingdom. It was published for the first time on 22 July 1956 and is compiled every week by the Official Charts Company (OCC) on Fridays. It is broadcast on BBC Radio 1 and found on the OCC website as a Top 100 or on UKChartsPlus as a Top 200, with positions continuing until all sales have been tracked in data only available to industry insiders. However, even though number 100 was classed as a hit album in the 1980s until January 1989, since the compilations were removed, this definition was changed to Top 75 with follow-up books such as The Virgin Book of British Hit Albums only including this data. As of 2021, the OCC still only tracks how many UK Top 75s album hits and how many weeks in Top 75 albums chart each artist has achieved.
The Shires are a British country music duo composed of singer-songwriters Ben Earle and Crissie Rhodes. Earle sings harmony vocals, plays piano and guitar, and Rhodes is lead singer. The duo formed in 2013 and released their debut album Brave in 2015, becoming the first UK country act to chart in the Top 10 of the UK Albums Chart. The group's second album, My Universe, became the fastest-selling UK country album in history when it was released in October 2016.
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