List of UK Country Albums Chart number ones of 2016

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These are the Official Charts Company's UK Country Albums Chart number ones of 2016. 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.

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In the iteration of the chart dated 1 January, Brave , the debut album by British duo The Shires, spent it's thirty fifth total week at number one, and was briefly displaced by Rhiannon Giddens' Tomorrow Is My Turn (which reached the summit after eighteen weeks on the chart), before returning to the top spot for another two weeks. Later in the year, The Shires released their second album My Universe , which spent eleven consecutive weeks at number one. Beginning on 12th February, Chris Isaak debuted with First Comes the Night , which went on to hold the top spot for four weeks until it was replaced by country legend Loretta Lynn and her album Full Circle , becoming her second album to hit number one in the UK and her final number one before her death in 2022. Chris Stapleton's first album Traveller premiered on the chart in mid-March and would go on to spend four nonconsecutive weeks at the top. On 11 May, 80s pop star Cyndi Lauper achieved her first country number one with Detour , a collection of country music covers that inspired her as a child. Colvin & Earle , a collaborative project by Shawn Colvin and Steve Earle spent four weeks at number one, becoming Colvin's first number one country album and Earle's ninth. Following this, Ward Thomas' debut record From Where We Stand returned to the chart peak for two weeks, and their second album Cartwheels spent five non-consecutive weeks at number one and became the first British country album to reach the top spot on the all genre UK Albums Chart. Other artists who spent multiple weeks at number one include Lucinda Williams, Steven Tyler, and The Cadillac Three, which each spent two weeks, and Dolly Parton, who spent three weeks with Pure & Simple . The final number one of the year was Cartwheels.

Chart history

The Shires spent a total of fifteen weeks at number one with their debut Brave, and their sophomore release My Universe. The Shires, Towersey 2018.jpg
The Shires spent a total of fifteen weeks at number one with their debut Brave , and their sophomore release My Universe .
Chris Isaak held the top spot for four weeks with First Comes the Night. Chris Isaak at NAMM 1 25 2014 -15 (12243161146).jpg
Chris Isaak held the top spot for four weeks with First Comes the Night .
Full Circle became country legend Loretta Lynn's final UK number one before her death in 2022. Loretta Lynn SXSW 2016 -8842 (33197871691).jpg
Full Circle became country legend Loretta Lynn's final UK number one before her death in 2022.
Chris Stapleton's Traveller spent four weeks at number one. 2022 Gershwin Prize for Popular Song (51929239752).jpg
Chris Stapleton's Traveller spent four weeks at number one.
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Shawn Colvin and Steve Earle were number one for four consecutive weeks with their collaborative project Colvin & Earle .
Pure & Simple earned Dolly Parton her eighth number one album in the UK. Dolly Parton at 'Blue Smoke World Tour' in Knoxville.jpg
Pure & Simple earned Dolly Parton her eighth number one album in the UK.
Issue dateAlbumArtist(s)Record labelRef.
1 January Brave The Shires Decca [1]
8 January Tomorrow Is My Turn Rhiannon Giddens Nonesuch [2]
15 JanuaryBraveThe ShiresDecca [3]
22 January [4]
29 January The Ghosts of Highway 20 Lucinda Williams Highway 20 [5]
5 February [6]
12 February First Comes the Night Chris Isaak Rhino [7]
19 February [8]
26 February [9]
4 March [10]
11 March Full Circle Loretta Lynn Legacy [11]
18 March Traveller Chris Stapleton UCJ [12]
25 MarchYou Can't Go Back If There's Nothing To Go Back To Richmond Fontaine Decor [13]
1 AprilTravellerChris StapletonUCJ [14]
8 April Little Windows Teddy Thompson & Kelly Jones Cooking Vinyl [15]
15 AprilTravellerChris StapletonUCJ [16]
22 April [17]
29 April A Sailor's Guide to Earth Sturgill Simpson Atlantic [18]
6 May Stayin' Up All Night Nathan Carter Decca [19]
13 May Detour Cyndi Lauper Rhino [20]
20 May The Things That We Are Made Of Mary Chapin Carpenter Lambent Light [21]
27 May Midwest Farmer's Daughter Margo Price Third Man [22]
3 June Black Dierks Bentley Capitol [23]
10 June Obsessed Dan + Shay Warner Bros [24]
17 June Colvin & Earle Shawn Colvin & Steve Earle Concord Records [25]
24 June [26]
1 July [27]
8 July [28]
15 July From Where We Stand Ward Thomas WTW Music [29]
22 July [30]
26 July We're All Somebody from Somewhere Steven Tyler Dot/Republic [31]
5 August [32]
12 August Bury Me in My Boots The Cadillac Three Big Machine [33]
19 August [34]
26 August Pure & Simple Dolly Parton RCA Nashville [35]
2 September [36]
9 September [37]
16 September Cartwheels Ward Thomas Sony/WTW [38]
23 September [39]
30 September [40]
7 October My Universe The ShiresDecca [41]
14 October [42]
21 October [43]
28 October [44]
4 November [45]
11 November [46]
18 November [47]
25 November [48]
25 November [49]
2 December [50]
9 December [51]
16 December [52]
23 DecemberCartwheelsWard ThomasSony/WTW [53]
30 December [54]

Most weeks at number one

Weeks at number oneArtist
15 The Shires
7 Ward Thomas
4 Chris Isaak
Chris Stapleton
Shawn Colvin & Steve Earle
3 Dolly Parton
3 Lucinda Williams
Steven Tyler
2 The Cadillac Three

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