These are the Official Charts Company's UK Country Albums Chart number ones of 2020. 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 3 January, Luke Combs's What You See Is What You Get spent its fifth total week at number one, having held the top spot for the final two weeks of 2019. It would go on to remain at the peak for the first three weeks of 2020 before being displaced by Nightfall by Little Big Town, who achieved their second number one album. What You See Is What You Get would return to the chart peak throughout the year, spending a total of seven weeks there in 2020. The Shires spent the most weeks at number one this year, with their fourth album Good Years holding the top spot for eleven weeks, including nine consecutive weeks between March and May. The Chicks spent four weeks at number one with Gaslighter , their first release since 2006. Rumer then spent a cumulative six weeks atop the chart with Nashville Tears . Towards the end of the year, Starting Over by Chris Stapleton became his fourth number one, and held the top spot for five nonconsecutive weeks. Other artists who spent multiple weeks at number one included Ashton Lane, Brothers Osborne, Carrie Underwood, Gretchen Peters, Jason Isbell, The Cadillac Three, and Willie Nelson, who each held the position for two weeks. The final number one of the year was Starting Over.
Issue date | Album | Artist(s) | Record label | Ref. |
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3 January | What You See is What You Get | Luke Combs | Columbia Nashville/River House | [1] |
10 January | [2] | |||
17 January | [3] | |||
24 January | Nightfall | Little Big Town | Decca | [4] |
31 January | [5] | |||
7 February | What You See is What You Get | Luke Combs | Columbia Nashville/River House | [6] |
14 February | Country Fuzz | The Cadillac Three | Big Machine | [7] |
21 February | [8] | |||
28 February | Travelling Mercies | Ashton Lane | OC | [9] |
6 March | [10] | |||
13 March | What You See is What You Get | Luke Combs | Columbia Nashville/River House | [11] |
20 March | Good Years | The Shires | BMG | [12] |
27 March | [13] | |||
3 April | [14] | |||
10 April | [15] | |||
17 April | [16] | |||
24 April | [17] | |||
1 May | [18] | |||
8 May | [19] | |||
15 May | [20] | |||
22 May | Reunions | Jason Isbell | Southeastern | [21] |
29 May | [22] | |||
5 June | Ghosts of West Virginia | Steve Earle | New West | [23] |
12 June | Good Years | The Shires | BMG | [24] |
19 June | [25] | |||
26 June | The Night You Wrote That Song | Gretchen Peters | Sony | [26] |
3 July | [27] | |||
10 July | First Rose of Spring | Willie Nelson | Sony | [28] |
17 July | [29] | |||
24 July | Gaslighter | The Chicks | Columbia | [30] |
31 July | [31] | |||
7 August | [32] | |||
14 August | [33] | |||
21 August | Nashville Tears | Rumer | Cooking Vinyl | [34] |
28 August | [35] | |||
4 September | [36] | |||
11 September | Western Swing & Waltzes and Other Punchy Songs | Colter Wall | La Honda | [37] |
18 September | Nashville Tears | Rumer | Cooking Vinyl | [38] |
25 September | [39] | |||
2 October | My Gift | Carrie Underwood | EMI | [40] |
9 October | [41] | |||
16 October | Skeletons | Brothers Osborne | Spinefarm | [42] |
23 October | [43] | |||
30 October | What You See is What You Get | Luke Combs | Columbia Nashville/River House | [44] |
6 November | [45] | |||
13 November | The Otherside | Cam | Mercury Nashville | [46] |
20 November | Starting Over | Chris Stapleton | Mercury Nashville | [47] |
27 November | [48] | |||
4 December | [49] | |||
11 December | The Road to Christmas | Derek Ryan | Sharpe Music | [50] |
18 December | Starting Over | Chris Stapleton | Mercury Nashville | [51] |
25 December | [52] | |||
Weeks at number one | Artist |
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11 | The Shires |
7 | Luke Combs |
5 | Chris Stapleton |
Rumer | |
4 | The Chicks |
2 | Ashton Lane |
Brothers Osborne | |
Carrie Underwood | |
Gretchen Peters | |
Jason Isbell | |
Little Big Town | |
The Cadillac Three | |
Willie Nelson |