List of UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number ones of 1994

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Cross Road by Bon Jovi was the longest-running number-one rock album of 1994, spending eight weeks atop the chart. It ended 1994 as the second best-selling album of the year in the UK. Bon Jovi 1.jpg
Cross Road by Bon Jovi was the longest-running number-one rock album of 1994, spending eight weeks atop the chart. It ended 1994 as the second best-selling album of the year in the UK.

The UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal albums in the United Kingdom. In 1994, the chart was compiled by Gallup and published in Hit Music magazine every two weeks. [1] During the year, 25 charts were published with 19 albums at number one. The first number-one album of the year was So Far So Good by Bryan Adams, which spent the first two charts of 1994 at number one. [1] The last number-one album of the year was Second Coming by the Stone Roses. [2] Cross Road by Bon Jovi was the most successful album of the year on the chart, spending a total of eight weeks at number one, and finished the year as the second best-selling album in the UK. [3]

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Chart history

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So Far So Good by Bryan Adams (top), Nevermind by Nirvana (middle) and Greatest Hits by Whitesnake (bottom) all spent four weeks at number one in 1994.
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†Indicates best-selling rock album of 1994
Issue dateAlbumArtist(s)Record label(s)Ref.
15 January So Far So Good Bryan Adams A&M [1]
29 January [4]
12 February Jar of Flies/Sap Alice in Chains Columbia [5]
26 February Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell Meat Loaf Virgin [6]
12 March Troublegum Therapy? A&M [7]
26 March Superunknown Soundgarden [8]
9 April Far Beyond Driven Pantera East West [9]
23 AprilA Little of the Past Little Angels Polydor [10]
7 May Don't Be Happy... Just Worry The Wildhearts East West [11]
21 May Nevermind Nirvana Geffen [12]
4 June [13]
18 June The Last Temptation Alice Cooper Epic [14]
2 July Betty Helmet Interscope [15]
2 July Greatest Hits Whitesnake EMI [16]
30 July [17]
13 August Swagger Gun A&M [18]
27 August Burn My Eyes Machine Head Roadrunner [19]
10 September The Holy Bible Manic Street Preachers Epic [20]
24 September Born Dead Body Count Rhyme Syndicate [21]
8 October Crank The Almighty Chrysalis [22]
22 October Cross Road † Bon Jovi Jambco [23]
5 November [24]
19 November [25]
3 December [26]
17 December Second Coming The Stone Roses Geffen [2]

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