List of UK top-ten albums in 1995

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The UK Albums Chart is one of many music charts compiled by the Official Charts Company that calculates the best-selling albums of the week in the United Kingdom. [1] [2] [3] Before 2004, the chart was only based on the sales of physical albums. This list shows albums that peaked in the Top 10 of the UK Albums Chart during 1995, as well as albums which peaked in 1994 and 1996 but were in the top 10 in 1995. The entry date is when the album appeared in the top ten for the first time (week ending, as published by the Official Charts Company, which is six days after the chart is announced).

Contents

The first new number-one album of the year was The Colour of My Love by Celine Dion. Overall, twenty-seven different albums peaked at number-one in 1995, with twenty-seven unique artists hitting that position.

Background

Best-selling albums

Robson & Jerome had the best-selling album of the year with Robson & Jerome . (What's the Story) Morning Glory? by Oasis came in second place. The Colour of My Love by Celine Dion, Life by Simply Red and HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I by Michael Jackson made up the top five. Albums by Queen, Paul Weller, Wet Wet Wet, Blur and Pulp were also in the top-ten best selling albums of the year.

Top-ten albums

Key
SymbolMeaning
Album peaked in 1994 but still in chart in 1995.
Album released in 1994 or 1995 but peaked in 1996.
(#)Year-end top-ten album position and rank
EnteredThe date that the album first appeared in the chart.
PeakHighest position that the album reached in the UK Albums Chart.
Entered
(week ending)
Weeks
in
top
10
SingleArtistPeakPeak
reached
(week ending)
Weeks
at
peak
Albums in 1994
29 January 199424 Always & Forever Eternal 27 January 19953
5 March 199432 The Colour of My Love Celine Dion 128 January 19957
7 May 199436 Parklife Blur 17 May 19941
4 June 199412 Seal (1994) Seal 14 June 19942
10 September 199425 Definitely Maybe Oasis 110 September 19941
15 October 199422 No Need to Argue The Cranberries 215 October 19941
22 October 199415 Cross Road Bon Jovi 122 October 19945
29 October 19949 Steam East 17 331 December 19943
19 November 19949 Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting 1984–1994 Sting 219 November 19941
18 Carry on up the Charts: The Best of The Beautiful South The Beautiful South 13 December 19947
26 November 199426 Bizarre Fruit M People 317 February 19963
3 December 19944 The Best of New Order New Order 43 December 19941
10 December 19945 Live at the BBC The Beatles 110 December 19941
17 December 199414 Crocodile Shoes (Original Songs from the BBC Television Serial) Jimmy Nail 224 December 19942
Albums in 1995
7 January 19952 Psyche – The Album PJ & Duncan 57 January 19951
21 January 199513 Dummy Portishead 26 May 19951
28 January 19951 University Throwing Muses 1028 January 19951
4 February 19951 Behind Closed Doors Thunder 54 February 19951
1 Octopus The Human League 64 February 19951
1 Balance Van Halen 84 February 19951
10Pan Pipe MoodsFree The Spirit218 February 19952
11 February 19953 Good News from the Next World Simple Minds 211 February 19951
3 Leftism Leftfield 311 February 19951
1 Waiting for the Punchline Extreme 1011 February 19951
18 February 19952 Greatest Hits Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band 618 February 19951
1 Worry Bomb Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine 918 February 19951
25 February 19951 Smart Sleeper 525 February 19951
1 King Belly 625 February 19951
4 March 19951 Maxinquaye Tricky 34 March 19951
1 Singles The Smiths 54 March 19951
11 March 199512 Greatest Hits Bruce Springsteen 111 March 19952
2 Twisted Del Amitri 311 March 19951
18 March 199512 Medusa Annie Lennox 118 March 19951
2 Galore Kirsty MacColl 618 March 19951
1 Beggar on a Beach of Gold Mike and the Mechanics 918 March 19951
25 March 19955 Elastica Elastica 125 March 19951
1 King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime Faith No More 525 March 19951
5 The Bends Radiohead 410 February 19961
1 Conversation Peace Stevie Wonder 825 March 19951
1 April 19953 Made in England Elton John 31 April 19951
1 Olympian Gene 81 April 19951
8 April 19953 Wake Up! The Boo Radleys 18 April 19951
1 Subhuman Race Skid Row 88 April 19951
15 April 19954The Choir (Music from the BBC Television Series) Anthony Way and Stanislas Syrewicz322 April 19951
22 April 199518 Picture This Wet Wet Wet 122 April 19953
29 April 19951 MTV Unplugged Bob Dylan 1029 April 19951
13 May 199511 Nobody Else Take That 113 May 19952
1Chas & Dave's Street Party Chas & Dave 313 May 19951
20 May 19951 Another Night (U.S. Album) Real McCoy 620 May 19951
1Pan PipeInspirations1020 May 19951
27 May 199524 Stanley Road Paul Weller 127 May 19951
11 I Should Coco Supergrass 129 July 19953
2 The Complete Stone Roses The Stone Roses 427 May 19951
3 June 199510 Singles Alison Moyet 13 June 19951
3 Natural Mystic: The Legend Lives On Bob Marley and the Wailers 53 June 19951
1 P.H.U.Q. The Wildhearts 63 June 19951
1 Tuesday Night Music Club Sheryl Crow 83 June 19951
10 June 19956 Pulse Pink Floyd 110 June 19952
3 A Spanner in the Works Rod Stewart 417 June 19951
1 Grand Prix Teenage Fanclub 710 June 19951
17 June 19951 Big Love Ali Campbell 617 June 19951
24 June 199522 HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I Michael Jackson 124 June 19951
4 Post Björk 224 June 19951
2 Days Like This Van Morrison 524 June 19951
1 Infernal Love Therapy? 924 June 19951
1 July 19958 These Days Bon Jovi 11 July 19954
1 Replenish Reef 91 July 19951
8 July 19952 Foo Fighters Foo Fighters 38 July 19951
2 Mirror Ball Neil Young 48 July 19951
1 Exit Planet Dust The Chemical Brothers 98 July 19951
22 July 19951 Gorgeous George Edwyn Collins 822 July 19951
29 July 19951 The Show, the After Party, the Hotel Jodeci 429 July 19951
5Sax MoodsBlowing Free65 August 19951
12 August 19951 La Carretera Julio Iglesias 612 August 19951
19 August 19954 It's Great When You're Straight...Yeah Black Grape 119 August 19952
1 Alternative Pet Shop Boys 219 August 19951
1 Timeless Goldie 719 August 19951
26 August 19959 CrazySexyCool TLC 423 September 19951
2 September 199510 Said and Done Boyzone 12 September 19951
9 September 19953 The Charlatans The Charlatans 19 September 19951
3 Zeitgeist Levellers 116 September 19951
1 Southpaw Grammar Morrissey 49 September 19951
16 September 19951 Take Me Higher Diana Ross 1016 September 19951
23 September 19957 The Great Escape Blur 123 September 19952
2 One Hot Minute Red Hot Chili Peppers 223 September 19951
1 Circus Lenny Kravitz 523 September 19951
30 September 19955 Greatest Hits (1985–1995) Michael Bolton 230 September 19952
1 On Echobelly 430 September 19951
1 World D:Ream 530 September 19951
1 Paranoid & Sunburnt Skunk Anansie 830 September 19951
2Pan Pipe DreamsInspirations1030 September 19952
7 October 19955 Daydream Mariah Carey 17 October 19951
1 The Gold Experience Prince 47 October 19951
1 Ballbreaker AC/DC 67 October 19951
1 D'eux Celine Dion 77 October 19951
1 Outside David Bowie 87 October 19951
14 October 199551 (What's the Story) Morning Glory? Oasis 114 October 199510
6 Design of a Decade: 1986–1996 Janet Jackson 214 October 19951
2 All You Can Eat k.d. lang 714 October 19951
1 The X Factor Iron Maiden 814 October 19951
21 October 199515 Life Simply Red 121 October 19953
1 Insomniac Green Day 821 October 19951
28 October 19953 The Very Best of Robert Palmer Robert Palmer 428 October 19951
3 All Change Cast 728 October 19951
2Chants and Dances of the Native Americans Sacred Spirit 94 November 19951
4 November 19953 Vault: Def Leppard Greatest Hits (1980–1995) Def Leppard 34 November 19951
1 Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness The Smashing Pumpkins 44 November 19951
1 Don't Bore Us, Get to the Chorus! Roxette's Greatest Hits Roxette 54 November 19951
11 November 199523 Different Class Pulp 111 November 19951
5 Welcome to the Neighbourhood Meat Loaf 311 November 19951
4 Power of a Woman Eternal 611 November 19951
18 November 199510 Made in Heaven Queen 118 November 19951
12 Something to Remember Madonna 318 November 19951
8 Love Songs Elton John 416 December 19951
11 Big River Jimmy Nail 818 November 19951
25 November 199513 Robson & Jerome Robson & Jerome 125 November 19957
2 Up All Night East 17 725 November 19951
1 Stripped The Rolling Stones 925 November 19951
2 December 19953 Anthology 1 The Beatles 22 December 19951
8 The Memory of Trees Enya 59 December 19951

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