List of UK top-ten albums in 2023

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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] Since 2004 the chart has been based on the sales of both physical albums and digital downloads. [2] [3] Since 2015, the album chart has been based on both sales and streaming. This list shows albums that peaked in the top ten of the UK Albums Chart during 2023, as well as albums which peaked in 2022 and 2024 but were in the top 10 in 2023. The entry date is when the album appeared in the top 10 for the first time (week ending, as published by the Official Charts Company, which is six days after the chart is announced).

Contents

One-hundred and ninety-two albums were in the top 10 this year. Two albums from 2021 and six albums from 2022 remained in the top ten for several weeks at the beginning of the year, while Stick Season by Noah Kahan was released in 2023 but did not reach its peak until 2024. Christmas by Michael Bublé, originally released in 2011, was the only album from 2022 to reach its peak in 2023.

The first new number-one album of the year was Christmas by Michael Bublé. Overall, forty-three different albums peaked at number-one in 2023, with Damon Albarn, Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift (2) having the joint most albums hit that position.

An asterisk (*) in the "Weeks in Top 10" column shows that the album is currently in the top 10.

Background

Best-selling albums

The Weeknd had the best-selling album of the year with The Highlights . Midnights by Taylor Swift came in second place. Taylor Swift's 1989 (Taylor's Version) , Diamonds by Elton John and Harry Styles' Harry's House made up the top five. Albums by Fleetwood Mac, Eminem, SZA, Arctic Monkeys and ABBA were also in the top ten best-selling albums of the year.

Top-ten albums

Key
SymbolMeaning
‡Album peaked in 2021 or 2022 but still in chart in 2023.
♦Album released in 2023 but peaked in 2024.
(#)Year-end top ten album position and rank
EnteredThe date that the album first appeared in the chart.
PeakHighest position that the song reached in the UK Albums Chart.
Entered
(week ending)		Weeks
in
top
10		AlbumArtistPeakPeak
reached
(week ending)		Weeks
at
peak
Albums in 2021
18 February 2021136* The Highlights (#1) ‡ The Weeknd 218 February 20217
11 November 202166 = ‡ Ed Sheeran 111 November 20214
Albums in 2022
2 June 202257 Harry's House (#5) ‡ Harry Styles 12 June 20226
11 August 202211 Renaissance ‡ Beyoncé 111 August 20222
3 November 202257 Midnights (#2) ‡ Taylor Swift 13 November 20225
15 December 20228 Christmas Michael Bublé 15 January 20232
22 December 20224 There's Nothing but Space, Man! ‡ Sam Ryder 122 December 20221
17 SOS (#8) ‡ SZA 222 December 20223
Albums in 2023
5 January 202334 Diamonds (#4) Elton John 26 July 20232
1 Rumours Fleetwood Mac 85 January 20231
6 AM (#9) Arctic Monkeys 76 July 20231
12 January 202317 Curtain Call: The Hits (#7) Eminem 59 February 20231
4 ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits (#10) ABBA 1012 January 20234
19 January 202320 50 Years – Don't Stop (#6)Fleetwood Mac618 May 20232
8 Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent Lewis Capaldi 420 April 20232
26 January 20231 St. Jude Courteeners 126 January 20231
1 Rap Game Awful Clavish 426 January 20231
1Turn the Car Around Gaz Coombes 626 January 20231
2 February 20231 What's Rock and Roll? The Reytons 12 February 20231
1 Rush! Måneskin 52 February 20231
1 Wrong Side of Paradise Black Star Riders 62 February 20231
9 February 20231 Gloria Sam Smith 19 February 20231
1 The Bootleg Series Vol. 17: Fragments – Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996–1997) Bob Dylan 99 February 20231
16 February 20231 Queen of Me Shania Twain 116 February 20231
4 My 21st Century Blues Raye 216 February 20231
1 Heavy Heavy Young Fathers 716 February 20231
23 February 20231 This Is Why Paramore 123 February 20231
1Truth Decay You Me at Six 423 February 20231
2 March 20235 Trustfall Pink 12 March 20231
1 Cuts & Bruises Inhaler 22 March 20231
1Inhale/Exhale Those Damn Crows 32 March 20231
1 Optical Delusion Orbital 62 March 20231
9 March 20231 Cracker Island Gorillaz 19 March 20231
1 Good Riddance Gracie Abrams 39 March 20231
1High Drama Adam Lambert 59 March 20231
16 March 20231 From Nothing to a Little Bit More The Lathums 116 March 20231
1 Ugly Slowthai 216 March 20231
1 Amelia Mimi Webb 416 March 20231
1 I Can Only Be Me Eva Cassidy with the London Symphony Orchestra 916 March 20231
23 March 20232 Endless Summer Vacation Miley Cyrus 123 March 20231
1UK Grim Sleaford Mods 323 March 20231
30 March 20231 Songs of Surrender U2 130 March 20231
1A Fistful of Peaches Black Honey 630 March 20231
6 April 20232 Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd Lana Del Rey 16 April 20231
1 Memento Mori Depeche Mode 26 April 20231
1 So Much (for) Stardust Fall Out Boy 36 April 20231
1 The Dark Side of the Moon Live at Wembley 1974 Pink Floyd 46 April 20231
1 Gettin' Old Luke Combs 56 April 20231
13 April 20231 The Record Boygenius 113 April 20231
1 Portals Melanie Martinez 213 April 20231
1 How Many Dreams? DMA's 313 April 20231
1 3 Feet High and Rising De La Soul 913 April 20231
1 Timeless Davido 1013 April 20231
20 April 20231 Higher Than Heaven Ellie Goulding 120 April 20231
1 Hope NF 220 April 20231
1 Meteora Linkin Park 720 April 20231
27 April 20232 72 Seasons Metallica 127 April 20231
1 Intellectual Property Waterparks 1027 April 20231
4 May 20231 A Kiss for the Whole World Enter Shikari 14 May 20231
1Live with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra The 1975 24 May 20231
1 Fuse Everything but the Girl 34 May 20231
1 Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions Taylor Swift 44 May 20231
11 May 20231 Anxiety Replacement Therapy The Lottery Winners 111 May 20231
3 Crop Circle 2 Nines 211 May 20232
1 That! Feels Good! Jessie Ware 311 May 20231
1 First Two Pages of Frankenstein The National 411 May 20231
1Heatwave in the Cold North Reverend and the Makers 611 May 20231
1 Blood Orange Freya Ridings 711 May 20231
1 Darkadelic The Damned 911 May 20231
18 May 20235 - Ed Sheeran 118 May 20232
1First LapTunde418 May 20231
25 May 20231 Real Back in Style Potter Payper 225 May 20231
1 The Album Jonas Brothers 325 May 20231
1 Wake Up & It's Over Lovejoy 525 May 20231
1 The Love Invention Alison Goldfrapp 625 May 20231
1 June 20237 Broken by Desire to Be Heavenly Sent Lewis Capaldi 11 June 20233
1 Take Me Back to Eden Sleep Token 31 June 20231
1 Drastic Symphonies Def Leppard with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 41 June 20231
1 Phantomime (EP) Ghost 81 June 20231
8 June 20231 The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte Sparks 78 June 20231
1 Time Simply Red 88 June 20231
1 My Soft Machine Arlo Parks 98 June 20231
15 June 20232 But Here We Are Foo Fighters 115 June 20231
2 Council Skies Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds 215 June 20231
1 Hana Sophie Ellis-Bextor 815 June 20231
22 June 20231 The Show Niall Horan 122 June 20231
1 Power to Play McFly 222 June 20231
1 Be Opened by the Wonderful James 322 June 20231
1 Paranoia, Angels, True Love Christine and the Queens 722 June 20231
29 June 20232 What Ifs & Maybes Tom Grennan 129 June 20231
1 In Times New Roman... Queens of the Stone Age 229 June 20231
1 Smash: The Singles 1985–2020 Pet Shop Boys 429 June 20231
1 Far from Saints Far from Saints529 June 20231
1The Very Best Of 1989 – 2023 Texas 629 June 20231
1 A Gift & a Curse Gunna 929 June 20231
1 The World EP.2: Outlaw (EP) Ateez 1029 June 20231
6 July 20231 The Good Witch Maisie Peters 16 July 20231
7 Lover Taylor Swift 831 August 20231
13 July 20231 Dead Club City Nothing but Thieves 113 July 20231
1 Messy Olivia Dean 413 July 20231
1 Pink Tape Lil Uzi Vert 713 July 20231
1 Chaos for the Fly Grian Chatten1013 July 20231
20 July 20237 Speak Now (Taylor's Version) Taylor Swift 120 July 20231
1 The Singles: Echoes from the Edge of Heaven Wham! 220 July 20231
1 Angels & Queens – Part II Gabriels 320 July 20231
1 I Inside the Old Year Dying PJ Harvey 520 July 20231
1DBE World D-Block Europe 620 July 20231
9 1989 Taylor Swift 524 August 20232
27 July 20232 Beautiful and Brutal Yard J Hus 127 July 20231
1 You & I Rita Ora 627 July 20231
3 August 20232 The Ballad of Darren Blur 13 August 20231
1 Starcatcher Greta Van Fleet 83 August 20231
10 August 20237 Utopia Travis Scott 110 August 20231
1 Unhealthy Anne-Marie 210 August 20231
1 Austin Post Malone 310 August 20231
1 The Feminine Divine Dexys 610 August 20231
17 August 20231 Victory Cian Ducrot 117 August 20231
1 Smile Skindred 217 August 20231
1People Like Me & You The Sherlocks 417 August 20231
1 One Man Band Miles Kane 517 August 20231
1 Timeless N-Dubz 617 August 20231
24 August 20231 Knebworth 22 Liam Gallagher 124 August 20231
1 The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons The Hives 224 August 20231
1 Volcano Jungle 324 August 20231
1Unfinished Business Fredo 924 August 20231
1 Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture David Bowie 1024 August 20231
31 August 20231 Unreal Unearth Hozier 131 August 20231
1Exorcism of Youth The View 631 August 20231
1 Snow Angel Reneé Rapp 731 August 20231
7 September 20232 I Told Them... Burna Boy 17 September 20231
1 Euphoria Claire Richards 27 September 20231
1 Back to Square One Digga D 67 September 20231
1 Weedkiller Ashnikko 77 September 20231
1 Road Alice Cooper 87 September 20231
14 September 20231 Back to the Water Below Royal Blood 114 September 20231
1 The 1975 The 1975 314 September 20231
1 Everything Is Alive Slowdive 614 September 20231
21 September 202332 Guts Olivia Rodrigo 121 September 20231
1 Sea of Mirrors The Coral 321 September 20231
1 Hit Parade Róisín Murphy 521 September 20231
1 For That Beautiful Feeling The Chemical Brothers 621 September 20231
3 Sour Olivia Rodrigo 528 September 20231
1My Neighbours Don't Know M Huncho 921 September 20231
28 September 20231 Greatest Hits 2.0 Busted 128 September 20231
1 The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We Mitski 428 September 20231
5 October 20232 Tension Kylie Minogue 15 October 20231
1Strength to Strength Headie One & K-Trap 45 October 20231
1 Scarlet Doja Cat 55 October 20231
12 October 20232 Autumn Variations Ed Sheeran 112 October 20231
1 Falling or Flying Jorja Smith 312 October 20231
1 The Harmony Codex Steven Wilson 412 October 20231
1 Screamin' at the Sky Black Stone Cherry 612 October 20231
1 Ultraviolence Lana Del Rey 712 October 20231
19 October 20234 For All the Dogs Drake 119 October 20231
1 Crop Circle 3 Nines 219 October 20231
1 The Dark Side of the Moon Redux Roger Waters 419 October 20231
1Another Friday Night Joel Corry 519 October 20231
1 Javelin Surfjan Stevens 719 October 20231
26 October 20231 Sick Boi Ren 126 October 20231
1 Are We There Yet? Rick Astley 226 October 20231
1 Something to Give Each Other Troye Sivan 426 October 20231
1 Paint My Bedroom Black Holly Humberstone 526 October 20231
1 The Darker the Shadow the Brighter the Light The Streets 726 October 20231
1 The Dark Side of the Moon Pink Floyd 826 October 20231
1Aces are High When Rivers Meet 926 October 20231
2 November 202311 Hackney Diamonds The Rolling Stones 12 November 20232
1 One More Time... Blink-182 22 November 20231
1 My Big Day Bombay Bicycle Club 32 November 20231
4 Folklore Taylor Swift 67 December 20231
9 November 202325 1989 (Taylor's Version) (#3)19 November 20233
1 Bauhaus Staircase Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 29 November 20231
1 Danse Macabre Duran Duran 49 November 20231
1 Who We Used to Be James Blunt 59 November 20231
1Famous Last Words Casisdead 79 November 20231
1Open Arms – The Symphonic Songbook Alfie Boe 109 November 20231
16 November 20231 The Masterplan Oasis 216 November 20231
1 Golden Jungkook 316 November 20231
1Cliff With Strings – My Kinda Life Cliff Richard 516 November 20231
1Spirit Power: The Best Of Johnny Marr Johnny Marr 716 November 20231
23 November 20232 1967–1970 The Beatles 223 November 20231
1 1962–1966 323 November 20231
12 RUFF, Vol. 1 Chase & Status 423 November 20231
1 Quarter Life Crisis Baby Queen 523 November 20231
27 Stick Season ♦ Noah Kahan 122 February 20241
1 All the Little Lights Passenger 723 November 20231
1 Substance New Order 1023 November 20231
30 November 20231 Theatre of the Absurd Presents C'est la Vie Madness 130 November 20231
1 Rockstar Dolly Parton 530 November 20231
7 December 20233 This Life Take That 17 December 20231
14 December 20231 I/O Peter Gabriel 114 December 20231
1 The World EP.Fin: Will Ateez 214 December 20231
2 Christmas Cher 528 December 20231
21 December 20231 Rebel Diamonds The Killers 121 December 20231
2 Pink Friday 2 Nicki Minaj 321 December 20231
1 Think Later Tate McRae 521 December 20231
28 December 20231Jewels of Romance André Rieu & the Johann Strauss Orchestra 828 December 20231

Entries by artist

The following table shows artists who have achieved two or more top 10 entries in 2023, including albums that reached their peak in 2022. The figures only include main artists, with featured artists and appearances on compilation albums not counted individually for each artist. The total number of weeks an artist spent in the top ten in 2023 is also shown.

EntriesArtistWeeksAlbums
7 Taylor Swift 46 Midnights , Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions , Lover , Speak Now (Taylor's Version) , 1989 , Folklore , 1989 (Taylor's Version)
3 Ed Sheeran 15 = , - , Autumn Variations
Roger Waters 3 The Dark Side of the Moon Live at Wembley 1974 , The Dark Side of the Moon Redux , The Dark Side of the Moon
2 The 1975 2Live with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, The 1975
Damon Albarn 4 Cracker Island , The Ballad of Darren
Lana Del Rey 3 Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd , Ultraviolence
Lewis Capaldi 13 Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent , Broken by Desire to Be Heavenly Sent
Liam Gallagher 2 Knebworth 22 , The Masterplan
Noel Gallagher 3 Council Skies , The Masterplan
Fleetwood Mac 21 Rumours , 50 Years – Don't Stop
Olivia Rodrigo 15 Guts , Sour
Nines 4 Crop Circle 2 , Crop Circle 3
Pink Floyd 3 The Dark Side of the Moon Live at Wembley 1974 , The Dark Side of the Moon Redux
The Beatles 2 1967–1970 , 1962–1966

See also

References

  1. ↑ "The Official Charts Company". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 28 December 2014.
  2. ↑ Roberts, David (2005). Guinness World Records: British Hit Singles and Albums (18th edition). Guinness World Records Limited. p. 14. ISBN   1-904994-00-8.
  3. ↑ "New singles formats to save the charts". BBC News . 16 October 2003. Retrieved 21 February 2010.

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