List of artists by number of UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number ones

Green Day have topped the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart with thirteen different albums, more than any other artist, and spent 73 weeks at number one.

The UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal albums in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each album's weekly physical sales, digital downloads (since 2007) and streams (since 2015), and is currently published every Friday.^[1] The chart was first published on 9 October 1994, when American thrash metal band Slayer was number one with its sixth studio album Divine Intervention.^[2]

As of the chart published for the week ending 27 January 2022, a total of 627 albums have topped the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart. 12 artists have topped the chart with seven or more different albums. The most successful is American pop punk band Green Day, who have reached number one with 14 different albums and spent 74 weeks atop the chart. Four artists have topped the chart with ten or more releases: Iron Maiden with 12, Metallica with 11, and both Foo Fighters and Led Zeppelin with ten each.

Artists[]

The following artists have been credited on at least six different number one albums, as recognised by the OCC. Appearances on compilation albums featuring various artists are not included.

Key

Indicates that the album reached number 1 on the UK Albums Chart

Artist	Number-one albums	Number-one studio albums	Total weeks at number one	Albums	Record label(s)	First reached number one	Weeks at number one	Ref.
Green Day	14	10	74	Dookie	Reprise	18 February 1995	11	[3]
				Insomniac		21 October 1995	2	[4]
				Nimrod		25 October 1997	2	[5]
				Warning		14 October 2000	1	[6]
				International Superhits!		24 November 2001	1	[7]
				American Idiot		2 October 2004	36	[8]
				Bullet in a Bible		26 November 2005	4	[9]
				21st Century Breakdown		23 May 2009	11	[10]
				Awesome as Fuck		2 April 2011	1	[11]
				¡Uno!		6 October 2012	1	[12]
				¡Dos!		24 November 2012	1	[13]
				Revolution Radio		20 October 2016	1	[14]
				Father of All...		14 February 2020	1	[15]
				BBC Sessions	17 December 2021	1	[16]
Iron Maiden	12	7	17	Best of the Beast	EMI	5 October 1996	1	[17]
				Virtual XI		4 April 1998	2	[18]
				Brave New World		10 June 2000	3	[19]
				Death on the Road		10 September 2005	1	[20]
				A Matter of Life and Death		9 September 2006	1	[21]
				Somewhere Back in Time		24 May 2008	2	[22]
				The Final Frontier		28 August 2010	2	[23]
				The Book of Souls	Parlophone	17 September 2015	1	[24]
				The Book of Souls: Live Chapter		30 November 2017	1	[25]
				The Number of the Beast	Rhino	29 November 2018	1	[26]
				Iron Maiden		22 October 2020	1	[27]
				Nights of the Dead	Parlophone	3 December 2020	1	[28]
Metallica	11	7	24	Load	Vertigo	15 June 1996	1	[29]
				Garage Inc.		5 December 1998	5	[30]
				St. Anger		14 June 2003	1	[31]
				Death Magnetic		20 September 2008	3	[32]
				Beyond Magnetic		11 February 2012	1	[33]
				Metallica		12 July 2014	2	[34] [35]
				Hardwired... to Self-Destruct	Blackened	1 December 2016	6	[36]
				Master of Puppets	Vertigo	23 November 2017	1	[37]
				The $5.98 E.P. - Garage Days Re-Revisited	UMC/Virgin	26 April 2018	1	[38]
				...And Justice for All	UMC	15 November 2018	1	[39]
				S&M2	Vertigo	10 September 2020	2	[40]
Foo Fighters	10	8	80	The Colour and the Shape	Roswell	24 May 1997	4	[41]
				One by One	RCA	2 November 2002	3	[42]
				In Your Honor		25 June 2005	13	[43]
				Skin and Bones		2 December 2006	1	[44]
				Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace		6 October 2007	8	[45]
				Greatest Hits		14 November 2009	21	[46]
				Wasting Light		23 April 2011	16	[47]
				Sonic Highways		10 January 2015	1	[48]
				Concrete and Gold	Columbia	28 September 2017	11	[49]
				Medicine at Midnight		18 February 2021	2	[50]
Led Zeppelin	10	4	35	Remasters	Atlantic	6 September 1997	7	[51]
				BBC Sessions		29 November 1997	2	[52]
				Mothership		24 November 2007	15	[53]
				Celebration Day		1 December 2012	5	[54]
				Led Zeppelin (reissue)	Rhino	14 June 2014	1	[55]
				Led Zeppelin IV (reissue)		8 November 2014	1	[56]
				Physical Graffiti (reissue)		7 March 2015	1	[57]
				Presence (reissue)		13 August 2015	1	[58]
				The Complete BBC Sessions		29 September 2016	1	[59]
				How the West Was Won		5 April 2018	1	[60]
Muse	9	6	59	Origin of Symmetry	Mushroom	30 June 2001	4	[61]
				Hullabaloo Soundtrack		13 July 2002	1	[62]
				Absolution	East West	4 October 2003	3	[63]
				Black Holes and Revelations	Helium 3 Warner Bros.	15 July 2006	15	[64]
				HAARP		29 March 2008	3	[65]
				The Resistance		26 September 2009	16	[66]
				The 2nd Law		13 October 2012	6	[67]
				Live at Rome Olympic Stadium		14 December 2013	3	[68]
				Drones		20 June 2015	8	[69]
The Darkness	8	7	28	Permission to Land	Must Destroy	19 July 2003	21	[70]
				One Way Ticket to Hell... and Back	Atlantic	10 December 2005	1	[71]
				Hot Cakes	PIAS	1 September 2012	1	[72]
				Last of Our Kind	Canary Dwarf	13 June 2015	1	[73]
				Pinewood Smile	Cooking Vinyl	19 October 2017	1	[74]
				Live at Hammersmith		28 June 2018	1	[75]
				Easter Is Cancelled		17 October 2019	1	[76]
				Motorheart		26 November 2021	1	[77]
Korn	8	8	9	Follow the Leader	Epic	5 September 1998	2	[78]
				Issues		27 November 1999	1	[79]
				Untouchables		22 June 2002	1	[80]
				Untitled Korn album	Virgin	11 August 2007	1	[81]
				Korn III: Remember Who You Are	Roadrunner	24 July 2010	1	[82]
				The Paradigm Shift	Spinefarm	19 October 2013	1	[83]
				The Serenity of Suffering	Roadrunner	3 November 2016	1	[84]
				The Nothing		26 September 2019	1	[85]
Linkin Park	7	6	47	Hybrid Theory	Warner Bros.	14 April 2001	21	[86]
				Meteora		5 April 2003	5	[87]
				Minutes to Midnight		26 May 2007	6	[88]
				A Thousand Suns		25 September 2010	8	[89]
				Living Things		7 July 2012	4	[90]
				The Hunting Party		28 June 2014	2	[91]
				One More Light Live		28 December 2017	1	[92]
Blink-182	7	6	12	Enema of the State	MCA	20 May 2000	3	[93]
				Take Off Your Pants and Jacket		23 June 2001	1	[94]
				Blink-182	Geffen	29 November 2003	2	[95]
				Greatest Hits		12 November 2005	2	[96]
				Neighborhoods	Island	8 October 2011	1	[97]
				California	BMG	14 July 2016	2	[98]
				Nine	Columbia	3 October 2019	1	[99]
Black Stone Cherry	7	6	8	Folklore and Superstition	Roadrunner	30 August 2008	1	[100]
				Between the Devil & the Deep Blue Sea		11 June 2011	1	[101]
				Magic Mountain		17 May 2014	2	[102]
				Kentucky	Mascot	14 April 2016	1	[103]
				Family Tree		3 May 2018	1	[104]
				Black to Blues Vol. 2		14 November 2019	1	[105]
				The Human Condition		12 November 2020	1	[106]
Trivium	7	7	7	Ascendancy	Roadrunner	11 March 2006	1	[107]
				The Crusade		21 October 2006	1	[108]
				Shogun		11 October 2008	1	[109]
				In Waves		20 August 2011	1	[110]
				The Sin and the Sentence		2 November 2017	1	[111]
				What the Dead Men Say		7 May 2020	1	[112]
				In the Court of the Dragon		15 October 2021	1	[113]

See also[]

• List of artists by number of UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart number ones
• List of artists by number of UK Albums Chart number ones
• List of artists by number of UK Singles Chart number ones

References[]

External links[]

• Official UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company
• The Official UK Top 40 Rock Albums at BBC Radio 1