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] Since 2004 the chart has been based on the sales of both physical albums and digital downloads. This list shows albums that peaked in the Top 10 of the UK Albums Chart during 2015, as well as albums which peaked in 2014 and 2016 but were in the top 10 in 2015. 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).
Fifteen albums from 2014 remained in the top 10 for several weeks at the beginning of the year, while A Head Full of Dreams by Coldplay was released in 2015 but did not reach its peak until 2016. Hozier by Hozier was the only album from 2014 to reach its peak in 2015. James Bay and The Weeknd were among the many artists who achieved their first UK charting top 10 album in 2015.
Entered
(week ending) | Weeks
in
top
10 | Album | Artist | Peak | Peak
reached
(week ending) | Weeks
at
peak | | Albums in 2014 |
|---|
| format=dmy|2014|03|22}} | 29 | A Perfect Contradiction ‡ | Paloma Faith | 2 | format=dmy|2014|03|22}} | 2 |
| format=dmy|2014|04|26}} | 23 | Caustic Love ‡ | Paolo Nutini | 1 | format=dmy|2014|04|26}} | 3 |
| format=dmy|2014|06|07}} | 76 | In The Lonely Hour ‡ (#3) | Sam Smith | 1 | format=dmy|2014|06|07}} | 8 |
| format=dmy|2014|07|05}} | 77 | X ‡ (#2) | Ed Sheeran | 1 | format=dmy|2014|07|05}} | 13 |
| format=dmy|2014|07|12}} | 46 | Wanted on Voyage ‡ (#10) | George Ezra | 1 | format=dmy|2014|10|11}} | 4 |
| format=dmy|2014|09|06}} | 7 | Royal Blood ‡ | Royal Blood | 1 | format=dmy|2014|09|06}} | 1 |
| format=dmy|2014|09|27}} | 6 | No Sound Without Silence ‡ | The Script | 1 | format=dmy|2014|09|27}} | 1 |
| format=dmy|2014|10|18}} | 15 | Hozier | Hozier | 3 | format=dmy|2015|05|23}} | 1 |
| format=dmy|2014|10|25}} | 7 | Chapter One ‡ | Ella Henderson | 1 | format=dmy|2014|10|25}} | 1 |
| format=dmy|2014|11|08}} | 43 | 1989 ‡ (#6) | Taylor Swift | 1 | format=dmy|2014|11|08}} | 1 |
| format=dmy|2014|11|15}} | 3 | Motion ‡ | Calvin Harris | 2 | format=dmy|2014|11|15}} | 1 |
| format=dmy|2014|11|29}} | 9 | Four ‡ | One Direction | 1 | format=dmy|2014|11|29}} | 1 |
| format=dmy|2014|12|06}} | 11 | Never Been Better ‡ | Olly Murs | 1 | format=dmy|2014|12|06}} | 1 |
| format=dmy|2014|12|13}} | 4 | III ‡ | Take That | 1 | format=dmy|2014|12|13}} | 1 |
| format=dmy|2014|12|20}} | 3 | Christmas ‡ | Michael Bublé | 7 | format=dmy|2014|12|27}} | 1 |
| Albums in 2015 |
|---|
| {{dts|format=dmy|2015|01|31}} | 3 | Uptown Special | Mark Ronson | 1 | format=dmy|2015|01|31}} | 1 |
| 2 | American Beauty/American Psycho | Fall Out Boy | 2 | format=dmy|2015|01|31}} | 1 |
| 1 | The Mindsweep | Enter Shikari | 6 | format=dmy|2015|01|31}} | 1 |
| 1 | Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance | Belle and Sebastian | 9 | format=dmy|2015|01|31}} | 1 |
| {{dts|format=dmy|2015|02|07}} | 11 | Title | Meghan Trainor | 1 | format=dmy|2015|02|07}} | 1 |
| 1 | Modern Nature | The Charlatans | 7 | format=dmy|2015|02|07}} | 1 |
| 1 | Unguarded | Rae Morris | 9 | format=dmy|2015|02|07}} | 1 |
| {{dts|format=dmy|2015|02|14}} | 2 | Shadows in the Night | Bob Dylan | 1 | format=dmy|2015|02|14}} | 1 |
| 1 | Brothers in Arms | Dire Straits | 8 | format=dmy|2015|02|14}} | 1 |
| 1 | Full Speed | Kid Ink | 10 | format=dmy|2015|02|14}} | 1 |
| {{dts|format=dmy|2015|02|21}} | 2 | If You're Reading This It's Too Late | Drake | 3 | format=dmy|2015|02|21}} | 1 |
| 1 | Coming Up for Air | Kodaline | 4 | format=dmy|2015|02|21}} | 1 |
| 2 | Liquid Spirit | Gregory Porter | 9 | format=dmy|2015|03|07}} | 1 |
| {{dts|format=dmy|2015|02|28}} | 2 | Smoke + Mirrors | Imagine Dragons | 1 | format=dmy|2015|02|28}} | 1 |
| 1 | Texas 25 | Texas | 5 | format=dmy|2015|02|28}} | 1 |
| 1 | Wonder Days | Thunder | 9 | format=dmy|2015|02|28}} | 1 |
| {{dts|format=dmy|2015|03|07}} | 1 | Physical Graffiti: Deluxe Edition | Led Zeppelin | 6 | format=dmy|2015|03|07}} | 1 |
| 1 | The Album | Chris Brown & Tyga | 7 | format=dmy|2015|03|07}} | 1 |
| {{dts|format=dmy|2015|03|14}} | 4 | Chasing Yesterday | Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds | 1 | format=dmy|2015|03|14}} | 1 |
| 1 | Piece by Piece | Kelly Clarkson | 6 | format=dmy|2015|03|14}} | 1 |
| 2 | Sweet Soul Music | The Overtones | 8 | format=dmy|2015|03|14}} | 1 |
| 1 | Brave | The Shires | 10 | format=dmy|2015|03|14}} | 1 |
| {{dts|format=dmy|2015|03|21}} | 1 | Rebel Heart | Madonna | 2 | format=dmy|2015|03|21}} | 1 |
| 1 | Lady Sings the Blues | Rebecca Ferguson | 7 | format=dmy|2015|03|21}} | 1 |
| {{dts|format=dmy|2015|03|28}} | 2 | To Pimp a Butterfly | Kendrick Lamar | 1 | format=dmy|2015|03|28}} | 1 |
| 1 | Tracker | Mark Knopfler | 3 | format=dmy|2015|03|28}} | 1 |
| 1 | Re-working the Catalogue | Van Morrison | 5 | format=dmy|2015|03|28}} | 1 |
| 1 | Froot | Marina and the Diamonds | 10 | format=dmy|2015|03|28}} | 1 |
| {{dts|format=dmy|2015|04|04}} | 32 | Chaos and the Calm (#8) | James Bay | 1 | format=dmy|2015|04|04}} | 1 |
| 1 | Sonic Soul Surfer | Seasick Steve | 4 | format=dmy|2015|04|04}} | 1 |
| 1 | Short Movie | Laura Marling | 7 | format=dmy|2015|04|04}} | 1 |
| 1 | For All My Sisters | The Cribs | 9 | format=dmy|2015|04|04}} | 1 |
| {{dts|format=dmy|2015|04|11}} | 3 | The Day Is My Enemy | The Prodigy | 1 | format=dmy|2015|04|11}} | 1 |
| 6 | 1000 Forms of Fear | Sia | 5 | format=dmy|2015|04|11}} | 2 |
| 1 | Carrie & Lowell | Surfjan Stevens | 6 | format=dmy|2015|04|11}} | 1 |
| 1 | Young Chasers | Circa Waves | 10 | format=dmy|2015|04|11}} | 1 |
| format=dmy|2015|04|18}} | 1 | Future Hearts | All Time Low | 1 | format=dmy|2015|04|18}} | 1 |
| {{dts|format=dmy|2015|04|25}} | 9 | The Ultimate Collection | Paul Simon | 1 | format=dmy|2015|04|25}} | 1 |
| 1 | Glitterbug | The Wombats | 5 | format=dmy|2015|04|25}} | 1 |
| 1 | Into the Wild Life | Halestorm | 10 | format=dmy|2015|04|25}} | 1 |
| {{dts|format=dmy|2015|05|02}} | 2 | Stages | Josh Groban | 1 | format=dmy|2015|05|02}} | 1 |
| 1 | Sound & Color | Alabama Shakes | 6 | format=dmy|2015|05|02}} | 1 |
| format=dmy|2015|05|09}} | 2 | The Magic Whip | Blur | 1 | format=dmy|2015|05|09}} | 1 |
| format=dmy|2015|05|16}} | 7 | Wilder Mind | Mumford & Sons | 1 | format=dmy|2015|05|16}} | 2 |
| format=dmy|2015|05|23}} | 1 | Forever Man | Eric Clapton | 8 | format=dmy|2015|05|23}} | 1 |
| {{dts|format=dmy|2015|05|30}} | 2 | The Desired Effect | Brandon Flowers | 1 | format=dmy|2015|05|30}} | 1 |
| 1 | Saturns Pattern | Paul Weller | 2 | format=dmy|2015|05|30}} | 1 |
| 2 | Sol Invictus | Faith No More | 6 | format=dmy|2015|05|30}} | 1 |
| 1 | Number 1 to Infinity | Mariah Carey | 8 | format=dmy|2015|05|30}} | 1 |
| {{dts|format=dmy|2015|06|06}} | 2 | 85% Proof | Will Young | 1 | format=dmy|2015|06|06}} | 1 |
| 1 | English Graffiti | The Vaccines | 2 | format=dmy|2015|06|06}} | 1 |
| {{dts|format=dmy|2015|06|13}} | 10 | How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful | Florence and the Machine | 1 | format=dmy|2015|06|13}} | 2 |
| 2 | Act Two | Collabro | 2 | format=dmy|2015|06|13}} | 1 |
| 1 | In Colour | Jamie xx | 3 | format=dmy|2015|06|13}} | 1 |
| 1 | Big Love | Simply Red | 4 | format=dmy|2015|06|13}} | 1 |
| 1 | Are You Satisfied? | Slaves | 8 | format=dmy|2015|06|13}} | 1 |
| {{dts|format=dmy|2015|06|20}} | 5 | Drones | Muse | 1 | format=dmy|2015|06|20}} | 2 |
| 1 | Alternative Light Source | Leftfield | 6 | format=dmy|2015|06|20}} | 1 |
| 1 | Sticky Fingers: Deluxe Edition | The Rolling Stones | 7 | format=dmy|2015|06|20}} | 1 |
| 1 | Beneath the Skin | Of Monsters and Men | 10 | format=dmy|2015|06|20}} | 1 |
| {{dts|format=dmy|2015|06|27}} | 1 | Before This World | James Taylor | 4 | format=dmy|2015|06|27}} | 1 |
| 1 | The Very Best of Glenn Miller | Glenn Miller | 6 | format=dmy|2015|06|27}} | 1 |
| 1 | The Original High | Adam Lambert | 8 | format=dmy|2015|06|27}} | 1 |
| 2 | The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac | Fleetwood Mac | 7 | format=dmy|2015|07|23}} | 1 |
| {{dts|format=dmy|2015|07|04}} | 1 | My Love Is Cool | Wolf Alice | 2 | format=dmy|2015|07|04}} | 1 |
| 1 | Get to Heaven | Everything Everything | 7 | format=dmy|2015|07|04}} | 1 |
| 1 | Coming Home | Leon Bridges | 8 | format=dmy|2015|07|04}} | 1 |
| {{dts|format=dmy|2015|07|09}} | 5 | The Definitive Collection | Lionel Richie & The Commodores | 1 | format=dmy|2015|07|09}} | 1 |
| 1 | Still | Richard Thompson | 10 | format=dmy|2015|07|09}} | 1 |
| {{dts|format=dmy|2015|07|16}} | 1 | The Long Way Home | Krept and Konan | 2 | format=dmy|2015|07|16}} | 1 |
| 1 | Young Blood | Saint Raymond | 8 | format=dmy|2015|07|16}} | 1 |
| 1 | Work It Out | Lucy Rose | 9 | format=dmy|2015|07|16}} | 1 |
| {{dts|format=dmy|2015|07|23}} | 7 | Communion | Years & Years | 1 | format=dmy|2015|07|23}} | 2 |
| 1 | + | Ed Sheeran | 9 | format=dmy|2015|07|23}} | 1 |
| format=dmy|2015|07|30}} | 1 | Currents | Tame Impala | 3 | format=dmy|2015|07|30}} | 1 |
| {{dts|format=dmy|2015|08|06}} | 1 | Born in the Echoes | The Chemical Brothers | 1 | format=dmy|2015|08|06}} | 1 |
| 1 | Sturm und Drang | Lamb of God | 7 | format=dmy|2015|08|06}} | 1 |
| 1 | Walk with Me (EP) | Bugzy Malone | 8 | format=dmy|2015|08|06}} | 1 |
| 1 | Amused to Death (2015 Remastered Remix Version) | Roger Waters | 10 | format=dmy|2015|08|06}} | 1 |
| {{dts|format=dmy|2015|08|13}} | 2 | Marks to Prove It | The Maccabees | 1 | format=dmy|2015|08|13}} | 1 |
| 1 | Blood | Lianne La Havas | 2 | format=dmy|2015|08|13}} | 1 |
| 1 | Coda: Deluxe Edition | Led Zeppelin | 9 | format=dmy|2015|08|13}} | 1 |
| 1 | Presence: Deluxe Edition | 10 | format=dmy|2015|08|13}} | 1 |
| {{dts|format=dmy|2015|08|20}} | 4 | Compton | Dr. Dre | 1 | format=dmy|2015|08|20}} | 1 |
| 1 | Positive Songs for Negative People | Frank Turner | 2 | format=dmy|2015|08|20}} | 1 |
| 1 | Automatic | Don Broco | 6 | format=dmy|2015|08|27}} | 1 |
| 5 | The Very Best of Cilla Black | Cilla Black | 1 | format=dmy|2015|08|27}} | 1 |
| {{dts|format=dmy|2015|08|27}} | 1 | Venom | Bullet for My Valentine | 3 | format=dmy|2015|08|27}} | 1 |
| 1 | Life's Not out to Get You | Neck Deep | 8 | format=dmy|2015|08|27}} | 1 |
| {{dts|format=dmy|2015|09|03}} | 42 | I Cry When I Laugh (#7) | Jess Glynne | 1 | format=dmy|2015|09|03}} | 1 |
| 1 | Burning Bridges | Bon Jovi | 3 | format=dmy|2015|09|03}} | 1 |
| 1 | 143 | Bars and Melody | 4 | format=dmy|2015|09|03}} | 1 |
| 1 | Immortalized | Disturbed | 8 | format=dmy|2015|09|03}} | 1 |
| {{dts|format=dmy|2015|09|10}} | 7 | Beauty Behind the Madness | The Weeknd | 1 | format=dmy|2015|09|10}} | 1 |
| 1 | What Went Down | Foals | 3 | format=dmy|2015|09|10}} | 1 |
| 1 | Feline | Ella Eyre | 4 | format=dmy|2015|09|10}} | 1 |
| 1 | Badlands | Halsey | 9 | format=dmy|2015|09|10}} | 1 |
| 1 | Bad Magic | Motörhead | 10 | format=dmy|2015|09|10}} | 1 |
| {{dts|format=dmy|2015|09|17}} | 2 | The Book of Souls | Iron Maiden | 1 | format=dmy|2015|09|17}} | 1 |
| 1 | Wild (EP) | Troye Sivan | 5 | format=dmy|2015|09|17}} | 1 |
| 1 | Got Your Six | Five Finger Death Punch | 6 | format=dmy|2015|09|17}} | 1 |
| 1 | Cast in Steel | A-ha | 8 | format=dmy|2015|09|17}} | 1 |
| {{dts|format=dmy|2015|09|24}} | 3 | Keep the Village Alive | Stereophonics | 1 | format=dmy|2015|09|24}} | 1 |
| 2 | That's the Spirit | Bring Me the Horizon | 2 | format=dmy|2015|09|24}} | 1 |
| 1 | Anthems for Doomed Youth | The Libertines | 3 | format=dmy|2015|09|24}} | 1 |
| 1 | Paper Gods | Duran Duran | 5 | format=dmy|2015|09|24}} | 1 |
| 1 | Hollow Meadows | Richard Hawley | 9 | format=dmy|2015|09|24}} | 1 |
| {{dts|format=dmy|2015|10|01}} | 4 | Rattle That Lock | David Gilmour | 1 | format=dmy|2015|10|01}} | 1 |
| 1 | Honeymoon | Lana Del Rey | 2 | format=dmy|2015|10|01}} | 1 |
| 1 | 75 at 75 | Cliff Richard | 4 | format=dmy|2015|10|01}} | 1 |
| 1 | What a Time to Be Alive | Drake and Future | 6 | format=dmy|2015|10|01}} | 1 |
| 1 | Crosseyed Heart | Keith Richards | 7 | format=dmy|2015|10|01}} | 1 |
| {{dts|format=dmy|2015|10|08}} | 2 | Caracal | Disclosure | 1 | format=dmy|2015|10|08}} | 1 |
| 1 | Music Complete | New Order | 2 | format=dmy|2015|10|08}} | 1 |
| 1 | Every Open Eye | Chvrches | 4 | format=dmy|2015|10|08}} | 1 |
| 1 | Cass County | Don Henley | 7 | format=dmy|2015|10|08}} | 1 |
| {{dts|format=dmy|2015|10|15}} | 2 | We the Generation | Rudimental | 1 | format=dmy|2015|10|15}} | 1 |
| 1 | In Dream | Editors | 5 | format=dmy|2015|10|15}} | 1 |
| 1 | Stories | Avicii | 9 | format=dmy|2015|10|15}} | 1 |
| {{dts|format=dmy|2015|10|22}} | 1 | Faithless 2.0 | Faithless | 1 | format=dmy|2015|10|22}} | 1 |
| 1 | The Documentary 2 | The Game | 4 | format=dmy|2015|10|29}} | 1 |
| 1 | Grey Tickles, Black Pressure | John Grant | 5 | format=dmy|2015|10|29}} | 1 |
| {{dts|format=dmy|2015|10|29}} | 2 | Jamie Lawson | Jamie Lawson | 1 | format=dmy|2015|10|29}} | 1 |
| 1 | Revolve | John Newman | 3 | format=dmy|2015|10|29}} | 1 |
| 1 | Come Fly with Me | Peter Andre | 5 | format=dmy|2015|10|29}} | 1 |
| 1 | Confident | Demi Lovato | 6 | format=dmy|2015|10|29}} | 1 |
| 1 | Nothing but Thieves | Nothing but Thieves | 7 | format=dmy|2015|10|29}} | 1 |
| 1 | The Time Machine | Jean-Michel Jarre | 8 | format=dmy|2015|10|29}} | 1 |
| {{dts|format=dmy|2015|11|05}} | 1 | Sounds Good Feels Good | 5 Seconds of Summer | 1 | format=dmy|2015|11|05}} | 1 |
| 1 | Get Up | Bryan Adams | 2 | format=dmy|2015|11|05}} | 1 |
| 2 | Cinema | Andrea Bocelli | 3 | format=dmy|2015|11|05}} | 1 |
| 1 | Wisdom, Laughter and Lines | Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott | 4 | format=dmy|2015|11|05}} | 1 |
| 1 | The Hank Williams Songbook | Daniel O'Donnell | 5 | format=dmy|2015|11|05}} | 1 |
| 1 | Divers | Joanna Newsom | 10 | format=dmy|2015|11|05}} | 1 |
| {{dts|format=dmy|2015|11|12}} | 13 | If I Can Dream (#4) | Elvis Presley with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | 1 | format=dmy|2015|11|12}} | 2 |
| 8 | Another Country | Rod Stewart | 2 | format=dmy|2015|11|12}} | 1 |
| 1 | Courting the Squall | Guy Garvey | 3 | format=dmy|2015|11|12}} | 1 |
| 1 | Higher Than Here | James Morrison | 7 | format=dmy|2015|11|12}} | 1 |
| 1 | Jack Pack | Jack Pack | 8 | format=dmy|2015|11|12}} | 1 |
| 1 | The Very Best of Erasure | Erasure | 9 | format=dmy|2015|11|12}} | 1 |
| {{dts|format=dmy|2015|11|19}} | 20 | Get Weird | Little Mix | 2 | format=dmy|2015|11|19}} | 1 |
| 1 | Delirium | Ellie Goulding | 3 | format=dmy|2015|11|19}} | 1 |
| 1 | 1+ | The Beatles | 5 | format=dmy|2015|11|19}} | 1 |
| 1 | A Year of Songs | Alexander Armstrong | 6 | format=dmy|2015|11|19}} | 1 |
| 1 | Ultimate Collection | Anastacia | 10 | format=dmy|2015|11|19}} | 1 |
| {{dts|format=dmy|2015|11|26}} | 9 | Made in the A.M. | One Direction | 1 | format=dmy|2015|11|26}} | 1 |
| 33 | Purpose (#5) | Justin Bieber | 2 | format=dmy|2015|11|26}} | 2 |
| 6 | Alone in the Universe | Jeff Lynne's ELO | 4 | format=dmy|2015|11|26}} | 1 |
| 1 | Roman Holiday | Andre Rieu & the Johann Strauss Orchestra | 8 | format=dmy|2015|11|26}} | 1 |
| 1 | Ben Haenow | Ben Haenow | 10 | format=dmy|2015|11|26}} | 1 |
| {{dts|format=dmy|2015|12|03}} | 43 | 25 (#1) | Adele | 1 | format=dmy|2015|12|03}} | 13 |
| 4 | Dark Sky Island | Enya | 4 | format=dmy|2015|12|03}} | 1 |
| format=dmy|2015|12|10}} | 1 | Wake Up | The Vamps | 10 | format=dmy|2015|12|10}} | 1 |
| format=dmy|2015|12|17}} | 30 | A Head Full of Dreams ♦ (#9) | Coldplay | 1 | format=dmy|2016|02|18}} | 1 |
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The following table shows artists who achieved two or more top 10 entries in 2015, including albums that reached their peak in 2014. 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 2015 is also shown.
1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/|title=The Official Charts Company|publisher=Official Charts Company|accessdate=28 December 2014}}
2. ^{{cite book|title=Guinness World Records: British Hit Singles and Albums (18th edition)|first=David|last=Roberts|year=2005|isbn=1-904994-00-8|pages=14|publisher=Guinness World Records Limited}}
3. ^{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3196892.stm |title=New singles formats to save the charts|work=BBC News|date=16 October 2003 |accessdate=21 February 2010}}