Every Number 1 album of 2016
From w/e 7 July: Adele - 25, 1 week. This is 25's 4th stint at Number 1.
From w/e 21 January: David Bowie – Blackstar, 3 weeks.
From w/e 11 February: David Bowie – Best Of Bowie, 1 week.
From w/e 18 February: Coldplay – A Head Full Of Dreams, 1 week.
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From w/e 7 July: Adele - 25, 1 week. This is 25's 4th stint at Number 1.
From w/e 10 March: The 1975 – I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It, 1 week.
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From w/e 7 July: Adele - 25, 1 week. This is 25's 4th stint at Number 1.
From w/e 7 April: Zayn – Mind of Mine, 1 week.
From w/e 14 April: The Last Shadow Puppets - Everything You've Come to Expect, 1 week.
From w/e 21 April: The Lumineers - Cleopatra. 1 week.
From w/e 28 April: PJ Harvey – The Hope Six Demolition Project, 1 week.
This is PJ's first UK Number 1 album!
From w/e 5 May: Beyoncé - Lemonade, 1 week.
From w/e 26 May: Drake - Views, 1 week. This is Views' second stint at Number 1.
From w/e 30 June: Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool, 1 week. This is A Moon Shaped Pool's second spell at Number 1.
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From w/e 26 May: Drake - Views, 1 week. This is Views' second stint at Number 1.
From w/e 2 June: Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman, 1 week.
From w/e 9 June: Catfish and the Bottlemen - The Ride, 1 week.
From w/e 16 June: Paul Simon – Stranger To Stranger, 1 week.
From w/e 23 June: Rick Astley - 50, 1 week.
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From w/e 30 June: Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool, 1 week. This is A Moon Shaped Pool's second spell at Number 1.
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From w/e 7 July: Adele - 25, 1 week. This is 25's 4th stint at Number 1.
From w/e 14 July: Blink-182 - California, 1 week. This is Blink-182's first ever UK Number 1 album!
From w/e 21 July: Biffy Clyro - Ellipsis, 1 week.
From w/e 28 July: Michael Kinuwaka – Love & Hate, 1 week
From w/e 5 August: ELO - All Over The World, 1 week.
From w/e 11 August: Viola Beach - Viola Beach, 1 week.
From w/e 18 August: Blossoms – Blossoms, 2 weeks.
From w/e 1 September: Frank Ocean - Blond, 1 week.
From w/e 8 September: Barbra Streisand - Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway, 1 week.
From w/e 15 September: Ward Thomas - Cartwheels, 1 week.
Cartwheels is the first ever Number 1 album by a UK country act!
From w/e 22 September: Bastille - Wild World, 1 week.
Click here to watch Bastille celebrate their second Number 1 album with Official Charts.
From w/e 6 October: Passenger - Young As The Morning, Old As The Sea, 1 week.
From w/e 13 October: Craig David - Following My Intuition, 1 week.
From w/e 20 October: Green Day – Revolution Radio, 1 week.
From w/e 27 October: Kings of Leon - WALLS, 1 week.
From w/e 4 November: Elvis Presley – The Wonder Of You, 1 week.
From w/e 10 November: James Arthur - Back From The Edge, 1 week.
From w/e 17 November: Robbie Williams - The Heavy Entertainment Show, 1 week.
This is Robbie's 12th UK Number 1 album, making him the most successful British solo act on the Official Albums Chart.
From w/e 24 November: Olly Murs - 24 HRS, 1 week.
This is Olly's fourth Number 1 album, tying him with One Direction as the most successful X Factor act on the Official Albums Chart.
Album: Glory Days
Year: 2016
Official Charts Peak: 1Glory Days became Little Mix's first Number 1 album, shifting a combined chart sales total of 98,000 in its first week. It is the fastest-selling album by a UK girl group since Spice Girls' Spiceworld.
From w/e 15 December: The Rolling Stones - Blue & Lonesome, 1 week.
Blue & Lonesome is the The Rolling Stones' first studio album of new material to reach Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart for 22 years!
From w/e 23 December: Michael Ball & Alfie Boe - Together, 2 weeks.
Together marks Alfie Boe's first UK Number 1 album and Michael Ball's first for 24 years.
In its second week at Number 1, Together was named the Christmas Number 1 album!