Every Official Number 1 debut album since 2000

Look back at the classic and forgotten Number 1 debut albums since 2000.

More often than not, a long and fruitful career in music begins with a successful debut album.

The last 20 years has seen scores of new acts launched, many to huge international appeal. One of the biggest and most recent is Lewis Capaldi, whose debut album Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent debuted at Number 1 in May 2019 and recently clocked up an entire year in the Top 10, including 10 weeks at the summit.

Lewis's stint at the top is the longest for a debut album in seven years, since Emeli Sande's Our Version Of Events, a record which proved an unstoppable force in 2012/2013. The following year saw the launch of British singer-songwriter Sam Smith, whose first collection In The Lonely Hour debuted at Number 1 in June 2014 and notched up eight weeks at the top over the space of nine months.

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The first new album of the 2000s to reach Number 1 was Richard Ashcroft's Alone With Everybody, the musician's first solo record outside of The Verve. In that same year, debut albums from Coldplay, Ronan Keating and Craig David all hit Number 1.

Other huge debuts over the past 20 years include Dido's No Angel, a seven-week Number 1 in 2001; Justin Timberlake's first record away from NSync, Justified, also logged seven weeks at the summit in 2003; Beyoncé's debut Dangerously In Love was a five-week chart-topper that same year; and Leona Lewis's world-conquering debut Spirit - a seven-week Number 1 in 2007.

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Other notable debuts in recent years include Billie Eilish's When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, which made her the youngest ever female solo artist to land a Number 1 album when it debuted at the top in April 2019. The eponymous album by Warrington band Viola Beach entered at Number 1 six months after they were tragically killed in a car crash, and US rapper Pop Smoke landed the first ever posthumous Number 1 debut by a solo artist with 2020's Shoot For The Stars, Aim For The Moon.

At least one debut album has topped the Official Albums Chart every year since 2000, except in 2018, when three Motion Picture Cast Recording albums from hit films dominated the chart for much of the year: The Greatest Showman, Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again and A Star Is Born.

Every Number 1 debut album on the Official Chart since 2000

DATE*	TITLE	ARTIST	WKS AT NO.1
09/02/2024	PRELUDE TO ECSTASY	THE LAST DINNER PARTY	1
17/08/2023	VICTORY	CIAN DUCROT	1
13/04/2023	THE RECORD	BOYGENIUS	1
26/01/2023	ST JUDE**	COURTEENERS	1
22/12/2022	THERE'S NOTHING BUT SPACE MAN	SAM RYDER	1
21/04/2022	WET LEG	WET LEG	1
07/10/2021	HOW BEAUTIFUL LIFE CAN BE	THE LATHUMS	1
22/07/2021	IT WON'T ALWAYS BE LIKE THIS	INHALER	1
03/06/2021	SOUR	OLIVIA RODRIGO	4
15/04/2021	W.L.	SNUTS	1
11/02/2021	NOT YOUR MUSE	CELESTE	1
22/10/2020	EDNA	HEADIE ONE	1
01/10/2020	SHOOT FOR THE STARS, AIM FOR THE MOON	POP SMOKE	1
17/10/2019	WITHOUT FEAR	DERMOT KENNEDY	1
26/09/2019	HYPERSONIC MISSILES	SAM FENDER	1
30/05/2019	DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT	LEWIS CAPALDI	10
11/04/2019	WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?	BILLIE EILISH	3
21/03/2019	PSYCHODRAMA	DAVE	1
14/03/2019	WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE	TOM WALKER	1
19/10/2017	AS YOU WERE	LIAM GALLAGHER	1
25/05/2017	HARRY STYLES	HARRY STYLES	1
09/03/2017	GANG SIGNS & PRAYER	STORMZY	1
23/02/2017	HUMAN	RAG'N'BONE MAN	2
18/08/2016	BLOSSOMS	BLOSSOMS	2
11/08/2016	VIOLA BEACH	VIOLA BEACH	1
07/04/2016	MIND OF MINE	ZAYN	1
29/10/2015	JAMIE LAWSON	JAMIE LAWSON	1
03/09/2015	I CRY WHEN I LAUGH	JESS GLYNNE	1
23/07/2015	COMMUNION	YEARS & YEARS	2
04/04/2015	CHAOS AND THE CALM	JAMES BAY	1
07/02/2015	TITLE	MEGHAN TRAINOR	1
25/10/2014	CHAPTER ONE	ELLA HENDERSON	1
11/10/2014	WANTED ON VOYAGE	GEORGE EZRA	4
06/09/2014	ROYAL BLOOD	ROYAL BLOOD	1
30/08/2014	STARS	COLLABRO	1
07/06/2014	IN THE LONELY HOUR	SAM SMITH	8
05/04/2014	THE POWER OF LOVE	SAM BAILEY	1
26/10/2013	TRIBUTE	JOHN NEWMAN	1
12/10/2013	DAYS ARE GONE	HAIM	1
14/09/2013	THE 1975	1975	1
10/08/2013	THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM	RICHARD & ADAM	4
03/08/2013	LOVE NEVER FAILS	JAHMENE DOUGLAS	1
06/07/2013	LONG WAY DOWN	TOM ODELL	1
15/06/2013	SETTLE	DISCLOSURE	1
11/05/2013	HOME	RUDIMENTAL	1
16/03/2013	BAD BLOOD	BASTILLE	1
27/10/2012	JAKE BUGG	JAKE BUGG	1
08/09/2012	ORA	RITA ORA	1
11/08/2012	CONTRAST	CONOR MAYNARD	1
24/03/2012	IN MY DREAMS	MILITARY WIVES	1
25/02/2012	OUR VERSION OF EVENTS	EMELI SANDE	10
11/02/2012	BORN TO DIE	LANA DEL REY	2
29/10/2011	NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING BIRDS	NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING	1
24/09/2011	+	ED SHEERAN	1
27/08/2011	WELCOME REALITY	NERO	1
29/01/2011	DOO-WOPS & HOOLIGANS	BRUNO MARS	1
16/10/2010	DISC-OVERY	TINIE TEMPAH	1
18/09/2010	FLAMINGO	BRANDON FLOWERS	1
15/05/2010	SONGS FROM THE TAINTED CHERRY TREE	DIANA VICKERS	1
13/03/2010	LIGHTS	ELLIE GOULDING	1
27/02/2010	GLEE - THE MUSIC - SEASON ONE - VOL 1	GLEE CAST	1
23/01/2010	LUNGS	FLORENCE & THE MACHINE	2
05/12/2009	I DREAMED A DREAM	SUSAN BOYLE	4
21/11/2009	JLS	JLS	1
07/11/2009	3 WORDS	CHERYL COLE	2
31/10/2009	OVERCOME	ALEXANDRA BURKE	1
11/04/2009	THE FAME	LADY GAGA	7
31/01/2009	TO LOSE MY LIFE	WHITE LIES	1
23/08/2008	THE SCRIPT	SCRIPT	3
31/05/2008	WE STARTED NOTHING	TING TINGS	1
03/05/2008	THE AGE OF THE UNDERSTATEMENT	LAST SHADOW PUPPETS	1
15/03/2008	ROCKFERRY	DUFFY	5
09/02/2008	19	ADELE	1
26/01/2008	SCOUTING FOR GIRLS	SCOUTING FOR GIRLS	2
19/01/2008	THIS IS THE LIFE	AMY MACDONALD	1
24/11/2007	SPIRIT	LEONA LEWIS	8
03/11/2007	THE TRICK TO LIFE	HOOSIERS	1
01/09/2007	HAND BUILT BY ROBOTS	NEWTON FAULKNER	2
18/08/2007	MADE OF BRICKS	KATE NASH	1
28/07/2007	ONE CHANCE	PAUL POTTS	3
21/07/2007	WE'LL LIVE AND DIE IN THESE TOWNS	ENEMY	1
24/03/2007	DOING IT MY WAY	RAY QUINN	1
17/02/2007	LIFE IN CARTOON MOTION	MIKA	2
03/02/2007	HATS OFF TO THE BUSKERS	THE VIEW	1
12/08/2006	UNDISCOVERED	JAMES MORRISON	2
17/06/2006	SMILE ... IT CONFUSES PEOPLE	SANDI THOM	1
10/06/2006	BRIGHT IDEA	ORSON	1
06/05/2006	ST ELSEWHERE	GNARLS BARKLEY	1
29/04/2006	SHAYNE WARD	SHAYNE WARD	1
01/04/2006	JOURNEY SOUTH	JOURNEY SOUTH	1
25/03/2006	CORINNE BAILEY RAE	CORINNE BAILEY RAE	1
04/02/2006	WHATEVER PEOPLE SAY I AM THAT'S WHAT I'M NOT	ARCTIC MONKEYS	4
28/01/2006	STARS OF CCTV	HARD-FI	1
16/07/2005	BACK TO BEDLAM	JAMES BLUNT	10
21/05/2005	HEART AND SOUL	STEVE BROOKSTEIN	1
30/04/2005	TROUBLE	AKON	2
12/03/2005	G4	G4	1
13/11/2004	IL DIVO	IL DIVO	1
22/01/2005	HOT FUSS	KILLERS	2
28/08/2004	SONGS ABOUT JANE	MAROON 5	1
17/07/2004	ROOM ON THE 3RD FLOOR	MCFLY	1
10/07/2004	SCISSOR SISTERS	SCISSOR SISTERS	4
22/05/2004	HOPES AND FEARS	KEANE	5
31/01/2004	CALL OFF THE SEARCH	KATIE MELUA	6
06/09/2003	PERMISSION TO LAND	THE DARKNESS	4
05/07/2003	DANGEROUSLY IN LOVE	BEYONCE	5
28/06/2003	FALLEN	EVANESCENCE	1
08/03/2003	COME AWAY WITH ME	NORAH JONES	4
15/02/2003	SIMPLY DEEP	KELLY ROWLAND	1
01/02/2003	JUSTIFIED	JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE	7
11/01/2003	LET GO	AVRIL LAVIGNE	3
04/05/2002	ALL RISE	BLUE	1
18/08/2001	RIGHT NOW	ATOMIC KITTEN	1
07/04/2001	POPSTARS	HEAR'SAY	2
10/02/2001	NO ANGEL	DIDO	7
26/08/2000	BORN TO DO IT	CRAIG DAVID	2
12/08/2000	RONAN	RONAN KEATING	2
22/07/2000	PARACHUTES	COLDPLAY	1
08/07/2000	ALONE WITH EVERYBODY	RICHARD ASHCROFT	1