List of Official Record Store Chart number ones from the 2020s
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The Official Record Store Chart is a weekly music chart based on physical sales of albums in almost 100 independent record stores in the United Kingdom, such as Rough Trade, Rounder Records, Jumbo and Sound It Out.[1][2] It is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), and each week's number one is first announced on Friday evenings on the OCC's official website.
Number ones
[edit]| No. | nth album to top the Official Record Store Chart |
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| re | Return of an album to number one |
| † | Best-selling album of the year in record stores[3] |
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| No. | Artist[a] | Album[a] | Record label[b] | Reached number one[a] | Weeks at number one[a] |
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| 2020 | |||||
| 327 | Fleetwood Mac | Rumours | Rhino/Warner Bros | 3 January 2020 | 1 |
| re | Stormzy | Heavy is the Head | Atlantic/Merky | 10 January 2020 | 1 |
| 328 | Easy Life | Junk Food | Island | 17 January 2020 | 1 |
| 329 | Bombay Bicycle Club | Everything Else Has Gone Wrong | Mmm... | 24 January 2020 | 1 |
| 330 | Twin Atlantic | Power | Virgin | 31 January 2020 | 1 |
| 331 | Blossoms | Foolish Loving Spaces | EMI | 7 February 2020 | 1 |
| 332 | Oh Wonder | No One Else Can Wear Your Crown | Island | 14 February 2020 | 1 |
| 333 | Tame Impala | The Slow Rush | Fiction | 21 February 2020 | 1 |
| 334 | King Krule | Man Alive! | XL Recordings | 28 February 2020 | 1 |
| 335 | Caribou | Suddenly | City Slang | 6 March 2020 | 1 |
| 336 | Jonathan Wilson | Dixie Blur | Bella Union | 13 March 2020 | 1 |
| 337 | Circa Waves | Sad Happy | Prolifica | 20 March 2020 | 1 |
| 338 | Baxter Dury | The Night Chancers | PIAS Le Label | 27 March 2020 | 1 |
| 339 | Kenny Rogers | The Best of Kenny Rogers | EMI Gold | 3 April 2020 | 1 |
| 340 | Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs | Viscerals | Rocket Recordings | 10 April 2020 | 2 |
| 341 | Gerry Cinnamon | The Bonny | Little Runaway | 24 April 2020 | 1 |
| 342 | B.C. Camplight | Shortly After Takeoff | Bella Union | 1 May 2020 | 1 |
| 343 | The Strokes | The New Abnormal | Cult | 8 May 2020 | 1 |
| 344 | Mark Lanegan | Straight Songs of Sorrow | Heavenly | 15 May 2020 | 1 |
| 345 | Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit | Reunions | Southeastern | 22 May 2020 | 1 |
| 346 | Tim Burgess | I Love the New Sky | Bella Union | 29 May 2020 | 1 |
| 347 | Christine and the Queens | La vita nuova (EP) | Because Music | 5 June 2020 | 1 |
| 348 | Sports Team | Deep Down Happy | Big Desert/Island | 12 June 2020 | 1 |
| 349 | Liam Gallagher | MTV Unplugged (Live at Hull City Hall) | Warner | 19 June 2020 | 1 |
| 350 | Phoebe Bridgers | Punisher | Dead Oceans | 26 June 2020 | 1 |
| 351 | Khruangbin | Mordechai | Dead Oceans | 3 July 2020 | 1 |
| 352 | Dream Wife | So When You Gonna... | Lucky Number | 10 July 2020 | 1 |
| 353 | DMA's | The Glow | Infectious Music | 17 July 2020 | 1 |
| 354 | Jarv Is | Beyond the Pale | Rough Trade | 24 July 2020 | 1 |
| 355 | Neck Deep | All Distortions Are Intentional | Hopeless | 31 July 2020 | 1 |
| 356 | Fontaines D.C. | A Hero's Death | Partisan | 7 August 2020 | 1 |
| 357 | Glass Animals | Dreamland | Polydor | 14 August 2020 | 1 |
| 358 | Sea Girls | Open Up Your Head | Polydor | 21 August 2020 | 1 |
| 359 | Bright Eyes | Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was | Dead Oceans | 28 August 2020 | 1 |
| 360 | David Bowie | ChangesNowBowie | Parlophone | 4 September 2020 | 1 |
| 361 | Declan McKenna | Zeros | Columbia | 11 September 2020 | 1 |
| 362 | Doves | The Universal Want | Virgin | 18 September 2020 | 1 |
| 363 | Run the Jewels | RTJ4 | BMG | 25 September 2020 | 1 |
| 364 | Idles | Ultra Mono † | Partisan | 2 October 2020 | 1 |
| 365 | Working Men's Club | Working Men's Club | Heavenly | 9 October 2020 | 1 |
| 366 | Travis | 10 Songs | BMG | 16 October 2020 | 1 |
| 367 | The Vamps | Cherry Blossom | EMI | 23 October 2020 | 1 |
| 368 | Nothing But Thieves | Moral Panic | RCA | 30 October 2020 | 1 |
| 369 | Dizzee Rascal | E3 AF | Dirtee Stank | 6 November 2020 | 1 |
| 370 | Ólafur Arnalds | Some Kind of Peace | Mercury Classics | 13 November 2020 | 1 |
| 371 | AC/DC | Power Up | Columbia | 20 November 2020 | 1 |
| 372 | The Cribs | Night Network | Sonic Blew | 27 November 2020 | 1 |
| 373 | Gary Barlow | Music Played by Humans | Polydor | 4 December 2020 | 1 |
| 374 | Yungblud | Weird! | Interscope | 11 December 2020 | 1 |
| 375 | Jamie Cullum | The Pianoman at Christmas | Island | 18 December 2020 | 1 |
| 376 | Paul McCartney | McCartney III | EMI | 25 December 2020 | 1 |
| 2021 | |||||
| 377 | Taylor Swift | Folklore | Republic | 1 January 2021 | 1 |
| 378 | King Geedorah | Take Me to Your Leader | Big Dada | 8 January 2021 | 1 |
| 379 | Viagra Boys | Welfare Jazz | Year0001 | 15 January 2021 | 1 |
| 380 | You Me At Six | Suckapunch | Underdog | 22 January 2021 | 1 |
| 381 | Bring Me the Horizon | Post Human: Survival Horror | RCA | 29 January 2021 | 1 |
| 382 | Arlo Parks | Collapsed in Sunbeams | Transgressive | 5 February 2021 | 1 |
| 383 | Black Country, New Road | For the First Time | Ninja Tune | 12 February 2021 | 1 |
| 384 | Slowthai | Tyron | Method | 19 February 2021 | 1 |
| 385 | Mogwai | As the Love Continues | Rock Action | 26 February 2021 | 1 |
| 386 | Architects | For Those That Wish to Exist | Epitaph | 5 March 2021 | 1 |
| 387 | Arab Strap | As Days Get Dark | Rock Action | 12 March 2021 | 1 |
| 388 | Tom Grennan | Evering Road | Insanity | 19 March 2021 | 1 |
| 389 | Lana Del Rey | Chemtrails over the Country Club | Polydor | 26 March 2021 | 1 |
| 390 | Ben Howard | Collections from the Whiteout | Island | 2 April 2021 | 1 |
| 391 | The Snuts | W.L. | Parlophone | 9 April 2021 | 1 |
| 392 | Dry Cleaning | New Long Leg | 4AD | 16 April 2021 | 1 |
| 393 | London Grammar | Californian Soil | Ministry of Sound | 23 April 2021 | 1 |
| 394 | Tom Jones | Surrounded By Time | EMI | 30 April 2021 | 1 |
| 395 | Royal Blood | Typhoons | Warner | 7 May 2021 | 1 |
| 396 | Squid | Bright Green Field | Warp | 14 May 2021 | 1 |
| 397 | St. Vincent | St. Vincent | Loma Vista | 21 May 2021 | 1 |
| 398 | My Bloody Valentine | Loveless | Creation | 28 May 2021 | 1 |
| 399 | Easy Life | Life's a Beach | Island | 4 June 2021 | 1 |
| 400 | Wolf Alice | Blue Weekend | Dirty Hit | 11 June 2021 | 1 |
| 401 | Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds | Back the Way We Came: Vol. 1 (2011–2021) | Sour Smash | 18 June 2021 | 1 |
| 402 | Nick Cave & Warren Ellis | Carnage | Goliath | 25 June 2021 | 1 |
| 403 | Jack Savoretti | Europiana | EMI | 2 July 2021 | 1 |
| 404 | Snapped Ankles | Forest of Your Problems | The Leaf Label | 9 July 2021 | 1 |
| 405 | Inhaler | It Won't Always Be Like This | Polydor | 16 July 2021 | 1 |
| 406 | Billie Eilish | Happier Than Ever | Interscope | 6 August 2021 | 1 |
| 407 | Caroline Polachek | Pang | Columbia | 13 August 2021 | 1 |
| 408 | Jungle | Loving in Stereo | Caiola | 20 August 2021 | 1 |
| 409 | Villagers | Fever Dreams | Domino | 27 August 2021 | 1 |
| 410 | Maisie Peters | You Signed Up for This | Gingerbread Man | 3 September 2021 | 1 |
| 411 | Little Simz | Sometimes I Might Be Introvert | Age 101 | 10 September 2021 | 1 |
| 412 | The Vaccines | Back in Love City | Super Easy | 17 September 2021 | 1 |
| 413 | Jordan Rakei | What We Call Life | Ninja Tune | 24 September 2021 | 1 |
| 414 | Public Service Broadcasting | Bright Magic | PIAS | 1 October 2021 | 1 |
| 415 | The Script | Tales from the Script: Greatest Hits | Sony Music | 8 October 2021 | 1 |
| 416 | Sam Fender | Seventeen Going Under | Polydor | 15 October 2021 | 1 |
| 417 | Joy Crookes | Skin | Insanity / Speakerbox | 22 October 2021 | 1 |
| 418 | Biffy Clyro | The Myth of the Happily Ever After | Warner | 29 October 2021 | 1 |
| 419 | Richard Ashcroft | Acoustic Hymns Vol 1 | BMG | 5 November 2021 | 1 |
| 420 | Radiohead | Kid A Mnesia | XL Recordings | 12 November 2021 | 1 |
| 421 | Damon Albarn | The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows | Transgressive | 19 November 2021 | 1 |
| 422 | Adele | 30 | Columbia | 26 November 2021 | 1 |
| re | Jamie Cullum | The Pianoman at Christmas | Island | 3 December 2021 | 1 |
| 423 | JLS | 2.0 | BMG | 10 December 2021 | 1 |
| 424 | King Krule | You Heat Me Up, You Cool Me Down | XL Recordings | 17 December 2021 | 1 |
| 425 | Daft Punk | Discovery | Daft Life | 24 December 2021 | 1 |
| 426 | Madlib | Sound Ancestors | Madlib Invazion | 31 December 2021 | 1 |
| 2022 | |||||
| re | Kylie Minogue | Disco | BMG | 7 January 2022 | 1 |
| 427 | Twin Atlantic | Transparency | Staple Diet | 14 January 2022 | 1 |
| 428 | The Wombats | Fix Yourself, Not the World | The Wombats | 21 January 2022 | 1 |
| 429 | Yard Act | The Overload | Island | 28 January 2022 | 1 |
| 430 | Don Broco | Amazing Things | SharpTone | 4 February 2022 | 1 |
| 431 | Bastille | Give Me the Future | Virgin | 11 February 2022 | 1 |
| 432 | Frank Turner | FTHC | Polydor | 18 February 2022 | 1 |
| 433 | Sea Power | Everything Was Forever | Golden Chariot | 25 February 2022 | 1 |
| 434 | Central Cee | 23 | Central Cee | 4 March 2022 | 1 |
| 435 | Marillion | An Hour Before It's Dark | earMUSIC | 11 March 2022 | 1 |
| 436 | Rex Orange County | Who Cares | Columbia | 18 March 2022 | 1 |
| 437 | Feeder | Torpedo | Big Teeth | 25 March 2022 | 1 |
| 438 | Placebo | Never Let Me Go | So Recordings | 1 April 2022 | 1 |
| 439 | Fatherson | Normal Fears | Easy Life | 8 April 2022 | 1 |
| 440 | Wet Leg | Wet Leg | Domino | 15 April 2022 | 1 |
| 441 | Digga D | Noughty By Nature | CGM / EGA | 22 April 2022 | 1 |
| 442 | Fontaines DC | Skinty Fia | Partisan | 29 April 2022 | 1 |
References
[edit]- ^ "New chart for record shop sales". The Independent. Independent News & Media. 18 April 2012. ISSN 0951-9467. OCLC 185201487. Archived from the original on 24 December 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
- ^ "Independent record store chart launched in the UK". London: BBC News. 17 April 2012. Archived from the original on 25 April 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
- ^ "Record Store Day: The Official biggest albums in record shops each year 2012–2021". London: Official Charts Company. 25 April 2022.
- ^ "Top 40 Official Record Store Albums Archive". Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on 27 December 2012. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
- ^ "Artist Chart History". London: Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on 2 April 2012. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
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