This is the Recorded Music NZ list of number-one albums in New Zealand during the 2010s decade. Adele's 2011 album 21 charted at number one for a total of 38 weeks, and was the top-selling album in both 2011 and 2012. New Zealand vocal trio Sol3 Mio had the top selling album in 2013, despite their self-titled album being released only in November 2013.

In New Zealand, Recorded Music NZ compiles the top 40 albums chart each Monday. Over-the-counter sales of both physical and digital formats make up the data. Certifications are awarded for the number of shipments to retailers. Gold certifications are awarded after 7,500 sales, and platinum certifications after 15,000.

The following albums were all number one in New Zealand in the 2010s.

Number ones Key – Number-one album of the yearAnnual charts are sourced from the RMNZ website. – Album of New Zealand originWhether or not a song is of New Zealand origin is determined by RMNZ – Number-one album of the year, of New Zealand origin

Artist Album Weeks atnumber one Reached number one Certification Ref Susan Boyle I Dreamed a Dream 4 Platinum ×11 Glee Cast Glee: The Music, Volume 2 1 Gold Susan Boyle I Dreamed a Dream 2 Platinum ×11 Gin Wigmore Holy Smoke 3 Platinum ×4 Lady Gaga The Fame MonsterThe Fame Monster was a deluxe issue of The Fame, therefore their sales were collated together. 1 Platinum ×5 Hollie Smith Humour and the Misfortune of Others 1 — Lady Gaga The Fame Monster 1 Platinum ×5 Dane Rumble The Experiment 1 Gold Slash Slash 2 Platinum AC/DC Iron Man 2 1 Gold Justin Bieber My WorldsMy Worlds was an international double-release of My World and My World 2.0 1 Platinum ×2 Susan Boyle I Dreamed a Dream 1 Platinum ×11 Justin Bieber My Worlds 2 Platinum ×2 Lady Antebellum Need You Now 1 Platinum Jack Johnson To the Sea 1 Platinum Justin Bieber My Worlds 1 Platinum ×2 Lady Antebellum Need You Now 1 Platinum Eminem Recovery 6 Platinum Opshop Until the End of Time 1 — Eminem Recovery 1 Platinum Iron Maiden The Final Frontier 1 — Stan Walker From the Inside Out 1 Platinum Disturbed Asylum 1 Gold The Naked and Famous Passive Me, Aggressive You 1 — Linkin Park A Thousand Suns 1 Gold Shihad Ignite 1 Gold Katy Perry Teenage Dream 1 Platinum ×3 Gin Wigmore Holy Smoke 1 Platinum ×4 Brooke Fraser Flags 1 Platinum ×2 Kings of Leon Come Around Sundown 1 Platinum Taylor Swift Speak Now 2 Platinum ×3 Susan Boyle The Gift 7 Platinum ×4 Artist Album Weeks atnumber one Reached number one Certification Ref Ronan Keating Duet 1 Platinum ×2 Mumford & Sons Sigh No More 3 Platinum ×2 Adele 21 2 Platinum ×13 Pink Greatest Hits... So Far!!! 1 Platinum ×3 House of Shem Island Vibration 1 — Adele 21 1 Platinum ×13 Mumford & Sons Sigh No More 1 Platinum ×2 Tiki In the World of Light 1 — Adele 21 2 Platinum ×13 Dennis Marsh Maori Songbook 1 — Adele 21 1 Platinum ×13 Foo Fighters Wasting Light 3 Platinum Hayley Westenra Paradiso 1 Gold Adele 21 2 Platinum ×13 Lady Gaga Born This Way 1 Platinum Adele 21 13 Platinum ×13 Red Hot Chili Peppers I'm with You 1 Gold Adele 21 5 Platinum ×13 Six60 Six60 2 Platinum ×10 Coldplay Mylo Xyloto 1 Platinum ×2 Florence and the Machine Ceremonials 1 Platinum Gin Wigmore Gravel & Wine 2 Platinum ×2 Rihanna Talk That Talk 1 Platinum Michael Bublé Christmas 4 Platinum ×12 Artist Album Weeks atnumber one Reached number one Certification Ref Adele 21 5 Platinum ×13 Leonard Cohen Old Ideas 2 Gold Adele 21 1 Platinum ×13 Reece Mastin Reece Mastin 1 Gold Adele 21 2 Platinum ×13 Bruce Springsteen Wrecking Ball 1 — One Direction Up All Night 1 Platinum ×3 Adele 21 2 Platinum ×13 The Black Seeds Dust and Dirt 1 — One Direction Up All Night 2 Platinum ×3 Home Brew Home Brew 1 — Adele 21 1 Platinum ×13 Rod Stewart Storyteller – The Complete Anthology: 1964–1990 1 Gold Slash feat. Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators Apocalyptic Love 1 Gold John Mayer Born and Raised 1 — Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons Jersey's Best: The Very Best of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons 2 Platinum Justin Bieber Believe 1 Gold Linkin Park Living Things 2 Gold Chris Brown Fortune 1 — Adele 21 1 Platinum ×13 Justin Bieber Believe 1 Gold Peter Posa White Rabbit: The Very Best Of 6 Platinum The xx Coexist 1 — Pink The Truth About Love 1 Platinum ×3 Mumford & Sons Babel 1 Platinum ×2 Muse The 2nd Law 1 Gold Pink The Truth About Love 2 Platinum ×3 Taylor Swift Red 3 Platinum ×2 One Direction Take Me Home 1 Platinum ×2 Led Zeppelin Celebration Day 1 Platinum Susan Boyle Standing Ovation: The Greatest Songs from the Stage 1 Platinum Rod Stewart Merry Christmas, Baby 3 Platinum ×2 Michael Bublé Christmas 1 Platinum ×12 Artist Album Weeks atnumber one Reached number one Certification Ref Mumford & Sons Babel 1 Platinum ×2 Ed Sheeran + 2 Platinum ×5 Various artists Les Misérables: Highlights from the Motion Picture Soundtrack 3 Gold Various artists Mt. Zion 1 — Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Push the Sky Away 1 — Macklemore and Ryan Lewis The Heist 1 Platinum Pink The Truth About Love 1 Platinum ×3 David Bowie The Next Day 1 Gold Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience 1 Gold Pink The Truth About Love 2 Platinum ×3 Paramore Paramore 1 — Michael Bublé To Be Loved 5 Platinum Daft Punk Random Access Memories 2 Platinum Shapeshifter Delta 1 Gold Black Sabbath 13 1 — Kanye West Yeezus 1 — Fat Freddy's Drop Blackbird 4 Platinum Charley Pride 40 Years of Pride 1 Gold Dennis Marsh Country Songbook 1 — Charley Pride 40 Years of Pride 1 Gold Jackie Thomas Jackie Thomas 1 Gold Harrison Craig More Than A Dream 1 — Fleetwood Mac 25 Years – The Chain 2 Platinum Arctic Monkeys AM 1 Platinum Blacklistt Blacklistt 1 — Kings of Leon Mechanical Bull 1 — Lorde Pure Heroine 4 Platinum ×5 Katy Perry Prism 1 Platinum ×2 Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP 2 2 Platinum Sol3 Mio Sol3 Mio 9 Platinum ×8 Artist Album Weeks atnumber one Reached number one Certification Ref Bruce Springsteen High Hopes 1 Gold Lorde Pure Heroine 2 Platinum ×5 Dolly Parton Blue Smoke 1 — Lorde Pure Heroine 2 Platinum ×5 Bruce Springsteen High Hopes 1 Gold Sol3 Mio Sol3 Mio 5 Platinum ×8 Various artists Frozen: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 3 Platinum ×3 Sol3 Mio Sol3 Mio 2 Platinum ×8 Coldplay Ghost Stories 3 Gold Ellie Goulding Halcyon Days 1 Platinum Lana Del Rey Ultraviolence 1 — Ed Sheeran X 1 Platinum ×13 5 Seconds of Summer 5 Seconds of Summer 1 Gold Ed Sheeran X 1 Platinum ×13 Devilskin We Rise 3 Platinum Ed Sheeran X 1 Platinum ×13 Shihad FVEY 1 Gold INXS The Very Best 1 Platinum Broods Evergreen 1 Gold Sam Smith In the Lonely Hour 4 Platinum ×4 Leonard Cohen Popular Problems 1 — Ed Sheeran X 3 Platinum ×13 Taylor Swift 1989 2 Platinum ×8 Pink Floyd The Endless River 1 Platinum One Direction Four 1 Gold Taylor Swift 1989 1 Platinum ×8 Michael Bublé Christmas 4 Platinum ×12 Artist Album Weeks atnumber one Reached number one Certification Ref Taylor Swift 1989 1 Platinum ×8 Ed Sheeran X 1 Platinum ×13 Meghan Trainor Title 2 Platinum Taylor Swift 1989 2 Platinum ×8 Sam Smith In the Lonely Hour 3 Platinum ×4 Six60 Six60 2 Platinum ×8 Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly 1 — Six60 Six60 1 Platinum ×8 Dennis Marsh Lest We Forget 1 Gold Ed Sheeran X 3 Platinum ×13 Sam Smith In the Lonely Hour 1 Platinum ×4 Ed Sheeran X 2 Platinum ×13 The Script No Sound Without Silence 2 Platinum Florence and the Machine How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful 1 Gold Muse Drones 1 — The Script No Sound Without Silence 1 Platinum Ed Sheeran X 1 Platinum ×13 Gin Wigmore Blood to Bone 1 — The Quin Tikis The Quin Tikis: New Zealand's Premier Maori Show Band 2 — Josh Groban Stages 2 — Meghan Trainor Title 1 Platinum Dr. Dre Compton 1 — Cilla Black The Very Best of Cilla Black 5 Platinum David Gilmour Rattle That Lock 3 — Sol3 Mio On Another Note 2 Platinum ×2 Fat Freddy's Drop Bays 1 Gold Sol3 Mio On Another Note 2 Platinum ×2 Justin Bieber Purpose 1 Platinum ×2 Adele 25 7 Platinum ×12 Artist Album Weeks atnumber one Reached number one Certification Ref David Bowie Blackstar 2 Gold Adele 25 2 Platinum ×12 David Bowie Nothing Has Changed 3 Platinum The 1975 I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It 1 — David Bowie Nothing Has Changed 1 Platinum Sol3 Mio On Another Note 1 Platinum ×2 Adele 25 1 Platinum ×12 Zayn Mind of Mine 1 — Hollie Smith Water or Gold 1 — Deftones Gore 1 — Anika Moa Songs for Bubbas 2 1 — Prince The Very Best of Prince 1 Platinum Drake Views 1 — Beyoncé Lemonade 2 Gold Ariana Grande Dangerous Woman 1 — Flume Skin 1 — Prince The Hits/The B-Sides 2 Platinum Red Hot Chili Peppers The Getaway 1 — Broods Conscious 4 — Aaradhna Brown Girl 1 — Drake Views 1 — Various artists Suicide Squad: The Album 2 Gold Frank Ocean Blonde 1 — Various artists Suicide Squad: The Album 2 Gold Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree 1 — Various artists Suicide Squad: The Album 1 Gold Passenger Young as the Morning, Old as the Sea 1 — Bon Iver 22, A Million 1 — Green Day Revolution Radio 1 — Kings of Leon WALLS 1 — Leonard Cohen You Want It Darker 1 Gold The Koi Boys Meant to Be 1 Platinum Prince Tui Teka E Ipo: The Very Best Of 1 Gold Devilskin Be Like the River 1 Gold Metallica Hardwired... to Self-Destruct 1 Gold Michael Bublé Christmas 4 Platinum ×12 Artist Album Weeks atnumber one Reached number one Certification Ref Adele 25 4 Platinum ×12 Various artists Moana: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 2 Platinum ×3 Adele 25 1 Platinum ×12 Various artists Moana: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 3 Platinum ×3 Ed Sheeran ÷ 15 Platinum ×16 Lorde Melodrama 3 Platinum ×2 Ed Sheeran ÷ 7 Platinum ×16 Queens of the Stone Age Villains 1 — Ed Sheeran ÷ 2 Platinum ×16 Foo Fighters Concrete and Gold 3 Gold Ed Sheeran ÷ 1 Platinum ×16 Pink Beautiful Trauma 3 Platinum ×2 Sam Smith The Thrill of It All 1 Platinum Taylor Swift Reputation 2 Platinum ×4 Sol3 Mio A Very M3rry Christmas 4 Platinum Artist Album Weeks atnumber one Reached number one Certification Ref Ed Sheeran ÷ 5 Platinum ×16 Tomorrow People BBQ Reggae 1 — Various artists The Greatest Showman: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 2 Platinum ×2 Marlon Williams Make Way for Love 1 - Various artists The Greatest Showman: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 2 Platinum ×2 Ed Sheeran ÷ 6 Platinum ×16 J. Cole KOD 1 — Post Malone Beerbongs & Bentleys 5 Platinum ×6 Kanye West Ye 2 — Post Malone Beerbongs & Bentleys 1 Platinum ×6 XXXTentacion ? 1 Platinum Drake Scorpion 3 Platinum ×2 Various artists Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again: The Movie Soundtrack 2 Gold Travis Scott Astroworld 1 Gold Various artists Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again: The Movie Soundtrack 1 Gold Ariana Grande Sweetener 2 Platinum Eminem Kamikaze 5 Platinum Twenty One Pilots Trench 1 — Eminem Kamikaze 1 Platinum Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper A Star Is Born 16 Platinum ×3 Artist Album Weeks atnumber one Reached number one Certification Ref Ariana Grande Thank U, Next 7 Platinum Billie Eilish When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? 2 Platinum ×5 BTS Map of the Soul: Persona 1 — Billie Eilish When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? 1 Platinum ×5 Pink Hurts 2B Human 2 Gold Billie Eilish When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? 5 Platinum ×5 Bruce Springsteen Western Stars 1 — Billie Eilish When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? 1 Platinum ×5 Beastwars IV 1 — Billie Eilish When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? 1 Platinum ×5 Ed Sheeran No.6 Collaborations Project 6 Platinum ×3 Taylor Swift Lover 1 Platinum ×3 Tool Fear Inoculum 1 — Various artists Waiata / Anthems 1 — Post Malone Hollywood's Bleeding 7 Platinum ×4 Kanye West Jesus Is King 1 — Post Malone Hollywood's Bleeding 1 Platinum ×4 Six60 Six60 5 Platinum ×5 Harry Styles Fine Line 2 Platinum ×3

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