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. Since 2004 the chart has been based on the sales of both physical albums and digital downloads. Since 2015, the album chart has been based on both sales and streaming. This list shows albums that peaked in the top ten of the UK Albums Chart during 2023, as well as albums which peaked in 2022 and 2024 but were in the top 10 in 2023. 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).
One-hundred and ninety-two albums were in the top 10 this year. Two albums from 2021 and six albums from 2022 remained in the top ten for several weeks at the beginning of the year, while Stick Season by Noah Kahan was released in 2023 but did not reach its peak until 2024. Christmas by Michael Bublé, originally released in 2011, was the only album from 2022 to reach its peak in 2023.
The first new number-one album of the year was Christmas by Michael Bublé. Overall, forty-three different albums peaked at number-one in 2023, with Damon Albarn, Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift (2) having the joint most albums hit that position.
An asterisk (*) in the "Weeks in Top 10" column shows that the album is currently in the top 10.
Background
Best-selling albums The Weeknd had the best-selling album of the year with The Highlights. Midnights by Taylor Swift came in second place. Taylor Swift's 1989 (Taylor's Version), Diamonds by Elton John and Harry Styles' Harry's House made up the top five. Albums by Fleetwood Mac, Eminem, SZA, Arctic Monkeys and ABBA were also in the top ten best-selling albums of the year.
Top-ten albums Key SymbolMeaning‡Album peaked in 2021 or 2022 but still in chart in 2023.♦Album released in 2023 but peaked in 2024.(#)Year-end top ten album position and rankEnteredThe date that the album first appeared in the chart.PeakHighest position that the song reached in the UK Albums Chart.
Entered (week ending)Weeksintop10 Album ArtistPeak Peakreached (week ending)WeeksatpeakAlbums in 2021 208The Highlights (#1) ‡The Weeknd 2 7 66= ‡Ed Sheeran 1 4Albums in 2022 57Harry's House (#5) ‡Harry Styles 1 6 11Renaissance ‡Beyoncé 1 2 57Midnights (#2) ‡Taylor Swift 1 5 8ChristmasMichael Bublé 1 2 4There's Nothing but Space, Man! ‡Sam Ryder 1 1 17SOS (#8) ‡SZA 2 3Albums in 2023 34Diamonds (#4)Elton John 2 2 1RumoursFleetwood Mac 8 1 6AM (#9)Arctic Monkeys 7 1 17Curtain Call: The Hits (#7)Eminem 5 1 4ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits (#10)ABBA 10 4 2050 Years – Don't Stop (#6) Fleetwood Mac 6 2 8Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish ExtentLewis Capaldi 4 2 1St. JudeCourteeners 1 1 1Rap Game AwfulClavish 4 1 1Turn the Car AroundGaz Coombes 6 1 1What's Rock and Roll?The Reytons 1 1 1Rush!Måneskin 5 1 1Wrong Side of ParadiseBlack Star Riders 6 1 1GloriaSam Smith 1 1 1The Bootleg Series Vol. 17: Fragments – Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996–1997)Bob Dylan 9 1 1Queen of MeShania Twain 1 1 4My 21st Century BluesRaye 2 1 1Heavy HeavyYoung Fathers 7 1 1This Is WhyParamore 1 1 1Truth DecayYou Me at Six 4 1 5TrustfallPink 1 1 1Cuts & BruisesInhaler 2 1 1Inhale/ExhaleThose Damn Crows 3 1 1Optical DelusionOrbital 6 1 1Cracker IslandGorillaz 1 1 1Good RiddanceGracie Abrams 3 1 1High DramaAdam Lambert 5 1 1From Nothing to a Little Bit MoreThe Lathums 1 1 1UglySlowthai 2 1 1AmeliaMimi Webb 4 1 1I Can Only Be MeEva Cassidy with the London Symphony Orchestra 9 1 2Endless Summer VacationMiley Cyrus 1 1 1UK GrimSleaford Mods 3 1 1Songs of SurrenderU2 1 1 1A Fistful of PeachesBlack Honey 6 1 2Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean BlvdLana Del Rey 1 1 1Memento MoriDepeche Mode 2 1 1So Much (for) StardustFall Out Boy 3 1 1The Dark Side of the Moon Live at Wembley 1974Pink Floyd 4 1 1Gettin' OldLuke Combs 5 1 1The RecordBoygenius 1 1 1PortalsMelanie Martinez 2 1 1How Many Dreams?DMA's 3 1 13 Feet High and RisingDe La Soul 9 1 1TimelessDavido 10 1 1Higher Than HeavenEllie Goulding 1 1 1HopeNF 2 1 1MeteoraLinkin Park 7 1 272 SeasonsMetallica 1 1 1Intellectual PropertyWaterparks 10 1 1A Kiss for the Whole WorldEnter Shikari 1 1 1Live with the BBC Philharmonic OrchestraThe 1975 2 1 1FuseEverything but the Girl 3 1 1Folklore: The Long Pond Studio SessionsTaylor Swift 4 1 1Anxiety Replacement TherapyThe Lottery Winners 1 1 3Crop Circle 2Nines 2 2 1That! Feels Good!Jessie Ware 3 1 1First Two Pages of FrankensteinThe National 4 1 1Heatwave in the Cold NorthReverend and the Makers 6 1 1Blood OrangeFreya Ridings 7 1 1DarkadelicThe Damned 9 1 5-Ed Sheeran 1 2 1First Lap Tunde 4 1 1Real Back in StylePotter Payper 2 1 1The AlbumJonas Brothers 3 1 1Wake Up & It's OverLovejoy 5 1 1The Love InventionAlison Goldfrapp 6 1 7Broken by Desire to Be Heavenly SentLewis Capaldi 1 3 1Take Me Back to EdenSleep Token 3 1 1Drastic SymphoniesDef Leppard with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 4 1 1Phantomime (EP)Ghost 8 1 1The Girl Is Crying in Her LatteSparks 7 1 1TimeSimply Red 8 1 1My Soft MachineArlo Parks 9 1 2But Here We AreFoo Fighters 1 1 2Council SkiesNoel Gallagher's High Flying Birds 2 1 1HanaSophie Ellis-Bextor 8 1 1The ShowNiall Horan 1 1 1Power to PlayMcFly 2 1 1Be Opened by the WonderfulJames 3 1 1Paranoia, Angels, True LoveChristine and the Queens 7 1 2What Ifs & MaybesTom Grennan 1 1 1In Times New Roman...Queens of the Stone Age 2 1 1Smash: The Singles 1985–2020Pet Shop Boys 4 1 1Far from SaintsFar from Saints 5 1 1The Very Best Of 1989 – 2023Texas 6 1 1A Gift & a CurseGunna 9 1 1The World EP.2: Outlaw (EP)Ateez 10 1 1The Good WitchMaisie Peters 1 1 7LoverTaylor Swift 8 1 1Dead Club CityNothing but Thieves 1 1 1MessyOlivia Dean 4 1 1Pink TapeLil Uzi Vert 7 1 1Chaos for the Fly Grian Chatten 10 1 7Speak Now (Taylor's Version)Taylor Swift 1 1 1The Singles: Echoes from the Edge of HeavenWham! 2 1 1Angels & Queens – Part IIGabriels 3 1 1I Inside the Old Year DyingPJ Harvey 5 1 1DBE WorldD-Block Europe 6 1 91989Taylor Swift 5 2 2Beautiful and Brutal YardJ Hus 1 1 1You & IRita Ora 6 1 2The Ballad of DarrenBlur 1 1 1StarcatcherGreta Van Fleet 8 1 7UtopiaTravis Scott 1 1 1UnhealthyAnne-Marie 2 1 1AustinPost Malone 3 1 1The Feminine DivineDexys 6 1 1VictoryCian Ducrot 1 1 1SmileSkindred 2 1 1People Like Me & YouThe Sherlocks 4 1 1One Man BandMiles Kane 5 1 1TimelessN-Dubz 6 1 1Knebworth 22Liam Gallagher 1 1 1The Death of Randy FitzsimmonsThe Hives 2 1 1VolcanoJungle 3 1 1Unfinished BusinessFredo 9 1 1Ziggy Stardust: The Motion PictureDavid Bowie 10 1 1Unreal UnearthHozier 1 1 1Exorcism of YouthThe View 6 1 1Snow AngelReneé Rapp 7 1 2I Told Them...Burna Boy 1 1 1EuphoriaClaire Richards 2 1 1Back to Square OneDigga D 6 1 1WeedkillerAshnikko 7 1 1RoadAlice Cooper 8 1 1Back to the Water BelowRoyal Blood 1 1 1The 1975The 1975 3 1 1Everything Is AliveSlowdive 6 1 32GutsOlivia Rodrigo 1 1 1Sea of MirrorsThe Coral 3 1 1Hit ParadeRóisín Murphy 5 1 1For That Beautiful FeelingThe Chemical Brothers 6 1 3SourOlivia Rodrigo 5 1 1My Neighbours Don't KnowM Huncho 9 1 1Greatest Hits 2.0Busted 1 1 1The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are WeMitski 4 1 2TensionKylie Minogue 1 1 1Strength to StrengthHeadie One & K-Trap 4 1 1ScarletDoja Cat 5 1 2Autumn VariationsEd Sheeran 1 1 1Falling or FlyingJorja Smith 3 1 1The Harmony CodexSteven Wilson 4 1 1Screamin' at the SkyBlack Stone Cherry 6 1 1UltraviolenceLana Del Rey 7 1 4For All the DogsDrake 1 1 1Crop Circle 3Nines 2 1 1The Dark Side of the Moon ReduxRoger Waters 4 1 1Another Friday NightJoel Corry 5 1 1JavelinSurfjan Stevens 7 1 1Sick BoiRen 1 1 1Are We There Yet?Rick Astley 2 1 1Something to Give Each OtherTroye Sivan 4 1 1Paint My Bedroom BlackHolly Humberstone 5 1 1The Darker the Shadow the Brighter the LightThe Streets 7 1 1The Dark Side of the MoonPink Floyd 8 1 1Aces are HighWhen Rivers Meet 9 1 11Hackney DiamondsThe Rolling Stones 1 2 1One More Time...Blink-182 2 1 1My Big DayBombay Bicycle Club 3 1 4FolkloreTaylor Swift 6 1 251989 (Taylor's Version) (#3) 1 3 1Bauhaus StaircaseOrchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 2 1 1Danse MacabreDuran Duran 4 1 1Who We Used to BeJames Blunt 5 1 1Famous Last WordsCasisdead 7 1 1Open Arms – The Symphonic SongbookAlfie Boe 10 1 1The MasterplanOasis 2 1 1GoldenJungkook 3 1 1Cliff With Strings – My Kinda LifeCliff Richard 5 1 1Spirit Power: The Best Of Johnny MarrJohnny Marr 7 1 21967–1970The Beatles 2 1 11962–1966 3 1 12 RUFF, Vol. 1Chase & Status 4 1 1Quarter Life CrisisBaby Queen 5 1 32Stick Season ♦Noah Kahan 1 1 1All the Little LightsPassenger 7 1 1SubstanceNew Order 10 1 1Theatre of the Absurd Presents C'est la VieMadness 1 1 1RockstarDolly Parton 5 1 3This LifeTake That 1 1 1I/OPeter Gabriel 1 1 1The World EP.Fin: WillAteez 2 1 2ChristmasCher 5 1 1Rebel Diamonds The Killers 1 1 2Pink Friday 2 Nicki Minaj 3 1 1Think Later Tate McRae 5 1 1Jewels of Romance André Rieu & the Johann Strauss Orchestra 8 1
Entries by artist The following table shows artists who have achieved two or more top 10 entries in 2023, including albums that reached their peak in 2022. 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 2023 is also shown.
Entries Artist Weeks Albums7Taylor Swift46Midnights, Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions, Lover, Speak Now (Taylor's Version), 1989, Folklore, 1989 (Taylor's Version)3Ed Sheeran15=, -, Autumn VariationsRoger Waters3 The Dark Side of the Moon Live at Wembley 1974, The Dark Side of the Moon Redux, The Dark Side of the Moon2 The 19752Live with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, The 1975Damon Albarn4Cracker Island, The Ballad of DarrenLana Del Rey3Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, UltraviolenceLewis Capaldi13Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent, Broken by Desire to Be Heavenly SentLiam Gallagher2Knebworth 22, The MasterplanNoel Gallagher3Council Skies, The MasterplanFleetwood Mac21Rumours, 50 Years – Don't StopOlivia Rodrigo15Guts, SourNines4Crop Circle 2, Crop Circle 3Pink Floyd3 The Dark Side of the Moon Live at Wembley 1974, The Dark Side of the Moon ReduxThe Beatles2 1967–1970, 1962–1966
See also List of UK Albums Chart number ones of the 2020s
References
Sources
External links 2023 album chart archive at the Official Charts Company (click on relevant week)