List of UK Country Albums Chart number ones of 2016

These are the Official Charts Company's UK Country Albums Chart number ones of 2016. The chart week runs from Friday to Thursday with the chart-date given as the following Thursday. Chart positions are based the multi-metric consumption of country music in the United Kingdom, blending traditional album sales, track equivalent albums, and streaming equivalent albums. The chart contains 20 positions.

In the iteration of the chart dated 1 January, Brave, the debut album by British duo The Shires, spent its thirty fifth total week at number one, and was briefly displaced by Rhiannon Giddens' Tomorrow Is My Turn (which reached the summit after eighteen weeks on the chart), before returning to the top spot for another two weeks. Later in the year, The Shires released their second album My Universe, which spent eleven consecutive weeks at number one. Beginning on 12 February, Chris Isaak debuted with First Comes the Night, which went on to hold the top spot for four weeks until it was replaced by country legend Loretta Lynn and her album Full Circle, becoming her second album to hit number one in the UK and her final number one before her death in 2022. Chris Stapleton's first album Traveller premiered on the chart in mid-March and would go on to spend four nonconsecutive weeks at the top. On 11 May, 80s pop star Cyndi Lauper achieved her first country number one with Detour, a collection of country music covers that inspired her as a child. Colvin & Earle, a collaborative project by Shawn Colvin and Steve Earle spent four weeks at number one, becoming Colvin's first number one country album and Earle's ninth. Following this, Ward Thomas' debut record From Where We Stand returned to the chart peak for two weeks, and their second album Cartwheels spent five non-consecutive weeks at number one and became the first British country album to reach the top spot on the all genre UK Albums Chart. Other artists who spent multiple weeks at number one include Lucinda Williams, Steven Tyler, and The Cadillac Three, which each spent two weeks, and Dolly Parton, who spent three weeks with Pure & Simple. The final number one of the year was Cartwheels.

Chart history

Issue dateAlbumArtist(s)Record labelRef.1 JanuaryBraveThe ShiresDecca8 JanuaryTomorrow Is My TurnRhiannon GiddensNonesuch15 JanuaryBraveThe ShiresDecca22 January29 JanuaryThe Ghosts of Highway 20Lucinda WilliamsHighway 205 February12 FebruaryFirst Comes the NightChris IsaakRhino19 February26 February4 March11 MarchFull CircleLoretta LynnLegacy18 MarchTravellerChris StapletonUCJ25 MarchYou Can't Go Back If There's Nothing To Go Back ToRichmond FontaineDecor1 AprilTravellerChris StapletonUCJ8 AprilLittle WindowsTeddy Thompson & Kelly JonesCooking Vinyl15 AprilTravellerChris StapletonUCJ22 April29 AprilA Sailor's Guide to EarthSturgill SimpsonAtlantic6 MayStayin' Up All NightNathan CarterDecca13 MayDetour Cyndi LauperRhino20 MayThe Things That We Are Made Of Mary Chapin CarpenterLambent Light27 MayMidwest Farmer's Daughter Margo PriceThird Man3 JuneBlack Dierks BentleyCapitol10 JuneObsessed Dan + ShayWarner Bros.17 JuneColvin & Earle Shawn Colvin & Steve EarleConcord Records24 June1 July8 July15 JulyFrom Where We Stand Ward ThomasWTW Music22 July26 JulyWe're All Somebody from Somewhere Steven TylerDot/Republic5 August12 AugustBury Me in My Boots The Cadillac ThreeBig Machine19 August26 AugustPure & Simple Dolly PartonRCA Nashville2 September9 September16 SeptemberCartwheels Ward ThomasSony/WTW23 September30 September7 OctoberMy UniverseThe ShiresDecca14 October21 October28 October4 November11 November18 November25 November25 November2 December9 December16 December23 DecemberCartwheels Ward ThomasSony/WTW30 December

Most weeks at number one Weeks at number oneArtist 15 The Shires 7 Ward Thomas 4 Chris Isaak Chris Stapleton Shawn Colvin & Steve Earle 3 Dolly Parton 3 Lucinda Williams Steven Tyler 2 The Cadillac Three

List of UK Country Albums Chart number ones of 2016

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