User:FraDany/List of my best-selling albums by year

This is a list of the best-selling albums on the Albums Chart for each year.

Best-selling albums by year

Key

	Studio album
	Compilation, greatest hits and EP album
	Soundtrack album
†	Indicates that, this album, is the Christmas number one album of its year

Year	Album	Artist	Weeks
1963	Please Please Me	The Beatles	13
1964	A Hard Day's Night		21
1965	Help!		11
1966	Rubber Soul		19
1967	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band		28
1968	The Beatles †		22
1969	Led Zeppelin	Led Zeppelin	17
1970	Led Zeppelin II		19
1971	Untitled (Led Zeppelin IV) †		33
1972
1973	Goodbye Yellow Brick Road †	Elton John	16
1974	Elton John's Greatest Hits †	10
1975	Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy	18
1976	The Best of ABBA	ABBA	16
1977	Rumours	Fleetwood Mac	30
1978	Grease: The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture †	Various artists	18
1979	Bat Out of Hell	Meat Loaf	17
1980	Super Trouper †	ABBA	17
1981	Greatest Hits	Queen	18
1982	Toto IV	Toto	13
1983	Thriller	Michael Jackson	35
1984	Purple Rain †	Prince and the Revolution	17
1985	No Jacket Required	Phil Collins	14
1986	True Blue	Madonna	17
1987	Bad †	Michael Jackson	20
1988	Faith	George Michael	16
1989	Like a Prayer	Madonna	11
1990	The Immaculate Collection †		15
1991	Love Hurts	Cher	18
1992	Gold: Greatest Hits †	ABBA	13
1993	Happy Nation	Ace of Base	13
1994	Music Box	Mariah Carey	14
1995	HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I	Michael Jackson	14
1996	Falling into You †	Céline Dion	13
1997	Spice	Spice Girls	15
1998	Titanic: Music from the Motion Picture	James Horner	21
1999	Believe †	Cher	15
2000	Come On Over	Shania Twain	14
2001	1 †	The Beatles	18
2002	The Eminem Show	Eminem	17
2003	Fallen	Evanescence	10
2004	Number Ones †	Michael Jackson	18
2005	American Idiot	Green Day	14
2006	FutureSex/LoveSounds	Justin Timberlake	13
2007	Loose	Nelly Furtado	17
2008	Mamma Mia! The Movie Soundtrack	Mamma Mia! film cast	12
2009	The Fame	Lady Gaga	15
2010	Teenage Dream	Katy Perry	12
2011	21	Adele	17
2012	The Truth About Love	Pink	10
2013	The Heist	Macklemore & Ryan Lewis	10
2014	Frozen: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	Various artists	19
2015	25 †	Adele	10
2016	This Is Acting	Sia	12
2017	÷	Ed Sheeran	14
2018	The Greatest Showman: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	Various artists	13
2019	Bohemian Rhapsody: The Original Soundtrack	Queen	11
2020	After Hours	The Weeknd	10
2021	30 †	Adele	12

Best-selling albums by decade

Decade	Album	Artist	Weeks
1960s	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	The Beatles	28
1970s	Untitled (Led Zeppelin IV)	Led Zeppelin	33
1980s	Thriller	Michael Jackson	35
1990s	Titanic: Music from the Motion Picture	James Horner	21
2000s	1	The Beatles	18
2010s	21	Adele	17