List of best-selling albums of the 2000s (decade) in the United Kingdom
The UK Albums Chart is a music chart compiled by the Official Charts Company that calculates the best-selling artist albums of the week in the United Kingdom. Since 2005, the chart has been based on the sales of both physical and digital albums, on the condition that the album was available in both formats. In 2007, the rules were changed so that legal downloads of all albums, irrespective of whether a physical copy was available, were eligible to chart.
Between 2000 and 2009, more than 100 albums sold more than 1 million copies in the United Kingdom. At the end of the decade, a retrospective chart was compiled by the Official Charts Company to determine the best-selling artist album of this ten-year period. The title was won by James Blunt, with his debut album Back to Bedlam, released in 2004. The album sold 3.19 million copies, finishing ahead of Dido's album No Angel, which sold 3.05 million copies. Dido featured twice in the top 10 best-sellers, with Life for Rent being the seventh best-seller of the decade. Amy Winehouse, Leona Lewis and David Gray were the other solo-artists to feature. The Beatles' compilation album 1 was the highest entry by a group in the chart at number 6; Coldplay, Keane and Scissor Sisters made up the rest of the top ten. Robbie Williams had the most albums on the list with five entries.
BBC Radio 1 announced the chart in a programme, presented by DJ Nihal, on 28 December 2009. The list of the best-selling albums of the decade in the United Kingdom was also announced in a series of three shows between 29 and 31 December 2009. As it was broadcast during the last week of December, the chart did not include sales from the final week of the year. An updated chart, including sales up to 31 December 2009 and containing some minor changes from the chart broadcast on Radio 1, was published in the UK trade magazine Music Week in the issue dated 30 January 2010.
The list of the best-selling compilation albums of the decade in the UK Compilation Chart was dominated by the Now That's What I Call Music! series of albums. The best-selling compilation album of the 2000s was Now 47 with 1,371,324 copies sold, ahead of Now 50 with 1,367,380 copies. The best-selling soundtrack album of the decade was Mamma Mia! The Movie Soundtrack, with a total of 1,320,357 to the end of 2009.
Best-selling albums
| Title | Artist | Peak position | Year of release | Sales | |
| 1 | Back to Bedlam | 1 | 2004 | 3,191,393 | |
| 2 | No Angel | Dido | 1 | 2000 | 3,052,901 |
| 3 | Back to Black | 1 | 2006 | ||
| 4 | Spirit | 1 | 2007 | ||
| 5 | White Ladder | 1 | 1998 | ||
| 6 | 1 | 1 | 2000 | 2,867,152 | |
| 7 | Life for Rent | Dido | 1 | 2003 | |
| 8 | A Rush of Blood to the Head | Coldplay | 1 | 2002 | |
| 9 | Hopes and Fears | Keane | 1 | 2004 | |
| 10 | Scissor Sisters | Scissor Sisters | 1 | 2004 | 2,707,567 |
| 11 | Beautiful World | Take That | 1 | 2006 | |
| 12 | X&Y | Coldplay | 1 | 2005 | |
| 13 | Parachutes | Coldplay | 1 | 2000 | |
| 14 | Come Away with Me | 1 | 2002 | ||
| 15 | Eyes Open | Snow Patrol | 1 | 2006 | |
| 16 | The Marshall Mathers LP | Eminem | 1 | 2000 | |
| 17 | Swing When You're Winning | 1 | 2001 | ||
| 18 | Only by the Night | Kings of Leon | 1 | 2008 | 2,260,195 |
| 19 | Greatest Hits | 1 | 2004 | ||
| 20 | Sing When You're Winning | 1 | 2000 | ||
| 21 | Rockferry | Duffy | 1 | 2008 | |
| 22 | Escapology | 1 | 2002 | ||
| 23 | Employment | Kaiser Chiefs | 2 | 2005 | |
| 24 | The Circus | Take That | 1 | 2008 | |
| 25 | ' | ABBA | 1 | 1992 | 1,995,170 |
| 26 | Hot Fuss | 1 | 2004 | ||
| 27 | American Idiot | Green Day | 1 | 2004 | |
| 28 | By the Way | Red Hot Chili Peppers | 1 | 2002 | |
| 29 | Stripped | 2 | 2002 | ||
| 30 | Songs About Jane | Maroon 5 | 1 | 2002 | |
| 31 | Justified | 1 | 2002 | ||
| 32 | Never Forget – The Ultimate Collection | Take That | 2 | 2005 | |
| 33 | The Greatest Hits | Texas | 1 | 2000 | |
| 34 | Call Off the Search | 1 | 2003 | ||
| 35 | Born to Do It | 1 | 2000 | ||
| 36 | Play | Moby | 1 | 1999 | |
| 37 | Number Ones | 1 | 2003 | ||
| 38 | Missundaztood | Pink | 3 | 2002 | |
| 39 | Just Enough Education to Perform | Stereophonics | 1 | 2001 | |
| 40 | Let Go | 1 | 2002 | ||
| 41 | Final Straw | Snow Patrol | 3 | 2003 | |
| 42 | Unbreakable – The Greatest Hits Vol. 1 | Westlife | 1 | 2002 | 1,730,028 |
| 43 | Friday's Child | 1 | 2003 | ||
| 44 | Songbird | 1 | 1998 | ||
| 45 | Demon Days | Gorillaz | 1 | 2005 | |
| 46 | Fever | 1 | 2001 | ||
| 47 | Coast to Coast | Westlife | 1 | 2000 | |
| 48 | The Platinum Collection | Queen | 2 | 2000 | |
| 49 | ' | 1 | 2000 | ||
| 50 | ' | R.E.M. | 1 | 2003 | |
| 51 | Eye to the Telescope | 3 | 2004 | ||
| 52 | I Dreamed a Dream | 1 | 2009 | 1,632,732 | |
| 53 | Gotta Get Thru This | 2 | 2002 | ||
| 54 | Music | Madonna | 1 | 2000 | |
| 55 | Intensive Care | 1 | 2005 | ||
| 56 | Elephunk | 3 | 2003 | ||
| 57 | Good Girl Gone Bad | Rihanna | 1 | 2007 | |
| 58 | Life in Cartoon Motion | Mika | 1 | 2007 | |
| 59 | ELV1S | 1 | 2002 | ||
| 60 | Breakaway | 3 | 2005 | ||
| 61 | The Eminem Show | Eminem | 1 | 2002 | |
| 62 | Il Divo | Il Divo | 1 | 2004 | |
| 63 | Escape | 1 | 2001 | ||
| 64 | Undiscovered | 1 | 2006 | ||
| 65 | Razorlight | Razorlight | 1 | 2006 | |
| 66 | In Between Dreams | 1 | 2005 | ||
| 67 | Greatest Hits | Guns N' Roses | 1 | 2004 | |
| 68 | Greatest Hits 1970–2002 | 3 | 2002 | ||
| 69 | Ta-Dah | Scissor Sisters | 1 | 2006 | |
| 70 | Sam's Town | 1 | 2006 | ||
| 71 | Confessions | Usher | 1 | 2004 | |
| 72 | The Story So Far: The Very Best of Rod Stewart | 7 | 2001 | ||
| 73 | The Fame | Lady Gaga | 1 | 2009 | 1,388,847 |
| 74 | Inside In/Inside Out | 2 | 2006 | ||
| 75 | Permission to Land | 1 | 2003 | ||
| 76 | One Love | Blue | 1 | 2002 | |
| 77 | Dreams Can Come True, Greatest Hits Vol. 1 | Gabrielle | 2 | 2001 | |
| 78 | Hybrid Theory | Linkin Park | 4 | 2000 | |
| 79 | Stop the Clocks | Oasis | 2 | 2006 | |
| 80 | ' | 7 | 1997 | ||
| 81 | Ronan | 1 | 2000 | ||
| 82 | Confessions on a Dance Floor | Madonna | 1 | 2005 | |
| 83 | Face to Face | Westlife | 1 | 2005 | |
| 84 | Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not | Arctic Monkeys | 1 | 2006 | |
| 85 | Forever Faithless – The Greatest Hits | Faithless | 1 | 2005 | |
| 86 | Piece by Piece | 1 | 2005 | ||
| 87 | Fallen | Evanescence | 1 | 2003 | |
| 88 | I'm Not Dead | Pink | 3 | 2006 | |
| 89 | ' | Eminem | 1 | 2005 | |
| 90 | Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | Coldplay | 1 | 2008 | |
| 91 | All Rise | Blue | 1 | 2001 | |
| 92 | The Man Who | Travis | 1 | 1999 | |
| 93 | 10 Years of Hits | 1 | 2004 | ||
| 94 | Franz Ferdinand | Franz Ferdinand | 3 | 2004 | |
| 95 | PCD | 7 | 2005 | ||
| 96 | Rise | Gabrielle | 1 | 1999 | |
| 97 | How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb | U2 | 1 | 2004 | |
| 98 | The Invisible Band | Travis | 1 | 2001 | |
| 99 | Anastacia | Anastacia | 1 | 2004 | |
| 100 | A New Day at Midnight | 1 | 2002 |
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