List of UK Albums Chart Christmas number ones
Number ones

List of UK Albums Chart Christmas number ones

Section Title: Number ones
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Year	Artist	Album	Record label	Weeks at number one

1956	Original soundtrack	The King and I	Capitol	48

1957	The King and I	Capitol	48

1958	South Pacific	RCA Victor	115

1959	South Pacific	RCA Victor	115

1960	South Pacific	RCA Victor	115

1961	George Mitchell Minstrels	Another Black and White Minstrel Show	HMV	8

1962	The Black and White Minstrel Show	HMV	9

1963	The Beatles	With the Beatles	Parlophone	21

1964	Beatles for Sale	Parlophone	11

1965	Rubber Soul	Parlophone	8

1966	Original soundtrack	The Sound of Music	RCA Victor	70

1967	The Beatles	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	Parlophone	27

1968	The Beatles (White Album)	Apple	8

1969	Abbey Road	Apple	17

1970	Andy Williams	Andy Williams' Greatest Hits	CBS	5

1971	T. Rex	Electric Warrior	Fly	8

1972	Various artists	20 All Time Hits of the 50s	K-tel	11

1973	Elton John	Goodbye Yellow Brick Road	DJM	2

1974	Elton John's Greatest Hits	DJM	11

1975	Queen	A Night at the Opera	EMI	4

1976	Glen Campbell	Glen Campbell's Twenty Golden Greats	Capitol	6

1977	Various artists	Disco Fever	K-tel	6

1978	Original soundtrack	Grease: The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture	RSO	13

1979	Rod Stewart	Greatest Hits, Vol. 1	Riva	5

1980	ABBA	Super Trouper	Epic	9

1981	The Visitors	Epic	3

1982	John Lennon	The John Lennon Collection	Parlophone	6

1983	Various artists	Now That's What I Call Music	Virgin/EMI	5

1984	Hits 1	CBS/WEA	7

1985	Now – The Christmas Album	Virgin/EMI	2

1986	Now That's What I Call Music 8	Virgin/EMI/PolyGram	6

1987	Now That's What I Call Music 10	Virgin/EMI/PolyGram	6

1988	Cliff Richard	Private Collection: 1979–1988	EMI	2

1989	Phil Collins	...But Seriously	Virgin	15

1990	Madonna	The Immaculate Collection	Sire	9

1991	Queen	Greatest Hits II	Parlophone	5

1992	Cher	Greatest Hits: 1965–1992	Geffen	7

1993	Meat Loaf	Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell	Virgin	11

1994	The Beautiful South	Carry On up the Charts	Go! Discs	7

1995	Robson & Jerome	Robson & Jerome	RCA	7

1996	Spice Girls	Spice	Virgin	15

1997	Céline Dion	Let's Talk About Love	Epic	4

1998	George Michael	Ladies & Gentlemen: The Best of George Michael	Epic	8

1999	Shania Twain	Come On Over	Mercury	11

2000	The Beatles	1	Apple	9

2001	Robbie Williams	Swing When You're Winning	Chrysalis	7

2002	Escapology	EMI	7

2003	Dido	Life for Rent	Cheeky	10

2004	Robbie Williams	Greatest Hits	Chrysalis	4

2005	Eminem	Curtain Call: The Hits	Interscope	5

2006	Take That	Beautiful World	Polydor	8

2007	Leona Lewis	Spirit	Syco	8

2008	Take That	The Circus	Polydor	5

2009	Susan Boyle	I Dreamed a Dream	Syco	4

2010	Take That	Progress	Polydor	7

2011	Michael Bublé	Christmas	Reprise	3

2012	Emeli Sandé	Our Version of Events	Virgin	10

2013	Robbie Williams	Swings Both Ways	Island	4

2014	Ed Sheeran	X	Asylum	13

2015	Adele	25	XL	13

2016	Michael Ball & Alfie Boe	Together	Decca	2

2017	Eminem	Revival	Interscope	1

2018	Motion Picture Cast Recording	The Greatest Showman	Atlantic	25

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Staying at the top of the album chart for a total of 115 weeks, South Pacific was number one in 1959 and 1960.

final_sentence: Staying at the top of the album chart for a total of 115 weeks, South Pacific was number one in 1959 and 1960.