List of best-selling albums of the 2000s (decade) in the United Kingdom
Best-selling albums
Note: The updated chart of the best-selling albums of the decade published in Music Week in January 2010 placed Back to Black at number 19.

List of best-selling albums of the 2000s (decade) in the United Kingdom

Section Title: Best-selling albums
Table Section Text: Note: The updated chart of the best-selling albums of the decade published in Music Week in January 2010 placed Back to Black at number 19.

No.	Title	Artist	Peak position	Year of release	Sales

1	Back to Bedlam	James Blunt	1	2004	3,191,393

2	No Angel	Dido	1	2000	3,052,901

3	Back to Black	Amy Winehouse	1	2006

4	Spirit	Leona Lewis	1	2007

5	White Ladder	David Gray	1	1998

6	1	The Beatles	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	Norah Jones	1	2002

15	Eyes Open	Snow Patrol	1	2006

16	The Marshall Mathers LP	Eminem	1	2000

17	Swing When You're Winning	Robbie Williams	1	2001

18	Only by the Night	Kings of Leon	1	2008	2,260,195

19	Greatest Hits	Robbie Williams	1	2004

20	Sing When You're Winning	Robbie Williams	1	2000

21	Rockferry	Duffy	1	2008

22	Escapology	Robbie Williams	1	2002

23	Employment	Kaiser Chiefs	2	2005

24	The Circus	Take That	1	2008

25	Gold: Greatest Hits	ABBA	1	1992	1,995,170

26	Hot Fuss	The Killers	1	2004

27	American Idiot	Green Day	1	2004

28	By the Way	Red Hot Chili Peppers	1	2002

29	Stripped	Christina Aguilera	2	2002

30	Songs About Jane	Maroon 5	1	2002

31	Justified	Justin Timberlake	1	2002

32	Never Forget – The Ultimate Collection	Take That	2	2005

33	The Greatest Hits	Texas	1	2000

34	Call Off the Search	Katie Melua	1	2003

35	Born to Do It	Craig David	1	2000

36	Play	Moby	1	1999

37	Number Ones	Michael Jackson	1	2003

38	Missundaztood	Pink	3	2002

39	Just Enough Education to Perform	Stereophonics	1	2001

40	Let Go	Avril Lavigne	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	Will Young	1	2003

44	Songbird	Eva Cassidy	1	1998

45	Demon Days	Gorillaz	1	2005

46	Fever	Kylie Minogue	1	2001

47	Coast to Coast	Westlife	1	2000

48	The Platinum Collection (Greatest Hits I, II, III)	Queen	2	2000

49	Whitney: The Greatest Hits	Whitney Houston	1	2000

50	In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988–2003	R.E.M.	1	2003

51	Eye to the Telescope	KT Tunstall	3	2004

52	I Dreamed a Dream	Susan Boyle	1	2009	1,632,732

53	Gotta Get Thru This	Daniel Bedingfield	2	2002

54	Music	Madonna	1	2000

55	Intensive Care	Robbie Williams	1	2005

56	Elephunk	The Black Eyed Peas	3	2003

57	Good Girl Gone Bad	Rihanna	1	2007

58	Life in Cartoon Motion	Mika	1	2007

59	ELV1S	Elvis Presley	1	2002

60	Breakaway	Kelly Clarkson	3	2005

61	The Eminem Show	Eminem	1	2002

62	Il Divo	Il Divo	1	2004

63	Escape	Enrique Iglesias	1	2001

64	Undiscovered	James Morrison	1	2006

65	Razorlight	Razorlight	1	2006

66	In Between Dreams	Jack Johnson	1	2005

67	Greatest Hits	Guns N' Roses	1	2004

68	Greatest Hits 1970–2002	Elton John	3	2002

69	Ta-Dah	Scissor Sisters	1	2006

70	Sam's Town	The Killers	1	2006

71	Confessions	Usher	1	2004

72	The Story So Far: The Very Best of Rod Stewart	Rod Stewart	7	2001

73	The Fame	Lady Gaga	1	2009	1,388,847

74	Inside In/Inside Out	The Kooks	2	2006

75	Permission to Land	The Darkness	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	My Way: The Best of Frank Sinatra	Frank Sinatra	7	1997

81	Ronan	Ronan Keating	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	Katie Melua	1	2005

87	Fallen	Evanescence	1	2003

88	I'm Not Dead	Pink	3	2006

89	Curtain Call: The Hits	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	Ronan Keating	1	2004

94	Franz Ferdinand	Franz Ferdinand	3	2004

95	PCD	The Pussycat Dolls	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	David Gray	1	2002

Sentence(s)

In 2003, In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988–2003 was the 50th-best-selling album.

final_sentence: In 2003, In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988–2003 was the 50th-best-selling album.