# List of UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number ones of 2018

The UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal albums in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each album's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 2018 to date, 20 albums have topped the 25 published charts. The first (and to date most successful) number one of the year was Concrete and Gold, the ninth studio album by American alternative rock band Foo Fighters, which spent the first three weeks of the year atop the chart.

## Chart history

| Issue date | Album | Artist(s) | Record label(s) |
| 4 January | Concrete and Gold | Foo Fighters | Columbia |
| 11 January | Concrete and Gold | Foo Fighters | Columbia |
| 18 January | Concrete and Gold | Foo Fighters | Columbia |
| 25 January | Vale | Black Veil Brides | Republic |
| 1 February | Mania | Fall Out Boy | Def Jam |
| 8 February | Catharsis | Machine Head | Nuclear Blast |
| 15 February | Technology | Don Broco | SharpTone |
| 22 February | Nevermind | Nirvana | Geffen |
| 1 March | A Deeper Cut | The Temperance Movement | Earache |
| 8 March | Deadwing | Porcupine Tree | Kscope |
| 15 March | All Nerve | The Breeders | 4AD |
| 22 March | Firepower | Judas Priest | Columbia |
| 29 March | Firepower | Judas Priest | Columbia |
| 5 April | How the West Was Won | Led Zeppelin | Rhino |
| 12 April | Firepower | Judas Priest | Columbia |
| 19 April | Find a Light | Blackberry Smoke | Earache |
| 26 April | The $5.98 E.P. - Garage Days Re-Revisited | Metallica | UMC/Virgin |
| 3 May | Family Tree | Black Stone Cherry | Mascot |
| 10 May | Big Tings | Skindred | Napalm |
| 17 May | Attention Attention | Shinedown | Atlantic |
| 24 May | Disobey | Bad Wolves | Eleven Seven |
| 31 May | And Justice for None | Five Finger Death Punch | Eleven Seven |
| 7 June | And Justice for None | Five Finger Death Punch | Eleven Seven |
| 14 June | Prequelle | Ghost | Spinefarm |
| 21 June | A Dying Machine | Tremonti | Napalm |
| 28 June | Live at Hammersmith | The Darkness | Cooking Vinyl |
| 5 July | Bad Witch | Nine Inch Nails | Null Corporation |
| 12 July | Appetite for Destruction | Guns N' Roses | Polydor |
| 19 July | Appetite for Destruction | Guns N' Roses | Polydor |
| 26 July | Dare | The Hunna | Null Corporation |
| 2 August | Appetite for Destruction | Guns N' Roses | Polydor |
| 9 August | Vicious | Halestorm | Atlantic |
| 16 August | Vicious | Halestorm | Atlantic |
| 23 August | Full Nelson | Massive Wagons | Earache |
| 30 August | Smote reverser | Oh Sees | Castleface |
| 6 September | Rainier Fog | Alice in Chains | BMG |
| 13 September | Dissolution | The Pineapple Thief | Kscope |
| 20 September | Book of Bad Decisions | Clutch | Weather Maker |
| 27 September | Generation Rx | Good Charlotte | BMG |
| 4 October | Living the Dream | Slash featuring Myles Kennedy & the Conspirators | Roadrunner |
| 11 October | Living the Dream | Slash featuring Myles Kennedy & the Conspirators | Roadrunner |
| 18 October | Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures | Coheed & Cambria | Roadrunner |
| 25 October | Living the Dream | Slash featuring Myles Kennedy & the Conspirators | Roadrunner |
| 1 November | Evolution | Disturbed | Reprise |
| 8 November | Anthem of the Peaceful Army | Greta Van Fleet | EMI |
| 15 November | ...And Justice For All | Metallica | UMC |
| 22 November | Holy Hell | Architects | Epitaph |
| 29 November | The Number of the Beast | Iron Maiden | Rhino |
| 6 December | Clutching at Straws | Marillion | Parlophone |
| 13 December | Nevermind | Nirvana | Geffen |
| 20 December | The Dark Side of the Moon | Pink Floyd | Rhino |
| 27 December | The Dark Side of the Moon | Pink Floyd | Rhino |