# 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 albums of the week in the United Kingdom. Since 2005, it 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 (3), Leona Lewis (4) and David Gray (5) 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 (8), Keane (9) and Scissor Sisters (10) 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

| 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 | |
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. It appears likely that this position is for sales of the standard edition of the album only. A "deluxe edition" was released in November 2007 and was initially classified as a separate album, with its own chart positions (also peaking at number 1) and its own sales and award certifications. Sales for the two versions were later combined and subsequent reported sales figures for Back to Black are for the standard and deluxe editions combined.