# List of UK Country Albums Chart number ones of 2016

These are the Official Charts Company's UK Country Albums Chart number ones of 2016. The chart week runs from Friday to Thursday with the chart-date given as the following Thursday. Chart positions are based the multi-metric consumption of country music in the United Kingdom, blending traditional album sales, track equivalent albums, and streaming equivalent albums. The chart contains 20 positions.
In the iteration of the chart dated 1 January, Brave, the debut album by British duo The Shires, spent it's thirty fifth total week at number one, and was briefly displaced by Rhiannon Giddens' Tomorrow Is My Turn (which reached the summit after eighteen weeks on the chart), before returning to the top spot for another two weeks. Later in the year, The Shires released their second album My Universe, which spent eleven consecutive weeks at number one. Beginning on 12th February, Chris Isaak debuted with First Comes the Night, which went on to hold the top spot for four weeks until it was replaced by country legend Loretta Lynn and her album Full Circle, becoming her second album to hit number one in the UK and her final number one before her death in 2022. Chris Stapleton's first album Traveller premiered on the chart in mid-March and would go on to spend four nonconsecutive weeks at the top. On 11 May, 80s pop star Cyndi Lauper achieved her first country number one with Detour, a collection of country music covers that inspired her as a child. Colvin & Earle, a collaborative project by Shawn Colvin and Steve Earle spent four weeks at number one, becoming Colvin's first number one country album and Earle's ninth. Following this, Ward Thomas' debut record From Where We Stand returned to the chart peak for two weeks, and their second album Cartwheels spent five non-consecutive weeks at number one and became the first British country album to reach the top spot on the all genre UK Albums Chart. Other artists who spent multiple weeks at number one include Lucinda Williams, Steven Tyler, and The Cadillac Three, which each spent two weeks, and Dolly Parton, who spent three weeks with Pure & Simple. The final number one of the year was Cartwheels.

## Chart history

| Issue date | Album | Artist(s) | Record label |
| 1 January | Brave | The Shires | Decca |
| 8 January | Tomorrow Is My Turn | Rhiannon Giddens | Nonesuch |
| 15 January | Brave | The Shires | Decca |
| 22 January | Brave | The Shires | Decca |
| 29 January | The Ghosts of Highway 20 | Lucinda Williams | Highway 20 |
| 5 February | The Ghosts of Highway 20 | Lucinda Williams | Highway 20 |
| 12 February | First Comes the Night | Chris Isaak | Rhino |
| 19 February | First Comes the Night | Chris Isaak | Rhino |
| 26 February | First Comes the Night | Chris Isaak | Rhino |
| 4 March | First Comes the Night | Chris Isaak | Rhino |
| 11 March | Full Circle | Loretta Lynn | Legacy |
| 18 March | Traveller | Chris Stapleton | UCJ |
| 25 March | You Can't Go Back If There's Nothing To Go Back To | Richmond Fontaine | Decor |
| 1 April | Traveller | Chris Stapleton | UCJ |
| 8 April | Little Windows | Teddy Thompson & Kelly Jones | Cooking Vinyl |
| 15 April | Traveller | Chris Stapleton | UCJ |
| 22 April | Traveller | Chris Stapleton | UCJ |
| 29 April | A Sailor's Guide to Earth | Sturgill Simpson | Atlantic |
| 6 May | Stayin' Up All Night | Nathan Carter | Decca |
| 13 May | Detour | Cyndi Lauper | Rhino |
| 20 May | The Things That We Are Made Of | Mary Chapin Carpenter | Lambent Light |
| 27 May | Midwest Farmer's Daughter | Margo Price | Third Man |
| 3 June | Black | Dierks Bentley | Capitol |
| 10 June | Obsessed | Dan + Shay | Warner Bros |
| 17 June | Colvin & Earle | Shawn Colvin & Steve Earle | Concord Records |
| 24 June | Colvin & Earle | Shawn Colvin & Steve Earle | Concord Records |
| 1 July | Colvin & Earle | Shawn Colvin & Steve Earle | Concord Records |
| 8 July | Colvin & Earle | Shawn Colvin & Steve Earle | Concord Records |
| 15 July | From Where We Stand | Ward Thomas | WTW Music |
| 22 July | From Where We Stand | Ward Thomas | WTW Music |
| 26 July | We're All Somebody from Somewhere | Steven Tyler | Dot/Republic |
| 5 August | We're All Somebody from Somewhere | Steven Tyler | Dot/Republic |
| 12 August | Bury Me in My Boots | The Cadillac Three | Big Machine |
| 19 August | Bury Me in My Boots | The Cadillac Three | Big Machine |
| 26 August | Pure & Simple | Dolly Parton | RCA Nashville |
| 2 September | Pure & Simple | Dolly Parton | RCA Nashville |
| 9 September | Pure & Simple | Dolly Parton | RCA Nashville |
| 16 September | Cartwheels | Ward Thomas | Sony/WTW |
| 23 September | Cartwheels | Ward Thomas | Sony/WTW |
| 30 September | Cartwheels | Ward Thomas | Sony/WTW |
| 7 October | My Universe | The Shires | Decca |
| 14 October | My Universe | The Shires | Decca |
| 21 October | My Universe | The Shires | Decca |
| 28 October | My Universe | The Shires | Decca |
| 4 November | My Universe | The Shires | Decca |
| 11 November | My Universe | The Shires | Decca |
| 18 November | My Universe | The Shires | Decca |
| 25 November | My Universe | The Shires | Decca |
| 25 November | My Universe | The Shires | Decca |
| 2 December | My Universe | The Shires | Decca |
| 9 December | My Universe | The Shires | Decca |
| 16 December | My Universe | The Shires | Decca |
| 23 December | Cartwheels | Ward Thomas | Sony/WTW |
| 30 December | Cartwheels | Ward Thomas | Sony/WTW |

## Most weeks at number one

| Weeks at number one | Artist |
| 15 | The Shires |
| 7 | Ward Thomas |
| 4 | Chris Isaak |
| 4 | Chris Stapleton |
| 4 | Shawn Colvin & Steve Earle |
| 3 | Dolly Parton |
| 3 | Lucinda Williams |
| 3 | Steven Tyler |
| 2 | The Cadillac Three |