# List of UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number ones of 2020

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 and digital downloads.

## Chart history

| Issue date | Album | Artist(s) | Record label(s) |
| 2 January | The Dark Side of the Moon | Pink Floyd | Rhino |
| 9 January | Nevermind | Nirvana | Geffen |
| 16 January | Nevermind | Nirvana | Geffen |
| 23 January | I Disagree | Poppy | Sumerian |
| 30 January | The Serpent Rings | Magnum | Steamhammer |
| 6 February | Fall Better | Vukovi | Vukovi |
| 13 February | Darkness Brings the Wonders Home | Smoke Fairies | Year Seven |
| 20 February | Father of All... | Green Day | Reprise |
| 27 February | New Empire, Vol. 1 | Hollywood Undead | BMG |
| 5 March | Ordinary Man | Ozzy Osbourne | Epic |
| 12 March | F8 | Five Finger Death Punch | Better Noise |
| 19 March | Ordinary Man | Ozzy Osbourne | Epic |
| 26 March | Underneath | Code Orange | Roadrunner |
| 2 April | Transmissions + 1969 | Pink Floyd | Audio Vaults |
| 9 April | Gigaton | Pearl Jam | Monkeywrench |
| 16 April | Gigaton | Pearl Jam | Monkeywrench |
| 23 April | Human II Nature | Nightwish | Nuclear Blast |
| 30 April | Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible | Enter Shikari | So |
| 7 May | What the Dead Men Say | Trivium | Roadrunner |
| 14 May | Glue | Boston Manor | Pure Noise |
| 21 May | Nevermind | Nirvana | Geffen |
| 28 May | Obsidian | Paradise Lost | Nuclear Blast |
| 4 June | Synchronized | FM | Frontiers |
| 11 June | Permanent Waves | Rush | UMC |
| 18 June | The Ghost Inside | The Ghost Inside | Epitaph |
| 25 June | The Essential | Thin Lizzy | Spectrum |
| 2 July | Lamb of God | Lamb of God | Nuclear Blast |
| 9 July | Amends | Grey Daze | Loma Vista |
| 16 July | Cannibal | Bury Tomorrow | Music for Nations |
| 23 July | The Gereg | The Hu | Eleven Seven |
| 30 July | House of Noise | Massive Wagons | Earache |
| 6 August | All Distortions Are Intentional | Neck Deep | Hopeless |
| 13 August | Sex, Death & the Infinite Void | Creeper | Roadrunner |
| 20 August | Whoosh! | Deep Purple | Ear Music |
| 27 August | Whoosh! | Deep Purple | Ear Music |
| 3 September | Holy Moly | Blues Pills | Nuclear Blast |
| 10 September | S&M2 | Metallica | Vertigo |
| 17 September | S&M2 | Metallica | Vertigo |
| 24 September | We Are Chaos | Marilyn Manson | Concord/Loma Vista Recordings |
| 1 October | Live at the Roundhouse | Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets | Sony |
| 8 October | Ohms | Deftones | Reprise |
| 15 October | Us + Them | Roger Waters | Sony |
| 22 October | Iron Maiden | Iron Maiden | Rhino |
| 29 October | Strange Days | The Struts | Interscope |
| 5 November | Blossom | Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes | International Death Cult |
| 12 November | The Human Condition | Black Stone Cherry | Mascot |
| 19 November | Love Songs | Whitesnake | Rhino |
| 26 November | Power Up | AC/DC | Columbia |
| 3 December | Nights of the Dead - Legacy of the Beast | Iron Maiden | Parlophone |
| 10 December | Power Up | AC/DC | Columbia |
| 17 December | Power Up | AC/DC | Columbia |
| 24 December | Power Up | AC/DC | Columbia |
| 31 December | Power Up | AC/DC | Columbia |