# List of artists by number of UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number ones

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 (since 2007) and streams (since 2015), and is currently published every Friday. As of the chart published on 14 March 2025, a total of 770 albums by 334 artists have topped the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart. The most successful artist are American pop punk band Green Day, who have topped the chart with 15 releases and spent a total of 75 weeks at number one.

## Artists

The following artists have been credited on at least seven different number one albums, as recognised by the OCC. Appearances on compilation albums featuring various artists are not included.
Key :
| † | Indicates that the album reached number 1 on the UK Albums Chart |
| Artist | Number-one albums | Number-one studio albums | Total weeks at number one | Albums | Record label(s) | First reached number one | Weeks at number one |
| Green Day | 15 | 11 | 75 | Dookie | Reprise | 18 February 1995 | 11 |
| Green Day | 15 | 11 | 75 | Insomniac | Reprise | 21 October 1995 | 2 |
| Green Day | 15 | 11 | 75 | Nimrod | Reprise | 25 October 1997 | 2 |
| Green Day | 15 | 11 | 75 | Warning | Reprise | 14 October 2000 | 1 |
| Green Day | 15 | 11 | 75 | International Superhits! | Reprise | 24 November 2001 | 1 |
| Green Day | 15 | 11 | 75 | American Idiot † | Reprise | 2 October 2004 | 36 |
| Green Day | 15 | 11 | 75 | Bullet in a Bible | Reprise | 26 November 2005 | 4 |
| Green Day | 15 | 11 | 75 | 21st Century Breakdown † | Reprise | 23 May 2009 | 11 |
| Green Day | 15 | 11 | 75 | Awesome as Fuck | Reprise | 2 April 2011 | 1 |
| Green Day | 15 | 11 | 75 | ¡Uno! | Reprise | 6 October 2012 | 1 |
| Green Day | 15 | 11 | 75 | ¡Dos! | Reprise | 24 November 2012 | 1 |
| Green Day | 15 | 11 | 75 | Revolution Radio † | Reprise | 20 October 2016 | 1 |
| Green Day | 15 | 11 | 75 | Father of All... † | Reprise | 14 February 2020 | 1 |
| Green Day | 15 | 11 | 75 | BBC Sessions | Reprise | 17 December 2021 | 1 |
| Green Day | 15 | 11 | 75 | Saviors | Reprise | 26 January 2024 | 1 |
| Iron Maiden | 13 | 8 | 18 | Best of the Beast | EMI | 5 October 1996 | 1 |
| Iron Maiden | 13 | 8 | 18 | Virtual XI | EMI | 4 April 1998 | 2 |
| Iron Maiden | 13 | 8 | 18 | Brave New World | EMI | 10 June 2000 | 3 |
| Iron Maiden | 13 | 8 | 18 | Death on the Road | EMI | 10 September 2005 | 1 |
| Iron Maiden | 13 | 8 | 18 | A Matter of Life and Death | EMI | 9 September 2006 | 1 |
| Iron Maiden | 13 | 8 | 18 | Somewhere Back in Time | EMI | 24 May 2008 | 2 |
| Iron Maiden | 13 | 8 | 18 | The Final Frontier † | EMI | 28 August 2010 | 2 |
| Iron Maiden | 13 | 8 | 18 | The Book of Souls † | Parlophone | 17 September 2015 | 1 |
| Iron Maiden | 13 | 8 | 18 | The Book of Souls: Live Chapter | Parlophone | 30 November 2017 | 1 |
| Iron Maiden | 13 | 8 | 18 | The Number of the Beast † | Rhino | 29 November 2018 | 1 |
| Iron Maiden | 13 | 8 | 18 | Iron Maiden | Rhino | 22 October 2020 | 1 |
| Iron Maiden | 13 | 8 | 18 | Nights of the Dead | Parlophone | 3 December 2020 | 1 |
| Iron Maiden | 13 | 8 | 18 | Senjutsu | Parlophone | 10 September 2021 | 1 |
| Metallica | 12 | 8 | 26 | Load † | Vertigo | 15 June 1996 | 1 |
| Metallica | 12 | 8 | 26 | Garage Inc. | Vertigo | 5 December 1998 | 5 |
| Metallica | 12 | 8 | 26 | St. Anger | Vertigo | 14 June 2003 | 1 |
| Metallica | 12 | 8 | 26 | Death Magnetic † | Vertigo | 20 September 2008 | 3 |
| Metallica | 12 | 8 | 26 | Beyond Magnetic | Vertigo | 11 February 2012 | 1 |
| Metallica | 12 | 8 | 26 | Metallica † | Vertigo | 12 July 2014 | 2 |
| Metallica | 12 | 8 | 26 | Hardwired... to Self-Destruct | Blackened | 1 December 2016 | 6 |
| Metallica | 12 | 8 | 26 | Master of Puppets | Vertigo | 23 November 2017 | 1 |
| Metallica | 12 | 8 | 26 | The $5.98 E.P. - Garage Days Re-Revisited | UMC/Virgin | 26 April 2018 | 1 |
| Metallica | 12 | 8 | 26 | ...And Justice for All | UMC | 15 November 2018 | 1 |
| Metallica | 12 | 8 | 26 | S&M2 | Vertigo | 10 September 2020 | 2 |
| Metallica | 12 | 8 | 26 | 72 Seasons | Vertigo | 21 April 2023 | 2 |
| Foo Fighters | 11 | 9 | 83 | The Colour and the Shape | Roswell | 24 May 1997 | 4 |
| Foo Fighters | 11 | 9 | 83 | One by One † | RCA | 2 November 2002 | 3 |
| Foo Fighters | 11 | 9 | 83 | In Your Honor | RCA | 25 June 2005 | 13 |
| Foo Fighters | 11 | 9 | 83 | Skin and Bones | RCA | 2 December 2006 | 1 |
| Foo Fighters | 11 | 9 | 83 | Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace † | RCA | 6 October 2007 | 8 |
| Foo Fighters | 11 | 9 | 83 | Greatest Hits | RCA | 14 November 2009 | 22 |
| Foo Fighters | 11 | 9 | 83 | Wasting Light † | RCA | 23 April 2011 | 16 |
| Foo Fighters | 11 | 9 | 83 | Sonic Highways | RCA | 10 January 2015 | 1 |
| Foo Fighters | 11 | 9 | 83 | Concrete and Gold † | Columbia | 28 September 2017 | 11 |
| Foo Fighters | 11 | 9 | 83 | Medicine at Midnight † | Columbia | 18 February 2021 | 2 |
| Foo Fighters | 11 | 9 | 83 | But Here We Are † | Columbia | 9 June 2023 | 3 |
| Led Zeppelin | 10 | 4 | 35 | Remasters | Atlantic | 6 September 1997 | 7 |
| Led Zeppelin | 10 | 4 | 35 | BBC Sessions | Atlantic | 29 November 1997 | 2 |
| Led Zeppelin | 10 | 4 | 35 | Mothership | Atlantic | 24 November 2007 | 15 |
| Led Zeppelin | 10 | 4 | 35 | Celebration Day | Atlantic | 1 December 2012 | 5 |
| Led Zeppelin | 10 | 4 | 35 | Led Zeppelin | Rhino | 14 June 2014 | 1 |
| Led Zeppelin | 10 | 4 | 35 | Led Zeppelin IV † | Rhino | 8 November 2014 | 1 |
| Led Zeppelin | 10 | 4 | 35 | Physical Graffiti † | Rhino | 7 March 2015 | 1 |
| Led Zeppelin | 10 | 4 | 35 | Presence † | Rhino | 13 August 2015 | 1 |
| Led Zeppelin | 10 | 4 | 35 | The Complete BBC Sessions | Rhino | 29 September 2016 | 1 |
| Led Zeppelin | 10 | 4 | 35 | How the West Was Won | Rhino | 5 April 2018 | 1 |
| Muse | 9 | 6 | 59 | Origin of Symmetry | Mushroom | 30 June 2001 | 4 |
| Muse | 9 | 6 | 59 | Hullabaloo Soundtrack | Mushroom | 13 July 2002 | 1 |
| Muse | 9 | 6 | 59 | Absolution † | East West | 4 October 2003 | 3 |
| Muse | 9 | 6 | 59 | Black Holes and Revelations † | Helium 3 Warner Bros. | 15 July 2006 | 15 |
| Muse | 9 | 6 | 59 | HAARP | Helium 3 Warner Bros. | 29 March 2008 | 3 |
| Muse | 9 | 6 | 59 | The Resistance † | Helium 3 Warner Bros. | 26 September 2009 | 16 |
| Muse | 9 | 6 | 59 | The 2nd Law † | Helium 3 Warner Bros. | 13 October 2012 | 6 |
| Muse | 9 | 6 | 59 | Live at Rome Olympic Stadium | Helium 3 Warner Bros. | 14 December 2013 | 3 |
| Muse | 9 | 6 | 59 | Drones † | Helium 3 Warner Bros. | 20 June 2015 | 8 |
| Korn | 9 | 9 | 10 | Follow the Leader | Epic | 5 September 1998 | 2 |
| Korn | 9 | 9 | 10 | Issues | Epic | 27 November 1999 | 1 |
| Korn | 9 | 9 | 10 | Untouchables | Epic | 22 June 2002 | 1 |
| Korn | 9 | 9 | 10 | Untitled Korn album | Virgin | 11 August 2007 | 1 |
| Korn | 9 | 9 | 10 | Korn III: Remember Who You Are | Roadrunner | 24 July 2010 | 1 |
| Korn | 9 | 9 | 10 | The Paradigm Shift | Spinefarm | 19 October 2013 | 1 |
| Korn | 9 | 9 | 10 | The Serenity of Suffering | Roadrunner | 3 November 2016 | 1 |
| Korn | 9 | 9 | 10 | The Nothing | Roadrunner | 26 September 2019 | 1 |
| Korn | 9 | 9 | 10 | Requiem | Loma Vista | 11 February 222 | 1 |
| The Darkness | 8 | 7 | 28 | Permission to Land † | Must Destroy | 19 July 2003 | 21 |
| The Darkness | 8 | 7 | 28 | One Way Ticket to Hell... and Back | Atlantic | 10 December 2005 | 1 |
| The Darkness | 8 | 7 | 28 | Hot Cakes | PIAS | 1 September 2012 | 1 |
| The Darkness | 8 | 7 | 28 | Last of Our Kind | Canary Dwarf | 13 June 2015 | 1 |
| The Darkness | 8 | 7 | 28 | Pinewood Smile | Cooking Vinyl | 19 October 2017 | 1 |
| The Darkness | 8 | 7 | 28 | Live at Hammersmith | Cooking Vinyl | 28 June 2018 | 1 |
| The Darkness | 8 | 7 | 28 | Easter Is Cancelled | Cooking Vinyl | 17 October 2019 | 1 |
| The Darkness | 8 | 7 | 28 | Motorheart | Cooking Vinyl | 26 November 2021 | 1 |
| Blink-182 | 8 | 7 | 13 | Enema of the State | MCA | 20 May 2000 | 3 |
| Blink-182 | 8 | 7 | 13 | Take Off Your Pants and Jacket | MCA | 23 June 2001 | 1 |
| Blink-182 | 8 | 7 | 13 | Blink-182 | Geffen | 29 November 2003 | 2 |
| Blink-182 | 8 | 7 | 13 | Greatest Hits | Geffen | 12 November 2005 | 2 |
| Blink-182 | 8 | 7 | 13 | Neighborhoods | Island | 8 October 2011 | 1 |
| Blink-182 | 8 | 7 | 13 | California † | BMG | 14 July 2016 | 2 |
| Blink-182 | 8 | 7 | 13 | Nine | Columbia | 3 October 2019 | 1 |
| Blink-182 | 8 | 7 | 13 | One More Time... | Columbia | 27 October 2023 | 2 |
| Linkin Park | 8 | 7 | 56 | Hybrid Theory | Warner Bros. | 14 April 2001 | 21 |
| Linkin Park | 8 | 7 | 56 | Meteora † | Warner Bros. | 5 April 2003 | 6 |
| Linkin Park | 8 | 7 | 56 | Minutes to Midnight † | Warner Bros. | 26 May 2007 | 6 |
| Linkin Park | 8 | 7 | 56 | A Thousand Suns | Warner Bros. | 25 September 2010 | 8 |
| Linkin Park | 8 | 7 | 56 | Living Things † | Warner Bros. | 7 July 2012 | 4 |
| Linkin Park | 8 | 7 | 56 | The Hunting Party | Warner Bros. | 28 June 2014 | 2 |
| Linkin Park | 8 | 7 | 56 | One More Light Live | Warner Bros. | 28 December 2017 | 1 |
| Linkin Park | 8 | 7 | 56 | From Zero † | Warner Bros. | 22 November 2024 | 8 |
| Architects | 8 | 8 | 8 | The Here and Now | Century Media | 5 February 2011 | 1 |
| Architects | 8 | 8 | 8 | Daybreaker | Century Media | 9 June 2012 | 1 |
| Architects | 8 | 8 | 8 | Lost Forever // Lost Together | Epitaph | 22 March 2014 | 1 |
| Architects | 8 | 8 | 8 | All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us | Epitaph | 9 June 2016 | 1 |
| Architects | 8 | 8 | 8 | Holy Hell | Epitaph | 22 November 2018 | 1 |
| Architects | 8 | 8 | 8 | For Those That Wish to Exist † | Epitaph | 5 March 2021 | 1 |
| Architects | 8 | 8 | 8 | The Classic Symptoms of a Broken Spirit | Epitaph | 28 October 2022 | 1 |
| Architects | 8 | 8 | 8 | The Sky, the Earth & All Between | Epitaph | 7 March 2025 | 1 |
| Slipknot | 7 | 7 | 13 | Iowa † | Roadrunner | 2 September 2001 | 2 |
| Slipknot | 7 | 7 | 13 | Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses) | Roadrunner | 5 June 2004 | 2 |
| Slipknot | 7 | 7 | 13 | All Hope Is Gone | Roadrunner | 6 September 2008 | 2 |
| Slipknot | 7 | 7 | 13 | .5: The Gray Chapter | Roadrunner | 1 November 2014 | 2 |
| Slipknot | 7 | 7 | 13 | We Are Not Your Kind † | Roadrunner | 22 August 2019 | 3 |
| Slipknot | 7 | 7 | 13 | Slipknot | Roadrunner | 22 April 2022 | 1 |
| Slipknot | 7 | 7 | 13 | The End, So Far † | Roadrunner | 7 October 2022 | 1 |
| Black Stone Cherry | 7 | 6 | 8 | Folklore and Superstition | Roadrunner | 30 August 2008 | 1 |
| Black Stone Cherry | 7 | 6 | 8 | Between the Devil & the Deep Blue Sea | Roadrunner | 11 June 2011 | 1 |
| Black Stone Cherry | 7 | 6 | 8 | Magic Mountain | Roadrunner | 17 May 2014 | 2 |
| Black Stone Cherry | 7 | 6 | 8 | Kentucky | Mascot | 14 April 2016 | 1 |
| Black Stone Cherry | 7 | 6 | 8 | Family Tree | Mascot | 3 May 2018 | 1 |
| Black Stone Cherry | 7 | 6 | 8 | Black to Blues Vol. 2 | Mascot | 14 November 2019 | 1 |
| Black Stone Cherry | 7 | 6 | 8 | The Human Condition | Mascot | 12 November 2020 | 1 |
| Trivium | 7 | 7 | 7 | Ascendancy | Roadrunner | 11 March 2006 | 1 |
| Trivium | 7 | 7 | 7 | The Crusade | Roadrunner | 21 October 2006 | 1 |
| Trivium | 7 | 7 | 7 | Shogun | Roadrunner | 11 October 2008 | 1 |
| Trivium | 7 | 7 | 7 | In Waves | Roadrunner | 20 August 2011 | 1 |
| Trivium | 7 | 7 | 7 | The Sin and the Sentence | Roadrunner | 2 November 2017 | 1 |
| Trivium | 7 | 7 | 7 | What the Dead Men Say | Roadrunner | 7 May 2020 | 1 |
| Trivium | 7 | 7 | 7 | In the Court of the Dragon | Roadrunner | 15 October 2021 | 1 |