# List of UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number ones of 2014

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 2014, there were 39 albums that topped the 52 published charts. The first number-one album of the year was the 2009 Foo Fighters compilation Greatest Hits. The first new number-one album of the year was Dark Days, the third and final album by English alternative rock band Canterbury. The final number-one album of the year was Pink Floyd's fifteenth and final studio album The Endless River, which first topped the chart for three weeks in November before returning for a two-week spell at the end of December.
The most successful album on the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart in 2014 was The Endless River, which spent five weeks at number one and was the best-selling rock and metal album of the year, ranking ninth in the UK End of Year Albums Chart. Cavalier Youth by You Me at Six spent four separate weeks at number one during early 2014, ranking as the 98th best-selling album in the UK for the year. The second album by Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators, World on Fire was number one for three weeks, while four albums – Queens of the Stone Age's sixth studio album ...Like Clockwork, Black Stone Cherry's fourth studio album Magic Mountain, Linkin Park's sixth studio album The Hunting Party and Slipknot's fifth studio album .5: The Gray Chapter – spent two weeks at number one in 2014.

## Chart history

Key :
| † | Indicates best-selling rock album of 2014 |
| Issue date | Album | Artist(s) | Record label(s) |
| 4 January | Greatest Hits | Foo Fighters | RCA |
| 11 January | ...Like Clockwork | Queens of the Stone Age | Matador |
| 18 January | ...Like Clockwork | Queens of the Stone Age | Matador |
| 25 January | Dark Days | Canterbury | Hassle |
| 1 February | Nevermind | Nirvana | Geffen |
| 8 February | Cavalier Youth | You Me at Six | BMG |
| 15 February | Hydra | Within Temptation | Dramatico |
| 22 February | Cavalier Youth | You Me at Six | BMG |
| 1 March | Weird Kids | We Are the In Crowd | Hopeless |
| 8 March | Cavalier Youth | You Me at Six | BMG |
| 15 March | English Oceans | Drive-By Truckers | ATO |
| 22 March | Lost Forever // Lost Together | Architects | Epitaph |
| 29 March | Going to Hell | The Pretty Reckless | Cooking Vinyl |
| 5 April | May Death Never Stop You | My Chemical Romance | Reprise |
| 12 April | All You Can Eat | Steel Panther | Open E |
| 19 April | Catacombs of the Black Vatican | Black Label Society | Mascot |
| 26 April | Cavalier Youth | You Me at Six | BMG |
| 3 May | Space Police: Defenders of the Crown | Edguy | Nuclear Blast |
| 10 May | Diploid Love | Brody Dalle | Queen of Hearts |
| 17 May | Magic Mountain | Black Stone Cherry | Roadrunner |
| 24 May | Magic Mountain | Black Stone Cherry | Roadrunner |
| 31 May | California Breed | California Breed | Frontiers |
| 7 June | Runes | Bury Tomorrow | Nuclear Blast |
| 14 June | Led Zeppelin | Led Zeppelin | Rhino |
| 21 June | Great Western Valkyrie | Rival Sons | Earache |
| 28 June | The Hunting Party | Linkin Park | Warner Bros. |
| 5 July | Once More 'Round the Sun | Mastodon | Reprise |
| 12 July | Metallica | Metallica | Vertigo |
| 19 July | The Hunting Party | Linkin Park | Warner Bros. |
| 26 July | Redeemer of Souls | Judas Priest | Columbia |
| 2 August | Similarities | Biffy Clyro | 14th Floor |
| 9 August | Savages | Theory of a Deadman | Roadrunner |
| 16 August | Sunset on the Golden Age | Alestorm | Napalm |
| 23 August | Get Hurt | The Gaslight Anthem | Island |
| 30 August | Great Divide | Twin Atlantic | Red Bull |
| 6 September | Pale Communion | Opeth | Roadrunner |
| 13 September | The Day's War | Lonely the Brave | Hassle |
| 20 September | No Going Back | Stiff Little Fingers | Rigid Digits |
| 27 September | World on Fire | Slash Myles Kennedy The Conspirators | Roadrunner |
| 4 October | World on Fire | Slash Myles Kennedy The Conspirators | Roadrunner |
| 11 October | Hesitant Alien | Gerard Way | Reprise |
| 18 October | R-Kive | Genesis | Universal/Virgin |
| 25 October | World on Fire | Slash Myles Kennedy The Conspirators | Roadrunner |
| 1 November | .5: The Gray Chapter | Slipknot | Roadrunner |
| 8 November | Led Zeppelin IV | Led Zeppelin | Rhino |
| 15 November | .5: The Gray Chapter | Slipknot | Roadrunner |
| 22 November | The Endless River † | Pink Floyd | Rhino |
| 29 November | The Endless River † | Pink Floyd | Rhino |
| 6 December | The Endless River † | Pink Floyd | Rhino |
| 13 December | Rock or Bust | AC/DC | Columbia |
| 20 December | The Endless River † | Pink Floyd | Rhino |
| 27 December | The Endless River † | Pink Floyd | Rhino |