# List of UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number ones of 2022

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) |
| 7 January | Nevermind | Nirvana | UMC |
| 14 January | Unplugged In New York | Nirvana | Geffen |
| 21 January | Caught on Stage - Live And Acoustic | The Temperance Movement | Earache |
| 28 January | Circus of Doom | Battle Beast | Nuclear Blast |
| 4 February | Amazing Things | Don Broco | SharpTone |
| 11 February | Requiem | Korn | Loma Vista |
| 18 February | 4 | Slash | BMG |
| 25 February | See Where the Night Goes | Goodbye June | Earache |
| 4 March | A Tribute to Led Zeppelin | Beth Hart | Provogue |
| 11 March | An Hour Before It's Dark | Marillion | Ear Music |
| 18 March | Impera | Ghost | Loma Vista |
| 25 March | Torpedo | Feeder | Big Teeth |
| 1 April | Greatest Hits | Foo Fighters | RCA |
| 8 April | Immutable | Meshuggah | Atomic Fire |
| 15 April | The Elephants of Mars | Joe Satriani | Ear Music |
| 22 April | Slipknot | Slipknot | Roadrunner |
| 29 April | Revelation | Stone Broken | Spinefarm |
| 6 May | Zeit | Rammstein | Spinefarm |
| 13 May | Back From the Dead | Halestorm | Parlophone |
| 20 May | Iowa | Slipknot | Roadrunner |
| 27 May | Zeit | Rammstein | Spinefarm |
| 3 June | Diamond Star Halos | Def Leppard | UMC |
| 10 June | Sinners Never Sleep | You Me At Six | UMC/Virgin |
| 17 June | Diamond Star Halos | Def Leppard | UMC |
| 24 June | Supernova | Nova Twins | Marshall |
| 1 July | Closure/Continuation | Porcupine Tree | Music For Nations |
| 8 July | Planet Zero | Shinedown | Parlophone |
| 15 July | Grit | Kut | Criminal |
| 22 July | Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses) | Slipknot | Roadrunner |
| 29 July | Nevermind | Nirvana | UMC |
| 5 August | Kickstart the Sun | Cats in Space | Harmony Factory |
| 12 August | Westgate Under Fire | Dub War | Earache |
| 19 August | Deceivers | Arch Enemy | Century Media |
| 26 August | Afterlife | Five Finger Death Punch | Better Noise |
| 2 September | Of Kingdom and Crown | Machine Head | Nuclear Blast |
| 9 September | The Sick, the Dying... and the Dead! | Megadeth | UMC |
| 16 September | Patient Number 9 | Ozzy Osbourne | Columbia |
| 23 September | Animals | Pink Floyd | Rhino |
| 30 September | Dirt | Alice in Chains | Columbia |
| 7 October | The End, So Far | Slipknot | Roadrunner |
| 14 October | Under the Midnight Sun | The Cult | Black Hill |
| 21 October | Pawns & Kings | Alter Bridge | Napalm |
| 28 October | The Classic Symptoms of a Broken Spirit | Architects | Epitaph |
| 4 November | Triggerred! | Massive Wagons | Earache |
| 11 November | Loud Without Noise | Crawlers | Polydor |
| 11 November | Use Your Illusion | Guns N' Roses | Polydor/UMR |
| 25 November | Get Rollin' | Nickelback | BMG |
| 2 December | Get Rollin' | Nickelback | BMG |
| 9 December | The Dark Side of the Moon | Pink Floyd | Rhino |
| 16 December | Brutalism | Idles | Partisan |
| 23 December | The Dark Side of the Moon | Pink Floyd | Rhino |
| 30 December | The Dark Side of the Moon | Pink Floyd | Rhino |