# List of UK Independent Albums Chart number ones of 2021

These are the Official Charts Company's UK Independent Albums Chart number ones of 2021.

## Chart history

| Issue date | Album | Artist(s) | Record label |
| 1 January | Disco | Kylie Minogue | BMG |
| 8 January | Songs from the Kitchen Disco | Sophie Ellis-Bextor | Cooking Vinyl |
| 15 January | Songs for the Drunk and Broken Hearted | Passenger | Cooking Vinyl |
| 22 January | Suckapunch | You Me at Six | Underdog |
| 29 January | Isles | Bicep | Ninja Tune |
| 5 February | Collapsed in Sunbeams | Arlo Parks | Transgressive |
| 12 February | For the First Time | Black Country, New Road | Ninja Tune |
| 19 February | Who Am I? | Pale Waves | Dirty Hit |
| 26 February | As the Love Continues | Mogwai | Rock Action |
| 5 March | Nature Always Wins | Maxïmo Park | Prolifica |
| 12 March | Do It Again | Gabrielle | BMG |
| 19 March | All the Right Noises | Thunder | BMG |
| 26 March | Written & Directed | Black Honey | FoxFive |
| 2 April | Promises | Floating Points/Pharoah Sanders and London Symphony Orchestra | Luaka Bop |
| 9 April | New Long Leg | Dry Cleaning | 4AD |
| 16 April | New Long Leg | Dry Cleaning | 4AD |
| 23 April | Flu Game | AJ Tracey | Revenge |
| 30 April | Too Much Pressure | The Selecter | Chrysalis |
| 7 May | Coral Island | The Coral | Run On |
| 14 May | Bright Green Field | Squid | Warp |
| 21 May | The Ides of March | Myles Kennedy | Napalm |
| 28 May | Intruder | Gary Numan | BMG |
| 4 June | Hi | Texas | BMG |
| 11 June | Blue Weekend | Wolf Alice | Dirty Hit |
| 18 June | Back the Way We Came: Vol. 1 (2011–2021) | Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds | Sour Mash |
| 25 June | Back the Way We Came: Vol. 1 (2011–2021) | Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds | Sour Mash |
| 2 July | Boy From Michigan | John Grant | Bella Union |
| 9 July | Back the Way We Came: Vol. 1 (2011–2021) | Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds | Sour Mash |
| 16 July | The Optimist | Turin Brakes | Two-Piers |
| 23 July | All Over the Place | KSI | BMG |
| 30 July | Downhill from Everywhere | Jackson Browne | Inside |
| 6 August | 10 | The Overtones | Hurricane |
| 13 August | Crying on the Bathroom Floor | Will Young | Cooking Vinyl |
| 20 August | Loving in Stereo | Jungle | Caiola |
| 27 August | Woman On the Internet | Orla Gartland | New Friends |
| 3 September | Posh Pop | Toyah | Edsel |
| 10 September | Sometimes I Might Be Introvert | Little Simz | Age 101 |
| 17 September | What the Future Holds Pt. 2 | Steps | BMG |
| 24 September | What the Future Holds Pt. 2 | Steps | BMG |
| 1 October | Bright Magic | Public Service Broadcasting | Pias |
| 8 October | One Touch | Sugababes | London Music Stream |
| 15 October | Huffy | We Are Scientists | 100% |
| 22 October | 60 | Daniel O'Donnell | DMG TV |
| 29 October | Future Past | Duran Duran | BMG |
| 5 November | Acoustic Hymns, Vol. 1 | Richard Ashcroft | BMG |
| 12 November | Kid A Mnesia | Radiohead | XL |
| 19 November | The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows | Damon Albarn | Transgressive |
| 26 November | Motorheart | The Darkness | Cooking Vinyl |
| 3 December | Turning to Crime | Deep Purple | Ear Music |
| 10 December | 2.0 | JLS | BMG |
| 17 December | 2.0 | JLS | BMG |
| 24 December | AM | Arctic Monkeys | Domino |
| 31 December | Disco | Kylie Minogue | BMG |