page_title: List of UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number ones of 2002
section_title: Chart history
hierarchical_section_title: List of UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number ones of 2002 / Chart history
caption_attribution_description: English: Linkin Park Live at Berlin on the 2010 A Thousand Suns World Tour
context_page_description: 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 2002, there were 14 albums that topped the 52 published charts. The first number-one album of the year was Linkin Park's debut studio album Hybrid Theory, which remained at number one for the first two weeks of the year at the end of a six-week run which began on 8 December 2001. The final number-one album of the year was By the Way, the eighth studio album by Red Hot Chili Peppers, which spent the last six weeks of the year at number one in its fourth spell of the year at the top of the chart.
  The most successful album on the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart in 2002 was By the Way, which spent a total of 19 weeks at number one over four spells, including an initial run of seven consecutive weeks and a run at the end of the year of nine weeks. By the Way was the best-selling rock and metal album of the year, ranking sixth in the UK End of Year Albums Chart.
caption: Linkin Park's debut studio album Hybrid Theory spent the first two weeks of 2002 at number one, at the end of a six-week run beginning the previous year.
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