page_title: List of UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number ones of 2003
section_title: Chart history
hierarchical_section_title: List of UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number ones of 2003 / Chart history
caption_attribution_description: English: Red Hot Chili Peppers performing at a Pinkpop festival in 2006. From left to right: Flea, Anthony Kiedis, Chad Smith, and John FruscianteDeutsch: The Red Hot CHili Peppers live @ Pinkpop Festival, Landgraaf
context_page_description: The UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart is a record chart that 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 2003, there were 17 albums that topped the 52 published charts. The first number-one album of the year was By the Way, the eighth studio album by Red Hot Chili Peppers, which remained at Number One for the first three weeks of the year at the end of a nine-week run which began on 23 November 2002. The final Number One album of the year was Permission to Land, the debut studio album by The Darkness, which spent the last four 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 2003 was Permission to Land, which spent a total of 18 weeks at Number One over five spells, including a run of eight consecutive weeks between the week ending 9 August and the week ending 27 September. Permission to Land was the best-selling rock and metal album of the year, ranking sixth in the UK End of Year Albums Chart.
caption: By the Way by Red Hot Chili Peppers spent nine weeks at Number One in 2003 and ranked as the 18th best-selling album of the year in the UK.
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