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: Cropped and brightened version of Image:Radiohead Coachella 2004.jpgRadiohead performing at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California on May 1, 2004. The last show of their Hail to the Thief tour.
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: Hail to the Thief, the sixth studio album by Radiohead, was Number One on the chart for two weeks in 2003.
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