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List of best-selling albums of the 2010s in the United Kingdom


This is a list of the 40 best-selling artist albums in the United Kingdom since 2010, as recorded by the Official Charts Company (OCC). Six of these were not released in the 2010s—including Crazy Love (2009) by Michael Bublé, which is the only album released in the 2000s to feature in the top ten. Both Adele and One Direction feature on this list three times, more than anyone else, while Adele, Bublé and Ed Sheeran all feature in the top 10 twice. Adele is also the only artist to achieve three million-selling albums since 2010 with 19 (released in 2008 but sold over a million copies since 2010), 21 and 25.

The best-selling album of the decade is Adele's 21, which has sold over 5 million copies as of January 2017.

Sales figures from the OCC on the date given in the reference; where no reference is given sales derived from order of OCC list of 9 June 2015. The OCC differentiate 'chart sales' (which include streaming) from 'sales' (which are downloads and physical purchases).

dagger Released before 2010; only sales from 2010 onwards included


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