Every act to claim two UK Number 1 albums in a single year on the Official Albums Chart

To claim one Number 1 record on the Official Albums Chart is impressive. But two? In the same year? That's another level altogether. 

Shed Seven have recently become the newest act to achieve one of the most rare feats on the Official Chart; securing two Number 1 albums on the Official Albums Chart within a single calendar year. 

In all of recorded Official Charts history, this has only happened with 20 acts, with Shed Seven now joining the (very varied) likes of ABBA, Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Robbie Williams and...The Monkees. 

With Liquid Gold topping the Official Albums Chart on September 4 2024, Shed Seven not only claimed their second-ever chart-topping LP, but their second this year. In January, the York rockers set an Official Charts record when A Matter Of Time hit Number 1, for the longest gap inbetween an act's debut album and their first Number 1 album (which stands at 29 years and three months).

Before Shed Seven, pop monolith Taylor Swift had actually been the most recent act to achieve two Number 1 albums in a single year, a feat she achieved in 2020, 2021 and 2023.

Only two other acts have claimed the same feat of doing so in three separate years, The Beatles (1963, 1964 and 1965, the only act to do so with consecutive years) and Elton John (1973, 1974, 1990).

See the full list of all the acts to claim two or more UK Number 1 albums in a single calendar year below.

Every act to claim two UK Number 1 albums in a single year