List of UK Independent Albums Chart number ones of 2021

These are the Official Charts Company's UK Independent Albums Chart number ones of 2021.

Chart history

Issue date	Album	Artist(s)	Record label	Ref.
1 January	Disco	Kylie Minogue	BMG	[1]
8 January	Songs from the Kitchen Disco	Sophie Ellis-Bextor	Cooking Vinyl	[2]
15 January	Songs for the Drunk and Broken Hearted	Passenger		[3]
22 January	Suckapunch	You Me at Six	Underdog	[4]
29 January	Isles	Bicep	Ninja Tune	[5]
5 February	Collapsed in Sunbeams	Arlo Parks	Transgressive	[6]
12 February	For the First Time	Black Country, New Road	Ninja Tune	[7]
19 February	Who Am I?	Pale Waves	Dirty Hit	[8]
26 February	As the Love Continues	Mogwai	Rock Action	[9]
5 March	Nature Always Wins	Maxïmo Park	Prolifica	[10]
12 March	Do It Again	Gabrielle	BMG	[11]
19 March	All the Right Noises	Thunder		[12]
26 March	Written & Directed	Black Honey	FoxFive	[13]
2 April	Promises	Floating Points/Pharoah Sanders and London Symphony Orchestra	Luaka Bop	[14]
9 April	New Long Leg	Dry Cleaning	4AD	[15]
16 April				[16]
23 April	Flu Game	AJ Tracey	Revenge	[17]
30 April	Too Much Pressure	The Selecter	Chrysalis	[18]
7 May	Coral Island	The Coral	Run On	[19]
14 May	Bright Green Field	Squid	Warp	[20]
21 May	The Ides of March	Myles Kennedy	Napalm	[21]
28 May	Intruder	Gary Numan	BMG	[22]
4 June	Hi	Texas		[23]
11 June	Blue Weekend	Wolf Alice	Dirty Hit	[24]
18 June	Back the Way We Came: Vol. 1 (2011–2021)	Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds	Sour Mash	[25]
25 June				[26]
2 July	Boy From Michigan	John Grant	Bella Union	[27]
9 July	Back the Way We Came: Vol. 1 (2011–2021)	Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds	Sour Mash	[28]
16 July	The Optimist	Turin Brakes	Two-Piers	[29]
23 July	All Over the Place	KSI	BMG	[30]
30 July	Downhill from Everywhere	Jackson Browne	Inside	[31]
6 August	10	The Overtones	Hurricane	[32]
13 August	Crying on the Bathroom Floor	Will Young	Cooking Vinyl	[33]
20 August	Loving in Stereo	Jungle	Caiola	[34]
27 August	Woman On the Internet	Orla Gartland	New Friends	[35]
3 September	Posh Pop	Toyah	Edsel	[36]
10 September	Sometimes I Might Be Introvert	Little Simz	Age 101	[37]
17 September	What the Future Holds Pt. 2	Steps	BMG	[38]
24 September				[39]
1 October	Bright Magic	Public Service Broadcasting	Pias	[40]
8 October	One Touch	Sugababes	London Music Stream	[41]
15 October	Huffy	We Are Scientists	100%	[42]
22 October	60	Daniel O'Donnell	DMG TV	[43]
29 October	Future Past	Duran Duran	BMG	[44]
5 November	Acoustic Hymns, Vol. 1	Richard Ashcroft		[45]
12 November	Kid A Mnesia	Radiohead	XL	[46]
19 November	The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows	Damon Albarn	Transgressive	[47]
26 November	Motorheart	The Darkness	Cooking Vinyl	[48]
3 December	Turning to Crime	Deep Purple	Ear Music	[49]
10 December	2.0	JLS	BMG	[50]
17 December				[51]
24 December	AM	Arctic Monkeys	Domino	[52]
31 December	Disco	Kylie Minogue	BMG	[53]

See also

• List of UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number ones of 2021
• List of UK Album Downloads Chart number ones of 2021
• List of UK Dance Albums Chart number ones of 2021
• List of UK R&B Albums Chart number ones of 2021
• List of UK Independent Singles Chart number ones of 2021