Official Americana Albums Chart

The Official Americana Albums Chart is a weekly music chart based on physical sales of albums in the United Kingdom.^[1] It is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC) on behalf of the Americana Music Association UK. The launch of the chart came at a time when Americana music was growing in popularity in the UK.^[2] In 2017, it was reported that sales of Americana albums in the UK had increased by 35 percent year-on-year.^[3]

The first chart was announced on 28 January 2016 on the Bob Harris Country show on BBC Radio 2. As part of the launch, the best selling Americana album of 2015 was also announced. This went to Swedish duo First Aid Kit with their album Stay Gold^[4]

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No.	nth album to top the Official Americana Albums Chart
re	Return of an album to number one

Year	Best-selling Album	Artist	Best-selling UK Album	Artist	Ref.
2015	Stay Gold	First Aid Kit	N/A
2016	Cleopatra	The Lumineers	Keep Me Singing	Van Morrison	^[8]
2017	Adiós	Glen Campbell	Life Love Flesh Blood	Imelda May	^[9]
2018	Not announced
2019	Western Stars	Bruce Springsteen	Three Chords & the Truth	Van Morrison	^[10]
2020	Letter to You	Bruce Springsteen	Song for Our Daughter	Laura Marling	^[11]
2021	Evermore	Taylor Swift	Greenfields	Barry Gibb	^[12]
2022	Evermore	Taylor Swift	FTHC	Frank Turner	^[13]
2023			The Roaring Forty (1983–2023)	Billy Bragg	^[14]

Official Americana Albums Chart

Number ones

Best-selling albums by year

References

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No.	Artist^[a]	Album^[a]	Record label^[b]	Reached number one^[a]	Weeks at number one^[a]
2016
1	Elle King	Love Stuff	Columbia	29 January 2016	5
2	Bonnie Riatt	Dig In Deep	Redwing Records	4 March 2016	1
re	Elle King	Love Stuff	Columbia	11 March 2016	1
3	Brian Fallon	Painkillers	Redwing Records	18 March 2016	1
4	Richmond Fontaine	You Can't Go Back If There's Nothing To Go Back To	Decor	25 March 2016	1
re	Elle King	Love Stuff	Columbia	1 April 2016	1
5	Teddy Thompson & Kelly Jones	Little Windows	Cooking Vinyl	8 April 2016	1
6	Lumineers	Cleopatra	Decca	15 April 2016	4
re	Elle King	Love Stuff	Columbia	13 May 2016	1
7	Foy Vance	The Wild Swan	Gingerbread Man	20 May 2016	1
8	Mudcrutch	2	Reprise	27 May 2016	1
re	Elle King	Love Stuff	Columbia	3 June 2016	1
9	Whitney	Light Upon the Lake	Secretly Canadian	10 June 2016	1
10	Kaleo	A/B	Atlantic	17 June 2016	1
11	case/lang/veirs	case/lang/veirs	Anti	24 June 2016	1
re	Lumineers	Cleopatra	Decca	1 July 2016	4
12	Bear's Den	Red Earth & Pouring Rain	Communion	29 July 2016	2
13	Cadillac Three	Bury Me In My Boots	Big Machine	12 August 2016	1
re	Bear's Den	Red Earth & Pouring Rain	Communion	19 August 2016	2
re	Kaleo	A/B	Atlantic	2 September 2016	1
re	Bear's Den	Red Earth & Pouring Rain	Communion	9 September 2016	1
14	Jack White	Acoustic Recordings 1998–2016	XL	16 September 2016	1
15	Seth Lakeman	Ballads of the Broken Few	Cooking Vinyl	23 September 2016	1
16	Billy Bragg & Joe Henry	Shine a Light: Field Recordings from the Great American Railroad	Cooking Vinyl	30 September 2016	1
17	Van Morrison	Keep Me Singing	Caroline	7 October 2016	1
18	Seasick Steve	Keepin' the Horse Between Me and the Ground	There's A Dead Skunk	14 October 2016	1
19	Blackberry Smoke	Like an Arrow	Earache	21 October 2016	1
re	Van Morrison	Keep Me Singing	Caroline	28 October 2016	11
2017
re	Lumineers	Cleopatra	Decor	13 January 2017	2
20	Courtney Marie Andrews	Honest Life	Loose Music	27 January 2017	1
21	Mark Eitzel	Hey Mr Ferryman	Loose Music	3 February 2017	1
re	Van Morrison	Keep Me Singing	Caroline	10 February 2017	2
22	Ryan Adams	Prisoner	Blue Note/PAX AM	24 February 2017	2
23	Alison Krauss	Windy City	Capitol	10 March 2017	1
24	Laura Marling	Semper Femina	More Alarming	17 March 2017	1
re	Alison Krauss	Windy City	Capitol	24 March 2017	1
re	Laura Marling	Semper Femina	More Alarming	31 March 2017	1
25	Aimee Mann	Mental Illness	SuperEgo	7 April 2017	1