List of UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number ones of 1996

18 til I Die by Bryan Adams was the longest-running UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number-one album of 1996, spending 15 weeks atop the chart.

The UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart is a record chart which 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 1996, there were 22 albums that topped the 52 published charts. The first number-one album of the year was Queen's fifteenth and final studio album Made in Heaven, which spent the first four weeks of the year atop the chart at the end of an eleven-week run beginning in November 1995. The final number-one album of the year was 18 til I Die, the seventh studio album by Bryan Adams, which spent the last six weeks of the year at number one in its fifth spell of the year.

The most successful album on the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart in 1996 was 18 til I Die by Bryan Adams, which spent a total of 15 weeks at number one over five different spells. It was also the best-selling rock album of the year, ranking 24th in the UK End of Year Albums Chart. The self-titled debut album by Garbage spent six weeks at number one in 1996, and was the 25th best-selling album of the year. Queen's Made in Heaven was number one for four weeks of the year, while Status Quo's Don't Stop and To the Faithful Departed by The Cranberries each spent three weeks atop the chart. Four albums – Sepultura's Roots, Pearl Jam's No Code, Nirvana's From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah and Skunk Anansie's Stoosh – each spent two weeks at number one.

Chart history

The self-titled debut album by Garbage spent six weeks at number one on the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart in 1996.

Status Quo were number one for three weeks in 1996 with Don't Stop.

To the Faithful Departed, the third studio album by The Cranberries, spent three weeks at number one.

Sepultura's sixth studio album Roots spent two weeks at number one.

No Code by Pearl Jam was number one for two weeks in September.

Key

†	Indicates best-selling rock album of 1996

Issue date	Album	Artist(s)	Record label(s)	Ref.
6 January	Made in Heaven	Queen	Parlophone
13 January
20 January
27 January
3 February	Welcome to the Neighbourhood	Meat Loaf	Virgin
10 February	Filth Pig	Ministry	Warner Bros.
17 February	Don't Stop	Status Quo	PolyGram
24 February
2 March
9 March	Roots	Sepultura	Roadrunner
16 March
23 March	Regular Urban Survivors	Terrorvision	Total Vegas
30 March	Garbage	Garbage	Mushroom
6 April
13 April
20 April
27 April	Evil Empire	Rage Against the Machine	Epic
4 May	Garbage	Garbage	Mushroom
11 May	To the Faithful Departed	The Cranberries	Island
18 May
25 May
1 June	Down on the Upside	Soundgarden	A&M
8 June	Garbage	Garbage	Mushroom
15 June	Load	Metallica	Vertigo
22 June	18 til I Die †	Bryan Adams	A&M
29 June
6 July
13 July
20 July	These Days	Bon Jovi	Mercury
27 July	18 til I Die †	Bryan Adams	A&M
3 August	Three Snakes and One Charm	The Black Crowes	American
10 August	18 til I Die †	Bryan Adams	A&M
17 August
24 August
31 August	Zero	The Smashing Pumpkins	Virgin
7 September	No Code	Pearl Jam	Epic
14 September
21 September	Test for Echo	Rush	Atlantic
28 September	18 til I Die †	Bryan Adams	A&M
5 October	Best of the Beast	Iron Maiden	EMI
12 October	From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah	Nirvana	Geffen
19 October	Stoosh	Skunk Anansie	One Little Indian
26 October
2 November	From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah	Nirvana	Geffen
9 November	Best Of: Volume I	Van Halen	Warner Bros.
16 November	II	The Presidents of the United States of America	Columbia
23 November	18 til I Die †	Bryan Adams	A&M
30 November
7 December
14 December
21 December
28 December

See also

• 1996 in British music
• List of UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart number ones of 1996

External links

• Official UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company
• The Official UK Top 40 Rock Albums at BBC Radio 1