


Amy Winehouse (3), Leona Lewis (4) and David Gray (5) were the other solo-artists to feature.
Dido featured twice in the top 10 best-sellers, with Life for Rent being the seventh best-seller of the decade. The album sold 3.19 million copies, finishing ahead of Dido's album No Angel, which sold 3.05 million copies. The title was won by James Blunt, with his debut album Back to Bedlam, released in 2004. At the end of the decade, a retrospective chart was compiled by the Official Charts Company to determine the best-selling artist album of this ten-year period. īetween 20, more than 100 albums sold more than 1 million copies in the United Kingdom. In 2007, the rules were changed so that legal downloads of all albums, irrespective of whether a physical copy was available, were eligible to chart. Since 2005, the chart has been based on the sales of both physical and digital albums, on the condition that the album was available in both formats. The UK Albums Chart is a music chart compiled by the Official Charts Company that calculates the best-selling artist albums of the week in the United Kingdom.
