Irish Albums Chart

The Irish Albums Chart is the Irish music industry standard albums popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA). The charts were previously compiled on behalf of IRMA by Chart-Track, and have been compiled by the Official Charts Company since 2017. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured electronically each day from retailers' Point of sale systems and certain digital retailers. All major record stores and over forty independents submit data for the charts, accounting for over 80% of the market, according to Chart-Track. A new chart is compiled and released to the public by the Irish Recorded Music Association on Friday at noon. Each chart is dated with the "week-ending" date of the previous Thursday (i.e., the day before issue).

It is released as a Top 100; however, Chart-Track's records only record the Top 75 in the archives.

Chart achievements and trivia

Albums with the most weeks at number one

Number of weeks	Artist	Album	Year(s)
35	Adele	21	2011–12
28	Ed Sheeran	÷	2017–18
24		x	2014–17
22	Various artists	The Greatest Showman: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	2018–19
15	Adele	25	2015–16
	Lewis Capaldi	Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent	2019–20
14	James Blunt	Back to Bedlam	2005–06
11	The Killers	Hot Fuss	2005
	Snow Patrol	Eyes Open	2006–07
	Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper	A Star Is Born	2018
10	Dermot Kennedy	Without Fear	2019–20

Acts to occupy the top two positions

• Michael Jackson — The Essential Michael Jackson and Number Ones (two weeks in July 2009).
• Adele — 21 and 19 (one week in March 2011).
• Ed Sheeran — ÷ and x (two weeks in March 2017 and one week in August 2017).

See also

• Lists of Irish Albums Chart number ones
• Irish Independent Albums Chart