Best-Selling Music of 2006

The top 100 on Amazon UK that year.

A definitive look back at the 2006 Amazon UK chart. Click any cover to find it on Amazon.

Snow Patrol's Eyes Open led 2006, but the year's defining story was the arrival of the Arctic Monkeys, whose Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not stormed in at number two. Razorlight, The Kooks' Inside In/Inside Out and The Feeling's Twelve Stops and Home rounded out a strong indie-rock showing, while Corinne Bailey Rae and Amy Winehouse's Back To Black announced a new British soul moment. The surprises sit high and low: Disney's High School Musical Original Soundtrack charting among grown-up fare, and Johnny Cash's Ring Of Fire legend compilation reissued posthumously. With Lily Allen's Alright, Still also breaking through, 2006 brimmed with fresh British voices.

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Eyes Open

4.3 · 212

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

4.2 · 430

Ta Dah!

4.3 · 98

Sam's Town

4.3 · 231

Razorlight

3.6 · 123

Inside In/Inside Out

4.2 · 136

Beautiful World

4.6 · 227

Radio 1's Live Lounge

4.5 · 65

Now That's What I Call Music! 65

4.7 · 44

Corinne Bailey Rae

4.2 · 153

Under the Iron Sea

4.3 · 189

Love

4.3 · 317

In Between Dreams

4.6 · 246

Twelve Stops and Home

4.6 · 127

Stadium Arcadium

4.4 · 261

Undiscovered

4.6 · 140

Stop the Clocks

4.3 · 148

Veneer

4.4 · 109

Costello Music

4.6 · 133

Employment

4.0 · 179

These Streets

4.6 · 366

Eye To The Telescope

4.5 · 142

Siempre

4.6 · 86

I'm Not Dead

4.8 · 164

Tired Of Hanging Around

4.2 · 40

The Very Best Of Nina Simone

4.7 · 130

The Sound of Girls Aloud

4.5 · 72

High School Musical Original Soundtrack

4.6 · 48

The Love Album

4.5 · 105

On An Island

4.3 · 276

Alright, Still

4.3 · 170

Ring Of Fire: The Legend Of Johnny Cash

4.8 · 209

Back To Black

4.6 · 5

High Times: Singles 1992-2006

4.6 · 115

Black Holes And Revelations

4.5 · 438

St. Elsewhere

3.9 · 73

Rudebox

3.9 · 146

Demon Days

4.4 · 177

Future Sex / Love Sounds

4.3 · 114

Back To Bedlam

4.5 · 519

Confessions on a Dance Floor

4.5 · 255

Collected - The Best Of Massive Attack : Greatest Hits

4.5 · 110

X&Y

3.9 · 579

4.3 · 90

We Shall Overcome The Seeger Sessions [CD + DVD]

4.4 · 93

Pop Party 4

4.8 · 10

U218 Singles

4.3 · 145

Overloaded: The Singles Collection

4.5 · 85

Loose

4.4 · 75

Stars of CCTV

4.1 · 120

All The Roadrunning

4.7 · 150

Empire

4.0 · 85

Black Holes and Revelations

4.5 · 438

Modern Times

4.3 · 128

The Back Room

4.4 · 108

Broken Boy Soldiers

4.5 · 74

Serenade

4.7 · 37

Retrospectacle - The Supertramp Anthology

4.5 · 100

Trouble

4.6 · 159

Back To Basics

4.5 · 102

Hit Parade

4.8 · 92

12 Songs

4.6 · 74

Breakaway

4.8 · 160

Keep On

4.2 · 86

Half The Perfect World

4.3 · 49

The Open Door

4.2 · 170

Taking The Long Way

4.5 · 71

The Black Parade

4.6 · 293

Keys To The World

4.0 · 51

Cliff Richard ~ Two's Company: The Duets

4.5 · 86

Twenty Five

4.6 · 152

Now That's What I Call Music! 64

4.6 · 40

Bright Idea

4.4 · 35

All Angels

4.8 · 78

The Eraser

4.5 · 110

Piece By Piece

4.4 · 132

The Singles

4.7 · 54

Dark Side of the Moon

4.6 · 6

Voices of the Valley

4.5 · 60

Stop The Clocks [2CD + DVD]

4.3 · 148

First Impressions Of Earth

4.0 · 90

The Truth About Love

4.5 · 21

Bat Out Of Hell 3: The Monster is Loose

4.4 · 169

On and On

4.7 · 67

Angelis

4.6 · 70

Takk...

4.7 · 155

Final Straw

4.5 · 169

The Road to Escondido

4.4 · 111

Twenty Five [Deluxe Edition]

4.6 · 152

NME Presents Essential Bands 2006

4.1 · 12

Smile...It Confuses People

4.1 · 57

Surprise

4.2 · 42

Modern Times [CD + DVD]

4.3 · 128

American V: A Hundred Highways

4.7 · 110

Never Forget: The Ultimate Collection

4.6 · 276

The Anthems

4.3 · 12

This New Day

4.4 · 56

Supernature

4.5 · 96

Waterloo to Anywhere

4.5 · 36

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