The all-time list was released on Wednesday to mark the 70th anniversary of the weekly UK album chart.
In total, (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? has racked up 6.2 million UK chart units – streams and sales combined – according to the Official Charts Company.
Last year, there was renewed interest in Oasis’s music due to their much publicised worldwide reunion tour. The setlist lent heavily on tracks from the album, including Some Might Say and Champagne Supernova.
In 2022, Queen’s compilation LP made history as the first album to pass seven million UK chart units.
Only Swedish pop maestros Abba have breached the seven million mark since, making it an elite club.
Meanwhile, Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 classic Rumours and Bob Marley’s best-of album Legend have both moved into the all-time top 10 over the past 10 years.
UK Official Albums Chart – all-time top 10
Greatest Hits – Queen
Gold – Abba
(What’s the Story) Morning Glory – Oasis
21 – Adele
Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – The Beatles
Rumours – Fleetwood Mac
The Dark Side of the Moon – Pink Floyd
Thriller – Michael Jackson
Legend – Bob Marley and The Wailers
Brothers in Arms – Dire Straits
(What’s the Story) Morning Glory? received surprisingly mixed reviews from the British music press when it was released in October 1995. But it went on to win best British album at the 1996 Brit Awards and has stood the test of time.
Wonderwall, from the album, became hugely popular again this summer with England fans and players singing it together at the World Cup in North America.
The booming rock ballad Don’t Look Back in Anger also took on a greater significance after it was sung, impromptu, at a vigil for those who lost their lives in the 2017 Manchester Arena attack.
Becca Monahan and Chris Austin, interim co-managing directors of the Official Charts, congratulated Oasis on the album’s achievements in a joint statement.
“Three decades on, its scale and influence remain extraordinary – a defining British record that continues to unite generations, fill stadiums and soundtrack lives,” they noted.
Oasis Songwriter Noel Gallagher was born three days after The Beatles released their Sgt Pepper album.
The chart – released every Friday in the UK – began on 22 July 1956, with Frank Sinatra’s Songs for Swingin’ Lovers! becoming the first number one.
Reflecting more recent tastes, the Charts Company has also published a list of the most-streamed albums of the 2020s, led by Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour.
The US singer’s breakout record, which carries hits like Drivers License and Good 4 U, has spent a total of 268 weeks on the chart since its release in June 2021.
The critically-acclaimed Sour was inspired by heartbreak and feelings of loneliness. “Nobody understood how I was feeling or related to it, so I think by writing songs about exactly how I felt I was creating like a friend for me,” the pop-rock star said in her 2022 Disney+ documentary Driving Home 2 U.
Recent Glastonbury headliner Rodrigo pipped Ed Sheeran’s=and Taylor Swift’s Folklore to the top spot.
Swift has two albums in the top 10, which also includes records by Sabrina Carpenter, Noah Kahan, Dua Lipa, Harry Styles, SZA and late US rapper Pop Smoke.
The UK’s most-streamed albums of the 2020s so far:
Sour – Olivia Rodrigo
=- Ed Sheeran
Folklore – Taylor Swift
Short N’ Sweet – Sabrina Carpenter
Midnights – Taylor Swift
Stick Season – Noah Kahan
Future Nostalgia – Dua Lipa
Harry’s House – Harry Styles
SOS – SZA
Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon – Pop Smoke
