List of UK Country Albums Chart number ones of 2012
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These are the Official Charts Company's UK Country Albums Chart number ones of 2012. The chart week runs from Friday to Thursday with the chart-date given as the following Thursday. Chart positions are based the multi-metric consumption of country music in the United Kingdom, blending traditional album sales, track equivalent albums, and streaming equivalent albums. The chart contains 20 positions.
In the iteration of the chart dated 1 January, Need You Now by Lady Antebellum spent its twenty-eighth week at number one. In fact, Lady Antebellum spent a total of thirty-three weeks in the top spot with Need You Now and their follow-up album Own the Night, including occupying the the chart peak every week from 22 July until the end of the year on 30 December. Gretchen Peters spent five nonconsecutive weeks at number one with Hello Cruel World, while Nanci Griffith earned her third and final UK Country number one with Intersection, the last album she released before her death in 2021. In addition to Griffith, four other artists spent two consecutive weeks in the top spot: The Band Perry with their self-titled debut album, And So It Goes by Don Williams, Carrie Underwood's Blown Away, and Mary Chapin Carpenter's Ashes and Roses, which became her fourth UK chart topper. The final number one of the year was Need You Now by Lady Antebellum.