List of UK Independent Albums Chart number ones of 2011  These are the Official Charts Company's UK Indie Chart number-one albums of 2011. Singer Adele is by far and far away the most successful artist of 2011 on the chart, spending 46 weeks atop the chart, out of 52 weeks, with her two albums, "19" topped the first four weeks on the chart, and then "21" topped for another forty-two non-consecutive weeks, leading it as the best selling Indie album of the year, and making "21" as the longest-running album at the top spot on the chart since it has started.