| Year | | Title | Artist | Download | Stream |
| 1963 |  | With the Beatles | The Beatles | |  |
| 1964 |  | Kinks | The Kinks | | |
| 1965 |  | Mr Tambourine Man | The Byrds | | |
| 1966 |  | Small Faces | The Small Faces | | |
| 1967 |  | Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | The Beatles | | |
| 1968 |  | In Search of the Lost Chord | The Moody Blues | | |
| 1969 |  | Yes | Yes | | |
| 1970 |  | Led Zeppelin III | Led Zeppelin | | |
| 1971 |  | Who's Next | The Who | | |
| 1972 |  | First Base | Babe Ruth | | |
| 1973 |  | Solid Air | John Martyn | | |
| 1974 |  | I've Got the Music in Me | Kiki Dee | | |
| 1975 |  | Fish Out of Water | Chris Squire | | |
| 1976 |  | A Trick of the Tail | Genesis | | |
| 1977 |  | Rumours | Fleetwood Mac | | |
| 1978 |  | Parallel Lines | Blondie | | |
| 1979 |  | Reggatta de Blanc
| The Police | | |
| 1980 |  | Pretenders | Pretenders | | |
| 1981 |  | Face Value | Phil Collins | | |
| 1982 |  | New Gold Dream | Simple Minds | | |
| 1983 |  | The Crossing | Big Country | | |
| 1984 |  | Welcome to the Pleasuredome | Frankie Goes to Hollywood | | |
| 1985 |  | Hounds of Love | Kate Bush | | |
| 1986 |  | Graceland | Paul Simon | | |
| 1987 |  | Robbie Robertson | Robbie Robertson | | |
| 1988 |  | American Dream | Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young | | |
| 1989 |  | A New Flame | Simply Red | | |
| 1990 |  | We Never Had it so Good | Tom Robinson & Jakko M Jaksyk | | |
| 1991 |  | Living with the Law | Chris Whitley | | |
| 1992 |  | The Madman's Return | Snap | | |
| 1993 |  | Wild Wood | Paul Weller | | |
| 1994 |  | Dummy | Portishead | | |
| 1995 |  | Garbage | Garbage | | |
| 1996 |  | Sheryl Crow | Sheryl Crow | | |
| 1997 |  | Attack of the Grey Lantern | Mansun | | |
| 1998 |  | Ray of Light | Madonna | | |
| 1999 |  | Play | Moby | | |
| 2000 |  | Parachutes | Coldplay | | |
| 2001 |  | Love is Here | Starsailor | | |
| 2002 |  | A Rush of Blood to the Head | Coldplay | | |
| 2003 |  | Never Never Land | Unkle | | |
| 2004 |  | Hopes & Fears | Keane | | |
| 2005 |  | Funeral | Arcade Fire | | |
| 2006 |  | Passing Stranger | Scott Matthews | | |
| 2007 |  | The State of Things | Reverend & the Makers | | |
| 2008 |  | The Seldom Seen Kid | Elbow | | |
| 2009 |  | The Hazards of Love | Decemberists | | |
| 2010 |  | The Defamation of Strickland Banks | Plan B | | |
| 2011 |  | Young the Giant | Young the Giant | | |
| 2012 |  | My Head is an Animal | Of Monsters & Men | | |
| 2013 |  | Pale Green Ghosts | John Grant | | |
| 2014 |  | Hozier | Hozier | | |
| 2015 |  | What Went Down | Foals | | |
| 2016 |  | Chaleur Humaine | Christine & the Queens | | |
| 2017 |  | Moonshine Freeze | This is the Kit | | |
| 2018 |  | Everything is Recorded | Richard Russell | | |
| 2019 |  | Hypersonic Missiles | Sam Fender | | |
| 2020 |  | Earth | EOB | | |
| 2021 |  | McCartney III Imagined | Paul McCartney | | |
| 2022 |  | Patient Number 9 | Ozzy Osbourne | | |
| 2023 |  | Echoes - Ancient & Modern | Trevor Horn | | |
