Ozzy Osbourne’s Final Album Manages An Impressive Comeback

Ozzy Osbourne’s Patient Number 9 reenters three U.K. charts and rises on the Official Rock and Metal Albums list following his death. NEW YORK, NY – APRIL 25: Ozzy Osbourne visits the Tribeca Film Festival 2011 portrait studio on April 25, 2011 in New York City. (Photo by Larry Busacca/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival)

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Most rock icons slow down by their sixties or seventies, leaning more on greatest hits tours and re-releasing compilations than new albums. Ozzy Osbourne wasn’t one of them. Right up to the end of his life, the Black Sabbath legend kept sharing new music that mattered, which was well-received by fans and critics. His final solo studio effort, Patient Number 9, was a late-career highlight, and now, following his death, it’s climbing the charts again in the United Kingdom.

Patient Number 9 Returns to Four Charts

Patient Number 9 reappears on four U.K. rankings this week. The rock album returns at No. 74 on the Official Album Downloads chart, No. 75 on the Official Album Sales list and No. 79 on the Official Physical Albums roster.

Ozzy Osbourne Climbs on the Rock Chart

Patient Number 9 also moves north on the Official Rock and Metal Albums chart, the only tally where it has no need to return. This frame, Osbourne’s final full-length leaps from No. 33 to No. 17.

Patient Number 9’s Months on the Charts

The Official Rock and Metal Albums list has long been the most reliable space for the Patient Number 9, as it has now spent 28 weeks on the tally — far more than its runs on broader rankings. It’s collected 18 weeks on both the Official Albums Sales and Official Physical Albums charts, and just five on the downloads-only ranking. The set reached No. 1 on the Rock and Metal tally and stalled in the runner-up space on all of the others.

Patient Number 9 Earned Grammys and Critical Acclaim

Released in 2022, Patient Number 9 was embraced as a return to form for Osbourne. The full-length won him two Grammy Awards in 2023, for Best Metal Performance and Best Rock Album, and though he stated he was working on a new collection before his passing, the set will forever stand as the last one he released during his lifetime.

Nine Ozzy Osbourne Albums Hit the Charts

In the days following Osbourne’s death, nine of Osbourne’s albums found their way back onto the U.K. charts. This time around, only two of them return to tallies they previously appeared on, as both Patient Number 9 and Ordinary Man reappear.

The latter, released in 2020, reenters the Official Album Downloads chart at No. 86. It previously peaked at No. 2 on the list of the most-downloaded projects in the nation.