Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States. It is published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists. Often, a recording act will be remembered by its "number ones", those of their albums that outperformed all others during at least one week. The chart grew from a weekly top 10 list in 1956 to become a top 200 in May 1967, and acquired its present title in March 1992. Its previous names include the Billboard Top LPs (1961–72), Billboard Top LPs & Tape (1972–84), Billboard Top 200 Albums (1984–85) and Billboard Top Pop Albums (1985-92).

The chart is based mostly on sales (both at retail and digital) of albums in the United States. The weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but since July 2015, tracking week begins on Friday (to coincide with the Global Release Date of the music industry) and ends on Thursday. A new chart is published the following Tuesday with an issue post-dated to the Saturday of that week, four days later.[1] The chart's streaming schedule is also tracked from Friday to Thursday.[2]

Example:

Friday January 1 – sales tracking week begins

Thursday January 7 – sales tracking week ends

Tuesday January 12 – new chart published, with issue date of Saturday January 16.

New product is released to the American market on Fridays. Digital downloads of albums are also included in Billboard 200 tabulation. Albums that are not licensed for retail sale in the United States (yet purchased in the U.S. as imports) are not eligible to chart. A long-standing policy which made titles that are sold exclusively by specific retail outlets (such as Walmart and Starbucks) ineligible for charting, was reversed on November 7, 2007, and took effect in the issue dated November 17.[3]

Beginning with the December 13, 2014 issue, Billboard updated the methodology of their album chart to also include on-demand streaming and digital track sales (as measured by Nielsen SoundScan) by way of a new algorithm, utilizing data from all of the major on-demand audio subscription and online music sales services in the United States.[4]

Starting on the issue dated January 18, 2020, Billboard updated the methodology to compile the chart again by incorporating video data from YouTube, along with visual plays from streaming services like Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal, and Vevo.[5]

As of the issue dated February 6, 2021, the current number-one album on the Billboard 200 is Dangerous: The Double Album by Morgan Wallen.[6]

History

Billboard began an album chart in 1945. Initially only five positions long, the album chart was not published on a weekly basis, sometimes three to seven weeks passing before it was updated. A biweekly (though with a few gaps), 15-position Best-Selling Popular Albums chart appeared in 1955. With the increase in album sales as the early 1950s format wars stabilized into market dominance by 45 RPM singles and long-playing twelve-inch albums, with 78 RPM record and long-playing ten-inch album sales decreasing dramatically, Billboard premiered a weekly Best-Selling Popular Albums chart on March 24, 1956. The position count varied anywhere from 10 to 30 albums. The first number-one album on the new weekly list was Belafonte by Harry Belafonte. The chart was renamed to Best-Selling Pop Albums later in 1956, and then to Best-Selling Pop LPs in 1957.

Beginning on May 25, 1959, Billboard split the ranking into two charts Best-Selling Stereophonic LPs for stereo albums (30 positions) and Best-Selling Monophonic LPs for mono albums (50 positions). These were renamed to Stereo Action Charts (30 positions) and Mono Action Charts (40 positions) in 1960. In January 1961, they became Action Albums—Stereophonic (15 positions) and Action Albums—Monophonic (25 positions). Three months later, they became Top LPs—Stereo (50 positions) and Top LPs—Monaural (150 positions).

On August 17, 1963, the stereo and mono charts were combined into a 150-position chart called Top LPs. On April 1, 1967, the chart was expanded to 175 positions, then finally to 200 positions on May 13, 1967. In February 1972, the album chart's title was changed to Top LPs & Tape; in 1984, it was retitled Top 200 Albums; in 1985, it was retitled again to Top Pop Albums; in 1991, it became The Billboard 200 Top Albums; and it was given its current title of The Billboard 200 on March 14, 1992.

Catalog albums

In 1960, Billboard began concurrently publishing album charts which ranked sales of older or mid-priced titles. These Essential Inventory charts were divided by stereo and mono albums, and featured titles that had already appeared on the main stereo and mono album charts. Mono albums were moved to the Essential Inventory—Mono chart (25 positions) after spending 40 weeks on the Mono Action Chart, and stereo albums were moved to the Essential Inventory—Stereo chart (20 positions) after 20 weeks on the Stereo Action Chart.

In January 1961, the Action Charts became Action Albums—Monophonic (24 positions), and Action Albums—Stereophonic (15 positions). Albums appeared on either chart for up to nine weeks, then were moved to an Essential Inventory list of approximately 200 titles, with no numerical ranking. This list continued to be published until the consolidated Top LPs chart debuted in 1963.

In 1982, Billboard began publishing a Midline Albums chart (alternatively titled Midline LPs) which ranked older or mid-priced titles. The chart held 50 positions and was published on a bi-weekly (and later tri-weekly) basis.

On May 25, 1991, Billboard premiered the Top Pop Catalog Albums chart. The criteria for this chart were albums that were more than 18 months old and had fallen below position 100 on the Billboard 200.[7] An album needed not have charted on the Billboard 200 at all to qualify for catalog status.

Starting with the issue dated December 5, 2009, however, the catalog limitations which removed albums over 18 months old, that have dropped below position 100 and have no currently-running single, from the Billboard 200 was lifted, turning the chart into an all-inclusive list of the 200 highest-selling albums in the country (essentially changing Top Comprehensive Albums into the Billboard 200). A new chart that keeps the previous criteria for the Billboard 200 (dubbed Top Current Albums) was also introduced in the same issue.[8]

Holiday albums

Billboard has adjusted its policies for Christmas[9] and holiday[9] albums several times. The albums were eligible for the main album charts until 1963, when a Christmas Albums list was created. Albums appearing here were not listed on the Top LPs chart. In 1974, this rule was reverted and holiday albums again appeared within the main list.

In 1983, the Christmas Albums chart was resurrected, but a title's appearance here did not disqualify it from appearing on the Top Pop Albums chart. In 1994 the chart was retitled Top Holiday Albums. As of 2009 the chart holds 50 positions and is run for several weeks during the end-of-calendar-year holiday season. Its current policy allows holiday albums to concurrently chart on the Top Holiday Albums list and the Billboard 200.

Nielsen SoundScan

Since May 25, 1991, the Billboard 200's positions have been derived from Nielsen SoundScan sales data, as of 2008 contributed by approximately 14,000 music sellers. Because these numbers are supplied by a subset of sellers rather than record labels, it is common for these numbers to be substantially lower than those reported by the Recording Industry Association of America when Gold, Platinum and Diamond album awards are announced (RIAA awards reflect wholesale shipments, not retail sales).

Incorporation of streaming data and track sales

Beginning with the December 13, 2014 issue, Billboard updated the methodology of its album chart again, changing from a "pure sales-based ranking" to one measuring "multi-metric consumption".[4] With this overhaul, the Billboard 200 includes on-demand streaming and digital track sales (as measured by Nielsen SoundScan) by way of a new algorithm, utilizing data from all of the major on-demand audio subscription services including Spotify, Beats Music, Google Play and Xbox Music. Under the new methodology, ten track sales or 1,500 song streams from an album are treated as equivalent to one purchase of the album. Billboard will continue to publish a pure album sales chart, called Top Album Sales, that maintains the traditional Billboard 200 methodology, based exclusively on SoundScan's sales data.[4]

Beginning on January 18, 2020, Billboard will incorporate video and audio data from YouTube, along with visual plays from streaming services like Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal, and Vevo, into the Billboard 200. The change will also impact Billboard's genre-specific album charts.[5]

Year-end charts

Billboard's "chart year" runs from the first week of December to the final week in November. This altered calendar allows for Billboard to calculate year-end charts and release them in time for its final print issue in the last week of December. Prior to Nielsen SoundScan, year-end charts were calculated by an inverse-point system based solely on an album's performance on the Billboard 200 (for example, an album would be given one point for a week spent at position 200, two points for a week spent at position 199... up to 200 points for each week spent at number one). Other factors including the total weeks on the chart and at its peak position were calculated into an album's year-end total.

After Billboard began obtaining sales information from Nielsen SoundScan, the year-end charts are now calculated by a very straightforward cumulative total of yearlong sales. This gives a more accurate picture of any given year's best-selling albums, as a title that hypothetically spent nine weeks at number one in March could possibly have sold fewer copies than one spending six weeks at number three in January. Albums at the peak of their popularity at the time of the November/December chart-year cutoff many times end up ranked lower than one would expect on a year-end tally, yet are ranked on the following year's chart as well, as their cumulative points are split between the two chart-years.

All-Time Billboard 200 achievements (1963–2015)

In 2015, Billboard magazine compiled a ranking of the 100 best-performing albums on the chart over the 52 years, along with the best-performing artists.[10] Shown below are the top 10 albums and top 10 artists over the 52-year period of the Billboard 200, through October 2015. Also shown are the artists placing the most albums on the overall "all-time" top 100 album list.

Top 10 albums of All-Time (1963–2015)

Rank	Album	Year released	Artist(s)	Peak and duration
1	21	2011	Adele	#1 for 24 weeks
2	The Sound of Music	1965	Soundtrack	#1 for 2 weeks
3	Thriller	1983	Michael Jackson	#1 for 37 weeks
4	Fearless	2008	Taylor Swift	#1 for 11 weeks
5	Born in the U.S.A.	1984	Bruce Springsteen	#1 for 7 weeks
6	Ropin' the Wind	1991	Garth Brooks	#1 for 18 weeks
7	Jagged Little Pill	1995	Alanis Morissette	#1 for 12 weeks
8	Doctor Zhivago	1966	Soundtrack	#1 for 1 week
9	All the Right Reasons	2005	Nickelback	#1 for 1 week
10	Tapestry	1971	Carole King	#1 for 15 weeks

Source:[11]

Top 10 albums artists of All-Time (1963–2015)

Rank	Artist
1	The Beatles
2	The Rolling Stones
3	Barbra Streisand
4	Garth Brooks
5	Elton John
6	Mariah Carey
7	Herb Alpert
8	Taylor Swift
9	Chicago
10	Michael Jackson

Source:[12]

Artists with the most albums on Billboard's Top 200 Albums of All-Time (1963–2015)

Number of albums	Artist	Albums (ranking)
5	The Beatles	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (54), A Hard Day's Night (105), 1 (131), Abbey Road (135), Meet the Beatles! (187)
4	Taylor Swift	Fearless (4), Taylor Swift (18), 1989 (64), Red (140)
	Led Zeppelin	Led Zeppelin II (146), Houses of the Holy (185), Led Zeppelin IV (194), In Through the Out Door (198)
3	Michael Jackson	Thriller (3), Bad (138), Off the Wall (149)
	Nickelback	All the Right Reasons (9), Silver Side Up (162), Dark Horse (182)
	Whitney Houston	Whitney Houston (11), The Bodyguard (23), Whitney (159)
	Herb Alpert	Whipped Cream & Other Delights (13), Going Places (44), What Now My Love (170)
	Elton John	Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (39), Honky Château (145), Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy (175)
	Mariah Carey	Mariah Carey (50), The Emancipation of Mimi (52), Music Box (87)
	Janet Jackson	Control (72), Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 (94), Janet (119)
2	Garth Brooks	Ropin' the Wind (6), No Fences (29)
	Fleetwood Mac	Rumours (15), Fleetwood Mac (74)
	Celine Dion	Falling into You (21), Let's Talk About Love (164)
	Pink Floyd	The Dark Side of the Moon (31), The Wall (92)
	Creed	Human Clay (34), Weathered (181)
	Santana	Supernatural (36), Abraxas (114)
	Backstreet Boys	Backstreet Boys (42), Millennium (70)
	Eminem	The Eminem Show (56), Recovery (93)
	Boyz II Men	II (61), Cooleyhighharmony (129)
	Green Day	American Idiot (73), Dookie (172)
	Nelly	Country Grammar (85), Nellyville (174)
	John Denver	John Denver's Greatest Hits (86), Back Home Again (193)
	Chicago	Chicago II (89), Chicago V (165)
	The Black Eyed Peas	The E.N.D (96), Monkey Business (134)
	Justin Timberlake	FutureSex/LoveSounds (97), The 20/20 Experience (200)
	Mumford & Sons	Sigh No More (106), Babel (116)
	Alicia Keys	Songs in A Minor (107), As I Am (128)
	NSYNC	No Strings Attached (111), 'N Sync (137)
	The Monkees	The Monkees (132), More of the Monkees (156)
	Eagles	The Long Run (148), One of These Nights (155)
	Billy Joel	Glass Houses (168), 52nd Street (191)

Source:[11]

Artist milestones

Most number-one albums

Albums	Artist	Source
19	The Beatles	[13]
14	Jay-Z	[13]
11	Barbra Streisand	[13]
	Bruce Springsteen	[13]
10	Elvis Presley	[13]
	Eminem

• As a musician, Paul McCartney has the most number-one albums, with 27. This includes 19 albums from his work with The Beatles, 3 solo albums, and 5 albums as a part of his 1970s group Wings.[14][15][16] John Lennon is in second place with 22, including 19 albums with The Beatles, 2 solo albums, and 1 album credited to him and his wife Yoko Ono.[17] George Harrison had 19 number-one albums with The Beatles and 2 as a solo artist.[18]
• Barbra Streisand is the only artist to have number 1 albums in six different decades. Her first was the 1964 album People and her most recent was the 2016 album Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway, with a few weeks shy of 52 years between the two hitting number 1.[19]

Most number-one albums in a calendar year

Albums	Artist	Year	Source
4	The Monkees	1967	[20]
3	Elvis Presley	1957
	The Kingston Trio	1960
	Elvis Presley	1961
	The Beatles	1964
	The Beatles	1965
	The Beatles	1966
	Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass	1966
	Elton John	1975
	Garth Brooks	1998
	Glee Cast	2010

Most consecutive number-one studio albums

Number	Act	Source
11	Jay-Z	[21]
10	Eminem	[22]
9	Kanye West	[23]
8	Taylor Swift	[24]
	The Beatles	[25]
	The Rolling Stones	[25]
7	Dave Matthews Band	[26]
	Elton John	[27]

Most-consecutive studio albums to debut at number one

Number	Act	Source
10	Eminem	[22]
9	Kanye West	[28][23]
8	Taylor Swift	[29]
7	Dave Matthews Band	[26]
6	Beyoncé	[30]
	Metallica	[31]
5	Disturbed	[32]
	Drake	[33]
	Justin Bieber	[34]
	Madonna	[35]
	U2

• On May 1, 2016, Beyoncé became the first female artist to have her first 6 studio albums debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, following the release of her sixth studio album Lemonade. Beyoncé also became the first and only artist in Billboard chart history to have all of her studio albums debut at No. 1, breaking a tied record with DMX.[30]

Most cumulative weeks at number one

List of the ten acts with the most weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 since August 17, 1963.

Sources:[36][37]

• The Beatles (132)
• Elvis Presley (67)
• Garth Brooks (52)
• Michael Jackson (51) (tie)
• Taylor Swift (51) (tie)
• The Kingston Trio (46) (tie)
• Whitney Houston (46) (tie)
• Elton John (39)
• Fleetwood Mac (38) (tie)
• The Rolling Stones (38) (tie)

Most top-10 albums

The following artists are the only ones with 30 or more top-10 albums:[38]

• The Rolling Stones (37)
• Barbra Streisand (34)
• Frank Sinatra (32) (tie)
• The Beatles (32) (tie)

Note: As a musician, Paul McCartney has the most top 10 albums, with 51. This includes 32 with The Beatles, 7 albums with the group Wings, 1 album credited to him and his first wife Linda McCartney, and 11 solo albums.[14][15]

Most albums in the top 10 simultaneously

• Prince (5) 2016[39]
• The Kingston Trio (4 for 5 consecutive weeks) 1959[40][41][42][43][44]
• Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass (4) 1966[45]
• Peter, Paul and Mary (3) 1963[46]
• Whitney Houston (3) 2012[47]
• Led Zeppelin (3) 2014[48]

Most albums in the top 200 simultaneously

• Prince (19) 2016[39]
• The Beatles (13) 2014[49]
• Whitney Houston (10) 2012[49]
• David Bowie (10) 2016[49]
• Led Zeppelin (9) 1979[50]
• Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (8) 1971[51]
• Eminem (8) 2013 [52][53]
• Linkin Park (8) 2017[54]
• The Monkees (7) 1986[55]
• Pearl Jam (7) 2001[56]
• Mac Miller (7) 2018[57]

Album milestones

Most weeks at number one

Weeks	Album	Artist	Year(s)	Source
54	West Side Story†	Various artists	1962–63	[58]
37	Thriller	Michael Jackson	1983–84	[59]
31	Rumours	Fleetwood Mac	1977–78	[59]
	South Pacific‡	Various artists	1958–59	[58]
	Calypso	Harry Belafonte	1956–57	[58]
24	21	Adele	2011–12	[59]
	Purple Rain	Prince and the Revolution	1984–85	[59]
	Saturday Night Fever	Bee Gees/Various artists	1978	[59]
21	Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em	MC Hammer	1990	[59]
20	The Bodyguard	Whitney Houston/Various artists	1992–93	[59]
	Blue Hawaiiɤ	Elvis Presley	1961–62	[58]

† The West Side Story Soundtrack ran for 53 weeks at number one on the stereo album chart; it was number one for twelve weeks on the mono album chart.

‡ The South Pacific Soundtrack ran for 28 weeks at number one on the stereo album chart; it was number one for three weeks on the mono album chart.

ɤ This is the Blue Hawaii album's run on the mono album chart; it was number one for four weeks on the stereo album chart.

• Tapestry by Carole King holds the record for most consecutive weeks at number one on the Billboard 200 for any one album by a female solo artist with 15 weeks.[60]

Most weeks on the chart

Note that totals are for the main albums chart only, catalog chart totals are not factored in.

(*) indicates that the album is currently charting.

Weeks	Album	Artist	Source
958	The Dark Side of the Moon	Pink Floyd	[61]
663*	Legend	Bob Marley and the Wailers	[62]
653*	Journey's Greatest Hits	Journey	[63]
592*	Metallica	Metallica	[64]
518	Greatest Hits	Guns N' Roses	[65]
513*	Curtain Call: The Hits	Eminem	[66]
509*	Nevermind	Nirvana	[67]
508*	Chronicle: The 20 Greatest Hits	Creedence Clearwater Revival	[68]
504*	Doo-Wops & Hooligans	Bruno Mars	[69]
499*	21	Adele	[70]
490†	Johnny's Greatest Hits	Johnny Mathis	[71]
480†	My Fair Lady	Original Cast Recording	[71]
457*	1	The Beatles	[72]
455*	Thriller	Michael Jackson	[73]
448*	Back in Black	AC/DC	[74]
431*	Good Kid, M.A.A.D City	Kendrick Lamar	[75]
423*	Greatest Hits	Queen	[76]
413*	Take Care	Drake	[77]
409*	Rumours	Fleetwood Mac	[78]
407*	Night Visions	Imagine Dragons	[79]

† Pre-Billboard 200 and Billboard 200

Largest jumps to number one

1. (176–1) Life After Death – The Notorious B.I.G.[80] (April 12, 1997)
2. (173–1) Vitalogy – Pearl Jam[81] (December 24, 1994)
3. (156–1) In Rainbows – Radiohead[82] (January 19, 2008)
4. (137–1) Ghetto D – Master P[83] (September 20, 1997)
5. (122–1) More of The Monkees – The Monkees[84] (February 11, 1967)
6. (112–1) MP da Last Don – Master P[85] (June 20, 1998)
7. (98–1) Beatles '65 – The Beatles[86] (January 9, 1965)
8. (61–1) Help! – The Beatles[87] (September 11, 1965)
9. (60–1) Rubber Soul – The Beatles[88] (January 8, 1966)
10. (53–1) Ballad of the Green Berets – Barry Sadler[89] (March 12, 1966)

Largest drops from number one

1. (1–169) This House Is Not for Sale – Bon Jovi[90] (March 17, 2018)
2. (1–111) Courage – Celine Dion (December 7, 2019)
3. (1–97) Science Fiction – Brand New[91] (September 16, 2017)
4. (1–88) Iridescence – Brockhampton[92] (October 13, 2018)
5. (1–77) Madame X – Madonna (July 6, 2019)[93]
6. (1–62) Boarding House Reach – Jack White[94] (April 14, 2018)
7. (1–59) Wonderful Wonderful – The Killers[95] (October 21, 2017)
8. (1–56) American Dream – LCD Soundsystem[96] (September 30, 2017)
9. (1–45) Help Us Stranger – The Raconteurs[97] (July 13, 2019)
10. (1–43) This House Is Not for Sale – Bon Jovi[98] (December 3, 2016)

Notes:

• The album Music to Be Murdered By by Eminem has the largest rise for an album that did not top the chart. On January 2, 2021, it jumped from number 199 the previous week to number 3 on the chart.[99]
• The album Hello from Las Vegas by Lionel Richie has the largest drop for an album that did not top the chart. On September 7, 2019, it disappeared from the chart having debuted the previous week at number 2.[100]

Longest climbs to number one in the SoundScan era

Here are the albums to complete the 10 longest rises to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 since the adoption of Nielsen Music data in 1991.[101]

Weeks to No. 1	Artist	Album	Date Reached No. 1
63	Various Artists	O Brother, Where Art Thou? Soundtrack	March 23, 2002
52	Live	Throwing Copper	May 6, 1995
49	No Doubt	Tragic Kingdom	December 21, 1996
46	Norah Jones	Come Away with Me	January 25, 2003
44	Hootie & The Blowfish	Cracked Rear View	May 27, 1995
40	Prince	The Very Best of Prince	May 7, 2016
31	Toni Braxton	Toni Braxton	February 26, 1994
28	Celine Dion	Falling into You	October 5, 1996
27	Eric Clapton	Unplugged	March 13, 1993
26	Shaggy	Hotshot	February 17, 2001

• Forever Your Girl by Paula Abdul spent 64 consecutive weeks on the Billboard 200 before hitting number one in 1989, making it the longest time for an album to reach the number-one spot.[102]

Albums to top the Billboard 200 by artists who have never appeared on the Hot 100

Artist	Album	Year	Source
Van Cliburn	Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1	1958	[103]
Bob Newhart	The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart	1960	[103]
Bob Newhart	The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back!	1961	[103]
Judy Garland	Judy at Carnegie Hall		[103]
Vaughn Meader	The First Family	1962	[103]
Frank Fontaine	Songs I Sing on the Jackie Gleason Show	1963	[103]
Blind Faith	Blind Faith	1969	[103]
Pantera	Far Beyond Driven	1994	[103]
Bob Carlisle	Butterfly Kisses (Shades of Grace)	1997	[103]
Marilyn Manson	Mechanical Animals	1998	[104]
Marilyn Manson	The Golden Age of Grotesque	2003	[104]
Il Divo	Ancora	2006	[103]
Slipknot	All Hope Is Gone	2008	[103]
Vampire Weekend	Contra	2010	[103]
The Decemberists	The King Is Dead	2011	[103]
Amos Lee	Mission Bell		[103]
TobyMac	Eye on It	2012	[105]
Vampire Weekend	Modern Vampires of the City	2013	[106]
Lecrae	Anomaly	2014	[107]
Slipknot	.5: The Gray Chapter		[108]
Brand New	Science Fiction	2017	[109]
LCD Soundsystem	American Dream		[110]
Vampire Weekend	Father of the Bride	2019	[111]
Slipknot	We Are Not Your Kind		[112]
SuperM	SuperM – The 1st Mini Album		[113]

Note: Newhart, Meader, and Fontaine's albums were all #1 on the mono chart, but not on the stereo chart.

Additional milestones

• The first album to debut at number one was Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy by Elton John.[114] John repeated the same feat with the album Rock of the Westies – the second album to debut at number one – making John the first artist to have two consecutive studio albums debut at number one.[114] Whitney Houston's second album Whitney was the first album by a female artist to debut at number one.[115]
• In the early 1960s, Bob Newhart had the accomplishment of having the number-one and number-two albums simultaneously on the Billboard albums chart, with The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart and The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back! This feat was equaled by The Beatles multiple times. They did this twice in 1964 with Meet The Beatles! and Introducing... The Beatles, and then with A Hard Day's Night and Something New, followed in 1969 with the album The Beatles (commonly known as The White Album) and the soundtrack for the film Yellow Submarine. In 1991, Guns N' Roses held the top two with Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II, in 2004, Nelly's Suit and Sweat and in 2017, Future's Future and Hndrxx.[116]
• The Sound of Music set the record of 109 consecutive weeks in the top 10 from May 1, 1965, to July 16, 1966, but only spent 2 weeks at number one on the Billboard 200.[117]
• The only EPs to reach number one on the chart are Alice in Chains's Jar of Flies in 1994,[118] Linkin Park and Jay-Z's collaboration EP, Collision Course in 2004,[119] the cast of the television series Glee with Glee: The Music, The Power of Madonna and Glee: The Music, Journey to Regionals in 2010,[120] Bad Meets Evil's Hell: The Sequel in 2011,[121] The Weeknd's My Dear Melancholy, in 2018,[122] BTS' Map of the Soul: Persona and SuperM's SuperM – The 1st Mini Album in 2019.[123][113]
• The first UK solo artist to debut at number one with a debut album is Leona Lewis on April 26, 2008, with the album Spirit.[124] The first UK group to debut at number one with a debut album is One Direction on March 31, 2012, with the album Up All Night.[125]
• Oldest male to debut at number one: Tony Bennett on October 8, 2011 (85 years, 66 days old) with the album Duets II. He was born August 3, 1926. Later, he surpassed his own record when his collaborative album with Lady Gaga, Cheek to Cheek debuted at number one on October 11, 2014 (88 years, 69 days old).[126]
• The issue dated July 11, 2009 was the first time any catalog album outsold the number-one album on the Billboard 200. Three of Michael Jackson's albums (Number Ones, The Essential Michael Jackson and Thriller) claimed positions 1–3 respectively on Top Pop Catalog Albums and Top Comprehensive Albums in the week following Jackson's death.[127][128]
• In 2012, Adam Lambert became the first openly gay musician to debut at No. 1 with his album Trespassing.[129]
• There have been 40 albums released on an independent label to reach No. 1 on the Billboard 200.[130]
• Jackie Gleason, at least for a time, held the record for the most albums to top the Billboard 200 without charting any songs in the top 40 of the Hot 100; five of Gleason's mood music albums topped the Billboard 200 in the mid-1950s.[131]
• One Direction became the first group to debut at No. 1 with its first three albums when Midnight Memories debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 dated December 14, 2013. They later became the first group to debut at No. 1 with their first four albums when Four debuted atop the chart on November 26, 2014.[132]
• Led Zeppelin hold the record for the longest gap between an album returning to the Top 10. Led Zeppelin first hit the Top 10 on the Billboard Top LP's chart for the week ending May 17, 1969[133] and returned 45 years and 35 days later at No. 7, on the Billboard 200, for the week ending June 21, 2014.[134]
• On May 22, 2016, Coloring Book by Chance the Rapper became the first streaming-only album to chart on the Billboard 200, debuting at No. 8, with the album being streamed 57.3 million times in its first week, which was equivalent to 38,000 units sold.[135]
• On March 18, 2017, Future made history by achieving back-to-back No. 1 album debuts in successive weeks with Future and Hndrxx for the first time in the chart's history.[116]
• On June 2, 2018, BTS became the first Korean artist to reach No. 1 with their album Love Yourself: Tear.[136]
• On January 19, 2019, A Boogie wit da Hoodie's Hoodie SZN became the album with the lowest weekly sales figure for a number 1 album – with 1,000 sales. It subsequently did not sell enough to enter the sales-only Top 100 Album Sales chart.[137] A week later the album broke its own record when it stayed at number 1 for a second week, selling 749 copies.[138]
• Taylor Swift became the first act in Nielsen SoundScan history to have seven albums each sell at least 500,000 copies in a week, on August 2, 2020, as Fearless, Speak Now, Red, 1989, Reputation, Lover and Folklore accumulated more than half a million sales in their first weeks.[139]
• On September 27, 2020, Taylor Swift became the first solo act and first woman to have five albums top the Billboard 200 for at least six weeks each, accomplishing the feat with Fearless, Speak Now, Red, 1989 and Folklore.[140]

See also

• List of Billboard 200 number-one albums

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External links

• Current Billboard 200