Swift is the one girl on the checklist, which additionally contains seven male solo artists, two bands and one choral group.
Taylor Swift performs onstage throughout “Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour” at Rogers Centre on November 14, 2024 in Toronto, Ontario.
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When Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Division logged its 52nd week on the Billboard 200 a couple of weeks in the past, it turned the singer’s fifteenth album to stay on Billboard’s flagship album chart for a full yr. Only one different act within the historical past of the Billboard 200 has had 15 albums that spent a full yr on the chart, and nobody has had extra. (I might let you know who that different act is, however I’d fairly have you ever scroll down to search out out. And apart from, you in all probability can guess.)
Eleven acts have had 10 or extra albums that every logged a full yr on the Billboard 200. One act on the checklist could shock you. Mitch Miller & the Gang bought tons of Sing Alongside With Mitch albums from 1958-62. The act was rewarded with a weekly TV sequence that ran from 1961-64. However they turned a footnote in music historical past the minute their TV present was canceled.
Three of the ten acts come from the world of nation music and particularly from a brand new wave of nation stars that emerged within the early Nineties. Two of the ten acts are from hip-hop.
Swift is the one girl on the checklist, which additionally contains seven male solo artists, two bands and one choral group (that will be the Mitch Miller ensemble).
Listed below are the 11 acts with 10 or extra albums that every spent a full yr on the Billboard 200. We present the date they made their first look on the Billboard 200 and let you know their 5 albums that had the longest runs on the chart.
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Mitch Miller & the Gang, 10
Picture Credit score: Alan Singer/NBCU Picture Financial institution/NBCUniversal by way of Getty Photographs Billboard 200 Debut: July 14, 1958
5 Longest-Charting Albums: Sing Alongside With Mitch (204 weeks), Extra Sing Alongside With Mitch (171 weeks), Nonetheless Extra! Sing Alongside With Mitch (130 weeks), Sentimental Sing Alongside With Mitch (107 weeks), Celebration Sing Alongside With Mitch (100 weeks)
Notes: Sing Alongside With Mitch was a phenomenon of its time, successful each on the Billboard 200 and within the Nielsen scores. (You may say it was the Glee of its period.) Mitch Miller & the Gang (to not be confused with Kool & the Gang, which got here later and have been significantly funkier) didn’t spend quite a lot of psychological vitality developing with album titles, as you’ll be able to see.
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Alan Jackson, 10
Billboard 200 Debut: March 31, 1990
5 Longest-Charting Albums: A Lot About Livin’ (and a Little ’Bout Love) (122 weeks), Don’t Rock the Jukebox (118 weeks), Right here within the Actual World (110 weeks), The Best Hits Assortment (104 weeks), Treasured Reminiscences (101 weeks)
Notes: Jackson was a part of a brand new wave of nation stars who arrived in 1990. He hit the Billboard 200 six weeks earlier than the artist who’s subsequent on this checklist. The lengthy chart run for Treasured Reminiscences is notable as a result of it’s a gospel assortment.
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Garth Brooks, 10
Billboard 200 Debut: Might 12, 1990
5 Longest-Charting Albums: Garth Brooks (224 weeks), No Fences (224 weeks), The Final Hits (138 weeks), Ropin’ the Wind (132 weeks), The Hits (110 weeks)
Notes: Brooks’ first two studio albums are tied because the longest-charting albums of his profession. The primary album featured “The Dance.” The second included “Associates in Low Locations.”
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Tim McGraw, 11
Picture Credit score: Paul Natkin/Getty Photographs Billboard 200 Debut: April 9, 1994
5 Longest-Charting Albums: Quantity One Hits (278 weeks), Not a Second Too Quickly (115 weeks), Best Hits (106 weeks), All over the place (104 weeks), Best Hits Vol 2: Mirrored (92 weeks)
Notes: McGraw has had extra albums that spent a yr or extra on the Billboard 200 than every other nation artist.
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Eminem, 11
Billboard 200 Debut: March 13, 1999
5 Longest-Charting Albums: Curtain Name: The Hits (735 weeks), The Eminem Present (443 weeks), Restoration (322 weeks), The Marshall Mathers LP 2 (189 weeks), The Marshall Mathers LP (173 weeks)
Notes: Each editions of The Marshall Mathers LP rank amongst Eminem’s 5 longest-charting albums.
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Frank Sinatra, 12
Billboard 200 Debut: March 31, 1956
5 Longest-Charting Albums: Final Sinatra (155 weeks), Nothing However the Finest (144 weeks), Come Dance With Me! (141 weeks), Frank Sinatra Sings for Solely the Lonely (120 weeks), Good ‘n’ Simple (86 weeks)
Notes: Sinatra debuted on the Billboard 200 for the primary time only one week after the chart launched within the March 24, 1956 challenge. However the legendary singer additionally had albums on surveys that predated the inception of the Billboard 200 (when the chart turned a constant weekly function within the journal). Come Dance With Me! introduced Sinatra his first of three Grammys for album of the yr.
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Aerosmith, 12
Billboard 200 Debut: Oct. 13, 1973
5 Longest-Charting Albums: Toys within the Attic (128 weeks), Pump (110 weeks), Get a Grip (92 weeks), Get Your Wings (86 weeks), Best Hits (85 weeks)
Notes: Aerosmith has had extra albums that spent a yr on extra on the Billboard 200 than every other arduous rock act (although the Boston-based band additionally launched their share of energy ballads and punchy pop/rock hits).
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Drake, 13
Picture Credit score: Prince Williams/Wireimage Billboard 200 Debut: Oct. 3, 2009
5 Longest-Charting Albums: Take Care (636 weeks), Nothing Was the Similar (506 weeks), Views (469 weeks), Extra Life (379 weeks), Scorpion (358 weeks)
Notes: Drake has had extra albums that spent a yr or extra on the Billboard 200 than every other hip-hop act. Of the 11 artists with 10 or extra albums that every spent a full yr on the chart, Drake is the newest to make his first look on the Billboard 200.
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Elton John, 14
Billboard 200 Debut: Oct. 3, 1970
5 Longest-Charting Albums: Diamonds (391 weeks), Best Hits 1970-2002 (145 weeks), Goodbye Yellow Brick Street (111 weeks), Best Hits (106 weeks), Don’t Shoot Me I’m Solely the Piano Participant (89 weeks)
Notes: Elton John has had extra albums that spent a yr or extra on the Billboard 200 than every other male solo artist. The double-album opus Goodbye Yellow Brick Street is extensively hailed as his masterwork. Don’t Shoot Me…, his album proper earlier than Goodbye Yellow Brick Street, spawned “Crocodile Rock,” his first No. 1 hit on the Billboard Scorching 100.
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The Beatles, 15
Picture Credit score: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Photographs Billboard 200 Debut: Feb. 1, 1964
5 Longest-Charting Albums: 1 (555 weeks), Abbey Street (496 weeks), Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Membership Band (233 weeks), The Beatles [White Album] (215 weeks), The Beatles 1967-1970 (206 weeks)
Notes: The Beatles had extra albums that spent a yr or extra on the Billboard 200 than every other band. Sgt. Pepper’s introduced the group their solely Grammy for album of the yr. (They deserved extra wins in that class. Check out their second-longest-charting album.)
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Taylor Swift, 15
Billboard 200 Debut: Nov. 11, 2006
5 Longest-Charting Albums: 1989 (519 weeks), repute (346 weeks), Lover (298 weeks), Taylor Swift (284 weeks), Fearless (261 weeks)
Notes: Swift is the one girl with 10 or extra albums which have every spent a yr or extra on the Billboard 200. Mariah Carey is shut behind with 9 such albums, adopted by Madonna with eight. Fearless and 1989 introduced Swift her first two (of 4) Grammys for album of the yr.
