By holding at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for a 10th nonconsecutive week with I’m the Downside, Morgan Wallen ups his profession whole of weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s flagship albums chart to 39. That places him in a tie with Elton John, who headed the chart for 39 weeks from 1972-75.
Wallen is simply the twentieth artist to log 30 or extra weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 – which originated in March 1956. Wallen is just the second core nation artist to amass 30 weeks at No. 1, following Garth Brooks, who has headed the chart for 52 weeks. (Eagles, Elvis Presley and Taylor Swift, whose music straddles pop, rock and nation, are additionally on the listing.)
Wallen, 32, is the youngest artist on this listing. He has landed three No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200: Harmful: The Double Album (10 weeks on high), One Factor at a Time (19 weeks) and now I’m the Downside (10 weeks up to now). As Keith Caulfield factors out on this week’s chart report, Wallen is the primary artist in Billboard 200 historical past to high the chart for 10 or extra weeks with three consecutive full-length albums.
A number of fast notes: Whereas Presley’s feats on the Billboard Scorching 100 are shortchanged by the truth that his breakthrough in 1956 pre-dated the launch of Billboard’s flagship songs chart by greater than two years, the Billboard 200 captures Presley’s total profession. His debut album, Elvis Presley, entered the chart at No. 11 within the subject dated March 31, 1956 – which was the chart’s second week.
When you rely the Saturday Evening Fever soundtrack (which logged 24 weeks at No. 1 in 1978) as a Bee Gees album, the trio had 31 weeks on high. Bee Gees had six tracks on the album — 5 of which had been No. 1 hits on the Scorching 100. However Billboard counts it as a multi-artist soundtrack album.
Right here’s a take a look at all acts with 30 or extra weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 since March 24, 1956, when the chart started publishing on a constant weekly foundation. Ties are proven in alphabetical order.
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Mariah Carey (30 weeks)
Picture Credit score: Michael Brennan/GI First week at No. 1: March 2, 1991
Most up-to-date week at No. 1: Might 10, 2008
Longest-running No. 1: Mariah Carey (11 weeks in 1991)
Notes: All of Carey’s No. 1 albums have been common studio releases. The Queen of Christmas’ 1994 vacation album, Merry Christmas, peaked at No. 3.
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Eagles (30 weeks)
First week at No. 1: July 26, 1975
Most up-to-date week at No. 1: Nov. 17, 2007
Longest-running No. 1: The Lengthy Run (9 weeks in 1979).
Notes: The long term at No. 1 for The Lengthy Run is one week greater than the band’s most well-known album, Resort California (eight weeks in 1977). The RIAA has licensed Eagles/Their Biggest Hits 1971-1975, which logged 5 weeks at No. 1 in 1976, at 38 instances platinum, greater than every other album in historical past. The group’s tally of No. 1 albums additionally features a stay album, 1994’s Hell Freezes Over.
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Prince (35 weeks)
Picture Credit score: Richard E. Aaron/Redferns First week at No. 1: Aug. 4, 1984
Most up-to-date week at No. 1: Might 7, 2016
Longest-running No. 1: Purple Rain soundtrack (24 weeks in 1984-85)
Notes: Prince’s No. 1 albums embrace two soundtracks, Purple Rain and Batman. Purple Rain had the longest run at No. 1 of any soundtrack within the Eighties. It was one among two No. 1 albums on which Prince shared billing together with his band, The Revolution. The opposite was Across the World in a Day. Prince’s tally additionally features a 2001 hits compilation, The Very Better of Prince, which reached No. 1 following his dying in 2016.
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Eminem (35 weeks)
First week at No. 1: June 10, 2000
Most up-to-date week at No. 1: July 27, 2024
Longest-running No. 1: The Marshall Mathers LP (eight weeks in 2000)
Notes: Eminem’s tally of No. 1 albums features a 2005 best hits set, Curtain Name: The Hits. Eminem was the important thing artist on 8 Mile: Music From and Impressed by the Movement Image, which logged 4 weeks at No. 1 in 2002-03, however that doesn’t rely towards his whole. Neither do a pair of No. 1 albums he recorded as a member of the group D12, which logged a mixed three weeks at No. 1.
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Harry Belafonte (37 weeks)
First week at No. 1: March 24, 1956
Most up-to-date week at No. 1: Might 20, 1957
Longest-running No. 1: Calypso (31 weeks in 1956-57)
Notes: The legendary singer’s Belafonte album was No. 1 on the very first weekly Billboard 200 chart. Calypso is tied with the South Pacific soundtrack because the longest-running No. 1 album of the 1956-59 interval. Belafonte had the second shortest span of weeks at No. 1 of any act on this listing, with solely The Monkees having a barely shorter span. He’s the one artist on this listing who has had simply two No. 1 albums.
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Drake (37 weeks)
First week at No. 1: July 3, 2010
Most up-to-date week at No. 1: March 1, 2025
Longest-running No. 1: Views (13 weeks in 2016)
Notes: Drake is the hip-hop artist with essentially the most weeks at No. 1. Additionally, he has logged extra weeks at No. 1 than every other Canadian artist. His tally contains three collabs, with Future (What a Time to Be Alive), 21 Savage (Her Loss) and PARTYNEXTDOOR ($ome $exy $ongs 4U).
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The Monkees (37 weeks)
First week at No. 1: Nov. 12, 1966
Most up-to-date week at No. 1: Dec. 30, 1967
Longest-running No. 1: Extra of the Monkees (18 weeks in 1967)
Notes: The group had a briefer span of No. 1 albums – just a bit greater than a yr – than every other act on this listing. However that additionally underscores how sizzling they had been on the time. They held the No. 1 spot for 31 consecutive weeks, longer than every other act in the whole 1956-2025 interval.
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Fleetwood Mac (38 weeks)
Picture Credit score: CBS by way of GI First week at No. 1: Sept. 4, 1976
Most up-to-date week at No. 1: Sept. 6, 1997
Longest-running No. 1: Rumours (31 weeks in 1977)
Notes: Rumours had the longest run at No. 1 of any album within the Seventies. It additionally had the longest run at No. 1 of any album by a bunch or duo in the whole 1956-2025 interval. Fleetwood Mac has had extra weeks at No. 1 than every other mixed-gender (and mixed-nationalities) group. Their most up-to-date No. 1 album, The Dance, was recorded stay on a soundstage.
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The Rolling Stones (38 weeks)
First week at No. 1: Aug. 21, 1965
Most up-to-date week at No. 1: Nov. 14, 1981
Longest-running No. 1: Tattoo You (9 weeks in 1981)
Notes: The Stones are the third-highest rating group on this listing, behind The Beatles and The Kingston Trio.
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Elton John (39 weeks)
First week at No. 1: July 15, 1972
Most up-to-date week at No. 1: Nov. 22, 1975
Longest-running No. 1: Biggest Hits (10 weeks in 1974-75).
Notes: Elton’s span of No. 1 albums – not fairly 3-1/2 years – doesn’t mirror his standing as a dominant determine in pop music for greater than half a century. Elton had the primary two albums to enter the Billboard 200 at No. 1 – Captain Incredible and the Brown Filth Cowboy and Rock of the Westies (each 1975). Biggest Hits spent extra weeks on high than every other best hits album within the Seventies. Elton was the important thing artist on The Lion King soundtrack, which logged 10 weeks at No. 1 in 1994-95, however that doesn’t rely towards his whole.
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Morgan Wallen (39 weeks)
First week at No. 1: Jan. 23, 2021
Most up-to-date week at No. 1: Aug. 16, 2025
Longest-running No. 1: One Factor at a Time (19 weeks in 2023-24)
Notes: One Factor at a Time spent extra weeks at No. 1 than every other nation album in the whole 1956-2025 interval.
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Adele (40 weeks)
First week at No. 1: March 12, 2011
Most up-to-date week at No. 1: Jan. 8, 2022
Longest-running No. 1: 21 (24 weeks in 2011-12)
Notes: Adele has spent extra weeks at No. 1 than every other solo artist who wasn’t born within the U.S. (Runner-up is Elton John, with 39 weeks on high.) 21 spent extra weeks at No. 1 than every other album of the 2010s. It additionally spent extra weeks at No. 1 than every other album by a feminine artist in the whole 1956-2025 interval.
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Whitney Houston (46 weeks)
Picture Credit score: Getty Photos First week at No. 1: March 8, 1986
Most up-to-date week at No. 1: Sept. 19, 2009
Longest-running No. 1: The Bodyguard soundtrack (20 weeks in 1992-93)
Notes: Houston is the second-highest-ranking feminine solo artist. Houston’s tally contains The Bodyguard soundtrack, which had essentially the most weeks at No. 1 of any soundtrack within the Nineties. Houston recorded simply six of the 12 songs on The Bodyguard, however they had been those that offered the album. Houston’s tally doesn’t embrace the Ready to Exhale soundtrack, which logged 5 weeks at No. 1 in 1996, as she sang simply three of the songs on that album. Houston very almost notched a posthumous No. 1, however her The Biggest Hits album wasn’t capable of unseat Adele’s blockbuster 21. The compilation logged three weeks at No. 2 in March 2012.
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The Kingston Trio (46 weeks)
First week at No. 1: Nov. 24, 1958
Most up-to-date week at No. 1: Dec. 26, 1960
Longest-running No. 1: The Kingston Trio at Massive (15 weeks in 1959)
Notes: The people trio spent extra weeks at No. 1 than every other American group or duo. Amongst teams and duos the place all of the members had been born within the U.S., runners-up are the Eagles, with 30 weeks at No. 1. The Kingston Trio is the second-highest-ranking group on this listing, and the highest-ranking artist whose No. 1 albums are all studio releases consisting of songs the act hadn’t beforehand recorded.
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Michael Jackson (51 weeks)
First week at No. 1: Feb. 26, 1983
Most up-to-date week at No. 1: Nov. 14, 2009
Longest-running No. 1: Thriller (37 weeks in 1983-84)
Notes: Thriller had the longest run at No. 1 of any album within the Eighties. It had an extended run at No. 1 than every other non-soundtrack album in the whole 1956-2025 interval. MJ spent extra weeks at No. 1 than every other Black artist. (Houston is runner-up at 46 weeks.) Jackson’s whole features a soundtrack (Michael Jackson’s This Is It) and a novel double-disk album (HIStory: Previous, Current and Future Guide I), which was half best hits, half new studio recordings.
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Garth Brooks (52 weeks)
Picture Credit score: James Schnepf/GI First week at No. 1: Sept. 28, 1991
Most up-to-date week at No. 1: Dec. 21, 2013
Longest-running No. 1: Ropin’ the Wind (18 weeks in 1991-92).
Notes: Brooks has spent extra weeks at No. 1 than every other (pure) nation artist. Brooks can be the second-highest-ranking male solo artist. Brooks’ tally additionally contains The Hits, which spent eight weeks at No. 1, longer than every other best hits album of the Nineties; a double-disk stay album, Double Stay; and a six-CD field set, The Restricted Sequence.
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Elvis Presley (67 weeks)
First week at No. 1: Might 5, 1956
Most up-to-date week at No. 1: Oct. 26, 2002
Longest-running No. 1: Blue Hawaii soundtrack (20 weeks in 1961-62)
Notes: Presley spent extra weeks at No. 1 than every other male solo artist. His tally of No. 1 albums features a Christmas album (Elvis’ Christmas Album), a stay album (Aloha From Hawaii By way of Satellite tv for pc), a best hits set (Elv1s: 30 #1 Hits) and 4 movie soundtracks — Loving You, G.I. Blues, Blue Hawaii and Roustabout.
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Taylor Swift (86 weeks)
First week at No. 1: Nov. 29, 2008
Most up-to-date week at No. 1: Dec. 21, 2024
Longest-running No. 1: The Tortured Poets Division (17 weeks in 2024)
Notes: Along with being the highest solo artist on this listing, Swift, 35, is the highest American artist. Her tally contains each the unique and re-recorded Taylor’s Model editions of Fearless, Converse Now, Pink and 1989. The unique Fearless had the longest run at No. 1 of any album within the 2000-09 decade.
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The Beatles (132 weeks)
First week at No. 1: Feb. 15, 1964
Most up-to-date week at No. 1: Feb. 3, 2001
Longest-running No. 1: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Membership Band (15 weeks in 1967).
Notes: 1 topped the chart for eight weeks, longer than every other best hits set up to now on this century. The group’s tally of No. 1 albums additionally features a double-disk best hits set, The Beatles/1967-1970; three editions of the Anthology collection; and 4 No. 1 soundtracks — A Laborious Day’s Evening, Assist!, Magical Thriller Tour and Let It Be.
