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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 and 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 list in May 1967, and acquired its current name in March 1992. Its previous names include the Billboard Top LPs (1961–1972), Billboard Top LPs & Tape (1972–1984), Billboard Top 200 Albums (1984–1985) and Billboard Top Pop Albums (1985–1992).

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] 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 its 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 U.S.^[4]^[5] 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 digital platforms like Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal, Vevo and, as of the issue dated March 23, 2021, Facebook.^[6]^[7]

As of the issue dated December 10, 2022, the current No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 is Midnights by Taylor Swift.^[8]

History

Billboard began an album chart in 1945. Initially only five positions long, the album chart was not published on a weekly basis, with weeks sometimes 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 12-inch albums – and with 78 RPM record and long-playing 10-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 No. 1 album on the new weekly list was Belafonte by Harry Belafonte. The chart was renamed "Best-Selling Pop Albums" later in 1956, and then "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 "Stereo Action Charts" (30 positions) and "Mono Action Charts" (40 positions), respectively, in 1960. In January 1961, they became "Action Albums – Stereophonic" (15 positions) and "Action Albums – Monophonic" (25 positions), and 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, and 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.

From the end of 1970 to 1985, Billboard also printed a "Bubbling Under the Top LPs" albums chart paired with the "Bubbling Under the Hot 100" singles chart, which listed albums that had not yet charted on what was then the "Top LPs & Tape" chart.

Catalog albums

In 1960, Billboard began concurrently publishing album charts that 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 – Stereophonic" (15 positions) and "Action Albums – Monophonic" (24 positions). Albums appeared on either chart for up to nine weeks, and were then moved to an "Essential Inventory" list of approximately 200 titles and 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 biweekly (and later triweekly) basis.

On May 25, 1991, Billboard premiered the "Top Pop Catalog Albums" chart, the criteria for which were albums that were more than 18 months old and had fallen below No. 100 on the Billboard 200.^[9] An album did not have to chart on the Billboard 200 to qualify for this chart.

Starting with the issue dated December 5, 2009, however, the catalog limitations – which removed albums over 18 months old, albums that have dropped below No. 100 and albums that had no currently running singles – for the Billboard 200 were 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 the "Top Current Albums" chart – was also introduced in the same issue.^[10]

Holiday albums

Billboard has adjusted its policies for Christmas^[11] and holiday^[11] albums several times. The albums were eligible for the main album charts until 1963, when a "Christmas Albums" chart was created. Albums appearing here were not listed on the "Top LPs" chart, and 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, it holds 50 positions and runs 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, it is contributed to 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, 10 track sales or 1,500 song streams from an album are treated as equivalent to one purchase of the album. Billboard continues to publish a pure album sales chart, called "Top Album Sales," that maintains the traditional Billboard 200 methodology but is based exclusively on SoundScan's sales data.^[4]

Beginning on January 18, 2020, Billboard incorporated 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 has also impacted Billboard's genre-specific album charts.^[6]

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 (e.g., an album would be given one point for a week spent at No. 200, two points for a week spent at No. 199, etc., up to 200 points for each week spent at No. 1). Other factors, including an album's total weeks spent on the chart and its peak position, are calculated into an album's year-end total.

Since 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 No. 1 in March could possibly have sold fewer copies than one spending six weeks at No. 3 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 compiled a ranking of the 100 best-performing albums on the Billboard 200 over its 52 years, along with the best-performing artists.^[12] 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	1982	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:^[13]

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:^[14]

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)
4	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:^[13]

Artist milestones

Most No. 1 albums

Albums	Artist	Ref.
19	The Beatles	^[15]
14	Jay-Z	^[15]
12	Drake	^[16]
11	Barbra Streisand	^[15]
	Bruce Springsteen	^[15]
	Taylor Swift	^[17]
10	Elvis Presley	^[15]
	Eminem	^[18]
	Kanye West	^[19]

As a musician, Paul McCartney has the most No. 1 albums, with 27. This includes 19 albums from his work with The Beatles, three solo albums and five albums as a part of his 1970s group Wings.^[20]^[21]^[22] John Lennon is in second place with 22, including 19 albums with The Beatles, two solo albums, and one album credited to him and his wife Yoko Ono.^[23] George Harrison had 19 No. 1 albums with The Beatles and two as a solo artist.^[24]
Barbra Streisand is the only artist to have No. 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 No. 1.^[25]

Most No. 1 albums in a calendar year

Albums	Artist	Year	Ref.
4	The Monkees	1967	^[26]
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
	Taylor Swift	2021	^[27]

Most consecutive No. 1 studio albums

Number	Act	Ref.
11	Jay-Z	^[28]
11	Taylor Swift	^[17]
10	Eminem	^[18]
10	Kanye West	^[19]
9	The Beatles	^[29]
8	The Rolling Stones	^[30]
7	Dave Matthews Band	^[31]
	Beyoncé	^[32]
	Drake	^[33]
6	Elton John	^[34]
	Metallica	^[35]
	Justin Bieber	^[36]
	J. Cole	^[37]

Most consecutive studio albums to debut at No. 1

Number	Act	Ref.
11	Taylor Swift	^[17]
10	Eminem	^[18]
10	Kanye West	^[19]
7	Dave Matthews Band	^[31]
	Beyoncé	^[38]
	Drake	^[39]
6	Justin Bieber	^[40]
6	Metallica	^[41]
5	Disturbed	^[42]
	Lady Gaga	^[43]
	Madonna	^[44]
	U2
	DMX	^[45]

On May 1, 2016, Beyoncé became the only artist to have their first six studio albums debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, following the release of her sixth studio album, Lemonade, surpassing DMX.^[38] Following the release of Renaissance and its debut atop the August 7, 2022, chart, she extended that record, becoming the only artist to debut their first seven albums atop the chart.^[46]^[47]
On April 3, 2021, Justin Bieber became the first male act to have his first six studio albums debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, following the release of his sixth studio album, Justice.^[48]

Most cumulative weeks at No. 1

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

Sources:^[49]^[50]^[51]^[52]

The Beatles (132)
Elvis Presley (67)
Taylor Swift (60)
Garth Brooks (52)
Michael Jackson (51)
The Kingston Trio (46) (tie)
Whitney Houston (46) (tie)
Adele (40)
Elton John (39)
Fleetwood Mac (38) (tie)
The Rolling Stones (38) (tie)
Harry Belafonte (37) (tie)
The Monkees (37) (tie)

Most top-10 albums

The following artists are the only ones with 30 or more top-10 albums:^[53]

Note: As a musician, Paul McCartney has the most top-10 albums, with 51. This includes 32 with The Beatles, 11 solo albums, seven albums with the group Wings, and one album credited to him and his first wife, Linda McCartney.^[20]^[21]

Most albums in the top 10 simultaneously

Prince (5) – 2016^[54]
The Kingston Trio (4 for 5 consecutive weeks) – 1959^[55]^[56]^[57]^[58]^[59]
Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass (4) – 1966^[60]
Peter, Paul and Mary (3) – 1963^[61]
Whitney Houston (3) – 2012^[62]
Led Zeppelin (3) – 2014^[63]

Most albums in the top 200 simultaneously

Prince (19) – 2016^[54]
The Beatles (13) – 2014^[64]
Whitney Houston (10) – 2012^[64]
David Bowie (10) – 2016^[64]
Led Zeppelin (9) – 1979^[65]
Taylor Swift (9) – 2021, 2022^[66]
Eminem (8) – 2013 ^[67]^[68]
Linkin Park (8) – 2017^[69]
Chicago (7) – 1974^[70]
Elvis Presley (7) – 1977^[71]
The Monkees (7) – 1986^[72]
Pearl Jam (7) – 2001^[73]
Mac Miller (7) – 2018^[74]
Drake (7) – 2022^[75]

Album milestones

Most weeks at No. 1

Weeks	Album	Artist	Year(s)	Source
54	West Side Story†	Various artists	1962–63	^[76]
37	Thriller	Michael Jackson	1983–84	^[77]
31	Rumours	Fleetwood Mac	1977–78	^[77]
	South Pacific‡	Various artists	1958–59	^[76]
	Calypso	Harry Belafonte	1956–57	^[76]
24	21	Adele	2011–12	^[77]
	Purple Rain	Prince and the Revolution	1984–85	^[77]
	Saturday Night Fever	Bee Gees/Various artists	1978	^[77]
21	Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em	MC Hammer	1990	^[77]
20	The Bodyguard	Whitney Houston/Various artists	1992–93	^[77]
20	Blue Hawaii §	Elvis Presley	1961–62	^[76]

† The West Side Story soundtrack ran for 53 weeks at No. 1 on the stereo album chart; it was No. 1 for 12 weeks on the mono album chart.

‡ The South Pacific soundtrack ran for 28 weeks at No. 1 on the stereo album chart; it was No. 1 for three weeks on the mono album chart.

§ This is the Blue Hawaii album's run on the mono album chart; it was No. 1 for four weeks on the stereo album chart.

Tapestry by Carole King holds the record for most consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for any one album by a female solo artist with 15 weeks.^[78]

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
962	The Dark Side of the Moon	Pink Floyd	^[79]
759*	Legend	Bob Marley and the Wailers	^[80]
740*	Journey's Greatest Hits	Journey	^[81]
688*	Metallica	Metallica	^[82]
618*	Chronicle: The 20 Greatest Hits	Creedence Clearwater Revival	^[83]
608*	Curtain Call: The Hits	Eminem	^[84]
603*	Nevermind	Nirvana	^[85]
602*	Greatest Hits	Guns N' Roses	^[86]
600*	Doo-Wops & Hooligans	Bruno Mars	^[87]
550*	Thriller	Michael Jackson	^[88]
544	21	Adele	^[89]
544*	Back in Black	AC/DC	^[90]
529	1	The Beatles	^[91]
527*	Good Kid, M.A.A.D City	Kendrick Lamar	^[92]
519*	Greatest Hits	Queen	^[93]
509*	Take Care	Drake	^[94]
505*	Rumours	Fleetwood Mac	^[95]
490*	Greatest Hits	Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers	^[96]
490†	Johnny's Greatest Hits	Johnny Mathis	^[97]^[98]^[99]
481*	Abbey Road	The Beatles	^[100]
480†	My Fair Lady	Original Cast Recording	^[76]

† Pre-Billboard 200 and Billboard 200

Largest jumps to No. 1

(176 to 1) Life After Death – The Notorious B.I.G.^[101] (April 12, 1997)
(173 to 1) Vitalogy – Pearl Jam^[102] (December 24, 1994)
(157 to 1) Fearless (Taylor's Version) – Taylor Swift^[51] (October 16, 2021)
(156 to 1) In Rainbows – Radiohead^[103] (January 19, 2008)
(137 to 1) Ghetto D – Master P^[104] (September 20, 1997)
(122 to 1) More of The Monkees – The Monkees^[105] (February 11, 1967)
(120 to 1) Call Me If You Get Lost – Tyler, the Creator^[106] (April 30, 2022)
(112 to 1) MP da Last Don – Master P^[107] (June 20, 1998)
(98 to 1) Beatles '65 – The Beatles^[108] (January 9, 1965)
(74 to 1) Evermore – Taylor Swift^[109] (June 12, 2021)

Largest drops from No. 1

(1 to 169) This House Is Not for Sale – Bon Jovi^[110] (March 17, 2018)
(1 to 139) Call Me If You Get Lost – Tyler, the Creator^[111] (May 7, 2022)
(1 to 111) Courage – Celine Dion (December 7, 2019)
(1 to 97) Science Fiction – Brand New^[112] (September 16, 2017)
(1 to 88) Iridescence – Brockhampton^[113] (October 13, 2018)
(1 to 77) Madame X – Madonna (July 6, 2019)^[114]
(1 to 62) Boarding House Reach – Jack White^[115] (April 14, 2018)
(1 to 59) Wonderful Wonderful – The Killers^[116] (October 21, 2017)
(1 to 56) American Dream – LCD Soundsystem^[117] (September 30, 2017)
(1 to 45) Help Us Stranger – The Raconteurs^[118] (July 13, 2019)

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 No. 199 the previous week to No. 3 on the chart.^[119]
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 after having debuted the previous week at No. 2.^[120]

Longest climbs to No. 1 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.^[121]

Weeks to No. 1	Artist	Album	Date reached No. 1
63	Various Artists	O Brother, Where Art Thou? Soundtrack	March 23, 2002
53	The Kid Laroi	Fck Love*	August 7, 2021
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

Forever Your Girl by Paula Abdul spent 64 consecutive weeks on the Billboard 200 before hitting No. 1 in 1989, making it the longest time spent on the chart before reaching the No. 1 spot.^[122]

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	^[123]
Bob Newhart	The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart	1960	^[123]
Bob Newhart	The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back!	1961	^[123]
Judy Garland	Judy at Carnegie Hall	1961	^[123]
Vaughn Meader	The First Family	1962	^[123]
Frank Fontaine	Songs I Sing on the Jackie Gleason Show	1963	^[123]
Blind Faith	Blind Faith	1969	^[123]
Pantera	Far Beyond Driven	1994	^[123]
Bob Carlisle	Butterfly Kisses (Shades of Grace)	1997	^[123]
Marilyn Manson	Mechanical Animals	1998	^[124]
Marilyn Manson	The Golden Age of Grotesque	2003	^[124]
Il Divo	Ancora	2006	^[123]
Slipknot	All Hope Is Gone	2008	^[123]
Vampire Weekend	Contra	2010	^[123]
The Decemberists	The King Is Dead	2011	^[123]
Amos Lee	Mission Bell	2011	^[123]
TobyMac	Eye on It	2012	^[125]
Vampire Weekend	Modern Vampires of the City	2013	^[126]
Lecrae	Anomaly	2014	^[127]
Slipknot	.5: The Gray Chapter	2014	^[128]
Brand New	Science Fiction	2017	^[129]
LCD Soundsystem	American Dream	2017	^[130]
Vampire Weekend	Father of the Bride	2019	^[131]
Slipknot	We Are Not Your Kind		^[132]
SuperM	SuperM – The 1st Mini Album		^[133]
Stray Kids	Oddinary	2022	^[134]
Stray Kids	Maxident	2022	^[135]

Note: Newhart, Meader and Fontaine's albums were all No. 1 on the mono chart, but not on the stereo chart. Garland is listed on a technicality; she has 17 pop hits, but all were from 1939 to 1955 – all before the 1958 establishment of the Hot 100.

Additional milestones

The first album to debut at No. 1 was Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy by Elton John.^[136] John repeated the same feat with the album Rock of the Westies – the second album to debut at No. 1 – making John the first artist to have two consecutive studio albums debut at No. 1.^[136] Whitney Houston's second album, Whitney, was the first album by a female artist to debut at No. 1.^[137]
In the early 1960s, Bob Newhart accomplished the feat of having the No. 1 and No. 2 albums simultaneously on the Billboard albums chart, with The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart and The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back! This was equaled by The Beatles multiple times: 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 by 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.^[138]
The Sound of Music set the record of 109 non-consecutive weeks in the top 10 from May 1, 1965, to July 16, 1966, but only spent two weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.^[139]
The only EPs to reach No. 1 on the chart are Alice in Chains's Jar of Flies in 1994;^[140] Linkin Park and Jay-Z's collaboration EP, Collision Course, in 2004;^[141] the cast of the television series Glee with Glee: The Music, The Power of Madonna and Glee: The Music, Journey to Regionals in 2010;^[142] Bad Meets Evil's Hell: The Sequel in 2011;^[143] The Weeknd's My Dear Melancholy in 2018;^[144] BTS's Map of the Soul: Persona; SuperM's SuperM – The 1st Mini Album in 2019;^[145]^[133] and Stray Kids' Oddinary and Maxident in 2022.^[134]^[146]
The first U.K. solo artist to debut at No. 1 with a debut album is Leona Lewis on April 26, 2008, with the album Spirit.^[147] The first U.K. group to debut at No. 1 with a debut album is One Direction on March 31, 2012, with the album Up All Night.^[148]
Justin Bieber became the first artist in history to have five albums top the Billboard 200 at the age of 18, as Believe Acoustic debuted at No. 1 on February 16, 2013. He also became the youngest solo artist to achieve this feat. Subsequently, Bieber (25 years, 360 days) became the youngest solo artist to achieve seven No. 1 albums on the chart with Changes, breaking a 59-year-old record set by Elvis Presley at the age of 26. He further extended his record, after turning 27, by becoming the youngest soloist to have eight albums top the Billboard 200, following the release of his sixth studio album, Justice, breaking yet another chart record held by Elvis Presley at the age of 29.^[149]^[150]
Tony Bennett became the oldest male to debut at No. 1 on October 8, 2011 (85 years, 66 days old), with the album Duets II. Bennett, who was born on August 3, 1926, later surpassed his own record when his collaborative album with Lady Gaga, Cheek to Cheek, debuted at No. 1 on October 11, 2014 (88 years, 69 days old).^[151]
The issue dated July 11, 2009, was the first time any catalog album outsold the No. 1 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.^[152]^[153]^[154]
In 2012, Adam Lambert became the first openly gay musician to debut at No. 1 with his album Trespassing.^[155]
There have been 40 albums released on an independent label to reach No. 1 on the Billboard 200.^[156]
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.^[157]
One Direction became the first group to debut at No. 1 with its first three albums when Midnight Memories debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart dated December 14, 2013. It later became the first group to debut at No. 1 with its first four albums when Four debuted atop the chart on November 26, 2014.^[158]
Led Zeppelin holds 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,^[159] and returned 45 years and 35 days later at No. 7 on the Billboard 200, for the week ending June 21, 2014.^[160]
On November 29, 2015, 25 by Adele registered the highest weekly sales figure for a No. 1 album in the Billboard 200 chart history, with 3.38 million units sold.^[161] It also became the first album to sell 1 million copies in different weeks, with 1.11 million sold in its second week and 1.16 million sold in its fifth week on the chart.^[162]
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.^[163]
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.^[138]
On June 2, 2018, BTS became the first Korean artist to reach No. 1 with its album Love Yourself: Tear.^[164]
Taylor Swift is the first and only act in Nielsen SoundScan history to have nine albums each sell at least 500,000 copies in a week, as of October 2022. Her albums Fearless, Speak Now, Red, 1989, Reputation, Lover, Folklore, Red (Taylor's Version)^[165] and Midnights each accumulated more than 500,000 sales in their first weeks.^[17]
On January 19, 2019, A Boogie wit da Hoodie's Hoodie SZN became the album with the lowest weekly sales figure for a No. 1 album, with 1,000 sales. It subsequently did not sell enough to enter the sales-only "Top 100 Album Sales" chart.^[166] A week later, the album broke its own record when it stayed at No. 1 for a second week, selling 749 copies.^[167]
In 2017, Taylor Swift became the first artist to debut at the top of the chart with four albums that sold over 1 million copies within a week, accomplishing the feat with Speak Now, Red, 1989 and Reputation.^[168] In 2022, she extended the record to five with Midnights.^[17]
On November 2, 2020, Bruce Springsteen became the first artist to have an album reach the top 5 of the Billboard 200 in six different decades (1970s–2020s).^[169]^[170]

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v t e List of Billboard 200 number-one albums
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See also	Top Album Sales (since 2014)