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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 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 February 4, 2023, the current No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 is SOS by SZA.[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.

"Both Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall should be in the Billboard Top 200," observed former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters in 1992. "The Wall still does anything up to four million each year… They've created a catalog chart in which to place all these old albums, leaving the main chart free for all the artists the record companies will want to book advertising space for. It just offers further evidence of the dishonesty that's rife in this business."[10]

Starting with the issue dated December 5, 2009, however, the catalog limitations – which removed albums over 18 months old, albums that haf 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.[11]

Holiday albums

Billboard has adjusted its policies for Christmas[12] and holiday[12] 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.[13] 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:[14]

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

Source:[15]

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:[14]

Artist milestones

Most No. 1 albums

Most No. 1 albums in a calendar year

Albums Artist Year Ref.
4 The Monkees 1967 [27]
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 [28]

Most consecutive No. 1 studio albums

Most consecutive studio albums to debut at No. 1

  • 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.[40] 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.[48][49]
  • 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.[50]

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:[51][52][53][54]

Most top-10 albums

The following artists are the only ones with 30 or more top-10 albums:[55]

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.[21][22]

Most albums in the top 10 simultaneously

Most albums in the top 200 simultaneously

Album milestones

Most weeks at No. 1

Weeks Album Artist Year(s) Source
54 West Side Story Various artists 1962–63 [79]
37 Thriller Michael Jackson 1983–84 [80]
31 Rumours Fleetwood Mac 1977–78 [80]
South Pacific Various artists 1958–59 [79]
Calypso Harry Belafonte 1956–57 [79]
24 21 Adele 2011–12 [80]
Purple Rain Prince and the Revolution 1984–85 [80]
Saturday Night Fever Bee Gees/Various artists 1978 [80]
21 Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em MC Hammer 1990 [80]
20 The Bodyguard Whitney Houston/Various artists 1992–93 [80]
Blue Hawaii § Elvis Presley 1961–62 [79]

† 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.[81]

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.

† Pre-Billboard 200 and Billboard 200

Largest jumps to No. 1

  1. (176 to 1) Life After DeathThe Notorious B.I.G.[104] (April 12, 1997)
  2. (173 to 1) VitalogyPearl Jam[105] (December 24, 1994)
  3. (157 to 1) Fearless (Taylor's Version)Taylor Swift[53] (October 16, 2021)
  4. (156 to 1) In RainbowsRadiohead[106] (January 19, 2008)
  5. (137 to 1) Ghetto DMaster P[107] (September 20, 1997)
  6. (122 to 1) More of The MonkeesThe Monkees[108] (February 11, 1967)
  7. (120 to 1) Call Me If You Get LostTyler, the Creator[109] (April 30, 2022)
  8. (112 to 1) MP da Last Don – Master P[110] (June 20, 1998)
  9. (98 to 1) Beatles '65The Beatles[111] (January 9, 1965)
  10. (74 to 1) EvermoreTaylor Swift[112] (June 12, 2021)

Largest drops from No. 1

  1. (1 to 169) This House Is Not for SaleBon Jovi[113] (March 17, 2018)
  2. (1 to 139) Call Me If You Get LostTyler, the Creator[114] (May 7, 2022)
  3. (1 to 111) CourageCeline Dion (December 7, 2019)
  4. (1 to 97) Science FictionBrand New[115] (September 16, 2017)
  5. (1 to 88) IridescenceBrockhampton[116] (October 13, 2018)
  6. (1 to 77) Madame XMadonna (July 6, 2019)[117]
  7. (1 to 62) Boarding House ReachJack White[118] (April 14, 2018)
  8. (1 to 59) Wonderful WonderfulThe Killers[119] (October 21, 2017)
  9. (1 to 56) American DreamLCD Soundsystem[120] (September 30, 2017)
  10. (1 to 45) Help Us StrangerThe Raconteurs[121] (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.[122]
  • 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.[123]

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.[124]

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 F*ck 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.[125]

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 [126]
Bob Newhart The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart 1960 [126]
Bob Newhart The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back! 1961 [126]
Judy Garland Judy at Carnegie Hall [126]
Vaughn Meader The First Family 1962 [126]
Frank Fontaine Songs I Sing on the Jackie Gleason Show 1963 [126]
Blind Faith Blind Faith 1969 [126]
Pantera Far Beyond Driven 1994 [126]
Bob Carlisle Butterfly Kisses (Shades of Grace) 1997 [126]
Marilyn Manson Mechanical Animals 1998 [127]
Marilyn Manson The Golden Age of Grotesque 2003 [127]
Il Divo Ancora 2006 [126]
Slipknot All Hope Is Gone 2008 [126]
Vampire Weekend Contra 2010 [126]
The Decemberists The King Is Dead 2011 [126]
Amos Lee Mission Bell [126]
TobyMac Eye on It 2012 [128]
Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City 2013 [129]
Lecrae Anomaly 2014 [130]
Slipknot .5: The Gray Chapter [131]
Brand New Science Fiction 2017 [132]
LCD Soundsystem American Dream [133]
Vampire Weekend Father of the Bride 2019 [134]
Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind [135]
SuperM SuperM – The 1st Mini Album [136]
Stray Kids Oddinary 2022 [137]
Maxident [138]

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

See also

Sources

  • Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Albums, 6th edition, ISBN 0-89820-166-7
  • Whitburn, Joel (1991). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Albums. Billboard Books (Revised and enlarged 2nd ed.). ISBN 0-8230-7534-6.
  • Additional information obtained can be verified within Billboard's online archive services and print editions of the magazine.

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This article is about the album chart concerning the United States For the global song chart see Billboard Global 200 This article has multiple issues Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page Learn how and when to remove these template messages This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Billboard 200 news newspapers books scholar JSTOR September 2021 Learn how and when to remove this template message This article relies excessively on references to primary sources Please improve this article by adding secondary or tertiary sources Find sources Billboard 200 news newspapers books scholar JSTOR September 2021 Learn how and when to remove this template message Learn how and when to remove this template message 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 amp 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 February 4 2023 the current No 1 album on the Billboard 200 is SOS by SZA 8 Contents 1 History 1 1 Catalog albums 1 2 Holiday albums 1 3 Nielsen SoundScan 1 4 Incorporation of streaming data and track sales 2 Year end charts 3 All Time Billboard 200 achievements 1963 2015 3 1 Top 10 albums of All Time 1963 2015 3 2 Top 10 albums artists of All Time 1963 2015 3 3 Artists with the most albums on Billboard s Top 200 Albums of All Time 1963 2015 4 Artist milestones 4 1 Most No 1 albums 4 2 Most No 1 albums in a calendar year 4 3 Most consecutive No 1 studio albums 4 4 Most consecutive studio albums to debut at No 1 4 5 Most cumulative weeks at No 1 4 6 Most top 10 albums 4 7 Most albums in the top 10 simultaneously 4 8 Most albums in the top 200 simultaneously 5 Album milestones 5 1 Most weeks at No 1 5 2 Most weeks on the chart 5 3 Largest jumps to No 1 5 4 Largest drops from No 1 5 5 Longest climbs to No 1 in the SoundScan era 5 6 Albums to top the Billboard 200 by artists who have never appeared on the Hot 100 6 Additional milestones 7 See also 8 Sources 9 References 10 External linksHistoryBillboard 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 amp 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 amp 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 Both Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall should be in the Billboard Top 200 observed former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters in 1992 The Wall still does anything up to four million each year They ve created a catalog chart in which to place all these old albums leaving the main chart free for all the artists the record companies will want to book advertising space for It just offers further evidence of the dishonesty that s rife in this business 10 Starting with the issue dated December 5 2009 however the catalog limitations which removed albums over 18 months old albums that haf 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 11 Holiday albums Billboard has adjusted its policies for Christmas 12 and holiday 12 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 See also album equivalent unit and Top Album 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 chartsBillboard 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 13 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 duration1 21 2011 Adele 1 for 24 weeks2 The Sound of Music 1965 Soundtrack 1 for 2 weeks3 Thriller 1982 Michael Jackson 1 for 37 weeks4 Fearless 2008 Taylor Swift 1 for 11 weeks5 Born in the U S A 1984 Bruce Springsteen 1 for 7 weeks6 Ropin the Wind 1991 Garth Brooks 1 for 18 weeks7 Jagged Little Pill 1995 Alanis Morissette 1 for 12 weeks8 Doctor Zhivago 1966 Soundtrack 1 for 1 week9 All the Right Reasons 2005 Nickelback 1 for 1 week10 Tapestry 1971 Carole King 1 for 15 weeksSource 14 Top 10 albums artists of All Time 1963 2015 Rank Artist1 The Beatles2 The Rolling Stones3 Barbra Streisand4 Garth Brooks5 Elton John6 Mariah Carey7 Herb Alpert8 Taylor Swift9 Chicago10 Michael JacksonSource 15 Artists with the most albums on Billboard s Top 200 Albums of All Time 1963 2015 Number ofalbums 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 amp Other Delights 13 Going Places 44 What Now My Love 170 Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 39 Honky Chateau 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 amp 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 14 Artist milestonesMost No 1 albums Albums Artist Ref 19 The Beatles 16 14 Jay Z 16 12 Drake 17 11 Barbra Streisand 16 Bruce Springsteen 16 Taylor Swift 18 10 Elvis Presley 16 Eminem 19 Kanye West 20 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 21 22 23 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 24 George Harrison had 19 No 1 albums with The Beatles and two as a solo artist 25 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 26 Most No 1 albums in a calendar year Albums Artist Year Ref 4 The Monkees 1967 27 3 Elvis Presley 1957The Kingston Trio 1960Elvis Presley 1961The Beatles 1964The Beatles 1965The Beatles 1966Herb Alpert amp the Tijuana Brass 1966Elton John 1975Garth Brooks 1998Glee Cast 2010Taylor Swift 2021 28 Most consecutive No 1 studio albums Number Act Ref 11 Jay Z 29 9 The Beatles 30 Eminem 19 Taylor Swift 18 Kanye West 20 8 The Rolling Stones 31 7 Dave Matthews Band 32 Beyonce 33 Drake 34 Future 35 6 Elton John 36 Metallica 37 Justin Bieber 38 J Cole 39 Most consecutive studio albums to debut at No 1 Number Act Ref 11 Jay Z 29 9 Taylor Swift 18 Eminem 19 Kanye West 20 7 Dave Matthews Band 32 Beyonce 40 Drake 41 6 Justin Bieber 42 Metallica 43 J Cole5 Disturbed 44 Lady Gaga 45 Madonna 46 U2DMX 47 On May 1 2016 Beyonce 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 40 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 48 49 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 50 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 51 52 53 54 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 55 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 11 solo albums seven albums with the group Wings and one album credited to him and his first wife Linda McCartney 21 22 Most albums in the top 10 simultaneously Prince 5 2016 56 The Kingston Trio 4 for 5 consecutive weeks 1959 57 58 59 60 61 Herb Alpert amp the Tijuana Brass 4 1966 62 Peter Paul and Mary 3 1963 63 Whitney Houston 3 2012 64 Led Zeppelin 3 2014 65 Most albums in the top 200 simultaneously Prince 19 2016 56 The Beatles 13 2014 66 Whitney Houston 10 2012 66 David Bowie 10 2016 66 Led Zeppelin 9 1979 67 Taylor Swift 9 11 times between 2021 and 2023 2021 2022 68 2023 69 Eminem 8 2013 70 71 Linkin Park 8 2017 72 Chicago 7 1974 73 Elvis Presley 7 1977 74 The Monkees 7 1986 75 Pearl Jam 7 2001 76 Mac Miller 7 2018 77 Drake 7 2022 78 Album milestonesMost weeks at No 1 Weeks Album Artist Year s Source54 West Side Story Various artists 1962 63 79 37 Thriller Michael Jackson 1983 84 80 31 Rumours Fleetwood Mac 1977 78 80 South Pacific Various artists 1958 59 79 Calypso Harry Belafonte 1956 57 79 24 21 Adele 2011 12 80 Purple Rain Prince and the Revolution 1984 85 80 Saturday Night Fever Bee Gees Various artists 1978 80 21 Please Hammer Don t Hurt Em MC Hammer 1990 80 20 The Bodyguard Whitney Houston Various artists 1992 93 80 Blue Hawaii Elvis Presley 1961 62 79 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 81 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 Source968 The Dark Side of the Moon Pink Floyd 82 767 Legend Bob Marley and the Wailers 83 746 Journey s Greatest Hits Journey 84 696 Metallica Metallica 85 626 Chronicle The 20 Greatest Hits Creedence Clearwater Revival 86 616 Curtain Call The Hits Eminem 87 611 Nevermind Nirvana 88 609 Greatest Hits Guns N Roses 89 608 Doo Wops amp Hooligans Bruno Mars 90 558 Thriller Michael Jackson 91 552 Back in Black AC DC 92 548 21 Adele 93 535 Good Kid M A A D City Kendrick Lamar 94 530 1 The Beatles 95 527 Greatest Hits Queen 96 517 Take Care Drake 97 513 Rumours Fleetwood Mac 98 498 Greatest Hits Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 99 490 Johnny s Greatest Hits Johnny Mathis 100 101 102 488 Abbey Road The Beatles 103 Pre Billboard 200 and Billboard 200 Largest jumps to No 1 176 to 1 Life After Death The Notorious B I G 104 April 12 1997 173 to 1 Vitalogy Pearl Jam 105 December 24 1994 157 to 1 Fearless Taylor s Version Taylor Swift 53 October 16 2021 156 to 1 In Rainbows Radiohead 106 January 19 2008 137 to 1 Ghetto D Master P 107 September 20 1997 122 to 1 More of The Monkees The Monkees 108 February 11 1967 120 to 1 Call Me If You Get Lost Tyler the Creator 109 April 30 2022 112 to 1 MP da Last Don Master P 110 June 20 1998 98 to 1 Beatles 65 The Beatles 111 January 9 1965 74 to 1 Evermore Taylor Swift 112 June 12 2021 Largest drops from No 1 1 to 169 This House Is Not for Sale Bon Jovi 113 March 17 2018 1 to 139 Call Me If You Get Lost Tyler the Creator 114 May 7 2022 1 to 111 Courage Celine Dion December 7 2019 1 to 97 Science Fiction Brand New 115 September 16 2017 1 to 88 Iridescence Brockhampton 116 October 13 2018 1 to 77 Madame X Madonna July 6 2019 117 1 to 62 Boarding House Reach Jack White 118 April 14 2018 1 to 59 Wonderful Wonderful The Killers 119 October 21 2017 1 to 56 American Dream LCD Soundsystem 120 September 30 2017 1 to 45 Help Us Stranger The Raconteurs 121 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 122 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 2 123 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 124 Weeks to No 1 Artist Album Date reached No 163 Various Artists O Brother Where Art Thou Soundtrack March 23 200253 The Kid Laroi F ck Love August 7 202152 Live Throwing Copper May 6 199549 No Doubt Tragic Kingdom December 21 199646 Norah Jones Come Away with Me January 25 200344 Hootie amp The Blowfish Cracked Rear View May 27 199540 Prince The Very Best of Prince May 7 201631 Toni Braxton Toni Braxton February 26 199428 Celine Dion Falling into You October 5 199627 Eric Clapton Unplugged March 13 1993Forever 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 125 Albums to top the Billboard 200 by artists who have never appeared on the Hot 100 Artist Album Year SourceVan Cliburn Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1 1958 126 Bob Newhart The Button Down Mind of Bob Newhart 1960 126 Bob Newhart The Button Down Mind Strikes Back 1961 126 Judy Garland Judy at Carnegie Hall 126 Vaughn Meader The First Family 1962 126 Frank Fontaine Songs I Sing on the Jackie Gleason Show 1963 126 Blind Faith Blind Faith 1969 126 Pantera Far Beyond Driven 1994 126 Bob Carlisle Butterfly Kisses Shades of Grace 1997 126 Marilyn Manson Mechanical Animals 1998 127 Marilyn Manson The Golden Age of Grotesque 2003 127 Il Divo Ancora 2006 126 Slipknot All Hope Is Gone 2008 126 Vampire Weekend Contra 2010 126 The Decemberists The King Is Dead 2011 126 Amos Lee Mission Bell 126 TobyMac Eye on It 2012 128 Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City 2013 129 Lecrae Anomaly 2014 130 Slipknot 5 The Gray Chapter 131 Brand New Science Fiction 2017 132 LCD Soundsystem American Dream 133 Vampire Weekend Father of the Bride 2019 134 Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind 135 SuperM SuperM The 1st Mini Album 136 Stray Kids Oddinary 2022 137 Maxident 138 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 milestonesThe first album to debut at No 1 was Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy by Elton John 139 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 1 139 Whitney Houston s second album Whitney was the first album by a female artist to debut at No 1 140 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 141 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 200 142 The only EPs to reach No 1 on the chart are Alice in Chains s Jar of Flies in 1994 143 Linkin Park and Jay Z s collaboration EP Collision Course in 2004 144 the cast of the television series Glee with Glee The Music The Power of Madonna and Glee The Music Journey to Regionals in 2010 145 Bad Meets Evil s Hell The Sequel in 2011 146 The Weeknd s My Dear Melancholy in 2018 147 BTS s Map of the Soul Persona SuperM s SuperM The 1st Mini Album in 2019 148 136 and Stray Kids Oddinary and Maxident in 2022 137 149 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 150 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 151 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 29 152 153 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 154 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 155 156 157 In 2012 Adam Lambert became the first openly gay musician to debut at No 1 with his album Trespassing 158 There have been 40 albums released on an independent label to reach No 1 on the Billboard 200 159 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 160 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 161 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 162 and returned 45 years and 35 days later at No 7 on the Billboard 200 for the week ending June 21 2014 163 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 164 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 165 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 166 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 141 On June 2 2018 BTS became the first Korean artist to reach No 1 with its album Love Yourself Tear 167 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 168 and Midnights each accumulated more than 500 000 sales in their first weeks 18 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 169 A week later the album broke its own record when it stayed at 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