BILLBOARD 200 Week ending September 17, 2022

 

TW LW Wks Title ‒ Artist (Peak)

 

1 2 18 Un Verano Sin Ti ‒ Bad Bunny ( 1 ) (99,500 (3,000 sales))

2 5 87 Dangerous: The Double Album ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 1 ) (48,000)

3 ** 1 The Sick, The Dying.... And The Dead! ‒ Megadeth ( 3 ) (48,000 (45,000 sales))

4 1 2 God Did ‒ DJ Khaled ( 1 ) (45,000)

5 9 16 Harry's House ‒ Harry Styles ( 1 ) (43,000)

6 6 6 Renaissance ‒ Beyonce ( 1 ) (41,000)

7 8 4 Beautiful Mind ‒ Rod Wave ( 1 ) (36,000)

8 13 82 The Highlights ‒ The Weeknd ( 2 ) (29,000)

9 3 2 Between 1&2: 11th Mini Album (EP) ‒ TWICE ( 3 ) (28,000)

10 ** 1 Formula, Vol. 3 ‒ Romeo Santos ( 10 ) (26,000 (2,000 sales))

11 11 5 The Last Slimeto ‒ YoungBoy Never Broke Again ( 2 )

12 14 19 I Never Liked You ‒ Future ( 1 )

13 4 17 Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 1 )

14 16 8 Gemini Rights ‒ Steve Lacy ( 7 )

15 17 16 American Heartbreak ‒ Zach Bryan ( 5 )

16 18 68 Sour ‒ Olivia Rodrigo ( 1 )

17 20 53 Certified Lover Boy ‒ Drake ( 1 )

18 21 132 My Turn ‒ Lil Baby ( 1 )

19 19 26 7220 ‒ Lil Durk ( 1 )

20 10 2 Queen Radio: Volume 1 ‒ Nicki Minaj ( 10 )

21 22 12 Honestly, Nevermind ‒ Drake ( 1 )

22 24 40 Who Is Nardo Wick? ‒ Nardo Wick ( 16 )

23 25 14 Twelve Carat Toothache ‒ Post Malone ( 2 )

24 28 257 Starboy ‒ The Weeknd ( 1 )

25 27 11 Growin' Up ‒ Luke Combs ( 2 )

26 26 5 Curtain Call 2 ‒ Eminem ( 6 )

27 23 4 Traumazine ‒ Megan Thee Stallion ( 4 )

28 29 63 Planet Her ‒ Doja Cat ( 2 )

29 32 111 Folklore ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

30 31 507 Greatest Hits ‒ Queen ( 8 )

31 30 157 Hollywood's Bleeding ‒ Post Malone ( 1 )

32 73 136 Elv1s: 30 #1 Hits ‒ Elvis Presley ( 1 )

33 ** 1 Mr. Saturday Night ‒ Jon Pardi ( 33 )

34 7 42 An Evening With Silk Sonic ‒ Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars & Anderson .Paak) ( 2 )

35 35 275 This One's For You ‒ Luke Combs ( 4 )

36 34 515 good kid, m.A.A.d city ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 2 )

37 37 206 If I Know Me ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 10 )

38 47 274 Ctrl ‒ SZA ( 3 )

39 12 2 The Forever Story ‒ JID ( 12 )

40 41 493 Rumours ‒ Fleetwood Mac ( 1 )

41 39 148 What You See Is What You Get ‒ Luke Combs ( 1 )

42 40 225 Goodbye & Good Riddance ‒ Juice WRLD ( 4 )

43 36 132 YHLQMDLG ‒ Bad Bunny ( 2 )

44 33 9 Wasteland ‒ Brent Faiyaz ( 2 )

45 ** 1 YUNGBLUD ‒ YUNGBLUD ( 45 )

46 38 252 Diamonds ‒ Elton John ( 7 )

47 44 43 Red (Taylor's Version) ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

48 46 159 Lover ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

49 42 114 Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon ‒ Pop Smoke ( 1 )

50 45 606 Chronicle The 20 Greatest Hits ‒ Creedence Clearwater Revival ( 18 )

51 43 8 Special ‒ Lizzo ( 2 )

52 50 45 = ‒ Ed Sheeran ( 1 )

53 51 35 Dawn FM ‒ The Weeknd ( 2 )

54 49 39 Mercury - Act 1 ‒ Imagine Dragons ( 9 )

55 52 143 Fine Line ‒ Harry Styles ( 1 )

56 48 11 Breezy ‒ Chris Brown ( 4 )

57 53 41 Encanto ‒ Soundtrack ( 1 )

58 54 113 Legends Never Die ‒ Juice WRLD ( 1 )

59 56 15 Top Gun: Maverick ‒ Soundtrack ( 17 )

60 63 240 Graduation ‒ Kanye West ( 1 )

61 58 111 F*ck Love ‒ The Kid LAROI ( 1 )

62 150 198 Greatest Hits ‒ Foo Fighters ( 11 )

63 61 497 Take Care ‒ Drake ( 1 )

64 55 127 Future Nostalgia ‒ Dua Lipa ( 3 )

65 62 365 Traveller ‒ Chris Stapleton ( 1 )

66 67 152 IGOR ‒ Tyler, The Creator ( 1 )

67 69 404 1989 ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

68 66 439 Greatest Hits ‒ 2Pac ( 3 )

69 65 729 Journey's Greatest Hits ‒ Journey ( 10 )

70 64 282 DAMN. ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 1 )

71 ** 1 Realer 2 ‒ YoungBoy Never Broke Again ( 71 )

72 68 18 Come Home The Kids Miss You ‒ Jack Harlow ( 3 )

73 81 11 Elvis (Soundtrack) ‒ Elvis Presley & Various Artists ( 26 )

74 70 219 Scorpion ‒ Drake ( 1 )

75 71 95 Starting Over ‒ Chris Stapleton ( 3 )

76 74 183 Death Race For Love ‒ Juice WRLD ( 1 )

77 78 478 Greatest Hits ‒ Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers ( 2 )

78 86 123 Indigo ‒ Chris Brown ( 1 )

79 75 363 Hamilton: An American Musical ‒ Original Broadway Cast ( 2 )

80 59 6 Sing Me A Lullaby, My Sweet Temptation ‒ $uicideBoy$ ( 7 )

81 77 58 Happier Than Ever ‒ Billie Eilish ( 1 )

82 RE 590 Greatest Hits ‒ Guns N' Roses ( 3 )

83 57 596 Curtain Call: The Hits ‒ Eminem ( 1 )

84 97 91 Evermore ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

85 89 532 Back In Black ‒ AC/DC ( 4 )

86 79 228 beerbongs & bentleys ‒ Post Malone ( 1 )

87 80 77 Justice ‒ Justin Bieber ( 1 )

88 83 405 2014 Forest Hills Drive ‒ J. Cole ( 1 )

89 100 103 The Best Of Nickelback: Volume 1 ‒ Nickelback ( 21 )

90 107 588 Doo-Wops & Hooligans ‒ Bruno Mars ( 3 )

91 72 13 Proof ‒ BTS ( 1 )

92 85 214 ASTROWORLD ‒ Travis Scott ( 1 )

93 88 538 Thriller ‒ Michael Jackson ( 1 )

94 84 39 Fighting Demons ‒ Juice WRLD ( 2 )

95 82 35 DS4EVER ‒ Gunna ( 1 )

96 90 207 reputation ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

97 99 747 Legend: The Best Of... ‒ Bob Marley And The Wailers ( 5 )

98 94 591 Nevermind ‒ Nirvana ( 1 )

99 87 76 SoulFly ‒ Rod Wave ( 1 )

100 93 65 Hall Of Fame ‒ Polo G ( 1 )

101 95 153 Over It ‒ Summer Walker ( 2 )

102 91 180 When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? ‒ Billie Eilish ( 1 )

103 92 402 The Essential Michael Jackson ‒ Michael Jackson ( 31 )

104 98 330 Views ‒ Drake ( 1 )

105 105 448 Born To Die ‒ Lana Del Rey ( 2 )

106 96 7 Danado ‒ Ivan Cornejo ( 95 )

107 106 52 The Melodic Blue ‒ Baby Keem ( 5 )

108 101 263 Luv Is Rage 2 ‒ Lil Uzi Vert ( 1 )

109 102 96 Dreamland ‒ Glass Animals ( 7 )

110 116 215 AM ‒ Arctic Monkeys ( 6 )

111 104 93 El Ultimo Tour del Mundo ‒ Bad Bunny ( 1 )

112 112 190 All Time Greatest Hits ‒ Lynyrd Skynyrd ( 56 )

113 109 294 Blonde ‒ Frank Ocean ( 1 )

114 111 214 50 Number Ones ‒ George Strait ( 1 )

115 125 125 The College Dropout ‒ Kanye West ( 2 )

116 122 196 My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy ‒ Kanye West ( 1 )

117 108 238 Gold: Greatest Hits ‒ ABBA ( 25 )

118 119 233 ? ‒ XXXTENTACION ( 1 )

119 139 676 Metallica ‒ Metallica ( 1 )

120 113 22 Stereotype ‒ Cole Swindell ( 48 )

121 115 54 Donda ‒ Kanye West ( 1 )

122 114 11 Give Or Take ‒ Giveon ( 11 )

123 117 300 Stoney ‒ Post Malone ( 4 )

124 RE 32 Believers Never Die: Greatest Hits ‒ Fall Out Boy ( 77 )

125 126 79 Greatest Hits ‒ Pitbull ( 108 )

126 121 9 Love, Damini ‒ Burna Boy ( 14 )

127 118 83 Shiesty Season ‒ Pooh Shiesty ( 3 )

128 129 53 Call Me If You Get Lost ‒ Tyler, The Creator ( 1 )

129 124 296 Moana ‒ Soundtrack ( 2 )

130 153 113 Purgatory ‒ Tyler Childers ( 106 )

131 ** 1 Not Just A Girl: The Highlights (Soundtrack) ‒ Shania Twain ( 131 )

132 128 287 ÷ (Divide) ‒ Ed Sheeran ( 1 )

133 138 269 Greatest Hits: The Ultimate Collection ‒ Bon Jovi ( 5 )

134 130 243 Man On The Moon: The End Of Day ‒ Kid Cudi ( 4 )

135 131 66 Savage Mode II ‒ 21 Savage & Metro Boomin ( 1 )

136 137 272 More Life ‒ Drake ( 1 )

137 134 121 The GOAT ‒ Polo G ( 2 )

138 136 66 The Voice Of The Heroes ‒ Lil Baby & Lil Durk ( 1 )

139 143 47 Devil's Got A New Disguise: The Very Best Of Aerosmith ‒ Aerosmith ( 33 )

140 141 438 Nothing Was The Same ‒ Drake ( 1 )

141 140 314 Sounds Of Summer: The Very Best Of The Beach Boys ‒ The Beach Boys ( 16 )

142 132 131 Eternal Atake ‒ Lil Uzi Vert ( 1 )

143 127 33 Country Stuff: The Album ‒ Walker Hayes ( 9 )

144 142 332 ANTI ‒ Rihanna ( 1 )

145 123 42 Hounds Of Love ‒ Kate Bush ( 12 )

146 133 279 The Fame ‒ Lady Gaga ( 2 )

147 145 42 30 ‒ Adele ( 1 )

148 164 61 Fearless (Taylor's Version) ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

149 149 423 The Eminem Show ‒ Eminem ( 1 )

150 154 443 Greatest Hits ‒ Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band ( 8 )

151 155 83 Whole Lotta Red ‒ Playboi Carti ( 1 )

152 147 51 Montero ‒ Lil Nas X ( 2 )

153 158 44 Still Over It ‒ Summer Walker ( 1 )

154 60 2 Public Housing ‒ Real Boston Richey ( 60 )

155 152 169 X 100PRE ‒ Bad Bunny ( 11 )

156 RE 281 The Essential Billy Joel ‒ Billy Joel ( 15 )

157 165 136 Harry Styles ‒ Harry Styles ( 1 )

158 135 24 Mainstream Sellout ‒ Machine Gun Kelly ( 1 )

159 161 96 Channel Orange ‒ Frank Ocean ( 2 )

160 156 72 A Gangsta's Pain ‒ Moneybagg Yo ( 1 )

161 175 74 Hey World ‒ Lee Brice ( 45 )

162 157 127 Pray 4 Love ‒ Rod Wave ( 2 )

163 151 7 Summertime Blues ‒ Zach Bryan ( 34 )

164 178 107 "Awaken, My Love!" ‒ Childish Gambino ( 5 )

165 166 351 Greatest Hits So Far... ‒ Zac Brown Band ( 20 )

166 160 209 DS2 ‒ Future ( 1 )

167 168 246 17 ‒ XXXTENTACION ( 2 )

168 163 268 Evolve ‒ Imagine Dragons ( 2 )

169 148 8 Gangsta Art ‒ Various Artists ( 11 )

170 167 114 I Will Always Love You: The Best Of Whitney Houston ‒ Whitney Houston ( 14 )

171 170 11 Superache ‒ Conan Gray ( 9 )

172 169 142 Get Rich Or Die Tryin' ‒ 50 Cent ( 1 )

173 181 392 Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 ‒ Eagles ( 1 )

174 162 149 Hot Pink ‒ Doja Cat ( 9 )

175 180 142 Confessions ‒ Usher ( 1 )

176 185 96 Goldmine ‒ Gabby Barrett ( 27 )

177 159 5 Ballads Of The Broken ‒ Jelly Roll ( 159 )

178 188 354 In The Lonely Hour ‒ Sam Smith ( 2 )

179 144 6 Manifesto : Day 1 (EP) ‒ ENHYPEN ( 6 )

180 199 230 Number One Hits ‒ Tim McGraw ( 27 )

181 172 28 Back For Everything ‒ Kodak Black ( 2 )

182 171 97 Positions ‒ Ariana Grande ( 1 )

183 RE 230 Hozier ‒ Hozier ( 2 )

184 189 284 T R A P S O U L ‒ Bryson Tiller ( 8 )

185 176 293 Teenage Dream ‒ Katy Perry ( 1 )

186 198 176 The Very Best Of Daryl Hall John Oates ‒ Daryl Hall John Oates ( 34 )

187 191 73 When It's All Said And Done... Take Time ‒ Giveon ( 5 )

188 182 479 Abbey Road ‒ The Beatles ( 1 )

189 ** 1 Face Of The What ‒ Sha EK ( 189 )

190 194 172 Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent ‒ Lewis Capaldi ( 20 )

191 190 394 Hot Rocks 1964-1971 ‒ The Rolling Stones ( 4 )

192 186 74 Currents ‒ Tame Impala ( 4 )

193 179 198 Dr. Dre -- 2001 ‒ Dr. Dre ( 2 )

194 174 100 Top ‒ YoungBoy Never Broke Again ( 1 )

195 183 69 The Off-Season ‒ J. Cole ( 1 )

196 RE 410 Night Visions ‒ Imagine Dragons ( 2 )

197 196 90 Greatest Hits ‒ Blink-182 ( 6 )

198 RE 199 Swimming ‒ Mac Miller ( 3 )

199 RE 287 American Teen ‒ Khalid ( 4 )

200 195 70 I Am > I Was ‒ 21 Savage ( 1 )

Bad Bunny’s ‘Un Verano Sin Ti’ Hits 10th Week at No. 1, Most Weeks Atop Billboard 200 in Over a Year

By Keith Caulfield | 09/11/2022

 

Bad Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti returns to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart dated Sept. 17 (rising 2-1) for a 10th nonconsecutive week atop the list. It now solely has the most weeks at No. 1 in 2022, surpassing the nine weeks logged by the Encanto soundtrack. Further, Un Verano Sin Ti has the most weeks at No. 1 in over a year, since Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album spent 10 weeks (all consecutive, from its debut) at No. 1 (Jan. 23-March 27, 2021, charts).

 

Un Verano Sin Ti earned 99,500 equivalent album units in the U.S. (down 6%) in the week ending Sept. 8, according to Luminate.

 

Also in the top 10 of the new Billboard 200, Megadeth notches its eighth top 10 with the No. 3 debut of The Sick, the Dying… and the Dead!, while Romeo Santos earns his fourth top 10 with the No. 10 bow of Fórmula, Vol. 3. Plus, Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album breaks the record for the most weeks in the top 10 among albums by a singular artist, as it clocks an 86th nonconsecutive week in the region.

 

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album.

 

Of Un Verano Sin Ti’s 99,500 equivalent album units earned, SEA units comprise 96,000 (down 6%, equaling 135.41 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks), album sales comprise 3,000 (down 6%) and TEA units comprise 500 (down 5%).

 

Since 2000, only nine albums — including Un Verano Sin Ti — have notched at least 10 weeks at No. 1. (Among those is Santana’s Supernatural, which captured a total of 12 weeks at No. 1 — three in 1999 and nine in 2000.)

 

Albums With 10 Weeks or More at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, 2000-Present*

Artist, Title, Weeks at No. 1, First Week at No. 1

Santana, Supernatural, 12, Oct. 30, 1999 (nine of its weeks at No. 1 were in 2000)

Taylor Swift, Fearless, 11, Nov. 29, 2008

Adele, 21, 24, March 12, 2011

Soundtrack, Frozen, 13, Jan. 18, 2014

Taylor Swift, 1989, 11, Nov. 15, 2014

Adele, 25, 10, Dec. 12, 2015

Drake, Views, 13, May 21, 2016

Morgan Wallen, Dangerous: The Double Album, 10, Jan. 23, 2021

Bad Bunny, Un Verano Sin Ti, 10, May 21, 2022

*through the Sept. 17, 2022-dated chart.

 

Un Verano Sin Ti debuted at No. 1 on the May 21-dated Billboard 200 and has yet to depart the top two rungs of the chart for its entire 18-week run on the list thus far. Since August of 1963, when Billboard combined its separate stereo and mono album charts into one single album chart, Un Verano Sin Ti is the first album to spend its first 18 weeks on the chart in the top two. (See more history on the Billboard 200, which began publishing as a regular, weekly fixture in March of 1956.)

 

Previously, Drake’s Views spent its first 17 weeks in the top two, on the May 21-Sept. 10, 2016-dated charts.

 

Un Verano Sin Ti has bounced between Nos. 1 and 2 on the Billboard 200 for a total of six distinct visits to the No. 1 slot. See list, below.

 

Billboard 200 Chart Date, Rank

May 21, No. 1 (Debut)

May 28, No. 2

June 4, No. 2

June 11, No. 2

June 18, No. 1

June 25, No. 2

July 2, No. 2

July 9, No. 1

July 16, No. 1

July 23, No. 1

July 30, No. 1

Aug. 6, No. 1

Aug. 13, No. 2

Aug. 20, No. 1

Aug. 27, No. 2

Sept. 3, No. 1

Sept. 10, No. 2

Sept. 17, No. 1

 

Meanwhile, Un Verano Sin Ti is the first album with six separate visits to No. 1 since Adele’s 21 had 10 distinct stays at No. 1 in 2011-12, for a total of 24 weeks atop the list. It debuted at No. 1 on the March 12, 2011-dated list and notched its final week atop the chart on June 23, 2012.

 

Wallen’s chart-topping Dangerous: The Double Album climbs 5-2 on the new Billboard 200, with 48,000 equivalent album units earned (down 5%).

 

Dangerous: The Double Album has now accumulated 86 nonconsecutive weeks in the top 10 on the Billboard 200, and breaks the record for the most weeks in the top 10 on the Billboard 200 chart among albums by a singular artist — since the chart began publishing on a regular, weekly basis in March of 1956. It surpasses the 85 weeks logged in the top 10 by Peter, Paul and Mary’s self-titled album in 1962-64.

 

However, there are seven albums that have more weeks in the top 10 than Dangerous — and all are multi-artist soundtracks and cast recordings, led by the all-time top 10 record holder, the original cast recording of My Fair Lady, with 173 weeks in the top 10 between 1956-60. See list, below.

 

Albums With Most Weeks in Top 10 on Billboard 200 Chart (March 24, 1956-onwards)

Weeks in Top 10, Artist, Title, Year First Reached Top 10

173, Original Cast, My Fair Lady, 1956

109, Soundtrack, The Sound of Music, 1965

106, Soundtrack, West Side Story, 1962

105, Original Cast, The Sound of Music, 1960

90, Soundtrack, South Pacific, 1958

87, Original Cast, Camelot, 1961

87, Soundtrack, Oklahoma!, 1956

86, Morgan Wallen, Dangerous: The Double Album, 2021

85, Peter, Paul and Mary, Peter Paul and Mary, 1962

84, Adele, 21, 2011

84, Bruce Springsteen, Born in the U.S.A., 1984

(through the Sept. 17, 2022-dated chart.)

 

Megadeth’s The Sick, the Dying… and the Dead! debuts at No. 3 on the Billboard 200, notching the rock band its eighth top 10-charting album. The set launches with nearly 48,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 45,000, SEA units comprise 3,000 (equaling 3.6 million on-demand streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise a neglible sum.

 

Megadeth scored its first top 10 on the Billboard 200 a little more than 30 years ago, when Countdown to Extinction debuted and peaked at No. 2 on the Aug. 1, 1992-dated chart. The act has since visited the top 10 with Youthanasia (No. 4, 1994), Cryptic Writings (No. 10, 1997), United Abominations (No. 8, 2007), Endgame (No. 9, 2009), Super Collider (No. 6, 2013), Dystopia (No. 3, 2016) and The Sick, the Dying… and the Dead!

 

A quartet of former No. 1s is next up on the Billboard 200. DJ Khaled’s God Did falls to No. 4 from its debut atop the list a week ago, as it earned 45,000 equivalent album units in its second week (down 58%). Harry Styles’ Harry’s House rises 9-5 with 43,000 units (up 2%), Beyoncé’s Renaissance is a non-mover at No. 6 with 41,000 units (down 12%) and Rod Wave’s Beautiful Mind rises 8-7 with 36,000 units (down 17%).

 

The Weeknd’s hits compilation The Highlights rises 13-8 with 29,000 equivalent album units earned (up 1%) and TWICE’s Between 1&2: 11th Mini Album falls 3-9 in its second week with 28,000 units (down 73%).

 

Santos closes out the top 10 as his latest release, Fórmula, Vol. 3, debuts at No. 10 with 26,000 equivalent album units earned. It’s the fourth top 10-charting effort for the artist on the list. Of its starting sum, SEA units comprise 23,500 (equaling 33.1 million on-demand streams of the set’s songs), album sales comprise 2,000 and TEA units comprise 500.

 

Morgan Wallen’s ‘Dangerous’ Breaks Top 10 Longevity Record on Billboard 200 Chart

By Keith Caulfield | 09/11/2022

 

Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album has broken the record for the most weeks in the top 10 on the Billboard 200 chart among albums by a singular artist.

 

The former No. 1 set collects an 86th nonconsecutive week in the top 10 on the chart (dated Sept. 17, rising from No. 5 to No. 2), surpassing the 85 nonconsecutive weeks tallied by Peter, Paul and Mary’s self-titled album in 1962-64. The latter album spent seven nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 in 1962-63 and included the top 10 Billboard Hot 100 hit “If I Had a Hammer.”

 

Dangerous debuted atop the Jan. 23, 2021-dated chart and spent its first 10 weeks at No. 1. It has only fallen out of the weekly top 10 once since its arrival on the list. It includes two Hot 100 top 10s and seven top 10s on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, including the No. 1s “7 Summers” and “Wasted on You.”

 

Seven albums still have more weeks in the top 10 than Dangerous — and all are multi-artist soundtracks and cast recordings. See list, below.

 

Since the Billboard 200 began publishing on a regular weekly basis, with the March 24, 1956-dated chart, the album with the most weeks in the top 10 is the original cast recording of My Fair Lady, with 173 weeks in the top 10 between 1956-60. The seven albums with the most weeks in the top 10 are all cast recordings or film soundtracks. (See list, below.)

 

Albums With Most Weeks in Top 10 on Billboard 200 Chart (March 24, 1956-onwards)

Weeks in Top 10, Artist, Title, Year First Reached Top 10

173, Original Cast, My Fair Lady, 1956

109, Soundtrack, The Sound of Music, 1965

106, Soundtrack, West Side Story, 1962

105, Original Cast, The Sound of Music, 1960

90, Soundtrack, South Pacific, 1958

87, Original Cast, Camelot, 1961

87, Soundtrack, Oklahoma!, 1956

86, Morgan Wallen, Dangerous: The Double Album, 2021

85, Peter, Paul and Mary, Peter Paul and Mary, 1962

84, Adele, 21, 2011

84, Bruce Springsteen, Born in the U.S.A., 1984

(through the Sept. 17, 2022-dated chart.)

 

Dangerous has been a monster-sized hit on the Billboard 200, becoming one of only four country albums with at least 10 weeks at No. 1 on the chart. It also finished 2021 as the year-end No. 1 album on the Billboard 200.

 

Dangerous debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 dated Jan. 23, 2021, and has left the weekly top 10 only once, on the Jan. 1, 2022-dated list, when it was squeezed out by a number of older holiday albums (typical for the season on the chart).

 

On Feb. 2, 2021, in the middle of the album’s fourth week of release, a video emerged showing Wallen using the N-word. He subsequently issued an apology. Reaction from the industry was swift, and his music was removed from dozens of high-profile playlists on streamers, and multiple radio groups dropped his music. However, on the Billboard 200, the album posted a gain in units earned during its fourth week and held at No. 1. Wallen spent 2021 out of the spotlight, but has been re-embraced by streamers and country radio (he recently notched his seventh top 10 on the Country Airplay chart, dated Aug. 27). He’s also donated at least $500,000 to charitable causes, including the National Museum of African American Music in Nashville and Rock Against Racism. Earlier in 2022, Wallen performed at the Billboard Music Awards (May 15), marking his first performance at major awards ceremony since being caught on video using the slur. At the awards, he took home the trophy for top country male artist. (In 2021, he won three Billboard Music Awards, but was not invited to accept them during the broadcast.)

 

Some history on the Billboard 200 chart: The list began publishing as a regular, weekly fixture with the March 24, 1956-dated chart, where Harry Belafonte’s Belafonte was the No. 1 album in the U.S. At the time, the chart was only 10-positions and was named Best Selling Pop Albums. (Its name would change only a week later, to Best Selling Popular Albums.)

 

Prior to March 24, 1956, Billboard had tracked album popularity, but not consistently. The first overall album chart appeared 11 years earlier, on March 24, 1945. That chart was published on an irregular basis until it became a weekly fixture starting with the March 24, 1956 issue of Billboard magazine.

 

Notably, for a little over four years (between May 25, 1959-Aug. 10, 1963), the album chart was split into two separate lists, each tracking the sales of mono or stereo-recorded albums. These two charts were named Best Selling Monophonic LPs and Best Selling Stereophonic LPs. The names of the charts would change slightly over time, but Billboard would publish two charts for mono and stereo albums until Aug. 10, 1963. The following week, Aug. 17, 1963, the mono and stereo charts folded back into one overall chart.

 

The chart would grow to 200 positions in 1967. In 1992, and after a number of name changes, the chart would settle on its current name, Billboard 200.

 

For the above list of the albums with the most weeks in the top 10, if an album charted on both the mono and stereo chart, its total weeks in the top 10 is its combined total across both charts (without duplicating weeks). So, if an album was in the top 10 on both the mono and stereo chart in the same week, that counts as one week in the top 10.

 

As for how the Billboard 200 chart is compiled… through the May 18, 1991-dated chart, the chart ranked the week’s top-selling albums in the U.S., based on reports obtained from record stores. On the May 25, 1991-dated chart, the list began using electronically monitored point-of-sale purchase information courtesy of SoundScan, Inc. (now known as Luminate).

 

The chart would continue to rank the week’s top-selling albums, by traditional album sales, through the Dec. 6, 2014-dated chart. The following week (Dec. 13, 2014), the list transformed again, becoming a multi-metric popularity chart, ranking overall consumption, as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album.

 

Because of how the Billboard 200 is now compiled — where a lengthy tracklist can help accrue large streaming totals — an album like Dangerous (which debuted with 30 songs and was later reissued with three bonus tracks) profits greatly from the continued weekly streams of its hefty tracklist. Many high-charting albums on the Billboard 200 now have long tracklists. In 2022, across the 18 albums that have been No. 1, the average album length is 20 tracks.

 

Further, older albums (known as catalog albums; generally defined today as titles 18 months old or older), were mostly restricted from charting on the Billboard 200 from May 25, 1991-Nov. 28, 2009. From Dec. 5, 2009-onwards, catalog and current (new/recently released) albums chart together on the Billboard 200. Today, older albums regularly spend hundreds of weeks on the chart — such as Journey’s Greatest Hits (more than 700 weeks) and Eminem’s Curtain Call: The Hits (nearly 600). Based on its track record thus far, one can imagine Dangerous could be on the Billboard 200 for hundreds of weeks to come.

Wow Bad Bunny having the first ever album to spend its first 18 weeks in the top 2! I knew it tied 'Views' for 17 weeks last week but didn't know that was the previous record (you'd really think Billboard might have thought that worth mentioning lol). And hooray that it looks set to surpass Morgan Wallen's number of weeks at #1 as it doesn't look like any of this week's new releases will be knocking it off. (I choose not to acknowledge the record of his own that Morgan broke this week)