Greatest No. 1 Nation Albums Ever

First week at No. 1: Oct. 14, 2000

Most up-to-date week at No. 1: Could 16, 2020

Longest-running No. 1: When the Solar Goes Down (14 weeks in 2004)

Notes: Chesney’s tally of No. 1 albums contains two dwell albums, LIVE: Dwell These Songs Once more (2006) and Dwell in No Sneakers Nation (2017).

First week at No. 1: July 27, 1996

Most up-to-date week at No. 1: Feb. 17, 2001

Longest-running No. 1: Blue (28 weeks in 1996-97)

Notes: Rimes’ complete features a 1997 compilation of early recordings, Unchained Melody: The Early Years. Rimes was simply 14 in February 1997 when she received a Grammy for finest new artist. She stays the youngest winner ever in that class.

First week at No. 1: Aug. 14, 1965

Most up-to-date week at No. 1: Could 4, 1968

Longest-running No. 1: My World (17 weeks in 1965-66)

Notes: My World was the primary nation album to obtain a Grammy nod for album of the 12 months. The album included the crossover hit “Make the World Go Away,” which all however outlined the “countrypolitan” sound.

First week at No. 1: Feb. 10, 1968

Most up-to-date week at No. 1: Could 7, 1977

Longest-running No. 1: Wichita Lineman (20 weeks in 1968-69)

Notes: Wichita Lineman is tied with Johnny Money at San Quentin for the longest run at No. 1 of any album within the Sixties. Campbell’s tally of No. 1 albums additionally contains Bobbie Gentry & Glen Campbell, a collab with the singer of “Ode to Billie Joe.” The 1968 album was the primary collaborative album to achieve No. 1 on the chart.

First week at No. 1: Dec. 10, 1966

Most up-to-date week at No. 1: June 20, 2015

Longest-running No. 1: Pancho & Lefty (with Willie Nelson) (eight weeks in 1983)

Notes: Haggard’s tally of No. 1s contains eight albums on which his backing group, The Strangers, was additionally credited. Hag’s tally contains three dwell albums, Okie From Muskogee (1970), The Fightin’ Facet of Me (1970)and I Love Dixie Blues … So I Recorded ‘Dwell’ in New Orleans (1973). It additionally contains two collabs with Willie Nelson, Pancho & Lefty and Django and Jimmie (2015).

First week at No. 1: Jan. 11, 1964

Most up-to-date week at No. 1: April 12, 2014

Longest-running No. 1: Johnny Money at San Quentin (20 weeks in 1969)

Notes: Money’s No. 1 albums spanned greater than 50 years. Johnny Money at San Quentin (which obtained a Grammy nod for album of the 12 months) has had the longest run at No. 1 of any dwell album. It is usually tied with Glen Campbell’s Wichita Lineman because the longest-running No. 1 album of the Sixties. Money additionally reached No. 1 with two different dwell albums – Johnny Money at Folsom Jail (1968) and The Johnny Money Present (1970), which was recorded on the Grand Ole Opry. He additionally topped the chart with a 1985 collab LP with Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson and with two posthumous albums – American V: A Hundred Highways (2006) and Out Among the many Stars (2014).

First week at No. 1: Jan. 25, 1964

Most up-to-date week at No. 1: April 20, 1968

Longest-running No. 1: I’ve Obtained a Tiger by the Tail (15 weeks in 1965)

Notes: Owens’ first No. 1 album, Buck Owens Sings Tommy Collins (1964), was a tribute album to the singer/songwriter whose greatest hits included “You Higher Not Do That” and “If You Can’t Chew, Don’t Growl.” Owens’ tally of No. 1 albums contains two dwell albums, Carnegie Corridor Live performance (1966) and Buck Owens and His Buckaroos in Japan! (1967).

First week at No. 1: Feb. 18, 1984

Most up-to-date week at No. 1: April 13, 2019

Longest-running No. 1s: Ocean Entrance Property (six weeks in 1987) and Carrying Your Love With Me (six weeks in 1997)

Notes: Strait made this checklist the onerous means – with no single album that logged greater than six weeks at No. 1. Strait’s tally of No. 1 albums contains the 1992 soundtrack to Pure Nation, through which he starred.

First week at No. 1: Jan. 30, 1999

Most up-to-date week at No. 1: Aug. 8, 2020

Longest-running No. 1: Fly (36 weeks in 1999-2000)

Notes: The Chicks, previously Dixie Chicks, are the second-highest rating group on this checklist. Three of the group’s No. 1 albums – Fly, Dwelling and Taking the Lengthy Means – obtained Grammy nods for album of the 12 months. The latter album received the award. The group’s most up-to-date No. 1 album, Gaslighter, was bumped from the highest spot by the debut album by a promising newcomer named Morgan Wallen.

First week at No. 1: Sept. 6, 1975

Most up-to-date week at No. 1: June 14, 1986

Longest-running No. 1: Best Hits (16 weeks in 1979)

Notes: Jennings’ tally of No. 1 albums contains three collabs with Nelson – one simply with Nelson; one which additionally included Jessi Colter and Tompall Glaser; and one which included Johnny Money and Kris Kristofferson as nicely. His tally additionally features a 1976 dwell album, Waylon Dwell.

First week at No. 1: April 9, 1994

Most up-to-date week at No. 1: Sept. 5, 2020

Longest-running No. 1: Not a Second Too Quickly (29 weeks in 1994)

Notes: McGraw’s tally features a 2017 collab along with his spouse, Religion Hill, The Remainder of Our Life. That title ought to most likely be The Remainder of Our Lives, however we’re not going to appropriate the grammar of somebody who has logged 76 weeks at No. 1.

First week at No. 1: Aug. 9, 1986

Most up-to-date week at No. 1: Nov. 24, 1990

Longest-running No. 1: At all times & Ceaselessly (43 weeks in 1987-88)

Notes: At all times & Ceaselessly had the longest run at No. 1 of any album within the Eighties.

First week at No. 1: Could 18, 1968

Most up-to-date week at No. 1: Could 17, 1980

Longest-running No. 1s: Charley Pleasure Sings Coronary heart Songs (16 weeks in 1972) and The Better of Charley Pleasure, Quantity 2 (16 weeks in 1972).

Notes:  The albums referenced above had been No. 1 back-to-back and spent a mixed complete of 32 consecutive weeks at No. 1. Now, that’s what you name dominating a chart. Each albums contained Pleasure’s signature tune, “Kiss an Angel Good Mornin.’” Pleasure’s last No. 1 album, There’s a Little Little bit of Hank in Me (1980), was a tribute to Hank Williams. Pleasure is the one Black artist on this checklist up to now.

First week at No. 1: June 24, 2017

Most up-to-date week at No. 1: April 4, 2026

Longest-running No. 1: This One’s for You (50 weeks in 2017-18)

Notes: This One’s for You had the longest run at No. 1 of any album within the 2010s.

First week at No. 1: July 22, 1995

Most up-to-date week at No. 1: Oct. 21, 2017

Longest-running No. 1: Come on Over (50 weeks in 1997-2000)

Notes: Twain is the second-highest rating feminine solo artist on this checklist. Come on Over had the longest run at No. 1 of any album within the Nineties. The hit-studded blockbuster hung out at No. 1 in 4 consecutive years – 1997 by way of 2000. It obtained a Grammy nod for album of the 12 months, and spawned two tune of the 12 months nominees, “You’re Nonetheless the One” and “You’ve Obtained a Means.”

First week at No. 1: Could 21, 1977

Most up-to-date week at No. 1: April 4, 2020

Longest-running No. 1: Kenny (25 weeks in 1979-80)

Notes: Kenny, which housed the hit “You Adorned My Life,” had the longest run at No. 1 of any album within the Nineteen Seventies. Rogers’ tally features a 1978 collab with Dottie West, Each Time Two Fools Collide, and a 2018 compilation, The Better of Kenny Rogers: By way of the Years, which hit No. 1 following his loss of life in March 2020.

First week at No. 1: Aug. 4, 2007

Most up-to-date week at No. 1: July 29, 2023?

Longest-running No. 1: Fearless (35 weeks in 2008-09)

Notes:  Swift is the highest-charting feminine solo artist on this checklist, which is particularly spectacular given her mid-career pivot to pop. Her tally contains each the unique and Taylor’s Model’s editions of Fearless, Communicate Now and Purple. With Fearless, Swift turned the youngest Grammy winner for album of the 12 months to that time, a title now held by Billie Eilish.

First week at No. 1: Oct. 4, 1975

Most up-to-date week at No. 1: Could 20, 2017

Longest-running No. 1: At all times on My Thoughts (22 weeks in 1982)

Notes: Nelson’s tally features a collab with Waylon Jennings, Jessi Colter and Tompall Glaser; one other with Jennings, Johnny Money and Kris Kristofferson; one other with simply Jennings, and two with Haggard. It additionally contains two dwell albums, Willie and Household Dwell (1979) and the Honeysuckle Rose soundtrack (1980).

First week at No. 1: Could 23, 1981

Most up-to-date week at No. 1: Nov. 11, 2006

Longest-running No. 1s: Feels So Proper (28 weeks in 1981-82) and Mountain Music (28 weeks in 1982-83).

Notes: Alabama is the highest-ranking group on this checklist. Feels So Proper (in Could 1981) was the primary No. 1 by a gaggle that wasn’t named after its chief. (So, we’re discounting Merle Haggard and the Strangers, Sonny James and the Southern Gents and The Charlie Daniels Band.) Alabama’s tally of No. 1 albums features a 1988 dwell album, Alabama Dwell.

First week at No. 1: Oct. 13, 1990

Most up-to-date week at No. 1: Dec. 23, 2017

Longest-running No. 1: No Fences (41 weeks in 1990-91)

Notes: Brooks’ tally of No. 1 albums features a double-disc dwell album, Double Dwell (1998); a pair of Christmas albums, Garth Brooks & the Magic of Christmas (1999) and Christmas Collectively (2016), the latter a collab along with his spouse, Trisha Yearwood; and a outstanding 4 field units – The Restricted Collection (1998), Blame It All on My Roots: 5 Many years of Influences (2013), The Final Assortment (2016) and The Anthology Half I: The First 5 Years (2017).

First week at No. 1: Aug. 15, 2020

Most up-to-date week at No. 1: Nov. 14, 2026

Longest-running No. 1: Harmful: The Double Album (97 weeks in 2021-23)

Notes: Harmful: The Double Album had the longest run at No. 1 within the chart’s historical past. One Factor at a Time, which spent 87 weeks at No. 1, is in second place.