Country Morgan Wallen Breaks Record for Most Weeks at No. 1

Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time returns to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 (dated March 16), rising 2-1, and captures a 19th nonconsecutive week atop the list, breaking the record for the most weeks at No. 1 by a country album. It surpasses Garth Brooks’ Ropin the Wind, which held the record with 18 weeks, earned nonconsecutively, during its run atop the list in 1991-92. (Country albums are defined as those that have appeared on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart. The list began in 1964.)

One Thing at a Time continues to have the most weeks at No. 1 among all albums since Adele’s 21 logged 24 nonconsecutive weeks atop the tally in 2011-12. One Thing at a Time debuted atop the chart dated March 18, 2023, and spent its first 12 weeks at No. 1 through early June. It revisited the summit for three weeks in a row last June and July, and then posted single-week runs at No. 1 in October, January and February. In the album’s 53 weeks on the list, it has never dipped below No. 6. One Thing at a Time finished 2023 as both the No. 1 year-end Billboard 200 album and Luminate’s year-end top album.

Since the Billboard 200 began publishing on a regular, weekly basis in March 1956, only 12 albums have spent at least 19 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Here’s a recap.

Most Weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200:

Weeks at No. 1, Title, Artist, Year(s)

54, West Side Story, soundtrack, 1962-63)

37, Thriller, Michael Jackson, 1983-84

31, Rumours, Fleetwood Mac, 1977

31, South Pacific, soundtrack, 1958-59

31, Calypso, Harry Belafonte, 1956-57

24, 21, Adele, 2011-12

24, Purple Rain, soundtrack, Prince and The Revolution, 1984-85

24, Saturday Night Fever, soundtrack, 1978

21, Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘Em, M.C. Hammer, 1990

20, The Bodyguard, Whitney Houston/soundtrack, 1992-93

20, Blue Hawaii, Elvis Presley/soundtrack, 1961-62

19, One Thing at a Time, Morgan Wallen, 2023-24