After 50 Years of Billboard Country Album Charts, Which Artists Were Most Successful?
10 years ago Liv Carter Comments Off on After 50 Years of Billboard Country Album Charts, Which Artists Were Most Successful?
When Billboard first complied the Top Country Albums Chart in 1964, they were just in time. The Beatles were just about to land in America and the music industry would start to change from a singles-driven business to one focusing on albums. That the pendulum has swung back to singles is evidenced by the fact that only two regular album released since 2000 made their way into the ‘most weeks at #1’ list, and both were major cross-over hits which arguably sold more copies to pop than country fans, Lady Antebellum‘s Need You Now, and Taylor Swift‘s Fearless.
For the chart anniversary, Billboard compiled three lists. The album that spent the most weeks at #1 is Shania Twain‘s Come On Over. Not surprisingly, the artist who occupied the top spot the highest number of weeks is Garth Brooks, who spent an astonishing 160 weeks at #1. And finally, the artist who celebrated the most #1 album is George Strait, with 25 chart-toppers.
Most Weeks at #1 on Top Country Albums, 1964 – Present, by Album:
1. Shania Twain, Come On Over (50)
2. Randy Travis, Always & Forever (43)
3. Garth Brooks, No Fences (41)
4. Dixie Chicks, Fly (36)
5. (tie) Various artists, O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Taylor Swift, Fearless (35)
7. Billy Ray Cyrus, Some Gave All (34)
8. Garth Brooks, Ropin’ the Wind (33)
9. (tie) Clint Black, Killin’ Time and Lady Antebellum, Need You Now (31)
Most Weeks at #1 on Top Country Albums, 1964 – Present, by Artist:
1. Garth Brooks (160)
2. Alabama (125)
3. Kenny Rogers (98)
4. Willie Nelson (97)
5. Shania Twain (96)
6. Taylor Swift (89)
7. Charley Pride (85)
8. Randy Travis (80)
9. Tim McGraw (73)
10. Dixie Chicks (71)
Most #1s 0n Top Country Albums, 1964 – Present:
1. George Strait (25)
2. Merle Haggard (15)
3. Tim McGraw (14)
4. (tie) Willie Nelson, Alan Jackson, and Garth Brooks (13)
7. (tie) Charley Pride, Buck Owens, and Kenny Chesney (12)
10. (tie) Reba McEntire, Alabama, and Kenny Rogers (11)
Liv Carter
She holds several certificates from Berklee College of Music, and a certificate in Positive Psychology from UC Berkeley.
Her main influences are coffee, cats, and Alexander Hamilton.
Latest posts by Liv Carter (see all)
- Well yes, racism, but it’s more complicated - February 13, 2017
- Black River Entertainment had a great reason to party! - October 25, 2016
- Keith Urban returns to the States for US arena leg of his “ripCORD WORLD TOUR 2016” - October 10, 2016