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[Mattingly23NY]

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Artist/Album-milestones


Most top-ten albums

The Rolling Stones (36)
Frank Sinatra (33)
Barbra Streisand (32)
The Beatles (30)
Elvis Presley (27)

Most number-one albums

The Beatles (19)
Jay Z (13)
Bruce Springsteen (11)
Elvis Presley (10)
Garth Brooks (9) (tie)
The Rolling Stones (9) (tie)
Barbra Streisand (9) (tie)



Most consecutive number-one albums

The Beatles (8)
Eminem (7)
Dave Matthews Band (6)
Metallica (5) (tie)
DMX (5) (tie)
Elton John (5) (tie)
Kanye West (5) (tie)
Madonna (5) (tie)
U2 (5) (tie)
Wings (5) (tie)
Linkin Park (5) (tie)
Beyoncé (5) (tie)



Most consecutive studio albums to debut at number-one

Dave Matthews Band (6) (tie)
Eminem (6) (tie)
Metallica (5) (tie)
Madonna (5) (tie)
U2 (5) (tie)
Beyoncé (5) (tie)



Most cumulative weeks at number one

The Beatles (132)
Elvis Presley (67)
Michael Jackson (51) (tie)
Garth Brooks (51) (tie)
Whitney Houston (46) (tie)
The Kingston Trio (46) (tie)



Most weeks at number one

(54 weeks) West Side Story – Soundtrack (1962–63)
(37 weeks) Thriller – Michael Jackson (1983–84)
(31 weeks) Rumours – Fleetwood Mac (1977–78)
(31 weeks) South Pacific – Soundtrack (1958–59)
(31 weeks) Calypso – Harry Belafonte (1956–57)
(24 weeks) 21 – Adele (2011–12)
(24 weeks) Purple Rain – Prince and the Revolution/Soundtrack (1984–85)
(24 weeks) Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track – Bee Gees/Soundtrack (1978)
(21 weeks) Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em – MC Hammer (1990)
(20 weeks) The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album – Whitney Houston/Soundtrack (1992–93)
(20 weeks) Blue Hawaii – Elvis Presley/Soundtrack (1961–62)


Most weeks on the charts
NOTE: Cumulative Weeks, on Rock and/or Pop Charts:

(1,630 weeks) The Dark Side of the Moon – Pink Floyd***
(975 weeks) Legend – Bob Marley and the Wailers[18]
(490 weeks) Johnny's Greatest Hits – Johnny Mathis
(480 weeks) My Fair Lady – Original Cast Recording
(331 weeks) Highlights from the Phantom of the Opera – Original Cast Recording
(312 weeks) Tapestry – Carole King[15]
(307 weeks) Metallica – Metallica[16]
(306 weeks) Journey's Greatest Hits – Journey[17]
(305 weeks) Oklahoma! – Soundtrack
(295 weeks) Heavenly – Johnny Mathis
(282 weeks) MCMXC a.D. – Enigma
(277 weeks) The King and I – Soundtrack



Biggest jumps to number-one

(176-1) Life After Death – The Notorious B.I.G. (April 12, 1997)
(173-1) Vitalogy – Pearl Jam (December 24, 1994)
(156-1) In Rainbows – Radiohead (January 19, 2008)
(137-1) Ghetto D – Master P (September 20, 1997)
(122-1) More of the Monkees – The Monkees (February 11, 1967)
(112-1) MP da Last Don – Master P (June 20, 1998)
(98-1) Beatles '65 – The Beatles (January 9, 1965)
(61-1) Help! – The Beatles (September 11, 1965)
(60-1) Rubber Soul – The Beatles (January 8, 1966)
(53-1) Ballad of the Green Berets – Barry Sadler (March 12, 1966)



Biggest drops from number-one

(1-37) Light Grenades – Incubus (December 23, 2006)
(1-26) Mission Bell – Amos Lee[19] (February 19, 2011)
(1-25) Showroom of Compassion – Cake[20] (February 5, 2011)
(1-24) Christmas – Michael Bublé[21] (January 14, 2012)
(1-24) Blue Slide Park – Mac Miller (December 3, 2011)
(1-22) Burning Lights – Chris Tomlin[22] (February 2, 2013)
(1-21) The Golden Age of Grotesque – Marilyn Manson (June 7, 2003)
(1-19) The Circle – Bon Jovi (December 5, 2009)
(1-18) The Inspiration – Young Jeezy (January 6, 2007)
(1-16) The Fragile – Nine Inch Nails (October 16, 1999)


Notes: ***
Pink Floyd's "The Wall" is 23X Platinum (internationally)
"Dark Side of the Moon" is 50X Platinum (internationally)


Next To Come: (stay tuned for)-
Additional milestones

 

[yankeesince59]

Most weeks on the charts
NOTE: Cumulative Weeks, on Rock and/or Pop Charts:

(1,630 weeks) The Dark Side of the Moon – Pink Floyd***

...ummm, for those who are counting, that amounts to over 31 years.

 

[Mattingly23NY]

Additional milestones

The first album to debut at number one was Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy by Elton John. John repeated the same feat with the album Rock of the Westies – the second album to debut at number one – making John the first artist to have two consecutive studio albums debut at number one. Whitney Houston's second album Whitney was the first album by a female artist to debut at number one.

In the early 1960s, Bob Newhart had the accomplishment of having the number-one and number-two albums simultaneously on the Billboard albums chart, with The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart and The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back!
This feat was equaled by The Beatles multiple times. They did this 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 with 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, and in 2004, Nelly's Suit and Sweat.

As a musician, Paul McCartney has the most number-one albums, with 26. This includes 19 albums from his work with The Beatles (referenced earlier in this article), 2 solo albums, and 5 albums as a part of his 1970s group Wings. John Lennon is in second place with 22, including 19 albums with The Beatles, 2 solo albums, and 1 album credited to him and his wife Yoko Ono.

McCartney also has the most top 10 albums, with 48. This includes 30 with The Beatles (referenced earlier in this article), 8 albums with the group Wings, 1 album credited to him and his first wife Linda McCartney, and 9 solo albums.

For two weeks in late 1979 (27 October and 3 November), all nine albums (8 studio and 1 live soundtrack) released to that date by Led Zeppelin were on the Billboard top albums chart.

Tapestry by Carole King holds the record for the longest time for an album by a female solo artist to remain on the Billboard albums chart, with nearly six years. King also holds the record for most consecutive weeks at number one on the Billboard 200 for any one album by a female solo artist with 15 weeks, also by Tapestry.

Forever Your Girl by Paula Abdul spent 64 consecutive weeks on the Billboard 200 before hitting number one, making it the longest time for an album to reach the number-one spot, while the soundtrack to O Brother, Where Art Thou took 63 weeks to reach number one in 2001 making it the longest run since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales.


The only EPs to reach number one on the chart are Alice in Chains's Jar of Flies in 1994, Linkin Park and Jay-Z's collaboration EP, Collision Course in 2004, the cast of the television series Glee with Glee: The Music, The Power of Madonna and Glee: The Music, Journey to Regionals in 2010, and Bad Meets Evil's Hell: The Sequel.

The Monkees are the only band to have had four number-one albums in the same year. Elvis Presley, The Kingston Trio, The Beatles, and the cast of the television series Glee had three different albums hit number one in the same year. Ten artists have had two different albums hit number one in the same year: The Kingston Trio in 1959, Led Zeppelin, DMX, Jay-Z, Garth Brooks, 2Pac, System of a Down, Eminem, Susan Boyle and One Direction.

The Kingston Trio is the only artist to have four albums simultaneously in the top ten, which occurred for five consecutive weeks in November and December 1959

In 2001, Britney Spears became the first female artist in the chart's history to have her first three albums debut at number one. She broke this record two years later with a fourth number-one debut. With the number-one debut of her Circus album in 2008, Spears also became the youngest female artist in history to have five number-one albums. She later beat the record when her 7th studio album, Femme Fatale debuted at number one on April, 2011.

The first UK solo artist to debut at number one with a debut album is Leona Lewis on April 26, 2008 with the album Spirit. The first UK group to debut at number one with a debut album is One Direction on March 31, 2012 with the album Up All Night


Oldest male to debut at number one: Tony Bennett on October 8, 2011 (85*years, 66*days old) with the album Duets II. He was born August 3, 1926.

Oldest female to debut at number one: Barbra Streisand on October 17, 2009 (67*years, 176*days old) with the album Love Is the Answer. She was born April 24, 1942.

The issue dated July 11, 2009 was the first time any catalog album outsold the number-one 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.

With 24 weeks at number one for her album 21, Adele holds the record for the longest time for a solo album by a female to remain at the top of the Billboard 200. This run was concurrent with her three number-one singles on the Hot 100.

Adele's album 21 was in the top 10 for 81 weeks. This is the most weeks in the top 10 for an album by a woman, and the third most overall, after Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A. 84-week and The Sound of Music soundtrack's 109-week runs.

In 2012 Adam Lambert became the first openly gay musician to debut at No. 1 with his album Trespassing.

There have been 23 albums released on an independent label to reach No. 1 on the Billboard 200.

As of November 27, 2013, only fifteen artists had topped the Billboard 200 without having had any singles appear on the Hot 100: Van Cliburn, Bob Newhart, Judy Garland (who had hit singles which predated the Hot 100), Vaughn Meader, Frank Fontaine, Blind Faith, N.W.A., Pantera, Makaveli (alter ego of 2Pac), Bob Carlisle, Il Divo, Slipknot, Vampire Weekend, The Decemberists, and Amos Lee.

One Direction became the first group in history to debut at No. 1 with its first three albums when Midnight Memories debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 on December 4, 2013.

As of December 18, 2013, Beyoncé became the only female artist to have her first 5 studio albums debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, following the release of her self-titled album Beyoncé.

 

[Mattingly23NY]

Additional milestones

The first album to debut at number one was Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy by Elton John. John repeated the same feat with the album Rock of the Westies – the second album to debut at number one – making John the first artist to have two consecutive studio albums debut at number one. Whitney Houston's second album Whitney was the first album by a female artist to debut at number one.

In the early 1960s, Bob Newhart had the accomplishment of having the number-one and number-two albums simultaneously on the Billboard albums chart, with The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart and The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back!
This feat was equaled by The Beatles multiple times. They did this 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 with 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, and in 2004, Nelly's Suit and Sweat.

As a musician, Paul McCartney has the most number-one albums, with 26. This includes 19 albums from his work with The Beatles (referenced earlier in this article), 2 solo albums, and 5 albums as a part of his 1970s group Wings. John Lennon is in second place with 22, including 19 albums with The Beatles, 2 solo albums, and 1 album credited to him and his wife Yoko Ono.

McCartney also has the most top 10 albums, with 48. This includes 30 with The Beatles (referenced earlier in this article), 8 albums with the group Wings, 1 album credited to him and his first wife Linda McCartney, and 9 solo albums.

For two weeks in late 1979 (27 October and 3 November), all nine albums (8 studio and 1 live soundtrack) released to that date by Led Zeppelin were on the Billboard top albums chart.

Tapestry by Carole King holds the record for the longest time for an album by a female solo artist to remain on the Billboard albums chart, with nearly six years. King also holds the record for most consecutive weeks at number one on the Billboard 200 for any one album by a female solo artist with 15 weeks, also by Tapestry.

Forever Your Girl by Paula Abdul spent 64 consecutive weeks on the Billboard 200 before hitting number one, making it the longest time for an album to reach the number-one spot, while the soundtrack to O Brother, Where Art Thou took 63 weeks to reach number one in 2001 making it the longest run since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales.


The only EPs to reach number one on the chart are Alice in Chains's Jar of Flies in 1994, Linkin Park and Jay-Z's collaboration EP, Collision Course in 2004, the cast of the television series Glee with Glee: The Music, The Power of Madonna and Glee: The Music, Journey to Regionals in 2010, and Bad Meets Evil's Hell: The Sequel.

The Monkees are the only band to have had four number-one albums in the same year. Elvis Presley, The Kingston Trio, The Beatles, and the cast of the television series Glee had three different albums hit number one in the same year. Ten artists have had two different albums hit number one in the same year: The Kingston Trio in 1959, Led Zeppelin, DMX, Jay-Z, Garth Brooks, 2Pac, System of a Down, Eminem, Susan Boyle and One Direction.

The Kingston Trio is the only artist to have four albums simultaneously in the top ten, which occurred for five consecutive weeks in November and December 1959

In 2001, Britney Spears became the first female artist in the chart's history to have her first three albums debut at number one. She broke this record two years later with a fourth number-one debut. With the number-one debut of her Circus album in 2008, Spears also became the youngest female artist in history to have five number-one albums. She later beat the record when her 7th studio album, Femme Fatale debuted at number one on April, 2011.

The first UK solo artist to debut at number one with a debut album is Leona Lewis on April 26, 2008 with the album Spirit. The first UK group to debut at number one with a debut album is One Direction on March 31, 2012 with the album Up All Night


Oldest male to debut at number one: Tony Bennett on October 8, 2011 (85*years, 66*days old) with the album Duets II. He was born August 3, 1926.

Oldest female to debut at number one: Barbra Streisand on October 17, 2009 (67*years, 176*days old) with the album Love Is the Answer. She was born April 24, 1942.

The issue dated July 11, 2009 was the first time any catalog album outsold the number-one 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.

With 24 weeks at number one for her album 21, Adele holds the record for the longest time for a solo album by a female to remain at the top of the Billboard 200. This run was concurrent with her three number-one singles on the Hot 100.

Adele's album 21 was in the top 10 for 81 weeks. This is the most weeks in the top 10 for an album by a woman, and the third most overall, after Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A. 84-week and The Sound of Music soundtrack's 109-week runs.

In 2012 Adam Lambert became the first openly gay musician to debut at No. 1 with his album Trespassing.

There have been 23 albums released on an independent label to reach No. 1 on the Billboard 200.

As of November 27, 2013, only fifteen artists had topped the Billboard 200 without having had any singles appear on the Hot 100: Van Cliburn, Bob Newhart, Judy Garland (who had hit singles which predated the Hot 100), Vaughn Meader, Frank Fontaine, Blind Faith, N.W.A., Pantera, Makaveli (alter ego of 2Pac), Bob Carlisle, Il Divo, Slipknot, Vampire Weekend, The Decemberists, and Amos Lee.

One Direction became the first group in history to debut at No. 1 with its first three albums when Midnight Memories debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 on December 4, 2013.

As of December 18, 2013, Beyoncé became the only female artist to have her first 5 studio albums debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, following the release of her self-titled album Beyoncé.

 

[Mattingly23NY]

...ummm, for those who are counting, that amounts to over 31 years.

An incredible epic-feat and record (both the LP and feat).....an accomplishment I doubt music will ever be fortunate to see ever happen with any musician or groups work.

Hell, most groups would be more than happy to simply have one album on the charts for a week or two, just one. But, with One of many great albums on the charts for 31 Years, if they only released but one album in their entire careers......it would of been more than enough for any 'other' group. Let alone they remained atop the game, the entire time they were recording.

which is 1 of many reasons, DSOM's accomplishment(s), is so incredible....PF, as you know better than any Ron, were atop the game, riding the gravy train', as good as it gets, during an entire span of several generations....decades. If only the young bucks on the board, were privy to such an era. (not dissing their fav music) only saying, we or they, or future generations, I seriously doubt will ever see another accomplishment of this epic proportion...not even close...!!!

So often when I watch Documentaries on MLB Records, ie. the Top Records which will never be broken, eg. DiMaggio's 56 game hit streak, Ryan's 7 no-hitters..... I unbreakable music feats: of DSOM, and that is simply on another Moon or planet for a records record...

I like you agree, Gilmour Mason and Wright, were the heart and soul of PF....

IMHO-Watters was to full of himself, arrogant pompous, full of illusions de grandeur, to often thinking "He was PF" all by himself, or the Band couldn't survive without him.... Roger's demise served him right. Roger's fatal le coup de grace or legacy IMO, was: Booking his solo 'The Wall' Tour/Concerts in small venues across the street from; and during PF's Big Stadium Concerts. While Watters solo The Wall Tour, (from what I've heard on Docs. and read), was drowned out by the Big Show across the street, or even down the block..."often unable to hear his small venue music".