‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Tops Billboard 200: Here’s the Last Album That Waited 7-Plus Weeks to Rise From No. 2 to No. 1

With the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack reaching No. 1 connected the Billboard 200 (dated Sept. 20) aft 7 nonconsecutive weeks astatine No. 2, it completes the longest hold an medium has endured successful the runner-up spot earlier hitting No. 1 successful astir a half-century.

The past No. 1 medium to hold arsenic agelong oregon longer astatine No. 2 earlier ascending to the apical was Linda Ronstadt’s Simple Dreams successful precocious 1977. The acceptable debuted astatine No. 43 connected the illustration dated Sept. 24 of that twelvemonth and past spent its adjacent 9 weeks locked astatine No. 2 (Oct. 1-Nov. 26) earlier yet hitting No. 1 connected the Dec. 3 chart.

For each 9 weeks Simple Dreams was astatine No. 2 connected the Billboard 200 earlier hitting No. 1, it was blocked from the apical by Fleetwood Mac’s monster deed Rumours, which spent a full of 31 nonconsecutive weeks astatine No. 1 successful 1977-78.

The Simple Dreams medium launched 4 apical 40-charted hits connected the Billboard Hot 100, including 2 apical 10s. Its archetypal single, “Blue Bayou,” deed No. 3, and was followed by “It’s So Easy” (No. 5), “Poor Poor Pitiful Me” (No. 31) and “Tumbling Dice” (No. 32). “Blue Bayou” besides scored Ronstadt a brace of Grammy Award nominations, for grounds of the twelvemonth (her lone vocation information successful the category) and champion popular vocal performance, female.

Simple Dreams marked Ronstadt’s 2nd of 3 No. 1s and spent 5 full weeks astatine No. 1, each consecutive (Dec. 3-31), the astir weeks atop the database of her leaders. Heart Like a Wheel and Living successful the USA each spent 1 week connected top, successful 1975 and 1978, respectively.

In Between Simple Dreams and KPop Demon Hunters, 2 albums spent astir arsenic lengthy a clip astatine No. 2 earlier hitting No. 1 — and they were some by the aforesaid act. Celine Dion’s Falling Into You and Let’s Talk About Love some spent 5 weeks astatine No. 2 earlier climbing to No. 1, successful 1996 and 1998, respectively.

On the Oct. 5, 1996 chart, Falling Into You roseate 4-1, aft having spent 5 nonconsecutive weeks astatine No. 2. Falling Into You became Dion’s archetypal of 5 leaders and spent 3 nonconsecutive weeks connected top. Before it deed No. 1, Falling Into You was blocked from the apical by Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill for 4 of its weeks astatine No. 2 and Pearl Jam’s No Code for 1 week.

Dion’s adjacent album, Let’s Talk About Love, besides had 5 nonconsecutive weeks successful the runner-up presumption earlier hitting No. 1. It climbed 2-1 connected the Jan. 17, 1998, chart. Before it reached No. 1, Let’s Talk About Love was blocked from the apical by Metallica’s ReLoad for 1 week and Garth Brooks’ Sevens for 4 weeks.

Let’s Talk About Love had large timing erstwhile it reached No. 1 for its 1 and lone week atop the list. The week it deed No. 1, the Titanic soundtrack (which shared a opus with Let’s Talk About Love successful Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On”) sailed 31-11. The adjacent week, connected the Jan. 24 chart, Titanic steamed 11-1, for its archetypal of 16 weeks (all consecutive) astatine No. 1 (Jan. ...