Male solo artists dominate, though 3 pistillate solo artists and 2 groups person besides achieved the feat.
9/8/2025
Top Country Albums Designed by Lyanne Natividad
Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem leads Billboard‘s Top Country Albums illustration (dated Sept. 13) for the 16th consecutive week. This ups Wallen’s vocation tally of weeks astatine No. 1 to 202, allowing him to widen his pb arsenic the creator with the astir weeks astatine No. 1 successful the chart’s 61-year history.
Wallen’s accomplishment is particularly awesome due to the fact that helium has amassed this hefty full of weeks astatine No. 1 successful specified a abbreviated magnitude of time. He archetypal topped the illustration connected Aug. 15, 2020.
Top Country Albums originated arsenic Hot Country Albums successful the Jan. 11, 1964 contented of Billboard. Johnny Cash’s Ring of Fire (The Best of Johnny Cash) headed the inaugural chart. The compilation was well-timed: “Ring of Fire” had headed Hot Country Songs for 7 weeks the erstwhile summertime and had crossed implicit to scope the apical 20 connected the Billboard Hot 100.
The illustration was named Hot Country LP’s from 1968 to 1984, erstwhile vinyl LPs were king.
Twenty-one artists person logged 50 oregon much weeks astatine No. 1 connected Top Country Albums. Male solo artists dominate, arsenic you mightiness expect, though 3 pistillate solo artists person achieved the feat, arsenic person 2 groups. (One of those groups is an all-female group.) Only 1 Black creator has amassed 50 oregon much weeks astatine No. 1, though that whitethorn alteration arsenic state becomes much inclusive.
Here’s a look astatine each artists who person topped Top Country Albums for 50 oregon much weeks.
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Kenny Chesney (50 weeks)
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First week astatine No. 1: Oct. 14, 2000
Most caller week astatine No. 1: May 16, 2020
Longest-running No. 1: When the Sun Goes Down (14 weeks successful 2004)
Notes: Chesney’s tally of No. 1 albums includes 2 unrecorded albums, LIVE: Live Those Songs Again (2006) and Live successful No Shoes Nation (2017).
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LeAnn Rimes (50 weeks)
First week astatine No. 1: July 27, 1996
Most caller week astatine No. 1: Feb. 17, 2001
Longest-running No. 1: Blue (28 weeks successful 1996-97)
Notes: Rimes’ full includes a 1997 compilation of aboriginal recordings, Unchained Melody: The Early Years. Rimes was conscionable 14 successful February 1997 erstwhile she won a Grammy for champion caller artist. She remains the youngest victor ever successful that category.
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Eddy Arnold (51 weeks)
First week astatine No. 1: Aug. 14, 1965
Most caller week astatine No. 1: May 4, 1968
Longest-running No. 1: My World (17 weeks successful 1965-66)
Notes: My World was the archetypal state medium to person a Grammy motion for medium of the year. The medium included the crossover deed “Make the World Go Away,” which each but defined the “countrypolitan” sound.

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