Morgan Wallen’s ‘Dangerous’ Is No. 1 on Top Billboard 200 Albums of the 21st Century Chart

Lady Gaga’s debut album first reached the top 10 on the weekly Billboard 200 in March 2009 and it went on to spend 396 weeks on the list during the first 25 years of the century. In fact, The Fame accounts for 48% of Gaga’s total 825 weeks spent on the chart in the first quarter of the century, across her 14 charted albums. The LP, which spun off two No. 1s on the Billboard Hot 100 with “Just Dance” (featuring Colby O’Donis) and “Poker Face,” spent time on the weekly Billboard 200 in every year from 2008 through 2012 and then from 2016 through 2024.

The highest-ranked rock album on the Top Billboard 200 Albums of the 21st Century chart may have only spent a single week at No. 1 on the weekly list (and is Nickelback’s only chart-topping album), but it went on to compile an eye-popping run on the chart. All the Right Reasons logged 29 weeks in the top 10, 122 weeks in the top 40 and 206 on the chart overall. For two years, the album spun off six hits on the 100, including the top 10s “Photograph” (No. 2 peak), “Far Away” (No. 8) and “Rockstar” (No. 6).

Lil Baby’s first No. 1 album was a smash, debuting atop the list dated March 14, 2020, and collecting five weeks at No. 1. The sustained success of My Turn is striking: It spent 119 weeks in the weekly top 20 during the first quarter of the century – the most of any R&B/hip-hop title.

Post Malone’s second No. 1 on the weekly Billboard 200 chart opened atop the list dated Sept. 21, 2019, and spent five weeks in the penthouse – the most of his three No. 1s in the first quarter of the 21st century. Hollywood’s Bleeding, which generated five top 10 hits on the Hot 100, also lingered in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 for 50 weeks, the most of any of Posty’s albums through the end of 2024.

The album launched atop the weekly Billboard 200 dated March 18, 2023, and spent 19 weeks at No. 1. With a 19th week atop the all-genre chart, One Thing at a Time broke the record for the most weeks at No. 1 by a country album, surpassing Garth Brooks’ Ropin’ the Wind, which earned 18 weeks atop the list in 1991-92.

When the original Broadway cast recording of Hamilton: An American Musical hit the top 10 on the weekly Billboard 200 for the first time in June 2016 – on the heels of the show’s 11 Tony Award wins – the set became just the third cast recording to reach the region over the previous years. It drew even more chart acclaim four years later, when it hit No. 2, after the show’s Disney+ premiere, becoming the highest-charting cast recording since 1969, when Hair spent 13 weeks at No. 1. All told, from the 482 weeks from its debut on the Oct. 17, 2015, chart, through the end of 2024, Hamilton: An American Musical never left the weekly Billboard 200 chart.

After four country-pop full-length studio sets, Swift declared her 2014 release 1989 her “first documented, official pop album.” And did it pop in a big way on the Billboard 200: It spent 11 weeks at No. 1 and remains her album with the most total weeks on the chart: more than 500. The opus spun off three No. 1 songs on the Hot 100 – the most of any Swift album.

Swift’s first No. 1 on the weekly Billboard 200, Fearless topped the chart upon its Nov. 29, 2008, debut and tallied 11 weeks on top. It became the first of 14 No. 1 albums for the superstar – all logged during the 21st century and the most of any act in that 25-year span.

Adele’s smash sophomore album, 21, released in 2011, spent 24 nonconsecutive weeks atop the weekly Billboard 200 chart – easily the title with the most weeks at No. 1 on the chart in the 21st century. Further, it holds the record for the most weeks at No. 1 by an album by a woman since the chart began publishing on a regular, weekly basis in March 1956.

Beyond its weekly status as a chart staple, Dangerous: The Double Album has been prominent on the annual year-end Top Billboard 200 Albums chart. It ranked among the year’s top 10 most popular albums in 2021 (No. 1), 2022 (No. 3), 2023 (No. 5) and 2024 (No. 8), marking the first title to spend four years, consecutively or otherwise, in the year-end top 10 since the original Broadway cast recording to My Fair Lady (1956-59).