First week at No. 1: July 27, 1996

Most recent week at No. 1: Feb. 17, 2001

Longest-running No. 1: Blue (28 weeks in 1996-97)

Notes: Rimes’ tally includes the 1997 collection of early recordings, Unchained Melody: The Early Years. Rimes was 14 in February 1997 when she won the Grammy for best new artist, making her the youngest winner in that category.

First week at No. 1: Aug. 14, 1965

Most recent week at No. 1: May 4, 1968

Longest-running No. 1: My World (17 weeks in 1965-66)

Notes: My World was the first country album nominated for the Grammy for album of the year. It included “Make the World Go Away,” a crossover hit associated with the “countrypolitan” sound.

First week at No. 1: Feb. 10, 1968

Most recent week at No. 1: May 7, 1977

Longest-running No. 1: Wichita Lineman (20 weeks in 1968-69)

Notes: Wichita Lineman tied with Johnny Cash at San Quentin for the longest No. 1 run of any album in the 1960s. Campbell’s tally also includes Bobbie Gentry & Glen Campbell, a collaboration with the singer of “Ode to Billie Joe.” The 1968 release was the first collaborative album to top the chart.

First week at No. 1: Dec. 10, 1966

Most recent week at No. 1: June 20, 2015

Longest-running No. 1: Pancho & Lefty (with Willie Nelson) (eight weeks in 1983)

Notes: Haggard’s total includes eight albums credited to his backing group, The Strangers, three live albums (Okie From Muskogee (1970), The Fightin’ Side of Me (1970) and I Love Dixie Blues … So I Recorded ‘Live’ in New Orleans (1973)), and two collaborations with Willie Nelson: Pancho & Lefty and Django and Jimmie (2015).

First week at No. 1: Jan. 11, 1964

Most recent week at No. 1: April 12, 2014

Longest-running No. 1: Johnny Cash at San Quentin (20 weeks in 1969)

Notes: Cash reached No. 1 across a span of more than 50 years. Johnny Cash at San Quentin, a Grammy album-of-the-year nominee, has the longest No. 1 run for a live album and tied Wichita Lineman as the longest-running chart-topper of the 1960s. Cash also topped the chart with Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison (1968), The Johnny Cash Show (1970), a 1985 collaboration with Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson, and the posthumous albums American V: A Hundred Highways (2006) and Out Among the Stars (2014).

First week at No. 1: Jan. 25, 1964

Most recent week at No. 1: April 20, 1968

Longest-running No. 1: I’ve Got a Tiger by the Tail (15 weeks in 1965)

Notes: Owens’ first chart-topper, Buck Owens Sings Tommy Collins (1964), paid tribute to the singer-songwriter whose hits included “You Better Not Do That” and “If You Can’t Bite, Don’t Growl.” Owens’ total also includes the live albums Carnegie Hall Concert (1966) and Buck Owens and His Buckaroos in Japan! (1967).

First week at No. 1: Feb. 18, 1984

Most recent week at No. 1: April 13, 2019

Longest-running No. 1s: Ocean Front Property (six weeks in 1987) and Carrying Your Love With Me (six weeks in 1997)

Notes: Strait reached this total without an album spending more than six weeks at No. 1. His chart-topping releases include the soundtrack to Pure Country (1992), in which he starred.

First week at No. 1: Jan. 30, 1999

Most recent week at No. 1: Aug. 8, 2020

Longest-running No. 1: Fly (36 weeks in 1999-2000)

Notes: The Chicks, formerly known as Dixie Chicks, are the second-highest-ranking group on the list. Fly, Home and Taking the Long Way received Grammy nominations for album of the year, and the latter won. The group’s most recent No. 1 album, Gaslighter, was displaced by Morgan Wallen’s debut album.

First week at No. 1: Sept. 6, 1975

Most recent week at No. 1: June 14, 1986

Longest-running No. 1: Greatest Hits (16 weeks in 1979)

Notes: Jennings’ total includes three collaborations with Willie Nelson: one with Nelson alone, one also featuring Jessi Colter and Tompall Glaser, and one with Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson. It also includes the 1976 live album Waylon Live.

First week at No. 1: April 9, 1994

Most recent week at No. 1: Sept. 5, 2020

Longest-running No. 1: Not a Moment Too Soon (29 weeks in 1994)

Notes: McGraw’s total includes The Rest of Our Life (2017), a collaboration with his wife, Faith Hill.

First week at No. 1: Aug. 9, 1986

Most recent week at No. 1: Nov. 24, 1990

Longest-running No. 1: Always & Forever (43 weeks in 1987-88)

Notes: Always & Forever had the longest No. 1 run of any album in the 1980s.

First week at No. 1: May 18, 1968

Most recent week at No. 1: May 17, 1980

Longest-running No. 1s: Charley Pride Sings Heart Songs and The Best of Charley Pride, Volume 2 (16 weeks each in 1972).

Notes: The two albums held No. 1 consecutively for a combined 32 weeks. Both featured Pride’s signature song, “Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’.” His final chart-topper was the Hank Williams tribute There’s a Little Bit of Hank in Me (1980). Pride is the only Black artist on this list.

First week at No. 1: June 24, 2017

Most recent week at No. 1: April 4, 2026

Longest-running No. 1: This One’s for You (50 weeks in 2017-18)

Notes: This One’s for You had the longest No. 1 run of any album in the 2010s.

First week at No. 1: July 22, 1995

Most recent week at No. 1: Oct. 21, 2017

Longest-running No. 1: Come on Over (50 weeks in 1997-2000)

Notes: Twain is the second-highest-ranking female solo artist on the list. Come on Over had the longest No. 1 run of any album in the 1990s and reached the top spot in four consecutive years, from 1997 to 2000. The album was nominated for the Grammy for album of the year, while “You’re Still the One” and “You’ve Got a Way” received song of the year nominations.

First week at No. 1: May 21, 1977

Most recent week at No. 1: April 4, 2020

Longest-running No. 1: Kenny (25 weeks in 1979-80)

Notes: Kenny, which included “You Decorated My Life,” had the longest No. 1 run of any album in the 1970s. Rogers’ total includes the 1978 collaboration with Dottie West, Every Time Two Fools Collide, and the 2018 collection The Best of Kenny Rogers: Through the Years, which reached No. 1 after his death in March 2020.

First week at No. 1: Aug. 4, 2007

Most recent week at No. 1: July 29, 2023?

Longest-running No. 1: Fearless (35 weeks in 2008-09)

Notes: Swift is the highest-ranking female solo artist on the list. Her total includes both original and Taylor’s Version editions of Fearless, Speak Now and Red. With Fearless, Swift became the youngest Grammy winner for album of the year at that time; Billie Eilish now holds that distinction.

First week at No. 1: Oct. 4, 1975

Most recent week at No. 1: May 20, 2017

Longest-running No. 1: Always on My Mind (22 weeks in 1982)

Notes: Nelson’s total includes collaborations with Waylon Jennings, Jessi Colter, Tompall Glaser, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson and Merle Haggard. It also includes two live albums: Willie and Family Live (1979) and the Honeysuckle Rose soundtrack (1980).

First week at No. 1: May 23, 1981

Most recent week at No. 1: Nov. 11, 2006

Longest-running No. 1s: Feels So Right (28 weeks in 1981-82) and Mountain Music (28 weeks in 1982-83).

Notes: Alabama is the highest-ranking group on the list. Feels So Right (May 1981) was the first chart-topper by a group not named after its leader, excluding groups credited alongside individual artists. Alabama’s total includes the 1988 live album Alabama Live.

First week at No. 1: Oct. 13, 1990

Most recent week at No. 1: Dec. 23, 2017

Longest-running No. 1: No Fences (41 weeks in 1990-91)

Notes: Brooks’ chart-toppers include the double-disc live album Double Live (1998), the Christmas albums Garth Brooks & the Magic of Christmas (1999) and Christmas Together (2016, with Trisha Yearwood), and four box sets: The Limited Series (1998), Blame It All on My Roots: Five Decades of Influences (2013), The Ultimate Collection (2016) and The Anthology Part I: The First Five Years (2017).

First week at No. 1: Aug. 15, 2020

Most recent week at No. 1: Nov. 14, 2026

Longest-running No. 1: Dangerous: The Double Album (97 weeks in 2021-23)

Notes: Dangerous: The Double Album has the longest No. 1 run in the chart’s history. One Thing at a Time, with 87 weeks at No. 1, ranks second.