Double Fantasy -- John Lennon / Yoko Ono, December 27, 1980
Geffen 2001
Producers: John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and Jack Douglas
Track listing: (Just Like) Starting Over / Kiss Kiss / Cleanup Time / Give Something / I'm Losing You / I'm Moving On / Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy) / Watching the Wheels / I'm Your Angel / Woman / Beautiful Boys / Dear Yoko / Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him / Hard Times Are Over
December 27, 1980
8 weeks
Following the success of Walls and Bridges, former Beatle John Lennon recorded Rock 'n' Roll, on album of his interpretations ...
<< MORE >>Welcome
Welcome to Number 1 Albums, the web version of The Billboard Book of Number One Albums, originally published in 1996 by Billboard Books/Watson-Guptill. A few quick notes to visitors…
You may notice that the dates begin in 1956. Obviously I haven’t been posting that long, but I thought it would be best to post using the actual dates that the albums went to Number One so that the titles appear in the proper chronological order. I plan to post all the albums featured in the book, 423 in total, ending with the Beatles Anthology 1 in 1995, and occasionally add entries ...
<< MORE >>Working on a Dream -- Bruce Springsteen, February 14, 2009
Producer: Brendan O'Brien
Outlaw Pete / My Lucky Day / Working on a Dream / Queen of the Supermarket / What Love Can Do / This Life / Good Eye / Tomorrow Never Knows / Life Itself / Kingdom of Days / Surprise, Surprise / The Last Carnival / The Wrestler
February 14, 2009
1 week
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Fearless – Taylor Swift, November 29, 2008
Big Machine Records 200
Executive producer: Scott Borchetta
Track listing: Fearless / Fifteen / Love Story / Hey Stephen / White Horse / You Belong to Me / Breathe / Tell Me Why / You're Not Sorry / The Way I Loved You / Forever & Always / The Best Day / Change
November 29, 2008
8 weeks (non-consecutive)
Breaking up ...
<< MORE >>Circus -- Britney Spears, December 20, 2008
Jive/Zomba 40387
Executive producers: Larry Rudolph, Theresa LaBarbera Whites
Track listing: Womanizer / Circus / Out from Under / Kill the Lights / Shattered Glass / If U Seek Amy / Usual You / Blur / MMM Papi / Mannequin / Lace and Leather / My Baby / Radar
December 20, 2008
1 week
Circus, Britney Spears' fifth chart-topping album, couldn't have been more aptly titled. Even before the ...
<< MORE >>808s and Heartbreaks -- Kanye West, December 13, 2008
Roc-A-Fella 1219802
Executive producers: Kanye West, Kyambo "Hip Hop" Joshua
Track listing: Say You Will / Welcome to the Heartbreak / Heartless / Amazing / Love Lockdown / Paranoid / RoboCop / Street Lights / Bad News / See You in My Nightmares / Coldest
Winter
December 13, 2008
1 week
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I Am…Sasha Fierce -- Beyonce, December 6, 2008
Music World Music/Columbia 719492
Executive producers: Beyonce & Matthew Knowles
Track listing: If I Were a Boy / Halo / Disappear / Broken-Hearted Girl / Ave Maria / Satellites / Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) / Radio / Diva / Sweet Dreams / Video Phone
December 6, 2008
1 week
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Twilight – Soundtrack, November 22, 2008
Summit Entertainment/Chop Shop/Atlantic 515923
Executive producer: Livia Tortella
Track listing: Supermassive Black Hole [Muse] / Decode [Paramore] / Full Moon [Black Ghosts] / Leave Out All the Rest [Linkin Park] / Spotlight (Twilight Mix) [Mute Math] / Go All the Way (Into the Twilight) [Perry Farrell] / Tremble for My Beloved [Collective Soul] / I Caught Myself [Paramore] / Eyes on Fire [Blue Foundation] / Never Think [Rob Pattinson] / Flightless Bird, American Mouth [Iron & Wine] / Bella's Lullaby [Carter Burwell]
<< MORE >>Black Ice -- AC/DC, November 8, 2008
Columbia 88697 38378 2
Producer: Brendan O'Brien
Track listing: Rock N Roll Train / Skies on Fire / Big Jack / Anything Goes / War Machine / Smash 'N' Grab / Spolin' for a Fight / Wheels / Decibel / Stormy May Day / She Likes Rock N Roll / Money Made / Rock N Roll Dream / Rocking All the Way / Black Ice
... << MORE >>Lucky Old Sun – Kenny Chesney, November 1, 2008
BNA 734553
Producers: Kenny Chesney, Buddy Cannon
Track listing: I'm Alive / Way Down Here / Boats / Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven / Down the Road / Spirit of a Storm / Ten with a Two / The Life / Key's in the Conch Shell / Nowhere to Go, Nowhere
to Be / That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day)
Paper Trail – T.I., October 18, 2008
Grand Hustle/Atlantic 512267
Executive producers: T.I.P., Jason Geter
Track listing: 56 Bars (Intro) / I'm Illy / Ready for Whatever / On Top of the World / Live Your Life / Whatever You Like / No Matter What / My Life Your Entertainment / Porn Star / Swing Ya Rag / Swagga Like Us / Slide Show / You Ain't Missin' Nothing / Dead and Gone
October 18, 2008
2 weeks
Nearly 40 years after Johnny Cash at San Quentin -- an album recorded at a California prison -- topped the chart, rapper T.I. scored his ...<< MORE >>
Death Magnetic – Metallica, September 27, 2008
Warner Bros. 508732
Producer: Rick Rubin
Track listing: That Was Just Your Life / The End of the Line / Brocken, Beat & Scarred / The Day That Never Comes / All Nightmare Long / Cyanide / The Unforgiven III / The Judas Kiss / Suicide & Redemption / My Apocalypse
September 27, 2008
3 weeks
It takes a mix of chutzpah and business savvy for an act to break from the norm of releasing an album on traditional Tuesday street date. Metallica is an act that has both.
In order to have a simultaneous international release date, ...<< MORE >>
The Recession -- Young Jeezy, September 20, 2008
Def Jam
Executive producers: Demetrius Ellerbee and L.A. Reid
Track listing: The Recession (Intro) / Welcome Back / By the Way / Crazy World / What They Want / Amazin’ / Hustlaz Ambition / Who Dat / Don’t You Know / Circulate / Word Play / Vacation / Everything
/ Talkin’ It There / Don’t Do It / Put On / Get Allot / My President
September 20, 2008
1 week
Hip Hop is Dead, Nas proclaimed nearly two years earlier in the title of his own chart-topping album. His commentary on the genre was likely ...
All Hope is Gone -- Slipknot, September 13, 2008
Roadrunner 617938
Producer: Dave Fortman
Track listing: .Execute. / Gematria (The Killing Name) / Sulfur / Psychosocial / Dead Memories / Vendetta / Butcher’s Hook / Gehenna / This Cold Black / Wherein Lies Continue / Snuff / All
Hope is Gone
September 13, 2008
1 week
The album chart has seen its share of chart-topping ghouls over the years, from Alice Cooper in the ‘70s to Marilyn Manson in the ‘90s and beyond, but none are perhaps more ghoulish than
Slipknot.
Emerging from Des Moines, Iowa in 1995, Slipknot quickly made a name for itself ...
A Little Bit Longer -- Jonas Brothers, August 30, 2008
Hollywood 1944
Producer: John Fields
Track listing: BB Good / Burnin’ Up / Shelf / One Man Show / Lovebug / Tonight / Can’t Have You / Video Girl / Pushin’ Me Away / Sorry / Got Me Going Crazy / A Little Bit Longer
August 30, 2008
2 weeks
In spite of their relatively young age, the Jonas Brothers were no overnight sensations when their third album, A Little Bit Longer, debuted on top of The Billboard 200.
Nick, the youngest of the brothers, first gained notice at the age of six and performed on Broadway ...<< MORE >>
Mamma Mia! – Original Soundtrack, August 23, 2008
Decca 011439
Executive producers: Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus
Track listing: Honey, Honey [Amanda Seyfried, Ashley Lilley &Rachel McDowall] / Money, Money, Money [Meryl Streep, Julie Walters & Christine Baranski] / Mamma Mia [Streep] / Dancing Queen [Streep, Walters & Baranski] / Our Last Summer [Colin Firth, Pierce Brosnan, Stellan Skarsgard, Seyfried & Streep] / Lay All Your Love on Me [Dominic Cooper & Seyfried] / Super Trooper [Streep, Walters & Baranski] / Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) [Seyfried, Lilley & McDowall] The Name of the Game [Seyfried & Skarsgard] / Voulez-Vous [The Cast, Philip Michael, Baranski, Walters & Skarsgard] ...<< MORE >>
Love on the Inside – Sugarland, August 16, 2008
Producer: Sugarland and Byron Gallimore
Track listing: All I Want to Do / It Happens / We Run / Joey / Love / Already Gone / Keep You / Take Me As I Am / What I’d Give / Steve Earle / Very Last Country Song / Fall Into Me (Bonus Track) / Operation: Working Vacation (Bonus Track) / Wishing (Bonus Track) / Life in a Northern Town [Live] (Bonus Track) / Come On Get Higher [Live] (Bonus Trac) All I Want to Do
August 16, 2008
1 week
For the Atlanta, Georgia-based ...<< MORE >>
Breakout – Miley Cyrus, August 9, 2008
Hollywood 002129
Executive producer: Jason Morey
Track listing: Breakout / 7 Things / The Driveway / Girls Just Wanna Have Fun / Full Circle / Fly on the Wall / Bottom of the Ocean / Wake Up America / These Four Walls / Simple Song / Goodbye / See You Again
August 9, 2008
1 week
In pop music, a little controversy isn’t necessarily a bad thing, even if it involves a sexually provocative photo of an underage starlet. Just ask Miley Cyrus. Three months before the release of Breakout, her second album, the 15-year-old singer/actress ...<< MORE >>
Untitled -- Nas, August 2, 2008
Def Jam 011505
Executive producers: Nasir “Nas” Jones, L.A. Reid
Track listing: Queens Get the Money / You Can’t Stop Us Now / Breathe / Make the World Go Round / Hero / America / Sly Fox / Testify / N.I.*.*.E.R. (The Slave and the Master) / Untitled / Fried Chicken / Project Roach / Y’all My Ni**as / We’re Not Alone/ Black President
August 2, 2008
1 week
Nas’s fifth Number One album had the potential to be one of the most controversial titles ever top the album chart. Originally, the New York-based rapper ...<< MORE >>
Coldplay -- Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, July 5, 2008
Capitol 16886
Producers: Markus Dravs, Brian Eno and Rik Simpson
Track listing: Life in Technicolor / Cemeteries of London / Lost! / 42 / Lovers in Japan/ Reign of Love / Yes / Viva la Vida / Violet Hill / Strawberry Swing / Death and All His Friends
July 5, 2008
2 weeks
Coldplay had debuted on top of the album chart before. In 2005, X&Y opened at the summit. Yet when the British quartet did it for the second time with Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, it had to be sweeter. ...<< MORE >>