Morgan Wallen's 'Dangerous' Double Album Breaking Records Spends 10th Week in a Row at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart
Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album is sitting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, and now spends its 10th week atop the list.
Morgan's new album, first arrived at No. 1 on the chart, back on January 23rd, 2021) and has remained there.
In fact... Dangerous is the first album to spend its first 10 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 since 1987, when Whitney Houston’s Whitney album spent all 11 of its weeks at No. 1 from its debut week (from the June 27 through Sept. 5, 1987-dated charts).
Before that, the only other album to spend its first 10 weeks at No. 1 on the chart, was Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life. It spent its first 13 weeks at No. 1 (of a total of 14 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1) from the Oct. 16, 1976, through Jan. 8, 1977-dated charts.
Dangerous is also the first album to string together 10 weeks in a row at No. 1 in total since Adele’s21linked 10 weeks in 2012 (of its total 24 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1).
Dangerous is one of just four country albums to spend at least 10 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 -- since the chart began publishing on a regular weekly basis in March of 1956.
Country albums are defined as those that have charted on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart.
Ahead of Dangerous among country sets with the most weeks at No. 1:Garth Brooks’ Ropin’ the Wind (18 weeks, 1991-92),Billy Ray Cyrus’ Some Gave All (17, 1992) and Taylor Swift’s Fearless (11, 2008-09).
Read More about it all here, including how many albums Wallen sold this past week: https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9543993/morgan-wallen-dangerous-tops-billboard-200-10-weeks