Most Number-One Albums on the Billboard 200 by Artist
About This Dataset
Most Number-One Albums on the Billboard 200 by Artist
This chart shows which artists have topped the Billboard 200 album chart the most times as of 2025. The Beatles remain far ahead with 19 number-one albums, while Taylor Swift holds the record among solo artists with 15, passing Jay-Z's 14.
Analysis
The Beatles (19), Taylor Swift (15) and Jay-Z (14) take the top three in Number-One Albums. No single entity dominates: the leader, The Beatles, holds 16.5% of the combined total of all 9. Below the top two the field is tightly packed: the remaining 7 run from 14 down to 10 Number-One Albums.
Source:
Billboard
Key Findings
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The Beatles leads in Number-One Albums with 19.
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Average Number-One Albums: 12.78 · median: 11.
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Gap: The Beatles is 1.9× larger than Elvis Presley.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Billboard
- Coverage
- 9 entities · As of 2025 · 9 observations
- Measure
- Number-One Albums
- Last updated
- 6 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value.
Data Sources & References
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