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Monday, August 3, 2020

The Biggest #1 Albums in U.S. Chart History

First posted 11/15/2010; updated 8/3/2020.

U.S.A.:

Top 100+ #1 Albums

This is a list of the #1 albums of all time according to the Billboard charts. All albums which spent nine weeks or more on top of the chart are included, making for just over 100 albums. Albums are listed in order of most weeks at #1. In the event of ties (of which there are many), the album ranking highest in Dave’s Music Database is listed first and so on. Also, the year listed is when the album was released or first charted. Consequently, it may not indicate the actual year or years in which the album peaked at #1.

This list was originally posted on Facebook on 11/15/2010 and then at DavesMusicDatabase.com on 2/4/2012.

Also, check out annual picks for album of the year.

    69 weeks:

  1. South Pacific (cast album, 1949)

    54 weeks:

  2. West Side Story (soundtrack, 1961)

    42 weeks:

  3. Mario Lanza The Student Prince (soundtrack, 1954)

    39 weeks:

  4. Bing Crosby Merry Christmas (aka ‘White Christmas’) (1945)

    37 weeks:

  5. Michael Jackson Thriller (1982)

    31 weeks:

  6. Fleetwood Mac Rumours (1977)
  7. South Pacific (soundtrack, 1958)
  8. Harry Belafonte Calypso (1956)

    25 weeks:

  9. Al Jolson Songs He Made Famous (1947)
  10. Jane Froman With a Song in My Heart (1952)

    24 weeks:

  11. Prince & the Revolution Purple Rain (soundtrack, 1984)
  12. Saturday Night Fever (soundtrack, 1977)

    23 weeks:

  13. Adele 21 (2011)
  14. Jackie Gleason Music for Lovers Only (1952)

    21 weeks:

  15. M.C. Hammer Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘Em (1990)

    20 weeks:

  16. Various artists (Whitney Houston et al) The Bodyguard (soundtrack, 1992)
  17. Elvis Presley Blue Hawaii (soundtrack, 1961)

    19 weeks:

  18. Show Boat (soundtrack, 1951)
  19. Mario Lanza The Great Caruso (soundtrack, 1951)

    18 weeks:

  20. Dirty Dancing (soundtrack, 1987)
  21. Garth Brooks Ropin’ the Wind (1991)
  22. The Monkees More of the Monkees (1967)

    17 weeks:

  23. The Police Synchronicity (1983)
  24. Billy Ray Cyrus Some Gave All (1992)
  25. Danny Kaye Hans Christian Andersen (1953)
  26. Doris Day Love Me or Leave Me (1955)

    16 weeks:

  27. Titanic (soundtrack, 1997)
  28. Glenn Miller Glenn Miller and His Orchestra (1945)
  29. An American in Paris (soundtrack, 1951)
  30. The Sound of Music (cast album, 1959)
  31. Vanilla Ice To the Extreme (1990)
  32. Andy Williams Days of Wine and Roses (1963)

    15 weeks:

  33. The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
  34. Pink Floyd The Wall (1979)
  35. Carole King Tapestry (1971)
  36. My Fair Lady (cast album, 1956)
  37. Men at Work Business as Usual (1981)
  38. REO Speedwagon Hi Infidelity (1980)
  39. The Kingston Trio At Large (1959)
  40. Eddie Fisher I’m in the Mood for Love (1952)

    14 weeks:

  41. Stevie Wonder Songs in the Key of Life (1976)
  42. The Beatles A Hard Day’s Night (soundtrack, 1964)
  43. Whitney Houston Whitney Houston (1985)
  44. Ray Charles Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music (1962)
  45. Mary Poppins (soundtrack, 1964)
  46. Exodus (soundtrack, 1961)
  47. Bob Newhart The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart (1960)
  48. Al Jolson Volume Three (1948)

    13 weeks:

  49. Hair (cast album, 1967)
  50. Frozen (soundtrack, 2013)
  51. Judy Garland Judy at Carnegie Hall (1961)
  52. Drake Views (2016)
  53. The Monkees The Monkees (1966)
  54. Enoch Light with Terry Snyder & the All Stars Persuasive Percussion (1960)

    12 weeks:

  55. Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill (1995)
  56. Grease (soundtrack, 1978)
  57. George Michael Faith (1987)
  58. Santana Supernatural (1999)
  59. The Music Man (cast album, 1957)
  60. Henry Mancini Breakfast at Tiffany’s (soundtrack, 1961)
  61. Vaughn Meader The First Family (1962)
  62. The King Cole Trio The King Cole Trio (1945)
  63. The Kingston Trio Sold Out (1960)

    11 weeks:

  64. The Beatles Abbey Road (1969)
  65. The Beatles Meet the Beatles! (1964)
  66. Whitney Houston Whitney (1987)
  67. Taylor Swift Fearless (2008)
  68. Mariah Carey Mariah Carey (1990)
  69. Taylor Swift 1989 (2014)
  70. Miami Vice (TV soundtrack, 1985)
  71. Three Little Words (soundtrack, 1950)
  72. Doris Day with Harry James & His Orchestra Young Man with a Horn (soundtrack, 1950)
  73. Lawrence Welk Calcutta! (1961)
  74. Glenn Milller Plays Selections from the Film ‘The Glenn Miller Story’ (1954)

    10 weeks:

  75. Simon & Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970)
  76. Elton John Greatest Hits (1974)
  77. Peter Frampton Frampton Comes Alive! (1975)
  78. Elvis Presley Elvis Presley (aka ‘Rock ‘N’ Roll’) (1956)
  79. Adele 25 (2015)
  80. Backstreet Boys Millenium (1999)
  81. Henry Mancini The Music from Peter Gunn (soundtrack, 1959)
  82. Footloose (soundtrack, 1984)
  83. Paula Abdul Forever Your Girl (1988)
  84. The Lion King (soundtrack, 1994)
  85. Elvis Presley G.I. Blues (soundtrack, 1960)
  86. Foreigner 4 (1981)
  87. Gigi (soundtrack, 1958)
  88. Elvis Presley Loving You (soundtrack, 1957)
  89. Al Jolson Souvenir Album (1947)
  90. Kiss Me, Kate (cast album, 1948)
  91. Around the World in 80 Days (soundtrack, 1957)
  92. Glenn Miller The Glenn Miller Story (soundtrack, 1954)
  93. The Singing Nun The Singing Nun (1963)
  94. The Kingston Trio String Along (1960)

    9 weeks:

  95. The Beatles The Beatles (aka “The White Album”) (1968)
  96. U2 The Joshua Tree (1987)
  97. Dire Straits Brothers in Arms (1985)
  98. Creedence Clearwater Revival Cosmo’s Factory (1970)
  99. The Beatles Help! (soundtrack, 1965)
  100. Janis Joplin Pearl (1971)
  101. Usher Confessions (2004)
  102. The Beatles Beatles ‘65 (1964)
  103. No Doubt Tragic Kingdom (1995)
  104. Asia Asia (1982)
  105. Eagles The Long Run (1979)
  106. The Rolling Stones Tattoo You (1981)
  107. John (Cougar) Mellencamp American Fool (1982)
  108. Simon & Garfunkel The Graduate (soundtrack, 1968)
  109. Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass What Now My Love (1966)
  110. Chicago Chicago V (1972)
  111. Frank Sinatra Nice ‘N Easy (1960)
  112. various artists Stars for a Summer Night (1961)
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Saturday, August 21, 2004

50 years ago: Mario Lanza’s The Student Prince hit #1 for 1st of 42 weeks

First posted 4/7/2008; updated 9/29/2020.

The Student Prince

Mario Lanza

Opened on Broadway: December 2, 1924

Charted: July 10, 1954

Peak: 142 US, 5 UK, -- CN, -- AU

Sales (in millions): 0.5 US, -- UK, 0.5 world (includes US and UK)

Genre: operetta

Tracks:

Song Title (date of single release, chart peaks) Click for codes to singles charts.

  1. Orchestral Introduction
  2. Serenade (4/22/55, 15 UK)
  3. Golden Days
  4. Drink, Drink, Drink (aka “The Drinking Song”) (10/16/54, 21 US, 13 UK)
  5. Summertime in Heidelberg
  6. Beloved
  7. Gaudeamus Igitur
  8. Deep in My Heart, Dear
  9. I’ll Walk with God (2/18/55, 18 UK)

Rating:

4.229 out of 5.00 (average of 7 ratings)

Awards:

About the Album:

“Sigmund Romberg’s celebrated operetta The Student Prince opened on Broadway on December 2, 1924, the first of 608 performances that were only the beginning of decades-long success for the musical story of Prince Karl Franz and his thwarted love for the waitress Kathie in Heidelberg. The original production occurred long before the vogue for original Broadway cast albums struck in the 1940s, but when it did, the record labels organized studio-only casts to record the score. Columbia and RCA Victor had versions out in 1947, …Mercury released one in 1949” AMG and “Decca belated got into the act” AMG in 1950.

MGM released a film version in 1954 that featured the singing of Mario Lanza. It “was one of Lanza’s greatest achievements, with the tenor producing some of his most ardent and poetic singing” AZ on what is “generally regarded as being among Lanza’s finest renditions of English-language songs.” WK “The highlights are undoubtedly the joyful Drinking Song; the inspired I’ll Walk with God; …Serenade; and the passionate Beloved – arguably Lanza’s best recording of an English song.” AZ

“‘Beloved’ and ‘I’ll Walk with God’…are not by Sigmund Romberg, the original composer of The Student Prince, but were written especially for the film version by Nicholas Brodszky and Paul Francis Webster.” WK Also, “The Student Prince was recorded in 1952, with one remake (‘Beloved’) in May of 1953.” WK

The soundtrack recording differs from the movie. “For contractual reasons, the singing of soprano Ann Blyth,.” WK “Lanza’s vocal partner on the actual soundtrack” AZ was replaced in the movie with “soprano Elizabeth Doubleday, who appears with the tenor on two tracks here…Doubleday’s contribution was recorded separately, with the disconcerting result that on Deep in My Heart, Dear, she sings both the soprano and the tenor parts in the middle of the song. Lanza’s only contribution on this number is the magically phrased opening, which RCA clumsily repeats at the end.” AZ

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