Morgan Wallen’s ‘Dangerous’ Breaks Billboard 200 Chart Top 10 Longevity Record

Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album has broken the record for the most weeks spent in the top 10 on the Billboard 200 chart by a solo artist.

The former No. 1 album spends its 86th nonconsecutive week in the top 10 (dated September 17, rising from No. 5 to No. 2), surpassing Peter, Paul, and Mary’s self-titled album’s 85 nonconsecutive weeks in the top 10 between 1962 and 1964. The latter album spent seven nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 in 1962-1963 and featured the Billboard Hot 100 top 10 single “If I Had a Hammer.”

Dangerous debuted at the top of the chart on January 23, 2021, and stayed there for ten weeks. It has only dropped out of the weekly top ten once since its debut. It has two Hot 100 top tens and seven Hot Country Songs top tens, as well as the No. 1 singles “7 Summers” and “Wasted on You.”

The album with the most weeks in the top 10 since the Billboard 200 began weekly publication on March 24, 1956 is the original cast recording of My Fair Lady, which spent 173 weeks in the top 10 between 1956 and 1960. The seven albums that have spent the most weeks in the top ten are all soundtracks or cast albums. (A complete list is provided below.)

The Billboard 200 chart is compiled by Luminate and ranks the most popular albums of the week in the United States based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA), and streaming equivalent albums (SEA) are all counted as units (SEA). Each unit represents one album sale, ten individual track sales from an album, 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand audio and video streams generated by album songs, or ten individual track sales. On Tuesday, the new chart for September 17, 2022 will be posted in its entirety on Billboard’s website (Sept. 13). For all chart-related news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on Twitter and Instagram.

Dangerous is one of only four country albums to spend at least ten weeks at the top of the Billboard 200. Furthermore, it finished 2021 as the top album on the Billboard 200.

Dangerous debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart on January 23, 2021, and has only left the weekly top 10 once, on January 1, 2022, when it was displaced by several older holiday albums. (This is typical for the season on the chart.)

A video of Wallen using the N-word was released on February 2, 2021, in the middle of the album’s fourth week of release. Following that, he apologised. His music was immediately removed from dozens of prominent streaming service playlists, and many radio stations stopped playing it. On the Billboard 200, however, the album sold more units in its fourth week and remained at No. 1. Wallen was out of the public eye in 2021, but has since been embraced by streaming services and country radio stations (he recently notched his seventh top 10 on the Country Airplay chart, dated Aug. 27). He has also donated at least $500,000 to charitable organisations such as the National Museum of African American Music in Nashville and Rock Against Racism. Wallen made his first major performance since being caught on video using the slur at the Billboard Music Awards on May 15, 2022. He received the award for best male country artist at the ceremony. (During the 2021 Billboard Music Awards broadcast, he was not invited to accept his three Billboard Music Awards.)

On March 24, 1956, Harry Belafonte’s Belafonte was the No. 1 album in the United States, when the Billboard 200 began publishing as a regular, weekly fixture. There were only ten positions on the chart, which was titled Best Selling Pop Albums at the time. Its name would be changed to Best Selling Popular Albums a week later.

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