A look at every artist who has scored ten or more Billboard 200 number ones

• The Beatles hold the record with 19 Billboard 200 number one albums
• Taylor Swift and Drake are tied with 15 number ones each
• Barbra Streisand set a record for the longest gap between number one albums
  

Since its first publication in 1956, the Billboard 200 has served as the definitive weekly measure of the best-selling albums across the United States. Reaching the top of the chart remains a significant achievement, and accumulating multiple number ones is rarer still.

Only a small group of artists have ever broken into double figures. Among them are contemporary giants such as pop superstar and songwriter Taylor Swift and rapper Drake. The full list, presented in ascending order, is outlined below.

Editor's note: Although Elvis Presley is frequently credited with 10 number one albums, a Billboard representative confirmed to Business Insider that most of his biggest releases predate the modern Billboard 200 chart, which launched in 1963.

Bruce Springsteen — 11 number one albums

Bruce Springsteen has accumulated 11 chart-topping albums over a career spanning more than three decades. His first came in 1980 with The River, and his most recent arrived in 2014 with High Hopes — a remarkable run made all the more notable by the fact that Springsteen has never managed a number one hit single on the Hot 100.

Barbra Streisand — 11 number one albums

Barbra Streisand first reached the summit of the Billboard 200 back in 1964 with People. More than half a century later, her 2016 studio album Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway returned her to the top, setting a record for the longest gap between number one albums on the chart — a span of 51 years.

For many years, Streisand held the record for the most number one albums by a female artist, a distinction that Taylor Swift eventually claimed in 2023.

Kanye West — 11 number one albums

Ye, who continues to release music under the name Kanye West, first topped the Billboard 200 in 2005 with Late Registration. He reached 11 consecutive number one albums in 2024 when Vultures 1, a collaborative project with Ty Dolla $ign, debuted at the top of the chart.

Eminem — 11 number one albums

Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP, released in 2000, shifted over one million copies in its opening week and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. Two decades on, Music to Be Murdered By became his historic tenth chart-topper, and he added an eleventh in 2024 with The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce).

Future — 11 number one albums

Future claimed his first number one album in 2015 with DS2, a project that has since spent more than 300 weeks on the Billboard 200. In 2024, Mixtape Pluto debuted at the top of the chart — his third number one album within a six-month period and his eleventh overall.

Earlier that same year, Future had topped the chart with We Don't Trust You and We Still Don't Trust You, both collaborative efforts with Metro Boomin. The former release is widely credited with reigniting the high-profile feud between Drake and Kendrick Lamar.

Jay-Z — 14 number one albums

Jay-Z began his run of chart-toppers in 1998 with his third studio album, Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life. By 2017, when 4:44 reached number one, he had extended his total to 14, setting a record for the most number one albums by a solo artist at that time. Jay-Z is also recognised as one of the most decorated artists in Grammy history.

Drake — 15 number one albums

Having transitioned into music following his acting role on Degrassi as a teenager, Drake has since amassed 15 number one albums on the Billboard 200. His chart-topping run stretches from 2010's Thank Me Later all the way through to 2026's Iceman.

His tally comprises one mixtape (Care Package), three collaborative albums — What A Time To Be Alive with Future, Her Loss with 21 Savage, and $ome $exy $ongs 4 U with PartyNextDoor — and one project released under the unconventional billing of a playlist, titled More Life.

Taylor Swift — 15 number one albums

Of Taylor Swift's 12 studio albums, only one has failed to reach the top of the Billboard 200: her self-titled debut, which peaked at number five in 2008.

Later that same year, Fearless delivered her first number one, an album that has since been ranked the fourth biggest in Billboard 200 history.

Throughout the 2020s, Swift re-recorded four of her earlier albums, releasing each under a Taylor's Version rebrand — and all four debuted at number one.

Her most recent chart-topper, The Life of a Showgirl, arrived in 2025 and launched with the biggest sales week ever recorded, surpassing the previous record held by Adele.

That release became her 15th number one album, extending her own record for the most by a female artist. She is now tied with Drake for the most number one albums among solo artists.

Swift has also surpassed Elvis Presley's long-standing record for the most cumulative weeks at number one on the Billboard 200 by a solo artist.

The Beatles — 19 number one albums

The Beatles hold both the record for the most number one singles on the Hot 100 and the most number one albums on the Billboard 200.

Their 19 chart-toppers include era-defining classics such as Revolver (1966), Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), Abbey Road (1969), and the post-breakup compilation 1, released in 2000.

Beyond the group's achievements, Paul McCartney has gone on to top the Billboard 200 a further eight times as a solo artist, while John Lennon reached number one three times before he died in 1980.