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List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 2021

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English singer Adele's fourth studio album, 30, had the biggest sales week of 2021 and was the best-selling album of the year.

This is a list of the albums ranked number one in the United States during 2021. The top-performing albums and EPs in the U.S. are ranked on the Billboard 200 chart, which is published by Billboard magazine. The data is compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based on multi-metric consumption as measured in album-equivalent units, which comprise album sales, track sales, and streams on digital music platforms. Each unit equals one album sold, or 10 individual digital tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album.

30, the fourth studio album by English singer-songwriter Adele, was the best-selling album of 2021, with 1.464 million copies sold.[1] It garnered the biggest opening week of 2021 with 839,000 album-equivalent units, and topped the chart for the final four weeks of the year.[2] Dangerous: The Double Album by American country singer Morgan Wallen was the best-performing album of 2021 and the longest running number-one album of the year, having topped the Billboard 200 for 10 consecutive weeks.[3] It became the first country album since The Chase (1992) by American singer Garth Brooks to reign the Billboard 200 for six or more weeks,[4] and the first album since Whitney (1987) by American singer Whitney Houston, to spend its first 10 weeks at the top spot.[5]

Dangerous: The Double Album by American singer Morgan Wallen became the first album since 1987 to spend its first 10 weeks atop the Billboard 200.

American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift charted three number one albums this year—the most for any artist: her 2020 studio album Evermore and 2021 re-recordings Fearless (Taylor's Version) and Red (Taylor's Version); they collectively spent six weeks atop the Billboard 200.[6] Fearless (Taylor's Version) became the first re-recorded album in history to top the chart.[7] American singer-songwriter Olivia Rodrigo's debut studio album, Sour, is the year's second longest reigning number-one album of the Billboard 200 and the longest-reigning by a female artist, with five non-consecutive weeks spent atop the chart.

Chart history

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Taylor Swift topped the chart for six weeks with three number-ones: her ninth studio album Evermore, and the re-recordings Fearless (Taylor's Version) and Red (Taylor's Version).
Olivia Rodrigo's debut studio album, Sour, spent five weeks atop the chart, becoming the longest running number-one album by a female artist in 2021.
Drake's sixth studio album, Certified Lover Boy, spent five weeks atop the chart.
Happier Than Ever, the second studio album from Billie Eilish, topped the chart for three consecutive weeks.
Key
† Indicates best-performing album of 2021[3]
Issue date Album Artist(s) Album-
equivalent units 		Ref.
January 2 Evermore Taylor Swift 169,000 [8][9]
January 9 Whole Lotta Red Playboi Carti 100,000 [10][11]
January 16 Evermore Taylor Swift 56,000 [12][13]
January 23 Dangerous: The Double Album † Morgan Wallen 265,000 [14][15]
January 30 159,000 [16][17]
February 6 130,000 [18][19]
February 13 149,000 [20][21]
February 20 150,000 [22][23]
February 27 93,000 [24][4]
March 6 89,000 [25][26]
March 13 82,000 [27][28]
March 20 78,000 [29][30]
March 27 69,000 [31][5]
April 3 Justice Justin Bieber 154,000 [32][33]
April 10 SoulFly Rod Wave 130,000 [34][35]
April 17 Justice Justin Bieber 75,000 [36][37]
April 24 Fearless (Taylor's Version) Taylor Swift 291,000 [38][7]
May 1 Slime Language 2 Young Thug and various artists 113,000 [39][40]
May 8 A Gangsta's Pain Moneybagg Yo 110,000 [41][42]
May 15 Khaled Khaled DJ Khaled 94,000 [43][44]
May 22 A Gangsta's Pain Moneybagg Yo 61,000 [45][46]
May 29 The Off-Season J. Cole 282,000 [47][48]
June 5 Sour Olivia Rodrigo 295,000 [49][50]
June 12 Evermore Taylor Swift 202,000 [51][52]
June 19 The Voice of the Heroes Lil Baby and Lil Durk 150,000 [53][54]
June 26 Hall of Fame Polo G 143,000 [55][56]
July 3 Sour Olivia Rodrigo 105,000 [57][58]
July 10 Call Me If You Get Lost Tyler, the Creator 169,000 [59][60]
July 17 Sour Olivia Rodrigo 88,000 [61][62]
July 24 83,000 [63][64]
July 31 Faith Pop Smoke 88,000 [65][66]
August 7 F*ck Love The Kid Laroi 85,000 [67][68]
August 14 Happier Than Ever Billie Eilish 238,000 [69][70]
August 21 85,000 [71][72]
August 28 60,000 [73][74]
September 4 Sour Olivia Rodrigo 133,000 [75][76]
September 11 Donda Kanye West 309,000 [77][78]
September 18 Certified Lover Boy Drake 613,000 [79][80]
September 25 236,000 [81][82]
October 2 171,000 [83][84]
October 9 Sincerely, Kentrell YoungBoy Never Broke Again 137,000 [85][86]
October 16 Fearless (Taylor's Version) Taylor Swift 152,000 [87][88]
October 23 Certified Lover Boy Drake 94,000 [89][90]
October 30 Punk Young Thug 90,000 [91][92]
November 6 Certified Lover Boy Drake 74,000 [93][94]
November 13 = Ed Sheeran 118,000 [95][96]
November 20 Still Over It Summer Walker 166,000 [97][98]
November 27 Red (Taylor's Version) Taylor Swift 605,000 [6][99]
December 4 30 Adele 839,000 [2][100]
December 11 288,000 [101][102]
December 18 193,000 [103][104]
December 25 183,000 [105][106]

Number-one artists

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List of number-one artists by total weeks at number one
Position Country Artist Weeks at No. 1
1  USA Morgan Wallen 10
2  USA Taylor Swift 6
3  CAN Drake 5
 US Olivia Rodrigo
5  UK Adele 4
6  US Billie Eilish 3
7  CAN Justin Bieber 2
 US Moneybagg Yo
 US Young Thug
10  US Playboi Carti 1
 US Rod Wave
 US DJ Khaled
 US J. Cole
 US Lil Baby
 US Lil Durk
 US Polo G
 US Tyler, the Creator
 US Pop Smoke
 AUS The Kid Laroi
 US Kanye West
 US YoungBoy Never Broke Again
 UK Ed Sheeran
 US Summer Walker

See also

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References

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