Top Country Albums is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music albums in the United States, published by Billboard . Chart positions are based on multi-metric consumption, blending traditional album sales, track equivalent albums, and streaming equivalent albums.
In the issue of Billboard dated January 7, Morgan Wallen's Dangerous: The Double Album spent its 89th week at number one; since entering the chart at number one in January 2021 it had only spent 14 weeks off the top spot. [1] [2] The album spent nine weeks atop the chart in 2023, taking its total to 97 weeks at number one, before Wallen replaced himself in the peak position in the issue dated March 18 with his next album, One Thing at a Time , which by the end of the year had spent 33 weeks at number one.
In February, Hardy gained his first number-one album when The Mockingbird & the Crow topped the chart for a single week, the only week between the start of the year and mid-July when Wallen was absent from the top spot.
Issue date | Title | Artist(s) | Ref. |
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January 7 | Dangerous: The Double Album | Morgan Wallen | [1] |
January 14 | [3] | ||
January 21 | [4] | ||
January 28 | [5] | ||
February 4 | The Mockingbird & the Crow | Hardy | [6] |
February 11 | Dangerous: The Double Album | Morgan Wallen | [7] |
February 18 | [8] | ||
February 25 | [9] | ||
March 4 | [10] | ||
March 11 | [11] | ||
March 18 | One Thing at a Time | [12] | |
March 25 | [13] | ||
April 1 | [14] | ||
April 8 | [15] | ||
April 15 | [16] | ||
April 22 | [17] | ||
April 29 | [18] | ||
May 6 | [19] | ||
May 13 | [20] | ||
May 20 | [21] | ||
May 27 | [22] | ||
June 3 | [23] | ||
June 10 | [24] | ||
June 17 | [25] | ||
June 24 | [26] | ||
July 1 | [27] | ||
July 8 | [28] | ||
July 15 | [29] | ||
July 22 | Speak Now (Taylor's Version) | Taylor Swift | [30] |
July 29 | [31] | ||
August 5 | One Thing at a Time | Morgan Wallen | [32] |
August 12 | [33] | ||
August 19 | [34] | ||
August 26 | [35] | ||
September 2 | [36] | ||
September 9 | Zach Bryan | Zach Bryan | [37] |
September 16 | [38] | ||
September 23 | [39] | ||
September 30 | [40] | ||
October 7 | One Thing at a Time | Morgan Wallen | [41] |
October 14 | [42] | ||
October 21 | [43] | ||
October 28 | Zach Bryan | Zach Bryan | [44] |
November 4 | One Thing at a Time | Morgan Wallen | [45] |
November 11 | [46] | ||
November 18 | [47] | ||
November 25 | Higher | Chris Stapleton | [48] |
December 2 | Rockstar | Dolly Parton | [49] |
December 9 | One Thing at a Time | Morgan Wallen | [50] |
December 16 | [51] | ||
December 23 | [52] | ||
December 30 | [53] |
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