Top Christian Albums

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Top Christian Albums is a weekly chart published in Billboard magazine that ranks the best-performing Christian albums in the United States. Like the Billboard 200, the data is compiled by Nielsen Soundscan based on each album's weekly physical and digital sales, as well as on-demand streaming and digital sales of its individual tracks. [1] The chart was introduced on the magazine issue dated March 29, 1980, under the title "Best Selling Inspirational LPs". [2] The current name was adopted on August 16, 2003, in an effort to "streamline" chart titles. [3] The first number-one album was Candle's Music Machine . [2] Amy Grant's Age to Age , released in 1982, topped the chart for 85 consecutive weeks, the longest for any album on the chart. [4]

Contents

The current number-one album on the chart is Child of God by Forrest Frank. [5]

Artist milestones

Album milestones

Most weeks on the chart

The following albums have spent at least 200 weeks on the chart:

Key
Album currently charting, as of Issue December 7, 2024 [5]
No.ArtistWks.AlbumRef.
1 Skillet 550 Awake † [42]
2 Hillsong United 514 Zion † [43]
3 Lauren Daigle 504 How Can It Be † [44]
4 NF 478 Mansion † [45]
5 Chris Tomlin 456How Great Is Our God: The Essential Collection† [46]
6 Elevation Worship 442 Here as in Heaven † [47]
7 Skillet 423 Unleashed † [48]
8 NF 422 Therapy Session † [49]
9 Hillsong Worship 404 Let There Be Light † [50]
10 Zach Williams 391 Chain Breaker † [51]
11 Alan Jackson 389Precious Memories Collection† [52]
12 Amy Grant 381 The Collection [53]
13 MercyMe 353I Can Only Imagine: The Very Best of MercyMe [54]
14 Flyleaf 338 Flyleaf [55]
15 Lauren Daigle 325 Look Up Child [56]
16 Elvis Presley 314Elvis: Ultimate Gospel [57]
17 For King & Country 308 Run Wild. Live Free. Love Strong. [58]
18 Hillsong Worship 301 There Is More [59]
19 Amy Grant 286 Age to Age [60]
20 tobyMac 285 This Is Not a Test [61]
21 For King & Country 268 Burn the Ships [62]
22 Zach Williams 269 Rescue Story [63]
23 Kanye West 266 Jesus Is King [64]
24 Sandi Patty 257 More Than Wonderful [65]
25 Casting Crowns 258Voice of Truth: The Ultimate Collection [66]
26 Casting Crowns 256Only Jesus [67]
27 Elevation Worship 239 Graves into Gardens [68]
28 Sandi Patty 237Hymns Just for You [69]
29 MercyMe 228 Lifer † [70]
30 Tauren Wells 212 Hills and Valleys [71]
31 Skillet 207 Comatose [72]

Number ones

See also

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