As of January 2025, the artists with the most Billboard 200 No. 1 albums in the 21st century are:
1. Taylor Swift – 14 No. 1 albums:
Fearless
Speak Now
Red
1989
Reputation
Lover
Folklore
Evermore
Fearless (Taylor’s Version)
Red (Taylor’s Version)
Midnights
Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)
1989 (Taylor’s Version)
The Tortured Poets Department
2. Drake – 13 No. 1 albums:
Thank Me Later
Take Care
Nothing Was the Same
If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late
What a Time To Be Alive (with Future)
Views
More Life
Scorpion
Care Package
Certified Lover Boy
Honestly, Nevermind
Her Loss (with 21 Savage)
For All the Dogs
3. Jay-Z – 13 No. 1 albums:
Vol. 2… Hard Knock Life
Vol. 3… Life and Times of S. Carter
The Dynasty Roc La Familia (2000 — )
The Blueprint
The Blueprint 2: The Gift and the Curse
The Black Album
Unfinished Business (with R. Kelly)
MTV Ultimate Mash-Ups Presents (with Linkin Park): Collision Course
Kingdom Come
American Gangster
The Blueprint 3
Watch the Throne (with Kanye West)
Magna Carta… Holy Grail
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4. Eminem – 11 No. 1 albums:
The Marshall Mathers LP
The Eminem Show
Encore
Curtain Call: The Hits
Relapse
Recovery
The Marshall Mathers LP 2
Revival
Kamikaze
Music To Be Murdered By
The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce)
5. Future – 11 No. 1 albums:
DS2
What a Time To Be Alive (with Drake)
EVOL
FUTURE
HNDRXX
Future Hndrxx Presents: The WIZRD
High Off Life
I Never Liked You
We Don’t Trust You (with Metro Boomin)
We Still Don’t Trust You (with Metro Boomin)
Mixtape Pluto
6. Kanye West – 11 No. 1 albums:
Late Registration
Graduation
808s & Heartbreak
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Watch the Throne (with Jay-Z)
Yeezus
The Life of Pablo
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Jesus Is King
Donda
Vultures 1 (with Ty Dolla $ign)
These artists have demonstrated remarkable consistency and popularity, achieving multiple chart-topping albums over the past 25 years.
