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Taylor Swift's The Life Of A Showgirl is Billboard's number one album of 2025. Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department is #6. Taylor Swift's Lover is #33. Taylor Swift's Folklore is #37. Taylor Swift's Midnights is #46. Taylor Swift's 1989 (Taylor's Version) is #55. Taytlor Swift's Reputation is #56. Taylor Swift's Red (Taylor's Version) is #100. Taylor Swift's Evermore is #155. Taylor Swift's 1989 is #197.

Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, which first charted in February 1977, went to number one on the April 2 chart and was number one for 31 weeks, is the #25 album of 2025! People continue to buy it and/or stream it. Rumours was on the Billboard 200 every week of 2025, peaking at #17 on the September 6 chart. This week, Rumours dropped from #33 to #39 in its 665th week on the chart. On the year-end Top Catalog Albums chart – which tracks sales, airplay and streaming of albums that are older than 18 months – Rumours was the number-one catalog album of 2025!
 
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In that case, Michael Jackson's Thriller should have been a top 10 album every week from fall 1982 straight through 1989. I mean, if were gonna base the chart on how often people are playing the songs on their personal stereos.
 
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Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, which first charted in February 1977, went to number one on the April 2 chart and was number one for 31 weeks, is the #25 album of 2025! People continue to buy it and/or stream it. Rumours was on the Billboard 200 every week of 2025, peaking at #17 on the September 6 chart. This week, Rumours dropped from #33 to #39 in its 665th week on the chart. On the year-end Top Catalog Albums chart – which tracks sales, airplay and streaming of albums that are older than 18 months – Rumours was the number-one catalog album of 2025!
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Here are the albums that have spent the most weeks on the Billboard 200 chart as of January 3, 2026:

Dark Side Of The Moon – Pink Floyd (990)
Legend – Bob Marley & The Wailers (865)
Greatest Hits – Journey (835)
Metallica (popularly known as "The Black Album") – Metallica (750)
Chronicle: The 20 Greatest Hits – Creedence Clearwater Revival (724)
12 Greatest Hits – Patsy Cline (722)
Curtain Call: The Hits – Eminem (714)
Doo-Wops & Hooligans – Bruno Mars (706)
Thriller – Michael Jackson (703)
Greatest Hits – Guns N' Roses (700)
Nevermind – Nirvana (700)

If your next question is which artists have spent the most cumulative weeks on the Billboard 200, you will not like the answer:

1. Drake (3,348)
2. Beatles (3,311)
3. Taylor Swift (3,269)
 
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Channel98 said:
Here are the albums that have spent the most weeks on the Billboard 200 chart as of January 3, 2026:

Dark Side Of The Moon – Pink Floyd (990)
Legend – Bob Marley & The Wailers (865)
Greatest Hits – Journey (835)
Metallica (popularly known as "The Black Album") – Metallica (750)
Chronicle: The 20 Greatest Hits – Creedence Clearwater Revival (724)
12 Greatest Hits – Patsy Cline (722)
Curtain Call: The Hits – Eminem (714)
Doo-Wops & Hooligans – Bruno Mars (706)
Thriller – Michael Jackson (703)
Greatest Hits – Guns N' Roses (700)
Nevermind – Nirvana (700)

If your next question is which artists have spent the most cumulative weeks on the Billboard 200, you will not like the answer:

1. Drake (3,348)
2. Beatles (3,311)
3. Taylor Swift (3,269)
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Conspicuously absent is the soundtrack to "You Light Up My Life".
 
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Conspicuously absent is the soundtrack to "You Light Up My Life".
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I don't think it even made the album chart when the single was #1.

But It was #1 from Oct 1977 to Dec 1977. It was on the yearly 100 for 1977 and 1978 (#3 from 1978) and was a bigger song than either the #1 from 1977 or the #1 from 1978 but it's numbers got split due to the way billboard divides it's years. The song completely sucks but for whatever reason it was huge in 1977.

ETA: The song was not from the soundtrack album but a Debbie Boone album with the same name (her debut album). None of the subsequent singles from the album made the top 40. The highest made #50. This was the only other song in her career that has charted on the Hot 100 although she has made the AC chart.
 
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I don't think it even made the album chart when the single was #1.

But It was #1 from Oct 1977 to Dec 1977. It was on the yearly 100 for 1977 and 1978 (#3 from 1978) and was a bigger song than either the #1 from 1977 or the #1 from 1978 but it's numbers got split due to the way billboard divides it's years. The song completely sucks but for whatever reason it was huge in 1977.

ETA: The song was not from the soundtrack album but a Debbie Boone album with the same name (her debut album). None of the subsequent singles from the album made the top 40. The highest made #50. This was the only other song in her career that has charted on the Hot 100 although she has made the AC chart.
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I was being facetious, but my point was that the #1 song of the '70s was a forgettable OHW from a forgettable artist. And at a minimum, the #1 song of an entire decade should come from one of the hundreds of landmark albums of that decade. Such as Fleetwood Mac's Rumors. Or Carole King's Tapestry. Or Billy Joel's Piano Man or The Stranger. Or Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Or Supertramp's Breakfast in America. Or the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. Or Don McLean's American Pie. Or Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water.

You know, something good.
 
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Debby Boone's You Light Up My Life album reached #6 on the December 24 1977 Billboard 200 chart and stayed in that position for three weeks. The You Light Up My Life soundtrack album debuted at #48 on the October 29 1977 chart – Fleetwood Mac's Rumours was number one – and peaked at #17 three weeks later.

IRBS, Debby Boone's You Light Up My Life reached #4 on the country chart (December 10 1977). She had 12 more country hits, 1978-81, including Are You On The Road To Lovin' Me Again, which went to number one on the May 3 1980 chart.
 
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The January 10 Billboard charts were published today. On the Hot 100, Taylor Swift's The Fate Of Ophelia is number one. Again. It's been number one for nine weeks – and counting. Taylor Swift's Opalite is #8. Taylor Swift's Elizabeth Taylor is #59. Taylor Swift's Father Figure re-enters at #71. Taylor Swift's Wi$h Li$t re-enters at #73. The Life Of A Showgirl, Taylor Swift's duet with Sabrina Carpenter, re-enters at #85.

On a brighter note, Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You, which was number one last week, dropped off the chart.
 
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I was being facetious, but my point was that the #1 song of the '70s was a forgettable OHW from a forgettable artist. And at a minimum, the #1 song of an entire decade should come from one of the hundreds of landmark albums of that decade. Such as Fleetwood Mac's Rumors. Or Carole King's Tapestry. Or Billy Joel's Piano Man or The Stranger. Or Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Or Supertramp's Breakfast in America. Or the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. Or Don McLean's American Pie. Or Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water.

You know, something good.
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The #1 song should come from raw numbers on the chart. If it doesn't it is subjective. The #1 song is pretty clear from chart positions of the hot 100. For the rest of the positions in the countdowns posted I have questions about how they got those positions as they did not look like they were based upon chart longevity.
 
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Here is the top ten for October 15 1977, when Debby Boone first hit number one:

03 - 01 You Light Up My Life – Debby Boone
02 - 02 Keep It Comin' Love – KC & The Sunshine Band
04 - 03 Nobody Does It Better – Carly Simon
05 - 04 That's Rock 'N' Roll – Shaun Cassidy
01 - 05 Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band – Meco
07 - 06 Boogie Nights – Heatwave
08 - 07 Cold As Ice – Foreigner
09 - 08 Brick House – Commodores
13 - 09 I Feel Love – Donna Summer
10 - 10 I Just Want To Be Your Everything – Andy Gibb
 
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Channel98 said:
Here is the top ten for October 15 1977, when Debby Boone first hit number one:

03 - 01 You Light Up My Life – Debby Boone
02 - 02 Keep It Comin' Love – KC & The Sunshine Band
04 - 03 Nobody Does It Better – Carly Simon
05 - 04 That's Rock 'N' Roll – Shaun Cassidy
01 - 05 Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band – Meco
07 - 06 Boogie Nights – Heatwave
08 - 07 Cold As Ice – Foreigner
09 - 08 Brick House – Commodores
13 - 09 I Feel Love – Donna Summer
10 - 10 I Just Want To Be Your Everything – Andy Gibb
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OK, so it seems like disco had a chokehold on the music industry, which allowed a sleeper like You Light Up My Life to take over, and reign supreme over a weakened pop scene. Now I feel better.
 
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The first song in the 20th century to spend at least ten weeks at number one was Len Spencer's (misspelled) Arkansaw Traveler (Victor #1101), the best-selling phonograph record for 11 weeks in March-April-May 1902. This featured Charles D'Almaine on violin and was Spencer's second recording of the song (if you can call it a song) . His original version (Columbia #11098) reached #2 in November 1900. Spencer had 14 number-one hits between 1891 and 1902. I think I heard many of these jokes repeated on Hee Haw.

 
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The January 17 Hot 100 will be published tomorrow, January 13, but we already know what number one is, thanks to this headline today on Billboard's website:

Taylor Swift's The Fate Of Ophelia becomes her first 10-week Hot 100 No. 1
 
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Highlights from the new Hot 100 for the week of January 17, 2026:

LW TW
01 - 01 The Fate Of Ophelia – Taylor Swift
08 - 09 Opalite – Taylor Swift
59 - 62 Elizabeth Taylor – Taylor Swift
72 - 76 Father Figure – Taylor Swift
73 - 79 Wi$h Li$t – Taylor Swift
85 - 93 The Life Of A Showgirl – Taylor Swift/Sabrina Carpenter

Prince's Purple Rain (1984) re-enters at #27, Fleetwood Mac's Landslide (1975 studio version) debuts at #41
and Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill (1985) re-enters at #46.
 
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