This week, Adele's "21" spends its 118th consecutive week in the top 40 on the Billboard 200 chart -- its entire chart run -- as the set dips from No. 36 to No. 40. In doing so, the title inches closer to the Nielsen SoundScan-era record for the most weeks spent in the top 40, set by Shania Twain's "Come On Over" (127 weeks).
Since SoundScan started powering the Billboard 200 chart on May 25, 1991, "Come On Over" rules the record books as the longest-running album in the top 40, with 127 weeks. That total also happens to be consecutive, dating from its debut on Nov. 22, 1997 (No. 2).
"Come On Over" spent 151 weeks on the chart in total. It last appeared on the tally dated Oct. 7, 2000. "Come On Over" is one of only eight albums to notch 100 weeks or more in the top 40 in the SoundScan era (see chart, below).
With "21" continuing to rack up chart weeks, it could well surpass Twain's record in the next few months.
Albums With Most Weeks in Top 40 on Billboard 200 (SoundScan Era)
We would have "heard" about it if it did. The week the article was posted "21" by Adele had dropped from No. 36 to No. 40. So the album more than likely dropped out of the Top 40 the week after that, ending its run at 118 weeks in the Top 40. It could have re-entered the Top 40 for another week or two though.
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18 Years Ago: Shania Twain’s ‘Come on Over’ Is Released
By Gayle Thompson | The Boot | November 4, 2015 10:00 AM
Eighteen years ago today, on Nov. 4, 1997, Shania Twain‘s Come on Over album was released. The record, which remains her most successful project to date, has been certified double diamond, for sales of more than 20 million copies, in the United States alone.
Produced by Twain’s then-husband, Robert John “Mutt” Lange, Come on Over spawned seven No. 1 singles, including “From This Moment On” and the multi-platinum “You’re Still the One.” Several of the songs from the album, including “That Don’t Impress Me Much,” “Man! I Feel Like a Woman!” and “Don’t Be Stupid (You Know I Love You)” became crossover hits on the pop charts for Twain as well.
Twain and Lange co-wrote all 16 songs on Come on Over, and of all of her hits, Twain says that “Don’t Be Stupid” remains one of her favorites.
“I would always say that: ‘Don’t be stupid!,'” Twain tells Glamour magazine. “And I thought, I should make that a song title, and it became a very big song.
“When the song first came out, some parents would complain to me because their kids loved it so much, and it was little kids that would walk around saying, ‘Don’t be stupid!’ So a 5-year-old saying that was a bit rude for them to be saying it,” she continues. “That was odd a little bit and controversial in its own little way, even though it was harmless. Anyway, so that line always stuck out for me.”
Twain spent over 50 weeks at No. 1 on the Country Albums chart with Come on Over. The Canadian country star also won four Grammy Awards off of the record: “You’re Still the One” earned Best Country Song and Best Female Country Vocal Performance, while the title track won Best Country Song and “Man! I Feel Like a Woman!” received Best Female Country Vocal Performance.
Come on Over was the best-selling album of the 1990s. It has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide to date and remains the biggest-selling studio album by a female artist of all time, the best-selling country music album ever, the biggest-selling album by a Canadian country artist and one of the best-selling albums in music history.
Adele's 21 is back in the top 40 this week at #11, putting her weeks in the top 40 to at least 119. It would need about two months of top 40 action to oust Shan's record, which I think is not impossible considering 25 is about to come out and there's renewed interest in Adele. I guess time will tell. :)
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