Chart Listings: Females with most weeks at #1 on the Billboard 200
1) Whitney Houston – 46 Weeks
Whitney Houston (14), Whitney (11), The Bodyguard (20), I Look to You (1)
2) Taylor Swift – 35 Weeks
Fearless (11), Speak Now (6), Red (7), 1989 (11)
3) Mariah Carey – 30 Weeks
Mariah Carey (11), Music Box (8), Daydream (6), Butterfly (1), The Emancipation of Mimi (2), E=MC² (2)
3) Adele – 30 Weeks
21 (24), 25 (6 so far)
4) Barbra Streisand – 26 Weeks
People (5), The Way We Were (2), A Star Is Born (6), Greatest Hits Vol. 2 (3), Guilty (3), The Broadway Album (3), Back to Broadway (1), Higher Ground (1), Love Is the Answer (1), Partners (1).
5) Carole King – 19 Weeks
Tapestry (15), Music (3), Wrap Around Joy (1)
5) Madonna – 19 Weeks
Like a Virgin (3), True Blue (5), Like a Prayer (6), Music (1), American Life (1), Confessions on a Dance Floor (1), Hard Candy (1), MDNA (1)
6) Janet Jackson – 16 Weeks
Control (2), Rhythm Nation 1814 (4), janet. (6), The Velvet Rope (1), All for You (1), Discipline (1), Unbreakable (1)
7) Alanis Morissette – 15 Weeks
Jagged Little Pill (12), Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (2), Under Rug Swept (1)
8) Judy Garland – 13 Weeks
Judy at Carnegie Hall (13)
8) Norah Jones – 13 Weeks
Come Away with Me (4), Feels like Home (6), Not Too Late (3)
9) Paula Abdul – 12 Weeks
Forever Your Girl (10), Spellbound (2)
10) Alicia Keys – 11 Weeks
Songs in A Minor (3), The Diary of Alicia Keys (2), Unplugged (1), As I Am (4), Girl on Fire (1)
10) Britney Spears – 11 Weeks
…Baby One More Time (6), Oops!… I Did It Again (1), Britney (1), In the Zone (1), Circus (1), Femme Fatale (1)