Five years ago this week, Morgan Wallen’s debut studio album, If I Know Me, which had been released in April 2018, finally reached No. 1 on Billboard‘s Top Country Albums chart (dated Aug. 15, 2000). It displaced The Chicks’ Gaslighter, which had spent the previous two weeks on top.

No one then could possibly have known what was in store for Wallen, whose latest album, I’m The Problem, this week tops that chart (dated Aug. 16) for the 12th consecutive week. This ups Wallen’s career tally of weeks at No. 1 to a staggering 198 weeks, which allows him to extend his lead as the artist with the most weeks at No. 1 in the chart’s 61-year history.

Top Country Albums originated as Hot Country Albums in the Jan. 11, 1964 issue of Billboard. Johnny Cash’s Ring of Fire (The Best of Johnny Cash) hea

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