Top Gospel Albums
Top Gospel Albums is a music chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States, ranking the popularity of gospel albums. As of Tuesday, January 31, 2017, it uses the same multi-metric methodology developed for the Billboard 200, which incorporates traditional album sales, track equivalent albums and streaming equivalent albums.
Album milestones
Most cumulative weeks at number one
List of albums with ten or more weeks at number one, showing year released.Most cumulative weeks on chart
List of albums with 100 or more total weeks on the chart.Number-one debuts
List of albums which have debuted at number-one.Artist achievements
Most number-one albums
Artists with five or more number-one albums.Other achievements
- Whitney Houston's The Preacher's Wife has the highest one week sales of any charting release on Top Gospel Albums, selling 330,000 units in the chart week dated January 4, 1997.
- Marvin Sapp's Here I Am was the highest-charting gospel album in the history of the all-genre Billboard 200 chart, where it debuted at number 2, before the release of Jesus Is King by Kanye West. Prior to this, God’s Property From Kirk Franklin’s Nu Nation debuted and peaked at number 3 on June 14, 1997.
- Kanye West made Billboard history with the release of Jesus Is King, which topped Top Gospel Albums, Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, Top Rap Albums charts, Top Christian Albums and the all-genre Billboard 200 simultaneously.
- Kanye West has the highest one week sales — 309,000 and 264,000 — for a charting release on both Top Gospel Albums and Top Christian Albums, since both charts adopted a multi-metric methodology in February 2017.
- Kierra Sheard's Kierra ended Kanye's 6-month run at number-one with his album Jesus Is King.
- CeCe Winans has topped the Top Gospel Albums chart in five consecutive decades, earning her 10th number-one with More Than This.