Classic Band Ties Record for Most Top 40 Albums on Billboard 200

A basic rock band has now tied the file for the artist with the all-time most high 40 albums on the Billboard 200 within the chart’s historical past.

That band is the Grateful Dead, who, based on the journal Relix, simply earned their 58th album within the high 40 of the albums chart this week.

The Grateful Useless tied the file with Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra, who every have landed an equal quantity of albums throughout the high 40 of the Billboard 200 because the albums chart started monitoring in 1945 and expanded to 200 positions in 1967.

Now, the Grateful Useless are only one entry away from taking the lead from Elvis and Sinatra.

The Band With the File for Most Billboard 200 High 40 Albums

Because it stood last year, the acts with probably the most high 40 albums on the Billboard 200 had been Elvis (58), Sinatra (58), Barbra Streisand (54), the Grateful Useless (53) and Bob Dylan (51). Subsequently, the Useless notched 4 extra earlier than logging the tying entry this week with Dave’s Picks Vol. 48.

Dave’s Picks is an ongoing Grateful Useless stay recording collection that paperwork varied stay exhibits carried out by the Grateful Useless — a considerable quantity of the basic band’s high 40 Billboard 200 entries are from the Dave’s Picks collection.

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The Billboard 200 chart ranks the preferred U.S. albums of the week based mostly on multi-metric consumption as measured in equal album items, as compiled by Luminate, the info supplier previously often known as MRC Information and P-MRC Information.

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Grateful Useless, “Contact of Gray” (Official Music Video) [1987]