Chaser’s World Weird Web-15 Surprising Artists Without a #1 Album
Last month, "Weird Al" Yankovic scored his first #1 album of his career and last week, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers scored their first #1 album of their 37 year history. So we have the 15 surprising artists that have never had a #1 album.
This list is courtesy of Billboard:
- KISS. They don't have a #1, but they are the American band with the most top 40 albums, with 26. They got closest to #1 with 2009's "Sonic Boom", which debuted and peaked at #2.
- David Bowie. He's had seven Top 10 albums, and four in the Top Five, but none that have topped the Billboard 200.
- Marvin Gaye. His 1973 album, "Let's Get It On", reached #2.
- The Who. They have had ten Top 10 albums, and they have hit #2 twice: With 1973's "Quadrophenia" and 1978's "Who Are You".
- Cher. She hit #3 with her most recent album, "Closer to the Truth", and got up to #2 with "Look At Us", the album she put out with Sonny Bono in 1965.
- Sheryl Crow. She had four straight albums make it to #2 between 2002 and 2010, but none of them were able to crack the top spot.
- Sting. He's had ten Top 10 albums as a solo artist, with three of them hitting Number Two. But he did have a #1 album with The Police. "Synchronicity" spent 17 weeks at #1.
- Aretha Franklin. She's made it to #2 twice with "I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You" in 1967 and "Aretha: Lady Soul" in 1968.
- Willie Nelson. His 1982 album "Always on my Mind" spent four weeks at #2, but couldn't reach #1.
- Tina Turner. Her 1984 album "Private Dancer" spent 11 weeks stuck at #3 behind Prince and the Revolution's "Purple Rain" at #1 and Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A." at #2. And "All the Best" in 2005 hit #2.
- Brad Paisley. He's come close, with four albums reaching #2: "Time Well Wasted", "American Saturday Night", "This Is Country Music" and "Wheelhouse".
- James Taylor. He's had 11 top 10 albums, and reached as high as #2 with "Mudslide Slim and the Blue Horizon" in 1971.
- Dr. Dre. "The Chronic" spent six weeks at #3 in 1993, and his album, "2001" spent three weeks at #2.
- Jewel. "Pieces of You" peaked at #4 for two weeks in 1997, and she's been in the Top 10 five more times. She topped out at #2 with "0304" in 2003.
- Bob Marley. He reached the Top 10 just once, with 1976's "Rastaman Vibration", which rose to #8.