- Who
- Beyoncé
- What
- first first
- Where
- United States ()
- When
Beyoncé's (USA) first six studio albums - Dangerously in Love (2003); B'Day (2006); I Am... Sasha Fierce (2008); 4 (2011); Beyoncé (2013); and Lemonade (2016) - all debuted at No.1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. No other act can match Beyoncé's chart-topping success on the US albums chart (inaugurated on 17 August 1963, when the mono and stereo charts were combined) from the start of a career.
Beyoncé's studio albums debuted at No.1 on 12 July 2003 (Dangerously in Love); 23 September 2006 (B'Day); 6 December 2008 (I Am... Sasha Fierce); 16 July 2011 (4); 28 December 2013 (Beyoncé); and 14 May 2016 (Lemonade). Only 4 (2 weeks) and Beyoncé (3 weeks) topped the Billboard 200 for more than one week.
During Beyoncé's record-setting run in 2003-16, she charted with four other albums: Live at Wembley (No.17 in 2004); Irreemplazable (EP) (No.109 in 2007); Above and Beyoncé: Video Collection & Dance Mixes (No.35 in 2009); and More Only (EP) (No.8 in 2014). She also performed/co-performed 13 of the 20 tracks on the Dreamgirls soundtrack (No.1 in 2006), including the co-written "Listen".
