Most US No.1 albums by a female artist
Who
Taylor Swift
What
13 total number
Where
United States ()
When

Taylor Swift (USA) has achieved 13 No.1 albums – all of them chart-topping debuts – on the US Billboard 200: Fearless (11 weeks in 2008–09), Speak Now (six weeks in 2010–11), Red (seven weeks in 2012–13), 1989 (11 weeks in 2014–15), reputation (four weeks in 2017–18), Lover (one week in 2019), folklore (eight weeks in 2020), evermore (four weeks in 2020–21), Fearless (Taylor’s Version) (two weeks in 2021), Red (Taylor’s Version) (one week in 2021), Midnights (six weeks in 2022–23), Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) (two weeks in 2023), and 1989 (Taylor's Version) (six weeks in 2023-24).


As of 24 February 2024, The Beatles (19) and Jay-Z (14) had the most No.1s on the US Billboard 200, with Swift (13), Drake (13), Bruce Springsteen (11) and Barbra Streisand (11) – whose former female record Swift broke when Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) bowed at No.1 on 22 July 2023 – chasing them down.

Swift achieved her 13 No.1s from 19 chart entries in total, 16 of which made the Top 10. Swift’s 69 cumulative weeks at No.1 is also a female record, with only The Beatles (132) ahead of her. 1989 (Taylor’s Version) debuted at No.1 with 1.653 million equivalent album units, 693,000 of which were sold on vinyl.