Adele’s 21 surpasses
Carole King’s Tapestry
for the most weeks on the Billboard 200 chart
for an album by a woman, as the 2011 album notches its 319th week on the
list dated April 15, beating Tapestry’s 318 weeks.
21
(which is No. 103 on the latest chart) has been on the tally every week
since its No. 1 debut on March 12, 2011. The album spent 24
nonconsecutive weeks at the top.
Edited from Billboard.