The Albums With the Most Top 10 Billboard Hot 100 Hits
Below, Billboard celebrates the roster of artists who cemented their pop dominance by landing five or more top 10 hits from a single album.
As any artist knows, it’s a tough task to score a top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. The feat usually requires some blend of the following ingredients: a strong song, a charismatic artist, aggressive promotion efforts, a devoted fan base; and, more recently, a viral live performance, meme or other stroke of luck. And that’s just to do it once. To rise (and stay) at the top of the game, demands a consistency that few artists ever achieve. But when artists lock onto that golden combination, they can accomplish a string of hits in rapid succession.
To celebrate those artists, Billboard compiled a roll call of artists who cemented their pop dominance by landing five or more top 10 hits from a single album. Not only does such a feat rely on the same qualities listed above, but either recreating those moments over an extensive period of months, or in recent years, capitalize on streaming’s reshaping of the industry to stack several top 10s upon a big album’s arrival.
It should come as little surprise, then, that the first album to house five top 10s was Michael Jackson’s Thriller, the best-selling album of all time. At the time, Jackson set the benchmark of seven top 10s from one album – a feat later equaled by Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the USA (1984-85), Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814 (1989-91) and Drake’s Scorpion (2018). The record then quickly changed hands multiple times: Drake’s Certified Lover Boy scored nine top 10 successes in 2021, but was soon eclipsed by Taylor Swift’s 2022 album Midnights, which upped the record to 10. Swift repeated the perfect 10 with her 2024 release, The Tortured Poets Department, and 2025’s The Life of a Showgirl, while Drake joined the club with 2026’s ICEMAN.
Check out our rundown of albums that have produced five or more top 10 hits on the Hot 100. Drake owns the most projects on the list, with four different albums – while Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, Taylor Swift and Morgan Wallen are the only other acts with multiple appearances. The who’s-who covers a cross-section of genres, including pop, rock, R&B and hip-hop and includes superstars such as Bon Jovi, Whitney Houston and Katy Perry.
(Note: This list only covers original editions, though three albums – Usher’s Confessions, Rihanna’s Good Girl Gone Bad and Taylor Swift’s Fearless – would qualify if expanded to deluxe versions and reissues.)
Jackson had already become the first solo artist to earn four Hot 100 top 10s from an album with Off the Wall, but follow-up Thriller nearly doubled its output. Jackson’s magnum opus landed a groundbreaking seven top 10s during its 1982-84 heyday, including two No. 1 classics.
Top 10s: “The Girl Is Mine” (with Paul McCartney), No. 2; “Billie Jean,” No. 1 (seven weeks); “Beat It,” No. 1 (three weeks); “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’,” No. 5; “Human Nature,” No. 7; “P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing),” No. 10; “Thriller,” No. 4
Former Commodores frontman Lionel Richie joined the club with his second solo release. Like Thriller, Can’t Slow Down’s hit-making prowess and chart longevity helped it score the album of the year prize at the Grammy Awards.
Top 10s: “All Night Long (All Night),” No. 1 (four weeks); “Running With the Night,” No. 7; “Hello,” No. 1 (two weeks); “Stuck on You,” No. 3; “Penny Lover,” No. 8
The Boss’ seminal album propelled him to mid-’80s chart domination, and introduced us to Courteney Cox in the “Dancing in the Dark” video. Interestingly, despite its hit resume, Born in the U.S.A. is one of only two albums to spark five top 10s without a No. 1 single.)
Top 10s: “Dancing in the Dark,” No. 2; “Cover Me,” No. 7; “Born in the U.S.A.,” No. 9; “I’m on Fire,” No. 6; “Glory Days,” No. 5; “I’m Goin’ Down,” No. 9; “My Hometown,” No. 6
After two essentially unheralded albums, Jackson’s new sound, courtesy of producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, helped her 1986 breakthrough rally a parade of Hot 100 hits, including the first of 10 career No. 1s.
Top 10s: “What Have You Done for Me Lately,” No. 4; “Nasty,” No. 3; “When I Think of You,” No. 1 (two weeks); “Control,” No. 5; “Let’s Wait Awhile,” No. 2
The Material Girl’s third album continued her ’80s reign, becoming her first album to score multiple chart-toppers. The five top 10s from True Blue also helped push Madonna to her record 38 career Hot 100 top 10s.
Top 10s: “Live to Tell,” No. 1 (one week); “Papa Don’t Preach,” No. 1 (two weeks); “True Blue,” No. 3; “Open Your Heart,” No. 1 (one week); “La Isla Bonita,” No. 4
After taking a brief hiatus for each member to pursue individual projects, Genesis reunited for Invisible Touch. Its five top 10s from this album made the British rockers the first group to achieve the feat.
Top 10s: “Invisible Touch,” No. 1 (one week); “Throwing It All Away,” No. 4; “Land of Confusion,” No. 4; “Tonight, Tonight, Tonight,” No. 3; “In Too Deep,” No. 3
Huey Lewis & the News’ appropriately titled fourth album followed their first No. 1 hit, “The Power of Love,” from Back to the Future. Fore! scored the group two more chart-toppers, their last No. 1 hits.
Top 10s: “Stuck With You,” No. 1 (three weeks); “Hip to Be Square,” No. 3; “Jacob’s Ladder,” No. 1 (one week); “I Know What I Like,” No. 9; “Doing It All for My Baby,” No. 6
Leave it to Michael Jacksonl to outdo himself. Not only did Bad make Jackson the first artist to post two albums with at least five top 10s each, but the set also launched a then-unprecedented five No. 1 singles, the only album to reach the vaunted mark until 2011.
Top 10s: “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You” (with Siedah Garrett), No. 1 (one week); “Bad,” No. 1 (two weeks); “The Way You Make Me Feel,” No. 1 (one week); “Man in the Mirror,” No. 1 (two weeks); “Dirty Diana,” No. 1 (one week); “Smooth Criminal,” No. 7
Former Wham! frontman George Michael’s debut solo release picked up right where the duo left off. Faith contained six top 10s and scored the English heartthrob the Grammy Award for album of the year.
Top 10s: “I Want Your Sex,” No. 2; “Faith,” No. 1 (four weeks); “Father Figure,” No. 1 (two weeks); “One More Try,” No. 1 (three weeks); “Monkey,” No. 1 (two weeks); “Kissing a Fool,” No. 5
After scoring three Hot 100 No. 1s with her debut LP, Houston’s sophomore set upped the ante by yielding four chart-toppers. Those seven straight No. 1 singles lifted Houston past the Beatles and the Bee Gees (six each) for the most consecutive Hot 100 leaders, a record that still stands.
Top 10s: “I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me),” No. 1 (two weeks); “Didn’t We Almost Have It All,” No. 1 (two weeks); “So Emotional,” No. 1 (one week); “Where Do Broken Hearts Go,” No. 1 (two weeks); “Love Will Save the Day,” No. 9
While the boy band’s 1986 self-titled debut album went largely unnoticed (at first), sophomore album Hangin’ Tough soared, as the Boston quintet became the first teen act to earn five Hot 100 top 10 hits from an album. (The act’s debut, meanwhile, rebounded to reach No. 25 on the Billboard 200 in 1989.)
Top 10s: “Please Don’t Go Girl,” No. 10; “You Got It (The Right Stuff),” No. 3; “I’ll Be Loving You (Forever),” No. 1 (one week); “Hangin’ Tough,” No. 1 (one week); “Cover Girl,” No. 2
Rockers Bon Jovi followed the success of Slippery When Wet with this album, whose title serves as a tribute to their home state. Like its predecessor, New Jersey contained two tickets to No. 1 on the Hot 100, in “Bad Medicine” and “I’ll Be There for You.”
Top 10s: “Bad Medicine,” No. 1 (two weeks); “Born to Be My Baby,” No. 3; “I’ll Be There for You,” No. 1 (one week); “Lay Your Hands on Me,” No. 7; “Living in Sin,” No. 9
The first breakout star of R&B group New Edition surpassed his former group’s top 10 tally (four, in 1984-97) with a single album. And, thus, before their marriage in 1992-2006, Brown and Whitney Houston joined in another union: they’re both among the elite acts with at least five Hot 100 top 10s from an album.
