From Wynonna to Ella Langley: Albums With 3 or More Country Airplay No. 1s by Women
Langley’s Dandelion is the first set in more than a decade to join an exclusive club stretching back to 1992.
In 2026, women have been rewriting Billboard's country record books, with Ella Langley at the center of many milestones. Taylor Swift, Stella Lefty, and others have also contributed to new benchmarks on Hot Country Songs. One of the latest milestones is Ella Langley's album Dandelion, which has spent 13 weeks at No. 1 on Top Country Albums since its debut in April.
With three No. 1 singles on the Country Airplay chart, Dandelion is only the 13th album by a woman or a female-voiced act to achieve this feat since the chart's inception in 1990. The last time an album by a woman achieved this milestone was in 2015-16 with Kelsea Ballerini's The First Time. Wallen's album I'm the Problem contributed seven No. 1s with his duet "I Can't Love You Anymore" from Dandelion.
Luke Combs' What You See Is What You Get also generated seven leaders, making it the first album by a woman to reach this threshold. Among albums by women, achieving three Country Airplay No. 1s is rare, with only ten of the 13 qualifying sets reaching this milestone, with the majority occurring between 1992 and 2009. Carrie Underwood leads with three No. 1 hits from her albums Some Hearts, Carnival Ride, and Play On, while Shania Twain follows with two hits from The Woman in Me. Twain's album remains the only one in this group to produce four Country Airplay No. 1s.
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