#1 Album on January 31, 1970

Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin II was the band's first #1 album, and is considered quintessential in rock music and a forerunner of heavy metal. The record features several Zeppelin classics: "Whole Lotta Love", "Heartbreaker", Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman)" and "Ramble On". Led Zeppelin's first U.S. appearance took place on December 26, 1968 at Denver's Auditorium Arena.
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#1 Album on January 30, 1989

Don't Be Cruel
Bobby Brown

Former New Edition member Bobby Brown went to #1 with his second album release. Don't Be Cruel features five top ten hits, including the #1 song "My Prerogative". Bobby was a pioneer of New Jack Swing, a hybrid music style typified with soulful and harmonizing vocals sung over urban and street-beat rhythms. Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston were married for fourteen years.
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#1 Album on January 29, 1962

Stereo 35/MM
Enoch Light and the Light Brigade

Enoch Light was a pioneer of stereo and quadraphonic recording whose music career spanned fifty years. Stereo 35/MM was named in reference to Light's use of 35mm film versus magnetic tape to record the album. Stereo 35/MM was #1 for three weeks. According to Light, the album "brings you music with an intense true to life impact that is unbelievably realistic"
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#1 Album on January 28, 1986

The Broadway Album
Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand returned to her theater roots with twelve Broadway show tunes that unexpectedly reached #1 in January 1986. The album features tunes by Rodgers & Hammerstein, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern and Stephen Sondheim. The Broadway Album features the singles "Send in the Clowns" and "Somewhere". The album earned two Grammy Awards.
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#1 Album on January 27, 1994

Music Box
Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey's fourth album was a global #1 hit. The album features four singles, including the #1 songs "Dreamlover" and "Hero". According to Billboard magazine, Carey was the most successful artist of the 1990s in the U.S. She has recorded eighteen #1 singles, the most for a solo artist. Mariah Carey was born in Huntington, Long Island, New York.
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#1 Album on January 26, 2003

Come Away with Me
Norah Jones

Nora Jones' debut album won five Grammy Awards in 2003, including Album of the Year. The single "Don't Know Why" won Song of the Year. The album features mellow, acoustic pop with jazz and soul and was the sleeper of 2003. Nora Jones was born Geethali Norah Jones Shankar in Brooklyn, New York. Her father is famed sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar.
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#1 Album on January 25, 1996

Waiting to Exhale
Soundtrack

The box office hit movie starred Whitney Houston and Angela Basset. The film details the relationships of four African-American women living in Arizona. The #1 soundtrack, written and produced by Babyface, features songs by Whitney Houston, Brandy, Toni Braxton, Aretha Franklin, Patti LaBelle and Mary J. Blige. Seven of the album's sixteen singles made the charts.
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#1 Album on January 24, 1998

Titanic
Soundtrack

Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet starred in the blockbuster legend about the sinking of the Titanic. The soundtrack was composed by James Horner and stayed at #1 for sixteen weeks. Céline Dion sang the film's signature song "My Heart Will Go On", winner of Best Original Song Oscar. Director James Cameron originally intended Enya to compose the music for the movie.
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#1 Album on January 23, 1961

Exodus
Ernest Gold

Paul Newman and Eva Marie Saint starred in this epic movie dealing with the creation of the State of Israel. The film's popular main theme has been covered by hundreds of artists over the years. Earnest Gold's son, Andrew Gold, emerged as a successful pop recording artist during the late 1970s with the songs "Lonely Boy" and "Thank You for Being a Friend."
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#1 Album on January 22, 1972

American Pie
Don McLean

Don McClean's #1 album is best known for its title track "American Pie". According to McClean, the autobiographical song was initially inspired by his memories of the death of Buddy Holly in 1959, and presents an abstract of his life from the mid 1950s to the late 1960s. The song was #1 in several countries.
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#1 Album on January 21, 1978

Saturday Night Fever
Bee Gees

Saturday Night Fever helped popularize disco around the world. The film details Tony Manero, hardware clerk by day and king of Brooklyn disco at night. The soundtrack produced seven #1 hit singles and won a Grammy for Album of the Year in 1979. The album was the best-selling in history until 1984, when Michael Jackson's Thriller replaced it.
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#1 Album on January 20, 1980

The Wall
Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd's immensely successful concept album spawned the film of the same title in 1982. The rock opera's theme of isolation is detailed through life events of the film's main character. The single "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" reached #1. The Wall was the band's most successful record, although recording it caused tension and the departure of keyboardist Richard Wright.
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#1 Album on January 19, 1976

Gratitude
Earth, Wind and Fire

Gratitude is comprised mostly of live concert material from 1975. The band's concerts during this time were notable for pyrotechnics, magic, and laser lights with magician Doug Henning directing many of their shows. The album produced three chart singles. Founding member Maurice White coined the band's name from his astrological sign.
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#1 Album on January 18, 1992

Ropin' the Wind
Garth Brooks

Ropin' was the first album to debut at #1 on both the Country and Pop charts. The album held the #1 position four different times from September 1991 to April 1992, and produced six charted singles, including the #1 hits "Shameless", "What She's Doing Now" and "The River".
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#1 Album on January 17, 1987

Slippery When Wet
Bon Jovi

Bon Jovi's most successful album produced two #1 singles "You Give Love a Bad Name" and "Livin' on a Prayer". Over 33 million copies of Slippery have sold worldwide. Jon Bon Jovi was reportedly reluctant to include "Livin' on a Prayer" on the album, believing it was not a good enough song. The song became the band's most popular.
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#1 Album on January 16, 2006

Unpredictable
Jamie Foxx

Four singles were released from Foxx's second release, the title-track "Unpredictable", "DJ Play A Love Song", "Can I Take You Home" and "Extravaganza". Kanye West and Babyface helped produce this album. Jamie Foxx was born Eric Marlon Bishop. He changed his name early in his comedy career when he found out that female comedians were often called first to perform.
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#1 Album on January 15, 1988

Dirty Dancing
Soundtrack

The smash movie Dirty Dancing details a coming-of-age tale through a girl's relationship with a dance instructor during her family's 1963 summer vacation. The soundtrack spent 18 weeks at #1 selling more than 39 million copies worldwide. Hit singles from the album include "(I've Had) The Time of My Life", "She's Like the Wind" and "Hungry Eyes."
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#1 Album on January 13, 1973

No Secrets
Carly Simon

No Secrets followed its first released single "You're So Vein" to the top of the charts in winter of 1973. Mick Jagger performed backing vocals on "You're So Vein". Other notable guests on the album included Lowell George, James Taylor, and Paul and Linda McCartney. Carly Simon has endured severe stage fright throughout her career.
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#1 Album on January 12, 1974

You Don't Mess Around With Jim
Jim Croce

Two singles hit the charts from You Don't Mess Around with Jim: "Operator" and "Time in a Bottle". Jim Croce died at the height of his career in a small commercial plane crash on September 20, 1973, after completing a concert in Natchitoches, Louisiana. He was thirty.
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#1 Album on January 11, 1999

Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood
DMX

DMX is the stage name for Earl Simmons. The initials DMX originated from an earlier stage name of Dark Man X. This album was the second released in 1998 by DMX and produced by Swizz Beatz. Featured guests on the album include Jadakiss, Styles P, Mary J. Blige, Marilyn Manson, Drag-On, Jay-Z and The L.O.X.
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#1 Album on January 10, 1995

The Hits
Garth Brooks

Garth Brooks' first greatest hits album sold over ten million copies despite being available for a limited time, and topped the country and pop music charts. Garth's full name is Troyal Garth Brooks. Prior to his music career, Garth attended Oklahoma State University on a track scholarship and graduated in 1984 with a degree in advertising.
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#1 Album on January 9, 1965

Beatles '65
Beatles

Beatles '65 is the last of eight Beatles albums released in 1964. The release includes several Beatles classics: "No Reply", "I'm a Loser", "I'll Follow the Sun" and "I Feel Fine". Beatles '65 topped the charts for two months. John, Paul and George first played together as The Quarrymen in 1958, later renamed The Beatles. Ringo joined the band in 1962.
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#1 Album on January 8, 1966

Rubber Soul
Beatles

The Beatles sixth album is seen by many as the beginning of the band's musical transformation from boy-girl love songs to sophisticated pop and rock. George Harrison's sitar on "Norwegian Wood" was a first for a pop song. Producer George Martin described Rubber Soul as "the first album to present a new, growing Beatles to the world."
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#1 Album on January 7, 1968

Magical Mystery Tour
Beatles

The one-hour television film was originally aired in England in 1967 but was not shown widely in the United States until 1974. The story depicts a bus load of eccentric characters on a magic journey through the countryside. Songs introduced in the film include "The Fool on the Hill," "I Am the Walrus" and "Magical Mystery Tour."
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#1 Album on January 6, 1979

Barbra Streisand's Greatest Hits, Vol 2
Barbra Streisand

The second greatest hits compilation for Streisand features ten songs including "You Don't Bring Me Flowers", a duet with Neil Diamond that hit the top of the Billboard charts in 1978. The two had met almost twenty years earlier in the school choir at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, New York.
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#1 Album on January 5, 2005

Loyal to the Game
2Pac

Tupac Shakur's album "Loyal to the Game" was released posthumously nearly ten years after his death in 1996. The album is a compilation of previously unreleased music produced and remixed by Eminem. The record debuted at #1 and features two singles: "Thugs Get Lonely Too" and "Ghetto Gospel".
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#1 Album on January 4, 1961

G.I. Blues
Elvis Presley

The movie G.I. Blues is based roughly on Elvis' army tour of duty in Germany. The soundtrack was #1 for five weeks and stayed on the charts for 111 weeks, making it Elvis' longest charted record. The song "Blue Suede Shoes" was re-recorded for the film and plays on a juke box during a night club fight scene.
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#1 Album on January 3, 1971

All Things Must Pass
George Harrison

All Things Must Pass includes songs composed by former Beatle George Harrison from as early as 1966. The album features Ringo Starr, John Lennon, Eric Clapton and Billy Preston. The single "My Sweet Lord", which topped music charts in seven countries, was the subject of a 1976 lawsuit that found Harrison had plagiarized The Chiffons' song "He So Fine".
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#1 Album on January 2, 1989

...But Seriously
Phil Collins

The album's first of four singles "Another Day in Paradise" brought attention to the issue of poverty and homelessness in cities and became a huge video and radio hit. According to several interviews, Collins said he was inspired to write the song after he visited the streets of Washington D.C.
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