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List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 1989

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The highest-selling albums and EPs in the United States are ranked in the Billboard 200, which is published by Billboard magazine. The data are compiled by Nielsen Soundscan based on each album's weekly physical and digital sales.[1] In 1989, 15 albums advanced to the peak position of the chart.

Bobby Brown's Don't Be Cruel was the best performing and best-selling album of 1989, spending 6 non-consecutive weeks at number one.

The Raw & the Cooked, the second album by rock and soul band Fine Young Cannibals, had the longest run among the releases that reached peak position in 1989, spending 7 consecutive weeks in the top position.

The 1989 debut album Girl You Know It's True, by the pop group Milli Vanilli, spent 7 non-consecutive weeks in the top position, with 6 of those weeks in 1989.

The Raw & the Cooked by Fine Young Cannibals spent seven consecutive weeks at number one in 1989.

Chart history

Key
† Indicates best performing album of 1989
More information Issue date, Album ...
Issue date Album Artist(s) Label(s) Ref.
January 7 Giving You the Best That I Got Anita Baker Elektra [2]
January 14 [3]
January 21 Don't Be Cruel † Bobby Brown MCA [4]
January 28 [5]
February 4 [6]
February 11 Appetite for Destruction Guns N' Roses Geffen [7]
February 18 Don't Be Cruel † Bobby Brown MCA [8]
February 25 [9]
March 4 [10]
March 11 Electric Youth Debbie Gibson Atlantic [11]
March 18 [12]
March 25 [13]
April 1 [14]
April 8 [15]
April 15 Lōc-ed After Dark Tone Lōc Delicious Vinyl [16]
April 22 Like a Prayer Madonna Sire/Warner Bros. [17]
April 29 [18]
May 6 [19]
May 13 [20]
May 20 [21]
May 27 [22]
June 3 The Raw & the Cooked Fine Young Cannibals I.R.S. [23]
June 10 [24]
June 17 [25]
June 24 [26]
July 1 [27]
July 8 [28]
July 15 [29]
July 22 Batman Prince / Soundtrack Warner Bros. [30]
July 29 [31]
August 5 [32]
August 12 [33]
August 19 [34]
August 26 [35]
September 2 Repeat Offender Richard Marx Capitol [36]
September 9 Hangin' Tough New Kids on the Block Columbia [37]
September 16 [38]
September 23 Girl You Know It's True Milli Vanilli Arista [39]
September 30 [40]
October 7 Forever Your Girl Paula Abdul Virgin [41]
October 14 Dr. Feelgood Mötley Crüe Elektra [42]
October 21 [43]
October 28 Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 Janet Jackson A&M [44]
November 4 [45]
November 11 [46]
November 18 [47]
November 25 Girl You Know It's True Milli Vanilli Arista [48]
December 2 [49]
December 9 [50]
December 16 Storm Front Billy Joel Columbia [51]
December 23 Girl You Know It's True Milli Vanilli Arista [52]
December 30 ...But Seriously Phil Collins Virgin/Atlantic [53]
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