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‘Hamilton’ Reaches 500 Weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Cast Albums Chart

The original Broadway cast recording of “Hamilton” reached 500 weeks at No.

1 on Billboard’s Cast Albums chart, on the chart dated Oct.

17.

The album debuted at No.

1 in 2015, the same year the show began its Broadway run.

It has spent 576 weeks on the chart in total, with 87% of those weeks at the top.

The chart began in 2006, and only four albums have spent at least 10 weeks at No.

1; “Wicked” ranks second with 355 weeks.

“Hamilton” is the only title to reach 500 weeks at No.

1 on any currently published Billboard ranking.

On the Billboard 200, it peaked at No.

2 in 2020 after the show premiered on Disney+, and it is the only cast recording with 500 weeks on that chart.

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