Imagine Dragons currently sit at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 thanks to their second album, Smoke + Mirrors. With the dragons perched atop the album chart, we got to thinking about other animals, insects, sea life and fictional creatures to take the top spot on the Billboard 200.
Check out our Brief History of Creatures at No.1 on the Billboard 200 above. The list goes from 1990 until Feb. 22, 2015.
The first thing you might notice is that we’ve taken a little creative license with a few of these. While the Beatles were definitely named with a beat music/beetle pun in mind, the Dixie Chicks probably didn’t come up with that moniker while thinking of just-hatched chickens. Nevertheless, we’re including them (and their album Fly, which is probably meant as a verb and not a noun).
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We’re also including artists with creature-themed album titles: LL Cool J‘s G.O.A.T. (Greatest of All Time), Mariah Carey‘s Butterfly and the double-dose of Tha Dogg Pound’s Dogg Food.
Below, check out more details on each release, including the year it first hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200. (As you can see, 1994-96 were the glory years.)
2015
Imagine Dragons, Smoke + Mirrors
2010
Kesha, Animal
2007
Toby Keith, Big Dog Daddy
Eagles, Long Road Out of Eden
Modest Mouse, We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
2006
Jamie Foxx, Unpredictable
Dixie Chicks, Taking the Long Way
2005
Faith Hill, Fireflies
2003
Ludacris, Chicken-n-Beer
2002
Dixie Chicks, Home
2000
LL Cool J, G.O.A.T. (Greatest of All Time)
Limp Bizkit, Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water
Beatles, #1
1999
Dixie Chicks, Fly
1998
Marilyn Manson, Mechanical Animals
Snoop Dogg, Da Game Is to Be Sold, Not To Be Told
1997
Bob Carlisle, Butterfly Kisses (Shades of Grace)
Mariah Carey, Butterfly
1996
Snoop Dogg, Tha Doggfather
Beatles, Anthology 3
Counting Crows, Recovering the Satellites
Hootie & the Blowfish, Fairweather Johnson
Beatles, Anthology 2
1995
Beatles, Anthology 1
Tha Dogg Pound, Dogg Food
Smashing Pumpkins, Mellon Collie & Infinite Sadness
Hootie & the Blowfish, Cracked Rear View
1994
Alice In Chains, Jar of Flies
The Crow Soundtrack
The Lion King Soundtrack
Eagles, Hell Freezes Over
1993
Snoop Dogg, Doggystyle
Meat Loaf, Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell
1992
The Black Crowes, The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion
Def Leppard, Adrenalize