Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne (lengthy the band’s famed frontman) have a heavy (metallic) legacy of hit albums on the Billboard 200 chart, courting to when the group notched its first chart entry with its self-titled debut in 1970. By means of the years, the band, and Osbourne with solo initiatives, has rocked the chart with a collection of high-charting albums.
The band logged a collection of prime 40-charting efforts over the a long time, first reaching the prime 10 in 1971 with Grasp of Actuality, which climbed to No. 8. The group final hit the chart with the reunion undertaking 13, launched in 2013, which marked the group’s second prime 10, and first No. 1.
Osbourne himself as a soloist has claimed 9 prime 10-charting units on the Billboard 200, together with not less than one in each decade from the Nineteen Eighties by the 2020s. He most lately hit the prime 10 with the No. 3-peaking Affected person Quantity 9 in 2022. Alongside the manner, Osbourne additionally claimed a pair of prime 10 charting songs on the Billboard Scorching 100, along with his Lita Ford duet “Shut My Eyes Without end” (No. 8 in 1989) and his featured flip, alongside Travis Scott, on Publish Malone’s “Take What You Need” (No. 8 in 2019).
Under is a mixed prime 10 rating of each Black Sabbath and Osbourne’s greatest albums on the Billboard 200 chart. The rating relies on precise efficiency on the weekly Billboard 200 by the July 5, 2025, chart. Titles are ranked on an inverse level system, with weeks at No. 1 incomes the biggest worth and weeks at No. 200 incomes the least. Resulting from adjustments in chart methodology over the years, eras are weighted to account for various chart turnover charges over numerous durations.
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Black Rain, Ozzy Osbourne
Peak Place: No. 3
Peak Date: June 9, 2007The set spent 20 weeks on the Billboard 200 and housed the single “I Don’t Wanna Cease,” which spent 5 weeks atop the Mainstream Rock Airplay chart.
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Blizzard of Ozz, Ozzy Osbourne
Peak Place: No. 21
Peak Date: Aug. 8, 1981Whereas Blizzard of Ozz could have peaked exterior the prime 20 on the weekly Billboard 200, Osbourne’s debut solo effort spent a mighty 107 weeks on the chart in complete — the most of any Osbourne or Black Sabbath album. The set launched one in every of Osbourne’s most well-known hits, “Loopy Practice,” which reached No. 9 on the Mainstream Rock Airplay chart in 1981.
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Vol. 4, Black Sabbath
Peak Place: No. 13
Peak Date: Dec. 23, 1972The band’s appropriately titled fourth studio album, Vol. 4, spent 31 weeks on the chart and marked the fourth prime 40-charting effort for the group in lower than two years, courting to the group’s self-titled debut in 1970.
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Tribute, Ozzy Osbourne/Randy Rhoads
Peak Place: No. 6
Peak Date: June 13, 1987The stay album from Osbourne contains performances with guitarist Randy Rhoads, who performed with Osbourne’s band in the late Seventies and into the early Nineteen Eighties, and died in 1982. The set spun off a single in a stay rendition of “Loopy Practice,” which additionally garnered its first official music video.
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Diary of a Madman, Ozzy Osbourne
Peak Place: No. 16
Peak Date: Dec. 19, 1981Osbourne’s second solo studio album was his first to succeed in the prime 20 on the weekly Billboard 200, peaking at No. 16, and spending 75 complete weeks on the chart. The set contains the radio single “Flying Excessive Once more,” which peaked at No. 2 on the Mainstream Rock Airplay chart.
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13, Black Sabbath
Peak Place: No. 1 (one week)
Peak Date: June 29, 2013Forty-three years after Black Sabbath made its debut on the Billboard 200, the band scored its first No. 1 with the chart-topping debut of the reunion undertaking 13. It was the first studio album with Osbourne since 1978’s By no means Say Die!
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Paranoid, Black Sabbath
Peak Place: No. 12
Peak Date: March 20, 1971The band’s second studio album reached No. 12 and launched the group’s solely two charted hits on the Billboard Scorching 100 songs chart: the title monitor (peaking No. 61 in December 1970) and “Iron Man” (No. 52 in March 1972).
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Grasp of Actuality, Black Sabbath
Peak Place: No. 8
Peak Date: Sept. 25, 1971When the album, the group’s third studio set, reached No. 8 on Sept. 25, 1971 (sandwiched between albums by Carpenters and the Partridge Household), it marked the first prime 10 for the band — and the solely prime 10 it might declare till the chart-topping reunion set 13 in 2013.
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No Extra Tears, Ozzy Osbourne
Peak Place: No. 7
Peak Date: Oct. 5, 1991No Extra Tears launched a pair of Scorching 100-charting singles in the title monitor (No. 71) and “Mama, I’m Coming House” (No. 28). The latter stays Osbourne’s solely prime 40 hit on the all-genre Scorching 100 unaccompanied by some other act. On the Mainstream Rock Airplay chart, the set generated 5 prime 40-charting titles: “No Extra Tears” (No. 10), “Mama” (No. 2), “Street to Nowhere” (No. 3), “Mr. Tinkertrain” (No. 34) and “Time After Time” (No. 6). The album No Extra Tears would stay on the Billboard 200 for 86 weeks — the second-longest run of any Osbourne solo album, after Blizzard of Ozz‘s 107 weeks.
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The Final Sin, Ozzy Osbourne
Peak Place: No. 6
Peak Date: April 5, 1986The Final Sin reigns as the No. 1 album on this mixed rating of the prime 10 albums by Osbourne and Black Sabbath. The set reached No. 6 in April of 1986 and spent 13 weeks inside the weekly prime 20 — the most of any album by Osbourne or Sabbath. The album generated successful single in “Shot In the Darkish,” which grew to become Osbourne’s first solo Scorching 100 entry, peaking No. 68 in April 1986. It might additionally hit No. 10 on the Mainstream Rock Airplay chart.
