page_title: List of Top Country Albums number ones of 1996
section_title: Chart history
hierarchical_section_title: List of Top Country Albums number ones of 1996 / Chart history
caption_attribution_description: Alan Jackson
context_page_description: Top Country Albums is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music albums in the United States, published by Billboard. In 1996, seven different albums topped the chart, based on electronic point of sale data provided by SoundScan Inc.
  In the issue of Billboard dated January 6, Garth Brooks was at number one with Fresh Horses, the album's fifth week atop the chart. It remained in the top spot for two further weeks before being displaced by Shania Twain's The Woman in Me, which went on to spend 14 consecutive weeks in the top spot. Twain's album would later return to number one for a further four weeks in June and July. Having already topped the chart for 11 weeks in 1995, the album's final total of 29 weeks in the top spot made it the longest-running number one country album to date by a female artist. The album's time at number one in 1996 was interrupted by two albums: Borderline by Brooks & Dunn and Blue Clear Sky by George Strait. The latter album won the award for Album of the Year from the Country Music Association.
  In July, The Woman in Me's final spell at number one was ended by LeAnn Rimes with her album Blue.
caption: Alan Jackson topped the chart with Everything I Love.
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