Here Are Black Sabbath & Ozzy Osbourne’s Biggest Hit Albums on the Billboard 200 Chart

Peak Position: No. 3
Peak Date: June 9, 2007

The set spent 20 weeks on the Billboard 200 and housed the single “I Don’t Wanna Stop,” which spent five weeks atop the Mainstream Rock Airplay chart.

Peak Position: No. 21
Peak Date: Aug. 8, 1981

While Blizzard of Ozz may have peaked outside the top 20 on the weekly Billboard 200, Osbourne’s debut solo effort spent a mighty 107 weeks on the chart in total — the most of any Osbourne or Black Sabbath album. The set launched one of Osbourne’s most famous hits, “Crazy Train,” which reached No. 9 on the Mainstream Rock Airplay chart in 1981.

Peak Position: No. 13
Peak Date: Dec. 23, 1972

The band’s appropriately titled fourth studio album, Vol. 4, spent 31 weeks on the chart and marked the fourth top 40-charting effort for the group in less than two years, dating to the group’s self-titled debut in 1970.

Peak Position: No. 6
Peak Date: June 13, 1987

The live album from Osbourne includes performances with guitarist Randy Rhoads, who played with Osbourne’s band in the late 1970s and into the early 1980s, and died in 1982. The set spun off a single in a live rendition of “Crazy Train,” which also garnered its first official music video.

Peak Position: No. 16
Peak Date: Dec. 19, 1981

Osbourne’s second solo studio album was his first to reach the top 20 on the weekly Billboard 200, peaking at No. 16, and spending 75 total weeks on the chart. The set includes the radio single “Flying High Again,” which peaked at No. 2 on the Mainstream Rock Airplay chart.

Peak Position: No. 1 (one week)
Peak Date: June 29, 2013

Forty-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 project 13. It was the first studio album with Osbourne since 1978’s Never Say Die!

Peak Position: No. 12
Peak Date: March 20, 1971

The band’s second studio album reached No. 12 and launched the group’s only two charted hits on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart: the title track (peaking No. 61 in December 1970) and “Iron Man” (No. 52 in March 1972).

Peak Position: No. 8
Peak Date: Sept. 25, 1971

When the album, the group’s third studio set, reached No. 8 on Sept. 25, 1971 (sandwiched between albums by Carpenters and the Partridge Family), it marked the first top 10 for the band — and the only top 10 it would claim until the chart-topping reunion set 13 in 2013.

Peak Position: No. 7
Peak Date: Oct. 5, 1991

No More Tears launched a pair of Hot 100-charting singles in the title track (No. 71) and “Mama, I’m Coming Home” (No. 28). The latter remains Osbourne’s only top 40 hit on the all-genre Hot 100 unaccompanied by any other act. On the Mainstream Rock Airplay chart, the set generated five top 40-charting titles: “No More Tears” (No. 10), “Mama” (No. 2), “Road to Nowhere” (No. 3), “Mr. Tinkertrain” (No. 34) and “Time After Time” (No. 6). The album No More Tears would remain on the Billboard 200 for 86 weeks — the second-longest run of any Osbourne solo album, after Blizzard of Ozz‘s 107 weeks.

Peak Position: No. 6
Peak Date: April 5, 1986

The Ultimate Sin reigns as the No. 1 album on this combined ranking of the top 10 albums by Osbourne and Black Sabbath. The set reached No. 6 in April of 1986 and spent 13 weeks inside the weekly top 20 — the most of any album by Osbourne or Sabbath. The album generated a hit single in “Shot In the Dark,” which became Osbourne’s first solo Hot 100 entry, peaking No. 68 in April 1986. It would also hit No. 10 on the Mainstream Rock Airplay chart.