List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 1989

The data are compiled by Nielsen Soundscan based on each album's weekly physical and digital sales.

[1] In 1989, 15 albums advanced to the peak position of the chart.

Bobby Brown's Don't Be Cruel was the best performing and best-selling album of 1989, spending 6 non-consecutive weeks at number one.

The Raw & the Cooked, the second album by rock and soul band Fine Young Cannibals, had the longest run among the releases that reached peak position in 1989, spending 7 consecutive weeks in the top position.

The 1989 debut album Girl You Know It's True, by the pop group Milli Vanilli, spent 7 non-consecutive weeks in the top position, with 6 of those weeks in 1989.

The Raw & the Cooked by Fine Young Cannibals spent seven consecutive weeks at number one in 1989.