Billy Ray Cyrus is an American country music artist. He has released eleven studio albums since 1992, released 38 singles, best known for his #1 single "Achy Breaky Heart." Cyrus, a multi-platinum selling recording artist, has scored a total of eight top-ten singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. His most successful album to date is the debut of Some Gave All, which has been certified 9× Multi-Platinum in the United States and is the longest time spent by a debut artist at #1 on the Billboard 200 (17 consecutive weeks) and most consecutive chart-topping weeks in the SoundScan era. It's the only album (from any genre) in the SoundScan era to log 17 consecutive weeks at #1 and is also the top-ranking debut album by a male country artist. The album ranked 43 weeks in the top 10, a total topped by only one country album in history, Ropin' The Wind by Garth Brooks. The album has also sold more than 20 million copies worldwide and is the Best selling debut album of all time for a solo male artist.Some Gave All was also the best selling album of the 1992 with 4,832,000 copies and it's the last country album to be the best selling album of the year.