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Mariah Carey's self-titled debut album was the longest running number-one album of the year, spending 11 consecutive weeks atop the chart and was the best-selling album of 1991. [2] Starting in 1991, Billboard began using Nielsen Soundscan data for its album chart, which provided more precise and accurate sales figures. [3] The first date to ...
Mariah Carey (pictured) had four songs on the Year-End Hot 100, the most of any artist in 1991. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1991. [1]
This is a list of the best-selling albums by year in the United States, published by American music magazine Billboard since 1956 as year-end rankings of album sales. Until 1991, the Billboard album chart was based on a survey of representative retail outlets that determined a ranking, not a tally of actual sales.
Metallica's self-titled album is the highest selling record under Nielsen SoundScan, selling over 17 million copies. This is a list of best-selling albums in the United States of the Nielsen SoundScan era. SoundScan began tracking sales data for Billboard on March 1, 1991.
The 25 May issue of Billboard published Billboard 200 and Country Album charts based on SoundScan "piece count data," and the first Hot 100 chart to debut with the system was released on 30 November 1991. Previously, Billboard tracked sales by calling stores across the U.S. and asking about sales – a method that was inherently error-prone and ...
#1 Album #1 Adult Contemporary Artist Mariah Carey – Mariah Carey; Mariah Carey #1 Pop Artist #1 Album Rock Track Mariah Carey; Queensrÿche – Silent Lucidity #1 Modern Rock Artist #1 World Album R.E.M. R.E.M. – Out of Time #1 New Pop Male Artist #1 R&B Single Ralph Tresvant; Rude Boys – Written All Over Your Face #1 Album Rock Artist
This is a list of number-one albums in the United States by year from the main Billboard albums chart, currently called the Billboard 200. Billboard first began publishing an album chart on March 24, 1945. The chart expanded to 200 positions on the week ending May 13, 1967, and adopted its current name on March 14, 1992.
Indicates best-performing single of 1991 An asterisk (*) by a date indicates an unpublished, "frozen" week, due to the special double issues that Billboard published in print at the end of the year for their year-end charts.