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August 12 – The Backstreet Boys release their U.S. debut album, Backstreet Boys. August 14 – Godspeed You! Black Emperor releases debut album, F♯ A♯ ∞; August 16–17 – Phish perform at the two-day music festival, The Great Went, at Loring Air Force Base in Limestone, Maine, US. They play 500 minutes of music, six sets and two encores.
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.
The following is a list of the best-selling albums in the United States based on RIAA certification and Nielsen SoundScan sales tracking. The criteria are that the album must have been published (including self-publishing by the artist), and the album must have achieved at least a diamond certification from the RIAA.
25 May – The Billboard 200 album chart starts incorporating electronically monitored sales data provided by Nielsen SoundScan, thus beginning what chart aficionados tag as the "SoundScan era". 28 May – The Smashing Pumpkins release their debut album Gish, establishing the band as one of the most important of the alternative scene.
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]
January 25 – Alice in Chains release their Jar of Flies album which makes its US chart debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, becoming the first ever EP to do so. January 29 – The Supremes' Mary Wilson is injured when her Jeep hits a freeway median and flips over just outside Los Angeles, USA. Wilson's 14-year-old son is killed in the accident.
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.
July 12 – Opening of the Chamber-Music Festival of Kuhmo, Finland (until July 26). [15] July 18 – Whitney Houston marries Bobby Brown. July 28 – Ice-T announces that the controversial track "Cop Killer" is being pulled from Body Count's self-titled album. August 2. Rozalla becomes the first artist from Zimbabwe to chart on the US ...