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On November 29, 2015, 25 by Adele registered the highest weekly sales figure for a number one album in the Billboard 200 chart history, with 3.38 million units sold. [188] It also became the first album to sell 1 million copies in different weeks, with 1.11 million sold in its second week and 1.16 million sold in its fifth week on the chart. [189]
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.
Billboard biz, the online extension of the Billboard charts, provides additional weekly charts, [1] as well as year-end charts. [2] The two most important charts are the Billboard Hot 100 for songs and Billboard 200 for albums, and other charts may be dedicated to a specific genre such as R&B, country, or rock, or they may cover all genres.
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. Weekly surveys and year-end charts by Billboard and other publications such as now defunct Cash Box magazine sometimes differed. For instance, during the 1960s and 1970s, the number-one album as ...
The Billboard Year-End chart is a chart published by Billboard which denotes the top song of each year as determined by the publication's charts. Since 1946, Year-End charts have existed for the top songs in pop, R&B, and country, with additional album charts for each genre debuting in 1956, 1966, and 1965, respectively.
The top-performing albums and EPs in the U.S. are ranked on the Billboard 200 chart, which is published by Billboard magazine. The data is compiled by Luminate Data based on multi-metric consumption as measured in album-equivalent units, which comprise album sales, track sales, and streams on digital music platforms.
Billboard in October 2012 launched the R&B Songs chart and in January 2013, launched the R&B Albums chart as distillations of the main Hot R&B/Hip-Hop charts. The separate R&B song and album charts rank the top 25 songs or albums, but exclude rap titles. Effectively they are a subset of the main chart. If an album has charted on Top Latin ...
Folklore by Taylor Swift was the best-selling album of 2020, [2] [3] and the longest-running number-one album of the year, spending eight weeks atop the chart. [4] Hollywood's Bleeding (2019) by Post Malone was the best-performing album on the Billboard 200 Year-End chart of 2020. [5]