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The Billboard 200, published in Billboard magazine, is a weekly chart that ranks the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States. Before Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991, Billboard estimated the sales for the album charts from a representative sampling of record stores nationwide, which was gathered by telephone, fax or messenger service. [1]
US BB 1 – May 1981, Netherlands 1 – January 1981, Austria 1 – May 1981, Switzerland 1 – May 1981, Germany 1 – March 1981, New Zealand 1 for 7 weeks June 1981, Australia 1 for 4 weeks June 1982, UK 2 – April 1981, Australia 2 of 1981, Germany 5 of the 1980s, Sweden (alt) 7 – June 1981, US CashBox 13 of 1981, Italy 54 of 1981
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.
Album Artis January 3: Hotter Than July: Stevie Wonder: January 10 January 17 January 24 January 31 February 7 February 14 February 21: The Gap Band III: The Gap Band: February 28 March 7: The Two of Us: Yarbrough & Peoples: March 14 March 21: The Gap Band III: The Gap Band March 28 April 4 April 11 April 18: Being with You: Smokey Robinson ...
List of Canadian number-one albums of 1981; List of Cash Box Top 100 number-one singles of 1981; List of European number-one hits of 1981; List of Hot Country Singles number ones of 1981; List of number-one dance singles of 1981 (U.S.) List of number-one hits of 1981 (Argentina) List of number-one hits of 1981 (Flanders) List of number-one hits ...
By the end of 1981 it had spent a total of 17 weeks atop the chart, the most by any album during the year. It would continue to return to number one in the first half of 1982 and would achieve a final total of 28 weeks at number one, a new record for the country albums chart. [6] The first band to achieve stardom in country music, a genre ...
Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes was the number one song of 1981. Three songs by John Lennon appear on the Year-End Hot 100, charting posthumously after his murder in late 1980. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1981.
When introduced by Billboard in March 1981, the Mainstream Rock chart was entitled Top Tracks and designed to measure the airplay of songs being played on album-oriented rock radio stations. The chart has undergone several name changes over the years, first to Top Rock Tracks in September 1984 and then to Album Rock Tracks in April 1986.