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The second best-selling album of the year is alternative rock band Coldplay's Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends with 2.144 million copies sold, followed by Swift's Fearless with 2.112 million. [6] It is also the best-selling album in digital format, having topped the Billboard Top Digital Albums of 2008. [8]
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.
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 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.
R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Artist(s) Rap Albums Artist(s) Refs. January 5 Growing Pains: Mary J. Blige: Lupe Fiasco's The Cool: Lupe Fiasco [3] January 12 [4] January 19 [5] January 26 American Gangster: Jay-Z [6] February 2: Love Behind the Melody: Raheem deVaughn: Lupe Fiasco's The Cool: Lupe Fiasco [7] February 9 Growing Pains: Mary J. Blige [8 ...
The Man performed "Feel It Still", which spent a record-breaking 20 weeks atop the Alternative Songs chart. Alternative Airplay is a record chart published by the music industry magazine Billboard that ranks the most-played songs on American modern rock radio stations. It was introduced by Billboard in September 1988. [1]
Top Country Albums is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music albums in the United States, published by Billboard. In 2008, 21 different albums topped the chart; placings were based on electronic point of sale data from retail outlets. [1] In the issue of Billboard dated January 5, the Eagles were at number one with Long Road Out of ...
Each unit equals one album, or 10 individual digital tracks, or 3,750 ad-supported streams, or 1,250 paid/subscription streams generated by songs from an album. There were 26 albums that topped the Billboard 200 during the chart's 52 issue weeks. The top-performing album of the year was Un Verano Sin Ti by Puerto Rican rapper-singer Bad Bunny.