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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]
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 Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1981. [1] [2] The Top 100, as revealed in the year-end edition of Billboard dated December 26, 1981, is based on Hot 100 charts from the issue dates of November 1, 1980 through October 31, 1981.
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 ...
Prior to incorporating chart data from Nielsen SoundScan (from 1991), year-end charts were calculated by an inverse-point system based solely on a title's performance (for example a single appearing on the Billboard Hot 100 would be given one point for a week spent at position 100, two points for a week spent at position ninety-nine, and so forth, up to 100 points for each week spent at number ...
Pitchfork's Top 200 Albums of the 1980s (2018): #152 [49] Slant's 100 Best Albums of the 1980s: #91 [62] Robert Dimery's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. [26] 1984 E2-E4: Manuel Göttsching: Electronic; kosmische musik; minimalism; Inteam Significant to the development of house, techno, and ambient techno music of the late 1980s and ...
Albums are listed in order of number of copies sold. If two or more artists have the same claimed sales, they are then ranked by certified units and thereafter by the artist's last name. Markets' order within the table is based on the number of compact discs sold in each market, largest market at the top and smallest at the bottom. [7]
Albums originally released in the year 1981. See also 1981 in music. ... Pages in category "1981 albums" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of ...