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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.
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.
On May 25, 1991, Billboard premiered the "Top Pop Catalog Albums" chart, the criteria for which were albums that were more than 18 months old and had fallen below no. 100 on the Billboard 200. [ 9 ] "Both Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall should be in the Billboard Top 200," said former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters in 1992.
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 ...
Ranks top R&B albums by sales as compiled by Nielsen Music. Albums must be less than 18 months old, or if older than 18 months then they must reside on the Billboard 200's top 100. [40] Reggae Albums : 10 Tastemakers: Ranked albums based on "an influential panel of indie stores and small regional chains." [41] Traditional Classical Albums
Album Artist(s) Weeks at number one References 2020; Hollywood's Bleeding (2019) by Post Malone was the best performing album on the 2020 Year-End list (December 2019 to November 2020), but its reign at number one on the Billboard 200 occurred in late 2019. January 11 JackBoys: JackBoys and Travis Scott
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 based on multi-metric consumption as measured in album-equivalent units, which comprise album sales, track sales, and streams on digital music platforms.
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.