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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]
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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.
Olivia Newton-John had two songs on the Year-End Hot 100, including "Physical", the number one song of the year. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1982 . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Top 100, as revealed in the year-end edition of Billboard dated December 25, 1982, is based on Hot 100 charts from the issue dates of November 1, 1981 ...
This is a list of the world's best-selling albums of recorded music in physical mediums, such as vinyl, audio cassettes or compact discs. To appear on the list, the figure must have been published by a reliable source and the album must have sold at least 20 million copies and certified at least 10 million units (the equivalent of a diamond ...
For the third year in a row, Dylan raided the Great American Songbook, this time with a 30-song triple album, and received his third consecutive Grammy nomination for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album.
At the time, 1982 had the second lowest number of number-one songs since 1956, with only 15 songs reaching the #1 spot. That year, 10 acts received their first number-one songs: The J. Geils Band , Joan Jett and the Blackhearts , Vangelis , The Human League , Survivor , John Cougar , Men at Work , Joe Cocker , Jennifer Warnes , and Toni Basil .
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.