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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.
The soundtrack sold over 2.7 million units in 2008, becoming the second-best-selling album. [2] High School Musical 2 is one of the two soundtrack albums to have reached number one on the chart, the other being Dreamgirls: Music from the Motion Picture. Linkin Park's Minutes To Midnight becomes the band's third number-one album. The album sells ...
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.
The following articles contain lists of number-one albums: List of number-one albums in Argentina; List of number-one albums in Australia; List of number-one albums (Finland) List of number-one albums in Greece; List of number-one albums (Ireland) List of number-one albums (Japan) List of number-one albums (Mexico) List of number-one albums ...
This page lists the albums that reached number-one on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Top Rap Albums charts in 2007. The Rap Albums chart partially serves as a distillation of rap-specific titles from the overall R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. The best performing R&B/hip-hop album of the year was Kingdom Come by Jay-Z, which had topped both charts in ...
Beyoncé topped the chart with her song "Irreplaceable" and reached number 62 with "Beautiful Liar," a collaboration with Shakira. Barbadian singer Rihanna had three songs on the chart, Umbrella" at position 2 and "Shut Up and Drive" at position 90 from her album Good Girl Gone Bad, and "Break It Off" at position 85 from her album A Girl Like Me.
Four acts reached number one for the first time in 2007, most notably teenage vocalist Taylor Swift, [7] [8] whose self-titled debut album had the year's longest unbroken run at number one, spending eight consecutive weeks in the top spot. Swift would quickly become a major star in the country field before moving into the pop music market ...