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The Grammy Award for Album of the Year is an award presented by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales, chart position, or critical reception."
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.
Nominee Wins Nominations Brian McKnight: 0: 17 Snoop Dogg: 0: 16 Joe Satriani Björk: 0: 15 Martina McBride Dierks Bentley: 0: 14 Katy Perry Spyro Gyra Musiq Soulchild
Albums which have won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year from The Recording Academy. Pages in category "Grammy Award for Album of the Year" The following 68 pages are in this category, out of 68 total.
The following is a list of the best-selling albums in the United States based on RIAA certification and Nielsen SoundScan sales tracking. The criteria are that the album must have been published (including self-publishing by the artist), and the album must have achieved at least a diamond certification from the RIAA.
In 1995, the Academy announced the addition of the award category Best Rap Album. [3] The first award was presented to the group Naughty by Nature at the 38th Grammy Awards the following year. According to the category description guide for the 52nd Grammy Awards , the award is presented for "albums containing at least 51% playing time of ...
The following list shows the recipients for the Country Music Association Award for Album of the Year.. The inaugural recipient of the award was There Goes My Everything by Jack Greene in 1967, with Jessi Colter becoming the first female winner in 1976, and Alabama being the first group awarded in 1983.
Album of the Year (Art Blakey album), 1981; Album of the Year (Black Milk album), 2010; Album of the Year (Faith No More album), 1997; Album of the Year (The Good Life album) or the title song, 2004; The Album of the Year, a compilation album from Suave House Records, 1997