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0–9. List of 2005 albums; List of 2006 albums; List of 2007 albums; List of 2008 albums; List of 2009 albums; List of 2010 albums; List of 2011 albums; List of 2012 albums
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. Since May 25, 1991, the Billboard 200 positions have been derived from Nielsen SoundScan sales data, currently contributed by approximately 14,000 music retailers.
Since February 2016, album certifications include "on-demand audio and video streams and a track sale equivalent" units. [ 1 ] Groupings are based on different benchmarks; the highest being for at least 20 million units, and the lowest being for multi-disc albums certified at least 10 times platinum and single-disc albums that have been ...
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Freedb was a database of user-submitted compact disc track listings, [1] where all the content was under the GNU General Public License.To look up CD information over the Internet, a client program calculated a hash function from the CD table of contents and used it as a disc ID to query the database.
List of singles, with selected chart positions, showing year released and album name Title [citation needed] Year Peak chart positions Album US Alt. [9] US Main. Rock [10] UK [11] "Until the Day I Die" 2003 12 — 62 Page Avenue "Anthem of Our Dying Day" 2004 10 — — "Sidewalks" 40 — — "We Don't Care Anymore" 2005 28: 38 — In the Wake ...
From 1992 to date, Nielsen SoundScan's year-end tracking was used. Since 2015, Billboard and MRC Data (formerly Nielsen SoundScan) used album-equivalent units to determine the year's top albums, thus there is a discrepancy between the best-selling album (based on pure sales) and the best-performing album (based on sales+streaming).
Eminem has the best-selling album of a calendar year twice (2002 and 2010). Drake has the year's top-consumed album (based on album-equivalent units) twice (2016 and 2018). The following list includes the annual best-selling albums since 1991, as reported by MRC Data (formerly Nielsen SoundScan).