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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. Since May 25, 1991, the ...
In 2015, Billboard compiled a ranking of the 100 best-performing albums on the Billboard 200 over its 52 years, along with the best-performing artists. [13] Shown below are the top 10 albums and top 10 artists over the 52-year period of the Billboard 200, through October 2015. Also shown are the artists placing the most albums on the overall ...
The highest-selling albums and EPs in the United States are ranked in the Billboard 200, published by Billboard magazine. The date are compiled by Nielsen Soundscan based on each album's weekly physical sales. In 2000, 20 albums topped the chart in 53 issues of the magazine, but two of which albums started their peak position in 1999 and are ...
One Thing at a Time, the third studio album by American country singer Morgan Wallen, is the longest-running number-one album of the year, topping the chart for 16 non-consecutive weeks. It also became the most consumed album of 2023. The second studio album of SZA, SOS (2022), is 2023's longest reigning number-one on the Billboard 200 by a ...
The Tortured Poets Department, the eleventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, is the longest-running number-one album of the year with 17 cumulative weeks atop the chart. It broke several all-time Billboard 200 records, including becoming the first album by a female artist to spend its first 12 weeks at the chart's number ...
Rapper Eminem's The Eminem Show is the best selling album of 2002 selling over approximately 7.6 million copies by the end of the year. It is also the longest running album of 2002 spending six non-consecutive weeks the chart and was known for its first full week of sales debut of 1.322 million copies which Nielsen SoundScan scanned as the then ...
Folklore by Taylor Swift was the best-selling album of 2020, [2] [3] and the longest-running number-one album of the year, spending eight weeks atop the chart. [4] Hollywood's Bleeding (2019) by Post Malone was the best-performing album on the Billboard 200 Year-End chart of 2020. [5]
Eilish became the first artist born in the 21st century to have a number-one album on the Billboard 200. Post Malone had the longest-running number-one album of the year, with his album Hollywood's Bleeding topping the chart for five non-consecutive weeks. Rapper A Boogie Wit da Hoodie topped the chart for three weeks with his second studio ...