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The top-performing albums and EPs in the U.S. are ranked on the Billboard 200 chart, which is published by Billboard magazine. The data is compiled by Luminate Data based on multi-metric consumption as measured in album-equivalent units, which comprise album sales, track sales, and streams on digital music platforms.
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 Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States. It is published weekly by Billboard magazine to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists. Sometimes, a recording act is remembered for its "number ones" that outperformed all other albums during at least one week. The chart ...
Un Verano Sin Ti by Bad Bunny topped the chart for 13 weeks and was the best-performing album of 2022. Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote the original songs for the soundtrack of Encanto, which topped the Billboard 200 for nine weeks. South Korean boy group Stray Kids garnered two number-one entries with their EPs Oddinary and Maxident.
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]
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At the end of a year, Billboard publishes an annual list of the 200 most successful songs throughout that year on the Global 200 and Global Excl. US charts based on the information. For 2022, its second year, the list was published on December 2, calculated with data from November 20, 2021, to November 12, 2022.
Tha Carter V, the twelfth studio album by American rapper Lil Wayne (pictured above) opened atop the chart with 480,000 units—the third largest week of 2018. Beerbongs & Bentleys, the third studio album by American rapper Post Malone (pictured above) stayed atop the chart for three consecutive weeks. It became the second most consumed album ...