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The Billboard 200, published in Billboard magazine, is a weekly chart that ranks the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States. Before Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991, Billboard estimated the sales for the album charts from a representative sampling of record stores nationwide, which was gathered by telephone, fax or messenger service. [1]
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 ...
This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1982. [1] [2] The Top 100, as revealed in the year-end edition of Billboard dated December 25, 1982, is based on Hot 100 charts from the issue dates of November 1, 1981 through October 31, 1982.
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 ...
List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 1982; List of Billboard Adult Contemporary number ones of 1982; List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1982; List of Canadian number-one albums of 1982; List of Cash Box Top 100 number-one singles of 1982; List of Dutch Top 40 number-one singles of 1982; List of European number-one hits of 1982
American Fool is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter John Cougar, released on April 27, 1982.The album was his commercial breakthrough, holding the No. 1 position on the Billboard 200 album chart for nine consecutive weeks.
Upon its June 1982 release, Chicago 16 was a hit album, especially as "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" became the band's second number one US single, [4]: 202 going to number one on both the Billboard Hot 100 chart [13] and the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. [14] The album ultimately went platinum [5] and reached number nine on the Billboard 200 ...
These are the Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1982. The two longest running number-one singles of 1982 are "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts and "Ebony and Ivory" by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder, which each stayed at the top for seven weeks.