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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]
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-one spot. [1] It also earned over 2 million album-equivalent units in its first week—the largest sum of the year and a record seventh album by Swift to earn more than a million units in a ...
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. Weekly surveys and year-end charts by Billboard and other publications such as now defunct Cash Box magazine sometimes differed. For instance, during the 1960s and 1970s, the number-one album as ...
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 ...
Each unit equals one album, or 10 individual digital tracks, or 3,750 ad-supported streams, or 1,250 paid/subscription streams generated by songs from an album. There were 26 albums that topped the Billboard 200 during the chart's 52 issue weeks. The top-performing album of the year was Un Verano Sin Ti by Puerto Rican rapper-singer Bad Bunny.
Reached number one Album Artist(s) Weeks at number one References 2020; Hollywood's Bleeding (2019) by Post Malone was the best performing album on the 2020 Year-End list (December 2019 to November 2020), but its reign at number one on the Billboard 200 occurred in late 2019.
TLC's third album, Fanmail, the year's top selling hip-hop album, [4] remained at number one for five weeks and won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Album at the 42nd Grammy Awards. [5] I Am…, the third studio album by rapper Nas, stayed at the top of the chart for two weeks and has been certified double platinum by the RIAA. [6]
English singer Adele's fourth studio album, 30, had the biggest sales week of 2021 and was the best-selling album of the year. This is a list of the albums ranked number one in the United States during 2021. The top-performing albums and EPs in the U.S. are ranked on the Billboard 200 chart, which is published by Billboard magazine.