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Chart Search. Artist Title Distribution Chart Date. Note: For years prior to 1983, we have limited data. The Top Jazz Albums chart displays in full through 1967 and the Billboard 200...
- Billboard Charts History: How the Charts Evolved | Billboard
Take a trip through the history of Billboard charts, which...
- Billboard 200™
The week’s most popular albums as compiled by Luminate,...
- Billboard Charts History: How the Charts Evolved | Billboard
Nov 14, 2019 · Take a trip through the history of Billboard charts, which have welcomed everyone from Frank Sinatra to Frank Ocean, and all the other artists who keep the charts, as much as ever, bright and...
History. Billboard began an album chart in 1945. Initially only five positions long, the album chart was not published on a weekly basis, with weeks sometimes passing before it was updated. A biweekly (though with a few gaps), 15-position "Best-Selling Popular Albums" chart appeared in 1955.
The week’s most popular albums as compiled by Luminate, based on multi-metric consumption (blending traditional album sales, track equivalent albums, and streaming equivalent albums).
An album chart, the "Best Selling Popular Record Albums", was first published on March 24, 1945, with The King Cole Trio its first No. 1. The first chart had 10 albums, before reducing to five in the following weeks, before increasing again to 10 in 1948.
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.
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May 25, 2021 · On May 25, 1991—30 years ago Tuesday—Billboard started using Nielsen SoundScan data to build its album chart, with all of its charts, including singles hub The Hot 100, eventually following...
