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The official street date for all new album releases was moved from Tuesday to Friday in the United States. For all sales-based charts (ranking both albums and tracks), Billboard and Nielsen changed the chart reporting period to cover the first seven
Nov 14, 2019 · March 24, 1945: Billboard ’s first album chart, Best Selling Popular Record Albums, debuts. But an albums chart would not be published on a consistent, weekly basis until 1956. Nov. 12,...
1959-03-09 The Coasters' single "Charlie Brown" peaks at #2 on the Billboard Top 100. 1959-12-14 The album "Time Out" by the Dave Brubeck Quartet is released, peaking at No. 2 on the Billboard pop albums chart, and becomes the first jazz album to sell a million copies.
Mar 28, 2023 · The pre-history of the Billboard album chart began when the magazine started publishing Best Selling Popular Albums in January 1955, but only on a bi-weekly basis with 15 LPs and 15 EPs....
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 suit.
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Aug 1, 2013 · Many music charts are fairly simple. The album chart, for example — the Billboard 200 — is essentially a straight-up ranking of pure sales as tallied by Nielsen Soundscan, with a few minor ...
Jun 12, 2019 · The Billboard 200 albums chart underwent a major overhaul back in 2014, announcing it would take into account digital track sales and on-demand streaming (think Spotify, Amazon Music and...
