Billboard album charts

The Billboard is a record chart ranking the most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs and albums in the United States and elsewhere. The results are published in Billboard magazine. Billboard biz, the online extension of the Billboard charts, provides additional weekly charts, [1] as well as year-end charts. The charts can be ranked according to sales, streams, or airplay, and for main song charts such as the Hot song chart, all three data are used to compile the charts. The weekly sales and streams charts are monitored on a Friday-to-Thursday cycle since July ; previously it was on a Monday-to-Sunday cycle. Radio airplay song charts, however, follow the Monday-to-Sunday cycle previously Wednesday-to-Tuesday.

Billboard album charts

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The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs and albums in the United States and elsewhere. The results are published in Billboard magazine. Billboard biz, the online extension of the Billboard charts, provides additional weekly charts, [1] as well as year-end charts. The charts can be ranked according to sales, streams, or airplay, and for main song charts such as the Hot song chart, all three data are used to compile the charts. The weekly sales and streams charts are monitored on a Friday-to-Thursday cycle since July ; previously it was on a Monday-to-Sunday cycle. Radio airplay song charts, however, follow the Monday-to-Sunday cycle previously Wednesday-to-Tuesday. Other early charts listed popular song performances in theatres and recitals in different cities. In , "Popular Numbers Featured by Famous Singers and Leaders" appeared, which added radio performances to in-person performances.

Billboard album charts

This is a list of number-one albums in the United States by year from the main Billboard albums chart, currently called the Billboard Billboard first began publishing an album chart on March 24, The chart expanded to positions on the week ending May 13, , and adopted its current name on March 14, Since May 25, , the Billboard positions have been derived from Nielsen SoundScan sales data, currently contributed by approximately 14, music retailers.

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Philippine Hot defunct Philippine Top 20 defunct. Annual survey runs for 5—6 weeks beginning early December. Artist In November , a composite standing chart that combined retail sales, jukebox and disk jockeys play charts but counted individual record separately was created as "The Top " chart, with " Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing " by The Four Aces its first No. Archived from the original on September 9, On December 13, , Billboard began to include on-demand streaming and digital track sales as measured by Nielsen SoundScan using a new algorithm with data from all major on-demand audio subscription and online music sales services in the U. Debuted on February 28, with 25 positions. Retrieved June 30, Canoe website. Among the lists were the 10 songs of the "Best Selling Retail Records", which is the fore-runner of today's pop chart, with " I'll Never Smile Again " by Tommy Dorsey featuring vocals by Frank Sinatra its first number one. In October , Billboard significantly changed the methodology for its country, rock, Latin, and rap charts, when it incorporated sales of digital downloads and streaming plays into what had previously been airplay-only charts. Archived from the original on February 15, Mission Bell. Retrieved November 17, Curtain Call: The Hits.

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Retrieved December 3, Billboard Books. Replaced by Hits of the World chart collection component Switzerland Songs. Measures airplay spins on 24 adult album alternative radio stations. Retrieved January 22, Archived from the original on November 22, Read Edit View history. May 28, Traditional Jazz Albums. Ranks the top singles in Vietnam by Vietnamese artists based on digital downloads and streaming. Country Airplay. Starting with the issue dated December 5, , however, the catalog limitations — which removed albums over 18 months old that had dropped below No.