The Billboard is a record chart ranking the most popular music albums and EPs in the United States. It is published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists. Often, a recording act will be remembered by its " number ones ", those of their albums that outperformed all others during at least one week. The chart grew from a weekly top 10 list in to become a top in May , and acquired its present title in March

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The Rolling Stone Top Albums chart ranks the most popular albums from today's most popular artists. Albums are ranked by Album Units, a number that combines digital and physical album sales, digital song sales and audio streams, using a custom weighting system. The albums chart does not include any passive listening like radio airplay or digital radio. The Rolling Stone Top is updated daily, and each week Rolling Stone finalizes and publishes an official version of the chart, covering the seven-day period ending with the previous Thursday. Beta Back to All Charts. Album Units
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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. In December , Billboard updated the methodology of the Billboard albums chart to also include on-demand streaming and digital track sales. Starting on the issue dated January 18, , Billboard updated the methodology to compile the chart again by incorporating video data from YouTube , along with visual plays from streaming services like Apple Music , Spotify , Tidal , and Vevo. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Wikipedia list article. Archived from the original on November 22, Retrieved November 20,