List of Billboard 200 number-one albums

This is a partial list of number-one albums in the United States by year from the Billboard 200 albums chart. Each chart is on a week-ending format.

Billboard magazine 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 Billboard 200's positions have been derived from Nielsen SoundScan sales data, currently contributed by approximately 14,000 music retailers.

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Current Billboard 200 chart (top 100 positions)

Lists of Billboard number-one albums

1945–1960	1941 * 1942 * 1943 * 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960

1961–1980	1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980

1981–2000	1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000

2001–present	2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Billboard charts

Albums

Billboard 200	Top Album Sales Top Catalog Albums Digital Albums Billboard Comprehensive Albums (defunct)

R&B/Hip-Hop	Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Rap Albums

Rock	Rock Albums Alternative Albums Hard Rock Albums Folk Albums

Country	Top Country Albums

Latin	Top Latin Albums Regional Mexican Albums Latin Pop Albums Latin Rhythm Albums Tropical Albums

Religious	Christian Albums

Other	Heatseekers Albums Tastemaker Albums Dance/Electronic Albums Independent Albums Reggae Albums Comedy Albums Kid Albums

International	Canadian Albums European Albums (defunct)

Singles and tracks

Hot 100	Radio Songs Digital Songs Digital Tracks Hot Singles Sales Streaming Songs On-Demand Songs Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles

Pop	Mainstream Top 40 Adult Contemporary Adult Top 40 Pop 100 (defunct) Top 40 Tracks (defunct)

Dance/Electronic	Dance Club Songs Hot Dance/Electronic Songs Dance/Mix Show Airplay Dance/Electronic Singles Sales (defunct) Dance/Electronic Digital Songs

R&B/Hip-Hop	Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles Hot Rap Songs Hot R&B Songs Rhythmic

Rock	Hot Rock Songs Mainstream Rock Alternative Triple A

Country	Hot Country Songs Country Airplay

Latin	Hot Latin Songs Latin Pop Airplay Regional Mexican Airplay Tropical Airplay Latin Rhythm Airplay

Religious	Hot Christian Songs

Other	Heatseekers Songs Smooth Jazz Songs

International	Brasil Hot 100 Airplay Canadian Hot 100 Euro Digital Songs Japan Hot 100 Korea K-Pop Hot 100 (defunct) European Hot 100 (defunct) Türkiye Top 20 (defunct)

Lists of number-one
albums and singles

Lists of artists who
reached number one