List of number-one albums (United States)
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This is a partial list of number-one albums in the United States by year from the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart. Each chart is on a week-ending (w/e) format.
The chart was first known as Top Pop Albums from the mid-1950s until 1983 when it changed its name to the Billboard 200.
Billboard magazine began publishing album charts 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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[edit] 1940s
1945 1946 1947 1948 1949
[edit] 1950s
1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
[edit] 1960s
1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969
[edit] 1970s
1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
[edit] 1980s
1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
[edit] 1990s
1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
[edit] 2000s
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
