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The ''Billboard'' 200, published in the ''Billboard'' magazine, is a weekly chart that ranks the highest-selling albums in the United States. The data is compiled by
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based on each album's weekly physical and digital
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sales. In 2001, 27 albums reached the top of the chart.
The first number-one album of the year was '' 1'' by English rock band the Beatles, which reached the top in December 2000 and continued its run until early February 2001 for a total of eight weeks. Shaggy
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achieved his first number-one album with '' Hot Shot''. It topped the chart for a total of six weeks and sold more than 5.5 million copies within the year. Staind
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's '' Break the Cycle'' topped the charts for three consecutive weeks in June and sold more than 4.2 million copies in 2001. NSYNC
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achieved the best-selling album within the first week, selling more than 1.8 million copies with '' Celebrity'', 620,000 more than above earlier in the year. Furthermore, it was the tenth album to sell more than a million units in its first week sakes, since Nielsen SoundScan
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started collecting data in 1991. Furthermore, it was the third best-selling album of the year and was certified 5-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America
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(RIAA). Following her death, Aaliyah's reached the top for one week in September with her eponymous studio album.
Jay-Z
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earned his fourth number-one album in the US with '' The Blueprint''. In its third week atop the chart, the record sold about 173,000 copies, the lowest for any number-one in the year. Ja Rule eventually achieved his second and most recent chart-topping album with '' Pain Is Love''., dethroning Jay-Z in mid-October and topping the chart for two consecutive weeks. The last album to top the chart in 2001 was ''Weathered
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. It peaked at number one for four consecutive weeks in 2001 and continued for four weeks in January 2002. The album, released in November, was the eighth best-selling record of the year, selling about 3.5 million copies; it is certified 6-times platinum by the RIAA. Unusually, the year's best-selling record, '' Hybrid Theory'' by Linkin Park
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, was not able to top the ''Billboard'' 200. Instead the Beatles' ''1'' was crowned the most successful album of the year.
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See also
*2001 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2001.
Specific locations
* 2001 in British music
* 2001 in Norwegian music
* 2001 in South Korean music
Specific genres
* 2001 in classical music
* 2001 in country music
* ...
*List of number-one albums (United States)
This is a list of number-one albums in the United States by year from the main '' Billboard'' albums chart, currently called the ''Billboard'' 200.
''Billboard'' first began publishing an album chart on March 24, 1945. The chart expanded to 20 ...
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