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The ''Billboard'' 200, published in the ''Billboard'' magazine, is a weekly chart that ranks the highest-selling
The ''Billboard'' 200, published in the ''Billboard'' magazine, is a weekly chart that ranks the highest-selling albums
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78 rpm records coll ...
in the United States. The data is compiled by Nielsen SoundScan
Luminate (formerly Nielsen SoundScan, Nielsen Music Products, and MRC Data) is a provider of music sales data. Established by Mike Fine and Mike Shalett in 1991, data is collected weekly and made available every Sunday (for albums sales) and eve ...
based on each album's weekly physical and digital 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
The Beatles were an English Rock music, rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1960, that comprised John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. They are regarded as the Cultural impact of the Beatles, most influential band of al ...
, 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
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'' topped the charts for three consecutive weeks in June and sold more than 4.2 million copies in 2001. NSYNC
NSYNC (, ; also stylized as *NSYNC or 'N Sync) was an American boy band formed by Chris Kirkpatrick in Orlando, Florida, in 1995 and launched in Germany by BMG Ariola Munich. Their self-titled debut album was successfully released to European ...
achieved the best-selling album within the first week, selling more than 1.8 million copies with ''Celebrity
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'', 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
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, Aaliyah's reached the top for one week in September with her eponymous
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studio album.
Jay-Z
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earned his fourth number-one album in the US with ''The Blueprint
''The Blueprint'' is the sixth studio album by American rapper Jay-Z, released on September 11, 2001, through Roc-A-Fella Records and Def Jam Recordings. Its release was set a week earlier than initially planned in order to combat bootlegging. ...
''. 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
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eventually achieved his second and most recent chart-topping album with ''Pain Is Love
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''., 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
''Weathered'' is the third studio album by American rock band Creed, released on November 20, 2001. It was the last Creed album to be released until '' Full Circle'' came out in October 2009, with Creed disbanding in June 2004. It is the only Cr ...
'' by American rock band Creed
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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
''Hybrid Theory'' is the debut studio album by American Rock music, rock band Linkin Park, released on October 24, 2000, through Warner Bros. Records. Recorded at NRG Recording Studios, NRG Recordings in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, North Holl ...
'' 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.
Number-ones
See also
* 2001 in 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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