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The highest-selling albums and EPs in the United States are ranked in the ''Billboard'' 200, which is published by ''Billboard'' magazine. The data are compiled by Nielsen Soundscan based on each album's weekly physical and digital sales. In 1987, a total 9 albums reached the number one position. The beginning of the year started with the continuation of the end of last year's number one album, ''Live 1975-85'' by Bruce Springsteen, but was quickly overtaken by Bon Jovi, and ''Slippery When Wet'', which returned to the top spot, and became their first number one album. Whitney Houston scored her second #1 with '' Whitney'', which had the longest run among the releases, spending 11 consecutive weeks at the top. The album became the first by a female artist ever to debut at #1 in the Billboard 200, and produced a then-record-equaling four #1 singles from one album; which was broken two months later when Michael Jackson's ''
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'' produced five number ones. ''Whitney'' is one of only nine albums in music history to produce at least four #1 Hot 100 hits from the same album. Both U2 and
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gained their first number one albums, with '' The Joshua Tree'', and '' Licensed to Ill''.


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1987 in music This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1987. Specific locations *1987 in British music * 1987 in Norwegian music Specific genres *1987 in country music * 1987 in heavy metal music * 1987 in hip hop music * 1987 ...
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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 ...
* List of best-selling albums * List of best-selling albums in the United States


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