Americana/Folk Albums (formerly Folk Albums) is a music chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine which ranks the top selling "current releases by traditional folk artists, as well as appropriate titles by acoustic-based singer-songwriters" in the United States. The chart debuted on the issue dated December 5, 2009, as a 15-position chart with its first number-one title being the

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'' Christmas in the Heart''. It has since expanded to a 25-position chart. In May 2016, ''Billboard'' renamed the chart to "Americana/Folk Albums", with the increasing popularity of

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, giving more recognition to acts which lean more towards Americana than folk. Over the chart's fourteen-year history Bob Dylan holds the record for the most number-one albums with eight.

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has spent 190 weeks at the chart's peak with his five number-one albums, including the longest-running number-one in the chart's history '' Traveller''. On the year-end Billboard charts, ''Sigh No More'' by

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was the best performing album of 2010 and 2011, ''

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'' by Mumford & Sons was the best performing album of 2012 and 2013, '' All the Little Lights'' by

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was the best performing album of 2014, ''

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was the best performing album of 2015, and '' Traveller'' by

was the best performing album of 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020. As of the issue dated May 10, 2025, '' Where I've Been, Isn't Where I'm Going'' by Shaboozey is the number one album on the chart.

Folk/Americana chart achievements

Albums with most weeks at number one

Artists with most cumulative weeks at number one

Artists with the most number-one albums

See also

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