List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 2015

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, as well as on-demand streaming and digital sales of its individual tracks. In 2015, a total of 39 albums claimed the top position of the chart. One of which, American singer Taylor Swift's 1989 started its peak issue dated November 15, 2014.[1] 1989 was the longest-running number-one album of the year, staying atop the chart for six weeks and was the best selling album of 2015 before Adele's 25, which managed to surpass the album's sales but after the year-end cut-off.[2] Canadian hip hop soul artist Drake's fourth commercial release, If You're Reading This It's Too Late, became the third best-selling overall album and top-selling digital album with 535,000 digital units sold, 495,000 of which consisted of traditional whole album sales.[3]

English singer Adele's (pictured) third studio album, 25, was the quickest best-seller of 2015 by the year's end and stayed at the top slot on the Billboard 200 for the final three weeks of that year.

Other albums with extended chart runs at number one include To Pimp a Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar, Dreams Worth More Than Money by Meek Mill, Kill the Lights by Luke Bryan, Beauty Behind the Madness by The Weeknd, Traveller by Chris Stapleton and 25 by Adele; four of these albums spent two weeks at the top while the other two spent three weeks at the top position. Throughout 2015, only two acts achieved multiple number-one albums on the chart: Drake with If You're Reading This It's Too Late and What a Time to be Alive, and Future with DS2 and also What a Time to be Alive.

Albums that reached #1 on the Top Album Sales chart (which takes into account purely sales and not streaming) but did not reach #1 on the Billboard 200 include That's the Spirit by Bring Me the Horizon, Got Your Six by Five Finger Death Punch and Cass County by Don Henley.[4]

Adele's 25 sold 1.9 million copies after two days of availability, and 2.3 million after three, becoming the fastest-selling album of the 21st century and the best-selling album of 2015.[2][5][6][7][8] The album reached sales of 2.433 million early on its fourth day, surpassing the single-week record for an album since Nielsen Soundscan began tracking sales in 1991, set by NSYNC's No Strings Attached in March 2000 when it debuted with 2.416 million copies.[9] By its fifth day, 25 had sold over 2.8 million copies, 1.45 million of which were digital sales, breaking the first-week record for a digital set.[10] In total, it sold 3.38 million copies in the US in its first week, becoming the first album to sell over 3 million copies in a week, and only the second to sell over 2 million in a single week.[11]

Since July 2015, the chart's tracking week began on Friday (to coincide with the Global Release Date of the music industry) and ends on Thursday.[12]

Chart history
Taylor Swift's (pictured) fifth studio album, 1989 was the second best-selling album by the year-end and returned to the top slot on the Billboard 200 for a total of six weeks in the beginning of 2015.
West Coast-based rapper Kendrick Lamar (pictured) earned his first number-one album on the chart with To Pimp a Butterfly.
American musical duo Twenty One Pilots earned their first number-one album in the country with their fourth studio album, Blurryface.
Canadian singer The Weeknd gained his first number-one album in the country with his second studio album, Beauty Behind the Madness.
Key
Indicates best performing album of 2015[13]
Issue date Album Artist(s) Ref.
January 3 1989 Taylor Swift [1]
January 10 [14]
January 17 [15]
January 24 [16]
January 31 Title Meghan Trainor [17]
February 7 American Beauty/American Psycho Fall Out Boy [18]
February 14 1989 Taylor Swift [19]
February 21 [20]
February 28 If You're Reading This It's Too Late Drake [21]
March 7 Smoke + Mirrors Imagine Dragons [22]
March 14 Dark Sky Paradise Big Sean [23]
March 21 Piece by Piece Kelly Clarkson [24]
March 28 Empire: Original Soundtrack from Season 1 Soundtrack [25][26]
April 4 To Pimp a Butterfly Kendrick Lamar [27]
April 11 [28]
April 18 The Album About Nothing Wale [29]
April 25 Furious 7 Soundtrack [30]
May 2 Handwritten Shawn Mendes [31]
May 9 Sound & Color Alabama Shakes [32]
May 16 Jekyll + Hyde Zac Brown Band [33]
May 23 Wilder Mind Mumford & Sons [34]
May 30 Pitch Perfect 2 Soundtrack [35]
June 6 Blurryface Twenty One Pilots [36]
June 13 At. Long. Last. ASAP ASAP Rocky [37]
June 20 How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful Florence and the Machine [38]
June 27 Drones Muse [39]
July 4 Before This World James Taylor [40]
July 11 Dark Before Dawn Breaking Benjamin [41]
July 18 Dreams Worth More Than Money Meek Mill [42]
July 25 [43]
August 1 Black Rose Tyrese [44]
August 8 DS2 Future [45]
August 15 Woman Jill Scott [46]
August 22 Descendants Soundtrack [47]
August 29 Kill the Lights Luke Bryan [48]
September 5 [49]
September 12 Immortalized Disturbed [50]
September 19 Beauty Behind the Madness The Weeknd [51]
September 26 [52]
October 3 [53]
October 10 What a Time to Be Alive Drake and Future [54][55]
October 17 Fetty Wap Fetty Wap [56]
October 24 Unbreakable Janet [57]
October 31 Revival Selena Gomez [58]
November 7 Pentatonix Pentatonix [59]
November 14 Sounds Good Feels Good 5 Seconds of Summer [60]
November 21 Traveller Chris Stapleton [61]
November 28 [62]
December 5 Purpose Justin Bieber [63]
December 12 25 Adele [64]
December 19 [65]
December 26 [66]

See also

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