Billboard 200
Weeks Album Artist
950 The Dark Side of the Moon Pink Floyd
635* Legend Bob Marley and the Wailers
625* Journey 's Greatest Hits Journey
578 Metallica Metallica
499 Greatest Hits Guns N ' Roses
495 Curtain Call : The Hits Eminem
490† Johnny 's Greatest Hits Johnny Mathis
482* Nevermind Nirvana
480† My Fair Lady Original Cast Recording
480* Chronicle : The 20 Greatest Hits Creedence Clearwater Revival
479* Doo-Wops & Hooligans Bruno Mars
474* 21 Adele
429* 1 The Beatles
427* Thriller Michael Jackson
420* Back in Black AC/DC
403* Good Kid , M.A.A.D City Kendrick Lamar
400 Night Visions Imagine Dragons
395* Greatest Hits Queen
386* The Eminem Show Eminem
385* Take Care Drake
Album milestones -- Most weeks on the chart
The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States. It is published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists. Often, a recording act will be remembered by its number ones, those of their albums that outperformed all others during at least one week. The chart grew from a weekly top 10 list in 1956 to become a top 200 in May 1967, and acquired its present title in March 1992. Its previous names include the Billboard Top LPs (1961-72), Billboard Top LPs & Tapes (1972-84), Billboard Top 200 Albums (1984-85) and Billboard Top Pop Albums. The chart is based mostly on sales (both at retail and digital) of albums in the United States. The weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but since July 2015, tracking week begins on Friday (to coincide with the Global Release Date of the music industry) and ends on Thursday. A new chart is published the following Tuesday with an issue post-dated to the Saturday of that week, four days later. The chart's streaming schedule is also tracked from Friday to Thursday.