Americana/Folk Albums

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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.[1] The chart debuted on the issue dated December 5, 2009, as a 15-position chart with its first number-one title being the Bob Dylan Christmas album Christmas in the Heart.[1]

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 Americana music, giving more recognition to acts which lean more towards Americana than folk.[2]

Over the chart's fourteen-year history Bob Dylan holds the record for the most number-one albums with eight. Chris Stapleton 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,

Hozier was the best performing album of 2015, and Traveller by Chris Stapleton was the best performing album of 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]
As of issue March 30 Deeper Well by Kacey Musgraves is the current number one.[13]

Folk/Americana chart achievements

Albums with most weeks at number one

Weeks Album Artist Year(s) Source
131 Traveller Chris Stapleton 2016-2022 [14]
66 Sigh No More Mumford & Sons 2010-2012 [15]
61 American Heartbreak Zach Bryan 2022-2023 [16]
36 Starting Over Chris Stapleton 2021-2022 [17]
32 Babel Mumford & Sons 2012-2013 [18]
21 Hozier
Hozier
2014-2015 [19]
18 The Lumineers The Lumineers 2012-2013 [20]
16 Stick Season Noah Kahan 2023-2024 [21]
14 All the Little Lights Passenger 2013-2014 [22]
13 From A Room: Volume 1 Chris Stapleton 2017-2018 [23]
12 Zach Bryan Zach Bryan 2023 [24]

Artists with most cumulative weeks at number one

Weeks at
number one
Artist
190 Chris Stapleton
98 Mumford & Sons
73 Zach Bryan
26 Hozier
23 The Lumineers
16 Passenger
15 Bob Dylan
15 She & Him
15 Noah Kahan

Artists with the most number-one albums

Number
of albums
Artist
8 Bob Dylan
5 Brandi Carlile
5 Chris Stapleton
5 John Mayer
5 Sturgill Simpson

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Trust, Gary (November 26, 2009). "Chart Beat Thursday: John Mayer, Folk Albums, David Guetta". Billboard. Retrieved January 29, 2013.
  2. ^ Billboard Staff (May 17, 2016). "Billboard Introduces Americana/Folk Albums Chart". Billboard. Retrieved September 29, 2016.
  3. ^ "Americana/Folk Albums - Year-End 2010". Billboard. Retrieved December 17, 2020.
  4. ^ "Americana/Folk Albums - Year-End 2011". Billboard. Retrieved December 17, 2020.
  5. ^ "Americana/Folk Albums - Year-End 2012". Billboard. Retrieved December 17, 2020.
  6. ^ "Americana/Folk Albums - Year-End 2013". Billboard. Retrieved December 17, 2020.
  7. ^ "Americana/Folk Albums - Year-End 2014". Billboard. Retrieved December 17, 2020.
  8. ^ "Americana/Folk Albums - Year-End 2015". Billboard. Retrieved December 17, 2020.
  9. ^ "Americana/Folk Albums - Year-End 2016". Billboard. Retrieved December 17, 2020.
  10. ^ "Americana/Folk Albums - Year-End 2017". Billboard. Retrieved December 17, 2020.
  11. ^ "Americana/Folk Albums - Year-End 2018". Billboard. Retrieved December 17, 2020.
  12. ^ "Americana/Folk Albums - Year-End 2019". Billboard. Retrieved December 17, 2020.
  13. ^ "Americana Folk". Billboard. March 26, 2024. Retrieved March 26, 2024.
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