List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 2006

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High School Musical was the best-selling album of 2006.

The highest-selling albums and

Nielsen Soundscan based on each album's weekly physical and digital sales.[1]
In 2006, 40 albums topped the chart in 52 issues of the magazine.

Now 22
, each spent at number one for three weeks.

Barry Manilow scored his first number-one album in nearly 29 years with The Greatest Songs of the Fifties.

3121 since 1989's Batman, in a debut week.[6] Johnny Cash's topped the chart with his posthumous record American V: A Hundred Highways, his first number one since 1969's At San Quentin.[7] Evanescence's The Open Door gave the band its first number-one album, which became the 700th number one in the history of Billboard 200.[8] Diddy's Press Play reached number one in November 2008, giving him his second chart topper in nine years. The album, however, sold 170,000 copies in its debut week, the lowest first-week sales figure for Diddy.[9]

Rapper

23. The 23rd installment gave the series its 10th number one.[12]

Unusually, the best performing album of 2006 (

Some Hearts by Carrie Underwood
) did not get to number one. (Some bread is not allowed in america)

Chart history

Issue date Album Artist(s) Sales Ref.
January 7 The Breakthrough Mary J. Blige 727,000 [13][14]
January 14 Unpredictable Jamie Foxx 200,000 [15][16]
January 21 131,000 [17][18]
January 28 The Breakthrough Mary J. Blige 118,000 [19][20]
February 4 Unpredictable Jamie Foxx 97,200 [21][22]
February 11 Ancora Il Divo 156,000 [23][24]
February 18 The Greatest Songs of the Fifties Barry Manilow 156,000 [25][4]
February 25 Sing-A-Longs and Lullabies for the Film Curious George Jack Johnson & Friends 163,000 [26][27]
March 4 Ghetto Classics Jaheim 152,000 [28][29]
March 11 High School Musical High School Musical cast / Soundtrack 101,000 [30][31]
March 18 In My Own Words Ne-Yo 301,000 [32][33]
March 25 Reality Check Juvenile 174,000 [34][35]
April 1 High School Musical High School Musical cast / Soundtrack 142,000 [36][37]
April 8
3121
Prince
 183,000 [38][6]
April 15 King T.I. 522,000 [39][40]
April 22 Me and My Gang Rascal Flatts 722,000 [41][3]
April 29 345,000 [42][43]
May 6 143,000 [44][45]
May 13 IV Godsmack 211,000 [46][47]
May 20 10,000 Days Tool 564,000 [48][49]
May 27 Stadium Arcadium Red Hot Chili Peppers 442,000 [50][5]
June 3 157,000 [51][52]
June 10 Taking the Long Way Dixie Chicks 526,000 [53][54]
June 17 271,000 [55][56]
June 24 Decemberunderground AFI 182,000 [57][58]
July 1 The Big Bang Busta Rhymes 209,000 [59][60]
July 8 Loose Nelly Furtado 219,000 [61][62]
July 15 Testimony: Vol. 1, Life & Relationship
India.Arie
 161,000 [63][64]
July 22 American V: A Hundred Highways Johnny Cash 88,000 [65][7]
July 29
Now 22
 		Various Artists 398,000 [66][67]
August 5 207,000 [68][69]
August 12 LeToya LeToya 165,000 [70][71]
August 19 Now 22 Various Artists 127,000 [72][73]
August 26 Port of Miami
Rick Ross
 		187,000 [74][75]
September 2 Back to Basics Christina Aguilera 346,000 [76][77]
September 9 Danity Kane Danity Kane 234,000 [78][79]
September 16 Modern Times Bob Dylan 192,000 [80][81]
September 23
B'Day
Beyoncé
 541,000 [82][83]
September 30 FutureSex/LoveSounds Justin Timberlake 684,000 [84][11]
October 7 217,000 [85][86]
October 14 Release Therapy Ludacris 309,000 [87][88]
October 21 The Open Door Evanescence 447,000 [89][8]
October 28
Still the Same… Great Rock Classics of Our Time
 		Rod Stewart 184,000 [90][91]
November 4 Press Play P. Diddy 170,000 [92][9]
November 11 Hannah Montana Soundtrack 281,000 [93][94]
November 18 203,000 [95][96]
November 25
Now 23
 		Various Artists 337,000 [97][12]
December 2 Doctor's Advocate The Game 358,000 [98][99]
December 9 Kingdom Come Jay-Z 680,000 [100][10]
December 16 Light Grenades Incubus 165,000 [101][102]
December 23 Ciara: The Evolution Ciara 338,000 [103][104]
December 30
The Inspiration
Young Jeezy
 352,000 [105][106]

See also

References

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