Dance/Electronic Albums

Dance/Electronic Albums (formerly Top Electronic Albums) is a music chart published weekly by Billboard magazine which ranks the top-selling electronic music albums in the United States.^[1] The chart debuted on the issue dated June 30, 2001. It originally began as a fifteen-position chart and has since expanded to twenty-five positions. Rankings are compiled by point-of-purchase sales obtained by Nielsen SoundScan data and from legal digital downloads from a variety of internet music stores.

Top Electronic Albums features full-length albums by artists who are associated with electronic music genres (house, techno, IDM, trance, etc.) as well as pop-oriented dance music and electronic-leaning hip hop. Also eligible for this chart are remix albums by otherwise non-electronic-based artists and DJ-mixed compilation albums and film soundtracks which feature a majority of electronic or dance music. The first number-one title on the Top Electronic Albums was the original soundtrack to the film Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. The Fame by Lady Gaga has the most weeks at number one with 106 weeks.

Chart milestones

Artist with the most number-ones

1. Louie DeVito (7)
2. Daft Punk (5) (tie)
2. Lady Gaga (5) (tie)
4. Björk (3) (tie)
4. The Chemical Brothers (3) (tie)
4. Depeche Mode (3) (tie)
4. DJ Skribble (3) (tie)
4. M.I.A. (3) (tie)
4. Nine Inch Nails (3) (tie)
4. Scissor Sisters (3) (tie)
4. Tiësto (3) (tie)

Source: ^[2]

Most weeks at number one

(106 weeks) The Fame – Lady Gaga (2008–2011)
(39 weeks) St. Elsewhere – Gnarls Barkley (2006–2007)
(34 weeks) Demon Days – Gorillaz (2005–2006)
(21 weeks) Random Access Memories – Daft Punk (2013–2014)
(19 weeks) Sorry for Party Rocking – LMFAO (2011–2012)
(19 weeks) Born This Way – Lady Gaga (2011)
(19 weeks) Kala – M.I.A. (2007–2008)
(19 weeks) Give Up – The Postal Service (2004–2005)
(16 weeks) Dirty Vegas – Dirty Vegas (2002)
(13 weeks) Confessions on a Dance Floor – Madonna (2005–2006)

Most weeks on the chart

(149 weeks) The Fame – Lady Gaga
(109 weeks) Demon Days – Gorillaz
(106 weeks) Nothing but the Beat – David Guetta
(104 weeks) Give Up – The Postal Service
(104 weeks) Speak For Yourself – Imogen Heap
(102 weeks) Confessions on a Dance Floor – Madonna
(87 weeks) St. Elsewhere – Gnarls Barkley
(79 weeks) Lindsey Stirling – Lindsey Stirling
(79 weeks) Kala – M.I.A.
(79 weeks) Want – 3OH!3

References

^ "Billboard Bows New Electronic Chart". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 2001-06-19. Retrieved 2013-04-13.
^ http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/code/5800503/lady-gagas-artpop-debuts-atop-danceelectronic-albums

External links

Current Dance/Electronic Albums

[1] "Billboard Bows New Electronic Chart". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 2001-06-19. Retrieved 2013-04-13.

[2] ttp://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/code/5800503/lady-gagas-artpop-debuts-atop-danceelectronic-albums

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