Billboard has announced changes in the methodology of the Billboard 200 and R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts, while a new sales survey, Folk Albums, will join Billboard's chart menu.
Effective with the 2010 chart year, which begins with the charts that will be refreshed on billboard.com Thursday, Nov. 26 (print issue dated Dec. 5), the Billboard 200 will shift from a currents-based ranking of the weekly top-selling albums in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan, to an all-inclusive list of the top 200-selling albums, regardless of release date.
This is unbelievable! When Michael Jackson passed on and all of his albums took up the top ten of the billboard charts, not one was on the billboard 200 due to its release date. instead they were sectioned off to "catalog album chart." Well, Im just glad its happening now, this is going to change a lot of album releases.
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