List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 2012

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Adele's 21 was the best-selling album of 2012. This was her second consecutive year at the top of the U.S. year-end charts. She became the second artist in history to achieve this feat, after Michael Jackson.

The highest-selling albums and EPs in the United States are ranked in the Billboard 200, which is published by Billboard magazine. The data are compiled by Nielsen Soundscan based on each album's weekly physical and digital sales. In 2012, a total of 32 albums claimed the top position of the chart. One of which, Canadian singer Michael Bublé's album Christmas started its peak in late 2011.[1]

Adele's album 21 was the longest-running number-one album of the year for the second time, staying atop the chart for eleven non-consecutive weeks.[2] Red by Taylor Swift had the second-most weeks at number one with five. Other albums with extended chart runs include Babel by Mumford & Sons, Tuskegee by Lionel Richie, Blown Away by Carrie Underwood, Born and Raised by John Mayer and Uncaged by Zac Brown Band; each spent two weeks on the top position. Throughout 2012, only one act achieved multiple number-one albums on the chart: One Direction with Up All Night and Take Me Home. Swift's album Red sold 1.21 million copies in its first week, making it the album with the highest weekly sales in 2012.[3] 21 was the biggest-selling album of 2012, with 4,410,000 copies sold.[4]

Chart history

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Taylor Swift's Red earned the singer-songwriter her third number-one album. It opened with the biggest sales week of 2012, selling 1.21 million copies in its first week.
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Lionel Richie's Tuskegee gave the singer his third number-one album and the first since 1986's Dancing on the Ceiling.
Country singer Carrie Underwood earned her third number-one album, Blown Away, which became her first to spend more than a week at the top.
Rock singer John Mayer scored his second chart-topping album, Born and Raised, which spent two consecutive weeks at number one.
Babel by British folk rock band Mumford & Sons garnered their first number-one. It topped the chart for three consecutive weeks, and earned 2012's second-biggest sales week after Red.
English-Irish boy band One Direction scored two number-one albums in 2012, Up All Night and Take Me Home.
Pink earned her first number-one album with her sixth effort The Truth About Love, released twelve years since her debut. It has the third biggest debut sales by a female singer in this year, behind MDNA and Red.
Key
Best performing album of 2012 Indicates best performing album of 2012
Issue date Album Artist(s) Sales Ref.
January 7 Christmas Michael Bublé 467,000 [5][6]
January 14 21 dagger Adele 144,000 [7][8]
January 21 124,000 [9][10]
January 28 104,000 [11][12]
February 4 95,000 [13][14]
February 11 116,000 [15][16]
February 18 122,000 [17][18]
February 25 237,000 [19][20]
March 3 730,000 [21][22]
March 10 297,000 [23][24]
March 17 247,000 [25][26]
March 24 Wrecking Ball Bruce Springsteen 196,000 [27][28]
March 31 Up All Night One Direction 176,000 [29][30]
April 7 The Hunger Games: Songs from District 12 and Beyond Various artists 175,000 [31][32]
April 14 MDNA Madonna 359,000 [33][34]
April 21 Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded Nicki Minaj 253,000 [35][36]
April 28 Tuskegee Lionel Richie 129,000 [37][38]
May 5 114,000 [39][40]
May 12 Blunderbuss Jack White 138,000 [41][42]
May 19 Blown Away Carrie Underwood 267,000 [43][44]
May 26 120,000 [45][46]
June 2 Trespassing Adam Lambert 77,000 [47][48]
June 9 Born and Raised John Mayer 219,000 [49][50]
June 16 65,000 [51][52]
June 23 21 dagger Adele 75,000 [53][54]
June 30 Looking 4 Myself Usher 128,000 [55][56]
July 7 Believe Justin Bieber 374,000 [57][58]
July 14 Living Things Linkin Park 223,000 [59][60]
July 21 Fortune Chris Brown 134,000 [61][62]
July 28 Uncaged Zac Brown Band 234,000 [63][64]
August 4 Life Is Good Nas 149,000 [65][66]
August 11 Uncaged Zac Brown Band 48,000 [67][68]
August 18 God Forgives, I Don't Rick Ross 218,000 [69][70]
August 25 Now 43 Various artists 111,000 [71][72]
September 1 Based on a T.R.U. Story 2 Chainz 75,000 [73][74]
September 8 Chapter V Trey Songz 135,000 [75][76]
September 15 Eye on It TobyMac 69,000 [77][78]
September 22 North Matchbox Twenty 95,000 [79][80]
September 29 Away from the World Dave Matthews Band 266,000 [81][82]
October 6 The Truth About Love Pink 280,000 [83][84]
October 13 Babel Mumford & Sons 600,000 [85][86]
October 20 169,000 [87][88]
October 27 96,000 [89][90]
November 3 Night Train Jason Aldean 409,000 [91][92]
November 10 Red Taylor Swift 1,208,000 [93][94]
November 17 344,000 [95][96]
November 24 196,000 [97][98]
December 1 Take Me Home One Direction 540,000 [99][100]
December 8 Unapologetic Rihanna 238,000 [101][102]
December 15 Girl on Fire Alicia Keys 159,000 [103][104]
December 22 Red Taylor Swift 167,000 [105][106]
December 29 208,000 [107][108]

See also

References

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