Americana/Folk Albums

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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. 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]

On the year-end Billboard charts, Sigh No More by Mumford & Sons was the best performing album of 2010 and 2011, Babel by Mumford & Sons was the best performing album of 2012 and 2013, All the Little Lights by Passenger was the best performing album of 2014, Hozier by 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 October 14 Autumn Variations by Ed Sheeran 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]
37 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]
14 All the Little Lights Passenger 2013-2014 [21]
13 From A Room: Volume 1 Chris Stapleton 2017-2018 [22]
9 From A Room: Volume 2 Chris Stapleton 2017-2018 [23]

Artists with most cumulative weeks at number one

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

Artists with the most number-one albums

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

See also

References

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