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Americana/Folk Albums

Billboard song chart

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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]

Over the chart's fourteen-year history Bob Dylan holds the record for the most number-one albums with eight. Chris Stapleton has spent 190 weeks at the chart's peak with his five number-one albums, including the longest-running number-one in the chart's history Traveller.

On the year-end Billboard charts, Sigh No MorebyMumford & 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 LightsbyPassenger was the best performing album of 2014, HozierbyHozier was the best performing album of 2015, and TravellerbyChris Stapleton was the best performing album of 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019.^{[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]} As of the issue dated July 6, 2024, The Great American Bar ScenebyZach Bryan is the number one album on the chart.^[13]

• List of Billboard number-one Americana/folk albums of the 2010s
• List of Billboard number-one Americana/folk albums of the 2020s