List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 1995

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Cracked Rear View by Hootie and the Blowfish was the best-selling album of 1995 Hootie and the Blowfish 1998.jpg
Cracked Rear View by Hootie and the Blowfish was the best-selling album of 1995
Garth Brooks' greatest hits album The Hits had the biggest sales week of 1995, selling over 900,000 copies in a single week. Garth Brooks with Jennie Frankel and John Ford Coley at the Country Music Awards (cropped).jpg
Garth Brooks' greatest hits album The Hits had the biggest sales week of 1995, selling over 900,000 copies in a single week.

These are the Billboard magazine number-one albums of 1995, per the Billboard 200.

Contents

Chart history

Key
Indicates best performing album of 1995
Issue dateAlbumArtist(s)LabelSalesRef.
January 7 The Hits Garth Brooks Liberty 907,000 [1] [2]
January 14516,000 [3] [4]
January 21352,000 [5] [6]
January 28240,000 [7] [8]
February 4238,000 [9] [10]
February 11 Balance Van Halen Warner Bros. 295,000 [11] [12]
February 18The HitsGarth BrooksLiberty153,000 [13] [14]
February 25150,000 [15] [16]
March 4146,000 [17] [18]
March 11 II Boyz II Men Motown 113,000 [19] [20]
March 18 Greatest Hits Bruce Springsteen Columbia 251,000 [21] [22]
March 25168,000 [23] [24]
April 1 Me Against the World 2Pac Interscope 240,000 [25] [26]
April 8197,000 [27] [28]
April 15149,000 [29] [30]
April 22113,000 [31] [32]
April 29 The Lion King Elton John / Soundtrack Walt Disney 133,500 [33] [34]
May 6 Throwing Copper Live Radioactive 117,500 [35] [36]
May 13 Friday Soundtrack Priority 121,000 [37] [38]
May 20123,000 [39] [40]
May 27 Cracked Rear View Hootie & the Blowfish Atlantic 125,000 [41] [42]
June 3113,000 [43] [44]
June 10120,000 [45] [46]
June 17128,000 [47] [48]
June 24 P•U•L•S•E Pink Floyd Columbia198,000 [49] [50]
July 1Cracked Rear ViewHootie & the BlowfishAtlantic170,000 [51] [52]
July 8 HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I Michael Jackson Epic 391,000 [53] [54]
July 15263,000 [55] [56]
July 22 Pocahontas SoundtrackWalt Disney192,000 [57] [58]
July 29Cracked Rear ViewHootie & the BlowfishAtlantic144,000 [59] [60]
August 5 Dreaming of You Selena EMI Latin 331,000 [61] [62] [63]
August 12 E. 1999 Eternal Bone Thugs-n-Harmony Ruthless 307,000 [64] [65]
August 19222,000 [66] [67]
August 26Cracked Rear ViewHootie & the BlowfishAtlantic184,000 [68] [69]
September 2 Dangerous Minds Soundtrack MCA 210,000 [70] [71]
September 9256,000 [72] [73]
September 16208,000 [74] [75]
September 23182,500 [76] [77]
September 30Cracked Rear ViewHootie & the BlowfishAtlantic167,000 [78] [79]
October 7 Jagged Little Pill Alanis Morissette Maverick 148,000 [80] [81]
October 14142,000 [82] [83]
October 21 Daydream Mariah Carey Columbia224,000 [84] [85]
October 28216,000 [86] [87]
November 4170,000 [88] [89]
November 11 Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness The Smashing Pumpkins Virgin 246,500 [90] [91]
November 18 Dogg Food Tha Dogg Pound Death Row 277,500 [92] [93]
November 25 Alice in Chains Alice in Chains Columbia189,000 [94] [95]
December 2 R. Kelly R. Kelly Jive 248,500 [96] [97]
December 9 Anthology 1 The Beatles Apple 855,473 [98] [99]
December 16453,000 [100] [101]
December 23435,000 [102] [103]
December 30DaydreamMariah CareyColumbia486,000 [104] [105]

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