Top Dance Albums

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The Fame by Lady Gaga holds the record for the most weeks at number one (193 weeks) as well as the most weeks on the chart (5665 weeks). Lady Gaga at Joe Biden's inauguration (cropped 5).jpg
The Fame by Lady Gaga holds the record for the most weeks at number one (193 weeks) as well as the most weeks on the chart (5665 weeks).

Top Dance Albums (formerly Top Electronic Albums and Top Dance/Electronic Albums) is a music chart published weekly by Billboard magazine which ranks the top-selling dance music albums in the United States based on sales compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The chart debuted on the issue dated June 30, 2001 under the title Top Electronic Albums, with the first number-one title being the original soundtrack to the film Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. [2] It originally began as a fifteen-position chart and has since expanded to twenty-five positions.

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Top Dance Albums features full-length albums by artists who are associated with electronic dance music genres (house, techno, IDM, trance, etc.) as well as pop-oriented dance music and electronic-leaning hip hop. Also eligible for this chart are remix albums by otherwise non-electronic-based artists and DJ-mixed compilation albums and film soundtracks which feature a majority of electronic or dance music. In 2019, Billboard added a companion chart, Dance/Electronic Album Sales, which tracks the top 15 albums based solely on physical sales, but with an emphasis on core dance/electronic artists. Starting with the first full chart week of 2025, the chart was renamed to Top Dance Albums "to better represent the cross-reference of dance titles that appear on the ranking". [3]

The current number-one album on the chart is Brat by Charli XCX. [4]

Artist milestones

Most number-one albums

AlbumsArtistSource
7 Louie DeVito [5]
Lady Gaga [6] [1]
6 Daft Punk [7]
The Chainsmokers [8]
4 Aphex Twin (One as "AFX") [9]
Lindsey Stirling [10]
M.I.A. [11]
Pet Shop Boys [12]
Marshmello [13]

Most cumulative weeks at number one

WeeksArtistSource
262
Lady Gaga [1]
91
The Chainsmokers [8]
57
Beyoncé [a] [14]
47
Gnarls Barkley [15]
38
Daft Punk [7]
35
Gorillaz [16]
32
Louie DeVito
32
Charli XCX [17]
29
Lindsey Stirling [10]
23
Calvin Harris [18]
Marshmello [13]

Most entries on the chart

EntriesArtistSource
33
Armin van Buuren [19]
23
Tiësto [20]
19
Louie DeVito
18
The Happy Boys
17
Pet Shop Boys [12]
16
Moby [21]
Bassnectar [22]
13
Bad Boy Joe
David Waxman [23]
12
Johnny Vicious

Album milestones

Most weeks at number one

WeeksAlbumArtistYear(s)Source
193
The Fame Lady Gaga 2008–24 [1]
57
Renaissance [a] Beyoncé 2022–24 [14]
46
Memories...Do Not Open The Chainsmokers 2017–18 [8]
39
St. Elsewhere Gnarls Barkley 2006–07 [15]
36
Chromatica Lady Gaga2020–21 [1]
34
Demon Days Gorillaz 2005–06 [16]
32
Brat Charli XCX 2024–25 [17]
22
Random Access Memories Daft Punk 2013–23 [7]
20
Marshmello Fortnite Extended Set Marshmello 2019 [13]
Honestly, Nevermind Drake 2022 [24]
19
Shatter Me Lindsey Stirling 2014–15 [10]
Sorry for Party Rocking LMFAO 2011–12 [25]
Born This Way Lady Gaga2011 [1]
Kala M.I.A. 2007–08 [11]
Give Up The Postal Service 2004–05

Most weeks on the chart

WeeksAlbumArtistSource
566
The Fame Lady Gaga [1]
522
Nothing but the Beat David Guetta [26]
519
Demon Days Gorillaz [16]
480
Random Access Memories Daft Punk [7]
431
Born This Way Lady Gaga [1]
428
Collage The Chainsmokers [8]
425
True Avicii [27]
406
Memories...Do Not Open The Chainsmokers [8]
381
Motion Calvin Harris [18]
363
Discovery Daft Punk [7]
  1. 1 2 Renaissance was not classified as a Dance/Electronic album until its 16th week. Had Billboard classified it as such upon release, the album would have spent an additional 15 weeks at number one.

Year-end number-one albums

List of albums that ranked number-one on the Billboard Top Dance/Electronic Albums Year-End chart.

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