- Top Heatseekers
Top Heatseekers is a weekly albums chart introduced by "Billboard" in
1993 whose purpose is to highlight sales by new and developing musical recording artists. Albums appearing on Top Heatseekers may also concurrently appear on the "Billboard" 200.Top Heatseekers contains fifty chart positions. Although the chart's policies have changed slightly over the years, its current rules for an album's eligibility to enter "Top Heatseekers" are as follows (per "Billboard"):
Note that there are many artists who bypassed Top Heatseekers altogether by having their initial chart entry debut on the "Billboard" 200 at position 100 or above.
Acts who have "graduated" from Top Heatseekers
*AFI
*The All-American Rejects
*Tori Amos
*Anastacia
*Anberlin
*Animal Collective
*Fiona Apple
*Arcade Fire
*Avenged Sevenfold
*Big L
*Belanova
*Björk
*Blind Melon
*Blink-182
*Blur
*Bone Thugs N Harmony
*Breaking Benjamin
*Marc Broussard
*Michael Bublé
*Bullet for My Valentine
*Bury Your Dead
*Cannibal Corpse
*Cat Power
*Coldplay
*Paula Cole
*Deborah Cox
*CéU
*Cobra Starship
*Counting Crows
*Sheryl Crow
*The Cranberries
*Creed
*The Darkness
*Dashboard Confessional
*Dido
*Disturbed
*Dixie Chicks
*Dope
*Hilary Duff
*Dru Hill
*The Early November
*Fall Out Boy
*Fatboy Slim
*Feist
*The Flaming Lips
*Fountains of Wayne
*Franz Ferdinand
*The Fray
*John Frusciante
*Fugazi
*Nelly Furtado
*Garbage
*Gin Blossoms
*Goldfrapp
*Goo Goo Dolls
*Macy Gray
*Green Day
*Josh Groban
*Halifax
*Hellogoodbye
*Faith Hill
*HIM
*Hootie & the Blowfish
*In Flames
*Jewel
*Norah Jones
*Kid Rock
*Killswitch Engage
*KoRn
*Ray LaMontagne
*Limp Bizkit
*Lamb of God
*Lords Of Acid
*Lostprophets
*Masta Killa
*Matchbox Twenty
*Maxwell
*John Mayer
*Sarah McLachlan
*Meiko
*M.I.A.
*Moby
*Modest Mouse
*Alanis Morissette
*Mudvayne
*Muse
*My Chemical Romance
*Mystikal
*Nirvana
*Nile
*No Doubt
*NOFX
*Oasis
*The Offspring
*Opeth
*Brad Paisley
*Panic at the Disco
*Pantera
*Paramore
*Pearl Jam
*Porcupine Tree
*Primus
*Queens of the Stone Age
*Rage Against the Machine
*RBD
*The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
*Rise Against
*Robyn
*S Club 7
*Say Anything
*Jill Scott
*Jon Secada
*702
*Silversun Pickups
*Skinny Puppy
*Sleater-Kinney
*Slipknot
*Soul Asylum
*Soundgarden
*Regina Spektor
*Spin Doctors
*Staind
*Sufjan Stevens
*Angie Stone
*Joss Stone
*Stone Temple Pilots
*Switchfoot
*SWV
*System of a Down
*Tech N9ne
*3 Doors Down
*311
*Three Days Grace
*Tool
*Trivium
*Josh Turner
*Shania Twain
*UnderOath
*Weezer
*The White Stripes
*White Zombie
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