- Top Electronic Albums
Top Electronic Albums is a music chart published weekly by "
Billboard magazine " which ranks the top selling electronic music albums in theUnited States . The chart debuted on the issue datedJune 30 2001 . It originally began as a fifteen-position chart and has since expanded to twenty-five positions. Rankings are compiled by point-of-purchase sales obtained byNielsen Soundscan data and from legaldigital download s from a variety of internet music stores."Top Electronic Albums" features full-length albums by artists who are associated with electronic music genres (house,
techno , IDM, trance, etc.) as well as pop-orienteddance music and electronic-leaning hip-hop. Also eligible for this chart areremix albums by otherwise non-electronic-based artists and DJ-mixedcompilation album s and filmsoundtrack s which feauture a majority of electronic or dance music.The first number-one title on "Top Electronic Albums" was the original soundtrack to the film "".
External links
* [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/index.jsp Billboard.com]
* [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts/chart_display.jsp?g=Albums&f=Top+Electronic+Albums Current Top Electronic Albums chart (top ten positions)]
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