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25 Key Billboard Chart Moments of the 21st Century


A look back at some of the most buzzworthy instances on the Billboard 200 and Hot 100 over the first 25 years of the century.

1 on the Hot 100; Adele dominated the Billboard 200 with two blockbuster albums; and Rihanna, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Drake and BTS arrived and quickly made their own historic marks. Adele ’s 25 blasts in atop the Billboard 200 with 3.38 million copies sold in the United States – the largest sales week for an album since data tracker Luminate began tracking point-of-sale music purchases in 1991. BTS ’ “Dynamite” detonates atop the Hot 100, making the superstar septet of J-Hope, Jimin, Jin, Jungkook, RM, Suga and V the first all-South Korean group ever to lead the list.

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