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Key Album Genre Charts Evolve & Expand in 2025


Beginning in January 2025, Billboard will roll out updates to some of its weekly album charts.

Commencing with the Billboard charts dated Jan. 18, 2025 (reflecting the Luminate tracking week ending Jan. 9), six longstanding album genre charts will transition from sales-only rankings to consumption-based tallies, and expand their depths. The bulk of Billboard ’s album genre charts migrated to a consumption-based ranking in January 2017. (With the January 2025 updates, essentially all of Billboard ‘s genre album charts will have migrated to consumption-based ranking.)

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