The highest-selling albums and EPs in the United States are ranked in the Billboard 200, published by Billboard magazine. The data are compiled by Nielsen Soundscan based on each album's weekly discrete and download sales.[1]

In 2003, 34 different albums reached the #1 spot on the Billboard 200. Get Rich or Die Tryin' by the American rapper 50 Cent spent the longest time at #1, with 6 non-consecutive weeks at the top of the albums list. It also became the best performing album of 2003.

Chart history

Key
† Indicates best performing album of 2003
Issue date Album Artist(s) Sales Ref.
January 4 Up! Shania Twain 459,000 [2][3]
January 11 8 Mile Soundtrack 313,000 [4][5]
January 18 119,000 [6][7]
January 25 Come Away with Me Norah Jones 108,000 [8][9]
February 1 114,000 [10][11]
February 8 112,000 [12][13]
February 15 Home Dixie Chicks 104,000 [14][15]
February 22 Get Rich or Die Tryin' † 50 Cent 872,000 [16][17][18]
March 1 822,000 [19][20]
March 8 Chocolate Factory R. Kelly 532,000 [21][22]
March 15 Come Away with Me Norah Jones 621,000 [23][24]
March 22 Get Rich or Die Tryin' † 50 Cent 359,000 [25][26]
March 29 280,000 [27][28]
April 5 234,000 [29][30]
April 12 Meteora Linkin Park 810,000 [31][32]
April 19 265,000 [33][34]
April 26 Faceless Godsmack 269,000 [35][36]
May 3 Thankful Kelly Clarkson 297,000 [37][38]
May 10 American Life Madonna 241,000 [39][40]
May 17 Get Rich or Die Tryin' † 50 Cent 128,000 [41][42]
May 24 Body Kiss The Isley Brothers featuring Ronald Isley 150,000 [43][44]
May 31 The Golden Age of Grotesque Marilyn Manson 118,000 [45][46]
June 7 14 Shades of Grey Staind 220,000 [47][48]
June 14 How the West Was Won Led Zeppelin 154,000 [49][50]
June 21 St. Anger Metallica 418,000 [51][52]
June 28 Dance with My Father Luther Vandross 442,000 [53][54]
July 5 After the Storm Monica 185,000 [55][56]
July 12 Dangerously in Love Beyoncé 317,000 [57][58]
July 19 Chapter II Ashanti 326,000 [59][60]
July 26 135,000 [61][62]
August 2 Bad Boys II Soundtrack 324,000 [63][64]
August 9 197,000 [65][66]
August 16 155,000 [67][68]
August 23 121,000 [69][70]
August 30 Greatest Hits Volume II and Some Other Stuff Alan Jackson 328,000 [71][72]
September 6 The Neptunes Present... Clones The Neptunes / Various Artists 249,000 [73][74]
September 13 Love & Life Mary J. Blige 286,000 [75][76]
September 20 Metamorphosis Hilary Duff 131,000 [77][78]
September 27 Heavier Things John Mayer 316,500 [79][80]
October 4 Grand Champ DMX 312,000 [81][82]
October 11 Speakerboxxx/The Love Below OutKast 509,600 [83][84]
October 18 235,000 [85][86]
October 25 Chicken*N*Beer Ludacris 429,000 [87][88]
November 1 Measure of a Man Clay Aiken 613,000 [89][90]
November 8 225,000 [91][92]
November 15 Speakerboxxx/The Love Below OutKast 142,000 [93][94]
November 22 Shock'n Y'all Toby Keith 585,000 [95][96]
November 29 The Black Album Jay-Z 464,000 [97][98]
December 6 In the Zone Britney Spears 609,000 [99][100]
December 13 The Black Album Jay-Z 260,000 [101][102]
December 20 The Diary of Alicia Keys Alicia Keys 618,000 [103][104]
December 27 Soulful Ruben Studdard 416,500 [105][106]

See also

References

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