Usher's Confessions was the best-selling album of 2004.
Feels Like Home by Norah Jones sold over a million copies in its first week.

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 physical sales.[1]

In 2004, a total of 29 albums reached the #1 spot on the Billboard 200. R&B singer Usher's Confessions is the best-selling album of 2004, accumulating under eight million copies by the end of the year.[2] The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with sales of 1.096 million copies in the United States, breaking the record for the best opening sales week by an R&B act. Confessions gave Usher his first chart topper since he began releasing albums in the 1990s.[3] Singer Norah Jones' Feels Like Home sold 3.8 million units, ranking as the second best-selling album of 2004.[2] Feels Like Home is noted for its debut sales figure of 1.02 million, the second highest in a week by a female artist, behind singer Britney Spears' Oops!... I Did It Again which debuted with 1.32 million in 2000.[4]

Chart history

Key
† Indicates best performing album of 2004
Issue date Album Artist(s) Sales Ref.
January 3 The Diary of Alicia Keys Alicia Keys 370,000 [5][6]
January 10 Speakerboxxx/The Love Below OutKast 374,000 [7][8]
January 17 86,000 [9][10]
January 24 Closer Josh Groban 100,000 [11][12]
January 31 Speakerboxxx/The Love Below OutKast 97,000 [13][14]
February 7 86,000 [15][16]
February 14 Kamikaze Twista 312,000 [17][18]
February 21 When the Sun Goes Down Kenny Chesney 550,000 [19][20]
February 28 Feels Like Home Norah Jones 1,020,000 [21][4]
March 6 395,000 [22][23]
March 13 280,000 [24][25]
March 20 204,000 [26][27]
March 27 183,000 [28][29]
April 3 147,000 [30][31]
April 10 Confessions † Usher 1,096,000 [32][3]
April 17 486,000 [33][34]
April 24 463,000 [35][36]
May 1 302,000 [37][38]
May 8 253,000 [39][40]
May 15 D12 World D12 545,000 [41][42]
May 22 Confessions † Usher 267,000 [43][44]
May 29 227,000 [45][46]
June 5 214,000 [47][48]
June 12 Under My Skin Avril Lavigne 381,000 [49][50]
June 19 Confessions † Usher 194,000 [51][52]
June 26 Contraband Velvet Revolver 256,000 [53][54]
July 3 To the 5 Boroughs Beastie Boys 360,000 [55][56]
July 10 Kiss of Death Jadakiss 246,000 [57][58]
July 17 The Hunger For More Lloyd Banks 434,000 [59][60]
July 24 164,000 [61][62]
July 31 License to Chill Jimmy Buffett 239,000 [63][64]
August 7 Autobiography Ashlee Simpson 398,000 [65][66]
August 14 Now 16 Various artists 504,000 [67][68]
August 21 Autobiography Ashlee Simpson 286,000 [69][70]
August 28 263,000 [71][72]
September 4 Now 16 Various artists 207,000 [73][74]
September 11 Live Like You Were Dying Tim McGraw 766,000 [75][76]
September 18 227,000 [77][78]
September 25 What I Do Alan Jackson 178,000 [79][80]
October 2 Suit Nelly 396,000 [81][82]
October 9 American Idiot Green Day 267,000 [83][84]
October 16 Feels Like Today Rascal Flatts 201,000 [85][86]
October 23 50 Number Ones George Strait 343,000 [87][88]
October 30 190,000 [89][90]
November 6 Stardust: The Great American Songbook, Volume III Rod Stewart 240,000 [91][92]
November 13 Unfinished Business R. Kelly & Jay-Z 215,000 [93][94]
November 20 Now 17 Various artists 407,000 [95][96]
November 27 Encore Eminem 711,000 [97][98]
December 4 871,000 [99][100]
December 11 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb U2 840,000 [101][102]
December 18 Collision Course Jay-Z / Linkin Park 368,000 [103][104]
December 25 The Red Light District Ludacris 322,000 [105][106]

See also

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