Justin Timberlake earned his second and third US number-one albums with The 20/20 Experience and The 20/20 Experience – 2 of 2, respectively; the former was the year's best selling album.

The highest-selling albums and EPs in the United States are ranked in the Billboard 200, which is published by Billboard magazine. The data are compiled by Nielsen Soundscan based on each album's weekly physical and digital sales. In 2013, a total of 44 albums claimed the top position of the chart. One of which, singer-songwriter Taylor Swift's album Red started its peak in late 2012.[1]

Justin Timberlake's album The 20/20 Experience was the longest-running album of the year, staying atop the chart for three consecutive weeks.[2] Other albums with extended chart runs include Red by Taylor Swift, Babel by Mumford & Sons, Random Access Memories by Daft Punk, Magna Carta Holy Grail by Jay-Z, Crash My Party by Luke Bryan and The Marshall Mathers LP 2 by Eminem; each spent two weeks on the top position. Throughout 2013, only two acts achieved multiple number-one albums on the chart: Justin Timberlake with The 20/20 Experience and The 20/20 Experience – 2 of 2, and Luke Bryan with Spring Break...Here to Party and Crash My Party.

The 20/20 Experience sold 968,000 copies in its first week following its release, becoming the highest-selling album during the debut week.[3] Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP 2 sold 792,000 copies in its first week, making it the second album with the highest sales during the opening week.[4] Meanwhile, Beyoncé notched her fifth number-one album with her eponymous album; it was also the largest debut sales week for a female artist in 2013, and outselling Knowles' previous albums' debut figures. Knowles is the only female artist in Billboard 200 history to have her first five albums reach number one.[4]

The 20/20 Experience was the biggest-selling album of 2013, with 2,373,000 copies sold in the US.[3][5]

Chart history

Eminem scored his sixth number-one album on the chart with The Marshall Mathers LP 2, claiming the top spot for two nonconsecutive weeks.
Jay-Z gained his thirteenth US number-one album with Magna Carta Holy Grail, which topped the chart for two weeks straight.
Babel (2011) by Mumford & Sons spent its fourth and fifth weeks atop the chart.
Country musician Luke Bryan topped the chart for three weeks, aided by his albums Spring Break...Here to Party and Crash My Party.
French electronic music duo Daft Punk scored their first US number one album with Random Access Memories, which spent two weeks at the top.
Taylor Swift's 2012 album Red earned its sixth and seventh chart-topping weeks in January 2013.
Key
† Indicates best performing album of 2013
Issue date Album Artist(s) Sales Ref.
January 5 Red Taylor Swift 276,000 [6][7]
January 12 241,000 [8][9]
January 19 Les Misérables: Highlights from the Motion Picture Soundtrack Various artists 92,000 [10][11]
January 26 Burning Lights Chris Tomlin 73,000 [12][13]
February 2 Long. Live. ASAP ASAP Rocky 139,000 [14][15]
February 9 Set You Free Gary Allan 106,000 [16][17]
February 16 Believe Acoustic Justin Bieber 211,000 [18][19]
February 23 All That Echoes Josh Groban 145,000 [20][21]
March 2 Babel Mumford & Sons 185,000 [22][23]
March 9 63,000 [24][25]
March 16 Unorthodox Jukebox Bruno Mars 95,000 [26][27]
March 23 Spring Break...Here to Party Luke Bryan 150,000 [28][29]
March 30 What About Now Bon Jovi 101,000 [30][31][32]
April 6 The 20/20 Experience † Justin Timberlake 968,000 [33][34][35]
April 13 318,000 [36][37]
April 20 139,000 [38][2]
April 27 Paramore Paramore 106,000 [39][40]
May 4 Save Rock and Roll Fall Out Boy 154,000 [41][42]
May 11 To Be Loved Michael Bublé 195,000 [43][44]
May 18 Life on a Rock Kenny Chesney 153,000 [45][46]
May 25 Golden Lady Antebellum 167,000 [47][48]
June 1 Modern Vampires of the City Vampire Weekend 134,000 [49][50]
June 8 Random Access Memories Daft Punk 339,000 [51][52]
June 15 93,000 [53][54]
June 22 ...Like Clockwork Queens of the Stone Age 91,000 [55][56]
June 29 13 Black Sabbath 155,000 [57][58]
July 6 Yeezus Kanye West 327,000 [59][60]
July 13 The Gifted Wale 158,000 [61][62]
July 20 Born Sinner J. Cole 58,000 [63][64]
July 27 Magna Carta Holy Grail Jay-Z 528,000 [65][66]
August 3 129,000 [67][68]
August 10 Stars Dance Selena Gomez 97,000 [69][70]
August 17 Blurred Lines Robin Thicke 177,000 [71][72]
August 24 The Civil Wars The Civil Wars 116,000 [73][74]
August 31 Crash My Party Luke Bryan 528,000 [75][76]
September 7 159,000 [77][78]
September 14 Hail to the King Avenged Sevenfold 159,000 [79][80]
September 21 Yours Truly Ariana Grande 138,000 [81][82]
September 28 Fuse Keith Urban 98,000 [83][84]
October 5 From Here to Now to You Jack Johnson 117,000 [85][86]
October 12 Nothing Was the Same Drake 658,000 [87][88]
October 19 The 20/20 Experience – 2 of 2 Justin Timberlake 350,000 [89][90]
October 26 Bangerz Miley Cyrus 270,000 [91][92]
November 2 Lightning Bolt Pearl Jam 166,000 [93][94]
November 9 Prism Katy Perry 286,000 [95][96]
November 16 Reflektor Arcade Fire 140,000 [97][98]
November 23 The Marshall Mathers LP 2 Eminem 792,000 [99][100]
November 30 Artpop Lady Gaga 258,000 [101][102]
December 7 The Marshall Mathers LP 2 Eminem 120,000 [103][104]
December 14 Midnight Memories One Direction 546,000 [105][106]
December 21 Blame It All on My Roots: Five Decades of Influences Garth Brooks 146,000 [107][108]
December 28 Beyoncé Beyoncé 617,000 [109][4]

See also

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