The highest-selling albums and EPs in the United States are ranked in the Billboard 200, published by Billboard magazine. The date are compiled by Nielsen Soundscan based on each album's weekly physical sales. In 2000, 20 albums topped the chart in 53 issues of the magazine, but two of which albums started their peak position in 1999 and are therefore excluded.

Pop group NSYNC's No Strings Attached, rapper Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP, and rock group The Beatles' compilation album 1 are the longest-running albums of 2000 and second in 2000s, behind Taylor Swift in 2009 with Fearless which logged eleven non-consecutive weeks at number one. The first two of which albums topped the Billboard 200 for eight straight weeks. 1 charted for eight non-consecutive weeks, of which stretch began in late 2000 and continued in early 2001. No Strings Attached, The Marshall Mathers LP, and 1 are credited as three of the longest-running albums of the decade. Rock artist Santana's Supernatural topped the chart for nine non-consecutive weeks in 2000, but is credited as the longest-running album of 1999 because it first peaked in that year.

No Strings Attached is the best-selling album of 2000, accumulating nearly 9.94 million sales by the end of the year. The album was noted for its debut sales figure of 2.4 million, the highest first-week sales in the Billboard 200 history. The figure marked as the only album to have sold more than two million copies in a one-week period, a distinction held until the release of Adele's 25. Rapper Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP sold over 7.92 million copies, the second best-selling album of 2000. The album's debut sales, over 1.76 million, held the distinction as the second best sales in a week. Singer Britney Spears's Oops!... I Did It Again sold nearly 7.89 million copies, making it the third highest-selling album of the year. The album opened at number one on the Billboard 200 on the strength of over 1.3 million unit sales, breaking the record for first-week sales by a female act. Debut sales of Oops!... I Did It Again broke the record set by singer Alanis Morissette's Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, which opened with 469,054 sales. It also shattered singer Mariah Carey's record, whose album Daydream sold 759,959 copies during the week of Christmas 1995. Band Backstreet Boys' Black & Blue sold 1.6 million units in its debut week, besting their album Millennium's figure of 1.13 million.

2000 had the fewest Billboard 200 leaders among women since 1996, with only Britney Spears, Celine Dion and Madonna having a number one album this year.Weekly Chart Notes: Ke$ha, Katy Perry, Michael Jackson

Chart history

+KeyIndicates best performing album of 2000

Issue date Album Artist(s) Sales All the Way... A Decade of Song537,000 ...And Then There Was XDMX698,000 Vol. 3: Life and Times of S. CarterJay-Z462,000 SupernaturalSantana204,000 174,100 199,500 VoodooD'Angelo321,100 190,900 SupernaturalSantana217,100 219,000 583,000 441,000 343,300 307,000 No Strings Attached NSYNC 2,415,900 811,300 533,000 422,000 654,600 248,000 191,000 188,200 Oops!... I Did It Again 1,319,200 The Marshall Mathers LPEminem 1,760,100 793,800 598,000 519,000 409,400 341,000 290,600 257,000 Now 4Various Artists 320,000 258,200 239,500 Country GrammarNelly 234,000 235,000 213,500 200,000 191,600 G.O.A.T.LL Cool J 208,700 MusicMadonna 419,600 Let's Get ReadyMystikal 330,700 Kid ARadiohead 207,400 Rule 3:36Ja Rule 275,000 Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored WaterLimp Bizkit 1,054,500 392,000 The Dynasty: Roc La FamiliaJay-Z 557,800 TP-2.com 543,300 1The Beatles 594,700 Black & BlueBackstreet Boys 1,591,200 689,600 1The Beatles 670,700 823,600

See also 2000 in music Lists of Billboard 200 number-one albums

References

External links Billboard 200 – 2000 archive