Key Album Genre Charts Evolve & Expand in 2025

Starting in January, Billboard will roll out updates to a few of its weekly album charts.

Commencing with the Billboard charts dated Jan. 18, 2025 (reflecting the Luminate monitoring week ending Jan. 9), six longstanding album style charts will transition from sales-only rankings to consumption-based tallies, and develop their depths. Plus, three album style charts that had been already consumption-based will even improve their depths.

Consumption-based album charts rank the most well-liked titles of the week by equal album items earned, as compiled by Luminate. Models comprise album gross sales, monitor equal albums (TEA) and streaming equal albums (SEA). Every unit equals one album sale, or 10 particular person tracks offered from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album.

The primary Billboard album chart to transition from a conventional album sales-based rating to a consumption-based tally was the general all-genre Billboard 200 in December 2014. The majority of Billboard’s album style charts migrated to a consumption-based rating in January 2017. (With the January 2025 updates, basically all of Billboard‘s style album charts can have migrated to consumption-based rating.)

Lastly, the Heatseekers Albums chart, which ranks the week’s hottest albums by new and creating acts, shall be retired, starting with the Jan. 18, 2025-dated listing. Billboard will proceed to chart new and creating acts on its weekly Rising Artists chart, which launched in 2017. The Rising Artists chart ranks the most well-liked creating artists of the week, utilizing the identical formulation because the all-encompassing Billboard Artist 100, which measures artist exercise throughout a number of Billboard charts, together with the Scorching 100 and Billboard 200. (The Artist 100 lists the most well-liked acts, total, every week.) Nonetheless, the Rising Artists chart excludes acts which have notched a high 25 entry on both the Scorching 100 or Billboard 200, in addition to artists which have achieved two or extra high 10s on Billboard’s “Scorching” track style charts and/or consumption-based “Prime” album style rankings.

Right here’s a recap of the adjustments to Billboard’s album style charts starting with the charts dated Jan. 18, 2025:

Bluegrass Albums – Transitions from a 10-position album sales-only chart to a 15-position consumption-based chart, rating albums by equal album items.

Blues Albums – Transitions from a 10-position album sales-only chart to a 15-position consumption-based chart, rating albums by equal album items.

Forged Albums – Transitions from a 10-position album sales-only chart to a 15-position consumption-based chart, rating albums by equal album items.

Classical Crossover Albums – Transitions from a 10-position album sales-only chart to a 15-position consumption-based chart, rating albums by equal album items.

Conventional Classical Albums – Transitions from a 10-position album sales-only chart to a 15-position consumption-based chart, rating albums by equal album items.

Child Albums – Transitions from a 15-position album sales-only chart to a 25-position consumption-based chart, rating albums by equal album items.

New Age Albums – Expands from 10 to fifteen positions, stays a consumption-based chart, rating albums by equal album items.

Tropical Albums – Expands from 20 to 25 positions; stays a consumption-based chart, rating albums by equal album items.

World Albums – Expands from 15 to 25 positions; stays a consumption-based chart, rating albums by equal album items.

As with all style consumption album charts, the rankings for the above album style charts shall be inclusive of each present and catalog titles.