Talk:List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 2008

Fearless

It says "Fearless is the longest-running album of 2008" and in the caption under the pic of Taylor Swift it reads, Fearless is the longest-running number-one album of 2008, topping the chart for 11 non-consecutive weeks beginning in December. There are false as it has only spent two weeks at number one in 2008. I guess, more accurately, one might say "Of albums to reach number one in 2008, it has spent the most weeks a top the chart," or something along those lines. --Wolfer68 (talk) 22:16, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Fixed. --Efe (talk) 06:24, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Best-selling album of 2008

The article says Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III was the best-selling album of 2008, but the Billboard 200 year-end chart of 2008 ranks Alicia Keys' As I Am at number one. Which one should be taken into account? Funk Junkie (talk) 01:30, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Changed to highest. More specific. --Efe (talk) 04:50, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

Chart is either one or two weeks off, or I am missing something...

When writing up a Danity Kane article last month, I noticed that either the Billboard chart archives are wrong for this year, or every other news article that reported on them are wrong. Here are some instances...

• Here is a Reuters article stating Welcome to the Dollhouse charted the week of March 23. Not even close to the "issue date" of April 5.
• A Billboard article saying in context the album charted in March.

I can find more. I want to know if "they" are wrong, or if I am wrong. I Help, When I Can.^[12] 08:15, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

I'm guessing Reuters is a little off here. Billboard's issue dates are released many days earlier than the current calendar date. This made more sense back when getting the print edition was the only way to check the charts but their issue-date schedule stayed the same while the availability of their info became instantaneous now that everything is published and compiled electronically, so it would be easy to get them mixed up a little. For example, today is Jan. 2 but the Jan. 8 charts are already published. More, they were published on Dec. 30, and Billboard usually announces #1s on the "big charts" in a press release a day or two before, which would have been Dec. 29... and all of this of course would be a chart reflecting sales during Christmas week. That Billboard article is a perfect example - the actual sales-buying week would have been in March, the charts compiled and published in March, but the issue date was April. - eo (talk) 13:57, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for explaining my question and so much more. I Help, When I Can.^[12] 03:13, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

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