List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 2001

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The Beatles' greatest hits album 1 was the best-selling album of 2001.

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Celebrity by NSYNC had the biggest sales week of 2001, selling 1.8 million copies in its first week.

The Billboard 200, published in the Billboard magazine, is a weekly chart that ranks the highest-selling albums in the United States. The data is compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based on each album's weekly physical and digital sales. In 2001, 27 albums reached the top of the chart.

The first number-one album of the year was 1 by English rock band the Beatles, which reached the top in December 2000 and continued its run until early February 2001 for a total of eight weeks. Shaggy achieved his first number-one album with Hot Shot. It topped the chart for a total of six weeks and sold more than 5.5 million copies within the year. Staind's Break the Cycle topped the charts for three consecutive weeks in June and sold more than 4.2 million copies in 2001. NSYNC achieved the best-selling album within the first week, selling more than 1.8 million copies with Celebrity, 620,000 more than above earlier in the year. Furthermore, it was the tenth album to sell more than a million units in its first week sakes, since Nielsen SoundScan started collecting data in 1991. Furthermore, it was the third best-selling album of the year and was certified 5-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Following her death, Aaliyah's reached the top for one week in September with her eponymous studio album.

Jay-Z earned his fourth number-one album in the US with The Blueprint. In its third week atop the chart, the record sold about 173,000 copies, the lowest for any number-one in the year. Ja Rule eventually achieved his second and most recent chart-topping album with Pain Is Love.,Template:Efn dethroning Jay-Z in mid-October and topping the chart for two consecutive weeks. The last album to top the chart in 2001 was Weathered by American rock band Creed. It peaked at number one for four consecutive weeks in 2001 and continued for four weeks in January 2002. The album, released in November, was the eighth best-selling record of the year, selling about 3.5 million copies; it is certified 6-times platinum by the RIAA. Unusually, the year's best-selling record, Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park, was not able to top the Billboard 200. Instead the Beatles' 1 was crowned the most successful album of the year.

Number-ones

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Shaggy's (pictured in 2018) Hot Shot was the second-best-selling album in the United States, selling more than 5.5 million copies in 2001.

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Creed's Weathered topped the charts for four weeks and sold more than 3.5 million copies.

Key

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Indicates the best performing album of 2001

Issue date	Album	Artist(s)	Label	Sales	Ref.
Template:Dts	1 Template:Dagger	The Beatles	Apple	1,258,667
Template:Dts				451,253
Template:Dts				268,551
Template:Dts				260,179
Template:Dts				215,534
Template:Dts	J. Lo		Epic	272,262
Template:Dts	Hot Shot	Shaggy	MCA	245,678
Template:Dts				245,778
Template:Dts				293,979
Template:Dts				271,652
Template:Dts	Everyday	Dave Matthews Band	RCA	732,720
Template:Dts				280,081
Template:Dts	Hot Shot	Shaggy	MCA	209,767
Template:Dts				188,838
Template:Dts	Until the End of Time	2Pac	Amaru	426,870
Template:Dts	Now That's What I Call Music! 6	Various Artists	Epic	525,005
Template:Dts				546,778
Template:Dts				248,811
Template:Dts	All for You		Virgin	605,128
Template:Dts	Survivor	Destiny's Child	Columbia	663,280
Template:Dts				358,959
Template:Dts	Lateralus	Tool	Tool Dissectional/Volcano	555,222
Template:Dts	Break the Cycle	Staind	Flip	716,003
Template:Dts				326,299
Template:Dts				244,698
Template:Dts	Take Off Your Pants and Jacket	Blink-182	MCA	349,846
Template:Dts	Devil's Night	D12	Shady	371,881
Template:Dts	Songs in A Minor		J	235,816
Template:Dts	Devil's Night	D12	Shady	173,956
Template:Dts	Songs in A Minor	Alicia Keys	J	221,813
Template:Dts				221,749
Template:Dts	Celebrity	NSYNC	Jive	1,879,955
Template:Dts	Now That's What I Call Music! 7	Various Artists	Virgin	621,419
Template:Dts				394,483
Template:Dts				278,538
Template:Dts	Now	Maxwell	Columbia	296,388
Template:Dts	Aaliyah	Aaliyah	Blackground	305,911
September 22	Toxicity	System of a Down	American	222,038
Template:Dts	The Blueprint	Jay-Z	Roc-A-Fella	426,550
Template:Dts				270,814
Template:Dts				173,663
Template:Dts	Pain Is Love	Ja Rule	Murder, Inc.	360,712
Template:Dts				220,793
Template:Dts	God Bless America: For the Benefit of the Twin Towers Fund	Various Artists	Columbia	180,894
Template:Dts	The Great Depression	DMX	Ruff Ryders	439,957
Template:Dts	Invincible		Epic	366,272
Template:Dts	Britney		Jive	745,744
Template:Dts	Scarecrow		Capitol	465,523
Template:Dts	Weathered	Creed	Wind-Up	887,229
Template:Dts				417,462
Template:Dts				458,033
Template:Dts				555,092

See also

• 2001 in music
• List of number-one albums (United States)