List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 2004

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Usher's Confessions was the best-selling album of 2004.

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Feels Like Home by Norah Jones sold over a million copies in its first week.

The highest-selling albums and EPs in the United States are ranked in the Billboard 200, published by Billboard magazine. The data are compiled by Nielsen Soundscan based on each album's weekly physical sales.

In 2004, a total of 29 albums reached the #1 spot on the Billboard 200. R&B singer Usher's Confessions is the best-selling album of 2004, accumulating under eight million copies by the end of the year. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with sales of 1.096 million copies in the United States, breaking the record for the best opening sales week by an R&B act. Confessions gave Usher his first chart topper since he began releasing albums in the 1990s. Singer Norah Jones' Feels Like Home sold 3.8 million units, ranking as the second best-selling album of 2004. Feels Like Home is noted for its debut sales figure of 1.02 million, the second highest in a week by a female artist, behind singer Britney Spears' Oops!... I Did It Again which debuted with 1.32 million in 2000.

Chart history

Key

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Indicates best performing album of 2004

Issue date	Album	Artist(s)	Sales	Ref.
Template:Dts	The Diary of Alicia Keys		370,000
Template:Dts	Speakerboxxx/The Love Below	OutKast	374,000
Template:Dts			86,000
Template:Dts	Closer		100,000
Template:Dts	Speakerboxxx/The Love Below	OutKast	97,000
Template:Dts			86,000
Template:Dts	Kamikaze	Twista	312,000
Template:Dts	When the Sun Goes Down		550,000
Template:Dts	Feels Like Home		1,020,000
Template:Dts			395,000
Template:Dts			280,000
Template:Dts			204,000
Template:Dts			183,000
Template:Dts			147,000
Template:Dts	Confessions Template:Dagger	Usher	1,096,000
Template:Dts			486,000
Template:Dts			463,000
Template:Dts			302,000
Template:Dts			253,000
Template:Dts	D12 World	D12	545,000
Template:Dts	Confessions Template:Dagger	Usher	267,000
Template:Dts			227,000
Template:Dts			214,000
Template:Dts	Under My Skin		381,000
Template:Dts	Confessions Template:Dagger	Usher	194,000
Template:Dts	Contraband	Velvet Revolver	256,000
Template:Dts	To the 5 Boroughs	Beastie Boys	360,000
Template:Dts	Kiss of Death	Jadakiss	246,000
Template:Dts	The Hunger For More		434,000
Template:Dts			164,000
Template:Dts	License to Chill		239,000
Template:Dts	Autobiography		398,000
Template:Dts	Now 16	Various Artists	504,000
Template:Dts	Autobiography	Ashlee Simpson	286,000
Template:Dts			263,000
Template:Dts	Now 16	Various Artists	207,000
Template:Dts	Live Like You Were Dying		766,000
Template:Dts			227,000
Template:Dts	What I Do		178,000
Template:Dts	Suit	Nelly	396,000
Template:Dts	American Idiot	Green Day	267,000
Template:Dts	Feels Like Today	Rascal Flatts	201,000
Template:Dts	50 Number Ones		343,000
Template:Dts			190,000
Template:Dts	Stardust: The Great American Songbook, Volume III		240,000
Template:Dts	Unfinished Business	& Jay-Z	215,000
Template:Dts	Now 17	Various Artists	407,000
Template:Dts	Encore	Eminem	711,000
Template:Dts			871,000
Template:Dts	How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb	U2	840,000
Template:Dts	Collision Course	Jay-Z / Linkin Park	368,000
Template:Dts	The Red Light District	Ludacris	322,000

See also

• 2004 in music
• List of number-one albums (United States)