Top Dance Albums

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Top Dance Albums (formerly Top Electronic Albums and Top Dance/Electronic Albums) is a music chart published weekly by Billboard magazine which ranks the top-selling dance music albums in the United States based on sales compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The chart debuted on the issue dated June 30, 2001 under the title Top Electronic Albums, with the first number-one title being the original soundtrack to the film Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.[1] It originally began as a fifteen-position chart and has since expanded to twenty-five positions.

Top Dance Albums features full-length albums by artists who are associated with electronic dance music genres (house, techno, IDM, trance, etc.) as well as pop-oriented dance music and electronic-leaning hip hop. Also eligible for this chart are remix albums by otherwise non-electronic-based artists and DJ-mixed compilation albums and film soundtracks which feature a majority of electronic or dance music. In 2019, Billboard added a companion chart, Dance/Electronic Album Sales, which tracks the top 15 albums based solely on physical sales, but with an emphasis on core dance/electronic artists. Starting with the first full chart week of 2025, the chart was renamed to Top Dance Albums "to better represent the cross-reference of dance titles that appear on the ranking".[2]

The current number-one album on the chart is Mayhem by Lady Gaga.[3]

Artist milestones

Most number-one albums

Albums Artist Source
8 Lady Gaga [4][5]
7 Louie DeVito [6]
6 Daft Punk [7]
The Chainsmokers [8]
4 Aphex Twin (One as "AFX") [9]
Lindsey Stirling [10]
M.I.A. [11]
Pet Shop Boys [12]
Marshmello [13]
FKA Twigs [14]

Most cumulative weeks at number one

Weeks Artist Source
266
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Lady Gaga [5]
91
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The Chainsmokers [8]
57
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BeyoncéTemplate:Efn [15]
47
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Gnarls Barkley [16]
38
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Daft Punk [7]
38
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Charli XCX [17]
35
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Gorillaz [18]
32
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Louie DeVito
29
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Lindsey Stirling [10]
23
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Calvin Harris [19]
Marshmello [13]

Most entries on the chart

Entries Artist Source
33
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Armin van Buuren [20]
23
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Tiësto [21]
19
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Louie DeVito
18
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The Happy Boys
17
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Pet Shop Boys [12]
16
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Moby [22]
Bassnectar [23]
13
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Bad Boy Joe
David Waxman [24]
12
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Johnny Vicious

Album milestones

Most weeks at number one

Weeks Album Artist Year(s) Source
193
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The Fame Lady Gaga 2008–24 [5]
57
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RenaissanceTemplate:Efn Beyoncé 2022–24 [15]
46
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Memories...Do Not Open The Chainsmokers 2017–18 [8]
39
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St. Elsewhere Gnarls Barkley 2006–07 [16]
38
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Brat Charli XCX 2024–25 [17]
36
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Chromatica Lady Gaga 2020–21 [5]
34
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Demon Days Gorillaz 2005–06 [18]
22
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Random Access Memories Daft Punk 2013–23 [7]
20
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Marshmello Fortnite Extended Set Marshmello 2019 [13]
Honestly, Nevermind Drake 2022 [25]
19
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Shatter Me Lindsey Stirling 2014–15 [10]
Sorry for Party Rocking LMFAO 2011–12 [26]
Born This Way Lady Gaga 2011 [5]
Kala M.I.A. 2007–08 [11]
Give Up The Postal Service 2004–05

Most weeks on the chart

Weeks Album Artist Source
577
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533
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Nothing but the Beat David Guetta [27]
530
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Demon Days Gorillaz [18]
491
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Random Access Memories Daft Punk [7]
442
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Born This Way Lady Gaga [5]
439
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Collage The Chainsmokers [8]
431
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True Avicii [28]
417
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Memories...Do Not Open The Chainsmokers [8]
391
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Motion Calvin Harris [19]
374
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Discovery Daft Punk [7]

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Year-end number-one albums

List of albums that ranked number-one on the Billboard Top Dance/Electronic Albums Year-End chart.

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External links

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