page_title: List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 2017
section_title: Chart history
hierarchical_section_title: List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 2017 / Chart history
caption_attribution_description: English: Performance of American rock band Foo Fighters at Lollapalooza Berlin 2017.
context_page_description: The highest-selling albums and EPs in the United States are ranked in the Billboard 200, which is published by Billboard magazine. The data are compiled by Nielsen Soundscan based on each album's weekly physical and digital sales, as well as on-demand streaming and digital sales of its individual tracks. In 2017, a total of 38 albums claimed the top position of the chart. Beginning with vocal group Pentatonix's Christmas album, A Pentatonix Christmas, issue dated January 7, another one of which, Canadian singer The Weeknd's third studio album, Starboy returned to the top slot a week later after three weeks from the slot, issue dated December 17, 2016.
  Singer-songwriter Taylor Swift's Reputation is the best selling album of 2017. Singer Ed Sheeran's ÷ is the second best-selling album with 451,000 album-equivalent units, of which 322,000 were pure album sales. Rapper Kendrick Lamar's fourth studio album, Damn, went on to become the third best-seller with 603,000 album-equivalent units in its first week of release.
caption: Foo Fighters earned their second number-one album with Concrete and Gold, the only hard rock album to top the chart in 2017.
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