page_title: List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 2016
section_title: Chart history
hierarchical_section_title: List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 2016 / Chart history
caption_attribution_description: Español: David Bowie sobre el escenario del festival "Rock in Chile", realizado en el Estadio Nacional de Chile, 27 de septiembre de 1990.
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 2016, a total of 33 albums claimed the top position of the chart. One of which, English singer Adele's 25 started its peak issue dated December 12, 2015. Canadian hip hop soul artist Drake's fourth studio album, Views, became the second best-selling overall album with 1.04 million equivalent album units, selling 852,000 copies in its first week of release, and achieving over 245 million streams, more than previous record 115.2 million by Beyoncé's Lemonade. Lemonade is the third overall best-seller, incurring 485,000 copies in its first week.
caption: Following his death on January 10, 2016, David Bowie's (archived) twenty-fifth and final studio album, Blackstar, released on his sixty-ninth birthday, two days before his death, reached number-one on the Billboard 200, posthumously.
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