Billboard charts

The Billboard charts tabulates the relative weekly popularity of songs and albums in the United States and globally. The results are published in Billboard magazine. Billboard biz, the online extension of the Billboard charts, provides additional weekly charts, as well as year-end charts. The three main charts are the Billboard Global 200 for songs globally, the Billboard Hot 100 for songs in the United States, and the Billboard 200 for albums in the United States. In addition to these, other Billboard charts exclusively feature a specific genre such as R&B, country, or rock, or cover all genres. The charts can be ranked according to sales, streams, or airplay, and for main song charts such as the Hot 100 or Global 200 song charts, all three sources are used in their compilation. For the Billboard 200 album chart, streams and track sales are included in addition to album sales. The weekly sales and streams charts have been monitored on a Friday-to-Thursday cycle since July 2015; previously it was on a Monday-to-Sunday cycle. Radio airplay song charts, however, follow the Monday-to-Sunday cycle (previously Wednesday-to-Tuesday). The charts are released each Tuesday with an issue date the following Saturday.