Queen Quiz - US Billboard Charts

Dale Tatnell
Oct 2, 2024
2 min read

The earliest pop chart listings published by Billboard were in January of 1936, with the working title "Ten Best Records for Week Ending", listing the ten top-selling records of the three leading record companies. The singles chart underwent many permutations until the current Billboard Hot 100 chart was created in August 1958.

The "Best Selling Popular Record Albums" album chart was first published in March 1945. Originally, it only counted the top 10, but eventually expanded to the top 200 in May of 1967. Through the years, the working title of the album chart changed, until the current Billboard 200 was created in March 1992.

Since the creation of the Billboard Charts, the music industry has seen numerous changes in how people consume their music, thus the Billboard Charts continues to develop new strategies as consumer trends change.

Queen has had mixed fortunes within the USA, seeing only twenty-four singles entering the Billboard Hot 100 and all of their studio albums breaking into the Billboard 200.