The Best-Selling Albums and Songs of 2007
Daughtry’s debut was the year’s biggest album and Akon was artist of the year, while Beyoncé’s “Irreplaceable” edged Rihanna’s “Umbrella” for the No. 1 song.
Artists of the Year
Top 10 Albums of 2007 Billboard 200
- 1DaughtryDaughtry
- 2KonvictedAkon
- 3The DutchessFergie
- 4Hannah MontanaSoundtrack
- 5Some HeartsCarrie Underwood
- 6All the Right ReasonsNickelback
- 7FutureSex/LoveSoundsJustin Timberlake
- 8High School Musical 2Soundtrack
- 9Now That’s What I Call Music! 23Various Artists
- 10Minutes to MidnightLinkin Park
Top 10 Songs of 2007 Hot 100
- 1IrreplaceableBeyoncé
- 2UmbrellaRihanna ft. Jay-Z
- 3The Sweet EscapeGwen Stefani ft. Akon
- 4Big Girls Don’t CryFergie
- 5Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin’)T-Pain ft. Yung Joc
- 6Before He CheatsCarrie Underwood
- 7Hey There DelilahPlain White T’s
- 8I Wanna Love YouAkon ft. Snoop Dogg
- 9Say It RightNelly Furtado
- 10GlamorousFergie ft. Ludacris
What the 2007 Charts Show
- The year split: Daughtry led on albums while Akon led on singles.
- Soundtrack placed 2 albums inside the year-end top 10 — a share of the chart almost nobody manages.
- 2 albums held their top-10 places from 2006: Some Hearts and All the Right Reasons — the streaming era’s long tail at work.
How the 2007 charts were compiled
Every position here is a chart placement — measured sales, radio airplay and, in the years Billboard counted it, streaming across its tracking year — not an editorial ranking. Albums come from the year-end Billboard 200, songs from the year-end Hot 100.
Billboard’s tracking year runs from roughly late October to mid-October rather than January to December, which is why a late-autumn release can win the following year and why a song can appear on two consecutive year-end lists.
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