— Year-End Charts —
The Best-Selling Albums and Songs of 2017
A Spanish-language remix finished No. 2 in America — the year the Hot 100 stopped being an English-only chart.
Artists of the Year
Top ArtistEd SheeranCombined albums + singles performance
Top Albums ArtistDrake
Top Singles ArtistEd Sheeran
Top 10 Albums of 2017 Billboard 200
- 1DAMN.Kendrick Lamar
- 224K MagicBruno Mars
- 3StarboyThe Weeknd
- 4÷ (Divide)Ed Sheeran
- 5More LifeDrake
- 6MoanaSoundtrack
- 7StoneyPost Malone
- 8CultureMigos
- 9HamiltonOriginal Broadway Cast
- 104 Your Eyez OnlyJ. Cole
Top 10 Songs of 2017 Hot 100
- 1Shape of YouEd Sheeran
- 2Despacito (Remix)Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee ft. Justin Bieber
- 3That’s What I LikeBruno Mars
- 4HumbleKendrick Lamar
- 5Something Just Like ThisThe Chainsmokers and Coldplay
- 6Bad and BoujeeMigos ft. Lil Uzi Vert
- 7CloserThe Chainsmokers ft. Halsey
- 8Body Like a Back RoadSam Hunt
- 9BelieverImagine Dragons
- 10CongratulationsPost Malone ft. Quavo
What the 2017 Charts Show
- The year split: Drake led on albums while Ed Sheeran led on singles.
- Hamilton placed in the year-end top 10 for a second straight year, having also charted in 2016.
How the 2017 charts were compiled
Every position here is a chart placement — measured sales, radio airplay and streaming across Billboard’s 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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