— Year-End Charts —
The Best-Selling Albums and Songs of 2019
A song bought off SoundCloud for $30 spent nineteen weeks at No. 1 and ran away with the year.
Artists of the Year
Top ArtistPost MaloneCombined albums + singles performance
Top Albums ArtistPost Malone
Top Singles ArtistPost Malone
Top 10 Albums of 2019 Billboard 200
- 1When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?Billie Eilish
- 2Thank U, NextAriana Grande
- 3A Star Is BornLady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
- 4LoverTaylor Swift
- 5Beerbongs & BentleysPost Malone
- 6ScorpionDrake
- 7ChampionshipsMeek Mill
- 8AstroworldTravis Scott
- 9Hollywood’s BleedingPost Malone
- 10Hoodie SZNA Boogie wit da Hoodie
Top 10 Songs of 2019 Hot 100
- 1Old Town RoadLil Nas X ft. Billy Ray Cyrus
- 2SunflowerPost Malone and Swae Lee
- 3Without MeHalsey
- 4Bad GuyBillie Eilish
- 5Wow.Post Malone
- 6HappierMarshmello and Bastille
- 77 RingsAriana Grande
- 8TalkKhalid
- 9Sicko ModeTravis Scott
- 10SuckerJonas Brothers
What the 2019 Charts Show
- Post Malone swept all three artist titles in 2019: combined, albums and singles.
- Post Malone placed 2 albums inside the year-end top 10 — a share of the chart almost nobody manages.
- 3 albums held their top-10 places from 2018: Beerbongs & Bentleys, Scorpion and Astroworld — the streaming era’s long tail at work.
How the 2019 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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