Editing Billboard charts (section)

{{short description|Music sales rankings by the trade magazine Billboard}}
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The '''''Billboard'' charts''' tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs and albums in the United States and elsewhere. The results are published in ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' magazine. ''Billboard'' biz, the online extension of the ''Billboard'' charts, provides additional weekly charts,<ref>[http://www.billboard.com/biz/charts Billboard biz charts] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180917152951/https://www.billboard.com/biz/charts |date=September 17, 2018 }}, Billboard's online reference for the music community, retrieved on December 6, 2014</ref> as well as year-end charts.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/|title=Charts – Year End|magazine=Billboard|access-date=August 6, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150806105930/http://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end|archive-date=August 6, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> The three most important charts are the [[Billboard Global 200|''Billboard'' Global 200]] for songs globally, the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] for songs in the United States of America and the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] for albums in the United States of America, and other charts may be dedicated to a specific genre such as R&B, country, or rock, or they may cover all genres. The charts can be ranked according to sales, streams, or airplay, and for main song charts such as the [[Billboard Hot 100|Hot 100]] or [[Billboard Global 200|Global 200]] (though the latter globally) song chart, all three data are used to compile the charts.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/p/billboard-charts-legend |title=Billboard Charts Legend |magazine=Billboard |access-date=August 29, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191031031911/https://www.billboard.com/p/billboard-charts-legend |archive-date=October 31, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> For the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] album chart, streams and track sales are included in addition to [[record sales|album sales]].<ref name="billboard albums"/>

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).<ref name="chart week"/> The charts are released each Tuesday with an issue date the following Saturday.{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}