Top Dance Albums

Top Dance Albums (formerly Top Electronic Albums and Top Dance/Electronic Albums) is a music chart published weekly by Billboard magazine which ranks the top-selling dance music albums in the United States based on sales compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The chart debuted on the issue dated June 30, 2001 under the title Top Electronic Albums, with the first number-one title being the original soundtrack to the film Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.^[2] It originally began as a fifteen-position chart and has since expanded to twenty-five positions.

The Fame by Lady Gaga holds the record for the most weeks at number one (193 weeks) as well as the most weeks on the chart (593 weeks).^[1]

Top Dance Albums features full-length albums by artists who are associated with electronic dance music genres (house, techno, IDM, trance, etc.) as well as pop-oriented dance music and electronic-leaning hip hop. Also eligible for this chart are remix albums by otherwise non-electronic-based artists and DJ-mixed compilation albums and film soundtracks which feature a majority of electronic or dance music. In 2019, Billboard added a companion chart, Dance/Electronic Album Sales, which tracks the top 15 albums based solely on physical sales, but with an emphasis on core dance/electronic artists. Starting with the first full chart week of 2025, the chart was renamed to Top Dance Albums "to better represent the cross-reference of dance titles that appear on the ranking".^[3]

The current number-one album on the chart is as of issue August 2 is Mayhem by Lady Gaga.^[4]

Artist milestones

Most number-one albums

Albums	Artist	Source
8	Lady Gaga	[5][1]
7	Louie DeVito	[6]
6	Daft Punk	[7]
	The Chainsmokers	[8]
4	Aphex Twin (One as "AFX")	[9]
	Lindsey Stirling	[10]
	M.I.A.	[11]
	Pet Shop Boys	[12]
	Marshmello	[13]
	FKA Twigs	[14]

Most cumulative weeks at number one

Weeks	Artist	Source
285	Lady Gaga	[1]
91	The Chainsmokers	[8]
57	Beyoncé[a]	[15]
47	Gnarls Barkley	[16]
38	Daft Punk	[7]
38	Charli XCX	[17]
35	Gorillaz	[18]
32	Louie DeVito
29	Lindsey Stirling	[10]
23	Calvin Harris	[19]
	Marshmello	[13]

Most entries on the chart

Entries	Artist	Source
33	Armin van Buuren	[20]
23	Tiësto	[21]
19	Louie DeVito
18	The Happy Boys
17	Pet Shop Boys	[12]
16	Moby	[22]
	Bassnectar	[23]
13	Bad Boy Joe
	David Waxman	[24]
12	Johnny Vicious

Album milestones

Most weeks at number one

Weeks	Album	Artist	Year(s)	Source
193	The Fame	Lady Gaga	2008–24	[1]
57	Renaissance[a]	Beyoncé	2022–24	[15]
46	Memories...Do Not Open	The Chainsmokers	2017–18	[8]
39	St. Elsewhere	Gnarls Barkley	2006–07	[16]
38	Brat	Charli XCX	2024–25	[17]
36	Chromatica	Lady Gaga	2020–21	[1]
34	Demon Days	Gorillaz	2005–06	[18]
22	Random Access Memories	Daft Punk	2013–23	[7]
20	Marshmello Fortnite Extended Set	Marshmello	2019	[13]
	Honestly, Nevermind	Drake	2022	[25]
19	Shatter Me	Lindsey Stirling	2014–15	[10]
	Sorry for Party Rocking	LMFAO	2011–12	[26]
	Born This Way	Lady Gaga	2011	[1]
	Kala	M.I.A.	2007–08	[11]
	Give Up	The Postal Service	2004–05
	Mayhem	Lady Gaga	2025	[1]

Most weeks on the chart

Weeks	Album	Artist	Source
593	The Fame	Lady Gaga	[1]
549	Nothing but the Beat	David Guetta	[27]
546	Demon Days	Gorillaz	[18]
507	Random Access Memories	Daft Punk	[7]
458	Born This Way	Lady Gaga	[1]
455	Collage	The Chainsmokers	[8]
433	Memories...Do Not Open	The Chainsmokers	[8]
431	True	Avicii	[28]
407	Motion	Calvin Harris	[19]
390	Discovery	Daft Punk	[7]

1. Renaissance was not classified as a Dance/Electronic album until its 16th week. Had Billboard classified it as such upon release, the album would have spent an additional 15 weeks at number one.

Year-end number-one albums

List of albums that ranked number-one on the Billboard Top Dance/Electronic Albums Year-End chart.

• 2001: Pulse – Various Artists
• 2002: 18 – Moby
• 2003: N.Y.C. Underground Party 5 – Louie DeVito
• 2004: Fired Up! – Various Artists
• 2005: Demon Days – Gorillaz
• 2006: Confessions on a Dance Floor – Madonna
• 2007: St. Elsewhere – Gnarls Barkley
• 2008: Kala – M.I.A.
• 2009: The Fame – Lady Gaga
• 2010: The Fame – Lady Gaga
• 2011: Born This Way – Lady Gaga
• 2012: Sorry for Party Rocking – LMFAO
• 2013: Random Access Memories – Daft Punk
• 2014: Artpop – Lady Gaga
• 2015: Listen – David Guetta
• 2016: Now That's What I Call a Workout 2016 – Various Artists
• 2017: Memories...Do Not Open – The Chainsmokers
• 2018: Memories...Do Not Open – The Chainsmokers
• 2019: Marshmello Fortnite Extended Set – Marshmello
• 2020: Chromatica – Lady Gaga
• 2021: The Fame – Lady Gaga
• 2022: Honestly, Nevermind – Drake
• 2023: Renaissance – Beyoncé
• 2024: Brat – Charli XCX