Americana/Folk Albums (formerlyFolk Albums) is a music chart published weekly byBillboard magazine which ranks the top selling "current releases by traditional folk artists, as well as appropriate titles by acoustic-based singer-songwriters" in the United States.^[1] The chart debuted on the issue dated December 5, 2009, as a 15-position chart with its first number-one title being theBob DylanChristmas albumChristmas in the Heart.^[1]

It has since expanded to a 25-position chart. In May 2016,Billboard renamed the chart to "Americana/Folk Albums", with the increasing popularity ofAmericana music, giving more recognition to acts which lean more towards Americana than folk.^[2]

Over the chart's fourteen-year history Bob Dylan holds the record for the most number-one albums with eight.Chris Stapleton has spent 190 weeks at the chart's peak with his five number-one albums, including the longest-running number-one in the chart's historyTraveller.

On the year-end Billboard charts,Sigh No More byMumford & Sons was the best performing album of 2010 and 2011,Babel by Mumford & Sons was the best performing album of 2012 and 2013,All the Little Lights byPassenger was the best performing album of 2014,Hozier byHozier was the best performing album of 2015, andTraveller byChris Stapleton was the best performing album of 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020.^{[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]}

• List of Billboard number-one Americana/folk albums of the 2010s
• List of Billboard number-one Americana/folk albums of the 2020s

• Billboard charts

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