Folk Albums is a music chart published weekly by Billboard 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. The chart debuted on the issue dated December 5, 2009. It is a fifteen-position chart, of which the first 10 positions can be viewed online.
The first number-one title was a Christmas album from Bob Dylan titled Christmas in the Heart.
Read more about Folk Albums: List of Number-one Albums
Famous quotes containing the word folk:
“I think that Richard Nixon will go down in history as a true folk hero, who struck a vital blow to the whole diseased concept of the revered image and gave the American virtue of irreverence and skepticism back to the people.”
—William Burroughs (b. 1914)