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:
“An’ when the earth’s as cauld’s the mune
An’ a’ its folk are lang syne deid,
On coontless stars the Babe maun cry
An’ the Crucified maun bleed.”
—Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978)