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List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 1995

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Cracked Rear View by Hootie and the Blowfish was the best-selling album of 1995
Garth Brooks' greatest hits album The Hits had the biggest sales week of 1995, selling over 900,000 copies in a single week.

These are the Billboard magazine number-one albums of 1995, per the Billboard 200.

Chart history

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Key
Indicates best performing album of 1995
Issue date Album Artist(s) Label Sales Ref.
January 7 The Hits Garth Brooks Liberty 907,000 [1][2]
January 14 516,000 [3][4]
January 21 352,000 [5][6]
January 28 240,000 [7][8]
February 4 238,000 [9][10]
February 11 Balance Van Halen Warner Bros. 295,000 [11][12]
February 18 The Hits Garth Brooks Liberty 153,000 [13][14]
February 25 150,000 [15][16]
March 4 146,000 [17][18]
March 11 II Boyz II Men Motown 113,000 [19][20]
March 18 Greatest Hits Bruce Springsteen Columbia 251,000 [21][22]
March 25 168,000 [23][24]
April 1 Me Against the World 2Pac Interscope 240,000 [25][26]
April 8 197,000 [27][28]
April 15 149,000 [29][30]
April 22 113,000 [31][32]
April 29 The Lion King Elton John / Soundtrack Walt Disney 133,500 [33][34]
May 6 Throwing Copper Live Radioactive 117,500 [35][36]
May 13 Friday Soundtrack Priority 121,000 [37][38]
May 20 123,000 [39][40]
May 27 Cracked Rear View Hootie & the Blowfish Atlantic 125,000 [41][42]
June 3 113,000 [43][44]
June 10 120,000 [45][46]
June 17 128,000 [47][48]
June 24 P•U•L•S•E Pink Floyd Columbia 198,000 [49][50]
July 1 Cracked Rear View Hootie & the Blowfish Atlantic 170,000 [51][52]
July 8 HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I Michael Jackson Epic 391,000 [53][54]
July 15 263,000 [55][56]
July 22 Pocahontas Soundtrack Walt Disney 192,000 [57][58]
July 29 Cracked Rear View Hootie & the Blowfish Atlantic 144,000 [59][60]
August 5 Dreaming of You Selena EMI Latin 331,000 [61][62][63]
August 12 E. 1999 Eternal Bone Thugs-n-Harmony Ruthless 307,000 [64][65]
August 19 222,000 [66][67]
August 26 Cracked Rear View Hootie & the Blowfish Atlantic 184,000 [68][69]
September 2 Dangerous Minds Soundtrack MCA 210,000 [70][71]
September 9 256,000 [72][73]
September 16 208,000 [74][75]
September 23 182,500 [76][77]
September 30 Cracked Rear View Hootie & the Blowfish Atlantic 167,000 [78][79]
October 7 Jagged Little Pill Alanis Morissette Maverick 148,000 [80][81]
October 14 142,000 [82][83]
October 21 Daydream Mariah Carey Columbia 224,000 [84][85]
October 28 216,000 [86][87]
November 4 170,000 [88][89]
November 11 Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness The Smashing Pumpkins Virgin 246,500 [90][91]
November 18 Dogg Food Tha Dogg Pound Death Row 277,500 [92][93]
November 25 Alice in Chains Alice in Chains Columbia 189,000 [94][95]
December 2 R. Kelly R. Kelly Jive 248,500 [96][97]
December 9 Anthology 1 The Beatles Apple 855,473 [98][99]
December 16 453,000 [100][101]
December 23 435,000 [102][103]
December 30 Daydream Mariah Carey Columbia 486,000 [104][105]

See also

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References

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