Heatseekers charts
Top Heatseekers is a weekly albums chart introduced by Billboard magazine in 1993 whose purpose is to highlight sales by new and developing musical recording artists. Albums appearing on Top Heatseekers may also concurrently appear on The Billboard 200.
Top Heatseekers contains fifty chart positions. Although the chart's policies have changed slightly over the years, its current rules for an album's eligibility to enter Top Heatseekers are as follows (per Billboard):
"The best-selling albums by new and developing acts, defined as those who have never appeared in the top 100 of The Billboard 200. If a Heatseekers title reaches that level, it and the act's subsequent albums are immediately ineligible to appear on the Heatseekers chart."
Note that there are many artists who bypassed Top Heatseekers altogether by having their initial chart entry debut on The Billboard 200 at position 100 or above.
Notable acts who have "graduated" from Top Heatseekers
- Fiona Apple
- Blind Melon
- Blink-182
- Bone Thugs N Harmony
- Michael Buble
- Coldplay
- Paula Cole
- Deborah Cox
- Counting Crows
- Sheryl Crow
- The Cranberries
- Creed
- Dido
- Disturbed
- Dixie Chicks
- Dru Hill
- Fatboy Slim
- Franz Ferdinand
- Nelly Furtado
- Garbage
- Gin Blossoms
- Goo Goo Dolls
- Macy Gray
- Green Day
- Josh Groban
- Faith Hill
- Hootie & the Blowfish
- Jewel
- Norah Jones
- Kid Rock
- Limp Bizkit
- Lords Of Acid
- Matchbox Twenty
- Maxwell
- John Mayer
- Sarah McLachlan
- Moby
- Modest Mouse
- Alanis Morrissette
- Mystikal
- No Doubt
- The Offspring
- Brad Paisley
- Pearl Jam
- Jill Scott
- Jon Secada
- Soul Asylum
- Spin Doctors
- Staind
- Angie Stone
- Stone Temple Pilots
- SWV
- 3 Doors Down
- Tool
- Shania Twain
- Weezer
- White Stripes
- White Zombie