TOP HEATSEEKERS

'Top Heatseekers' is a weekly albums chart introduced by ''Billboard'' 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''):
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.

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Notable acts who have "graduated" from ''Top Heatseekers''

Notable acts who have "graduated" from ''Top Heatseekers''

★ AFI

★ Tori Amos

★ Anastacia

★ Fiona Apple

★ Arcade Fire

★ Big L

★ Belanova

★ Björk

★ Blind Melon

★ Blink-182

★ Bone Thugs N Harmony

★ Marc Broussard

★ Michael Bublé

★ Bury Your Dead

★ Cat Power

★ Coldplay

★ Paula Cole

★ Deborah Cox

★ Counting Crows

★ Sheryl Crow

★ The Cranberries

★ Creed

★ The Darkness

★ Dashboard Confessional

★ Dido

★ Disturbed

★ Dixie Chicks

★ Hilary Duff

★ Dru Hill

★ The Early November

★ Fatboy Slim

★ The Flaming Lips

★ Fountains of Wayne

★ Franz Ferdinand

★ The Fray

★ Fugazi

★ Nelly Furtado

★ Garbage

★ Gin Blossoms

★ Goo Goo Dolls

★ Macy Gray

★ Green Day

★ Josh Groban

★ Halifax

★ Hellogoodbye

★ Faith Hill

★ Hootie & the Blowfish

★ In Flames

★ Jewel

★ Norah Jones

★ Kid Rock

★ Killswitch Engage

★ KoЯn

★ Ray LaMontagne

★ Limp Bizkit

★ Lords Of Acid

★ Masta Killa

★ Matchbox Twenty

★ Maxwell

★ John Mayer

★ Sarah McLachlan

★ M.I.A.

★ Moby

★ Modest Mouse

★ Alanis Morissette

★ Mudvayne

★ Muse

★ My Chemical Romance

★ Mystikal

★ Nile

★ No Doubt

★ NOFX

★ Oasis

★ The Offspring

★ Brad Paisley

★ Pantera

★ Pearl Jam

★ Porcupine Tree

★ Queens of the Stone Age

★ Rage Against the Machine

★ RBD

★ The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

★ Rise Against

★ Robyn

★ S Club 7

★ Say Anything

★ Jill Scott

★ Jon Secada

★ 702

★ Silversun Pickups

★ Skinny Puppy

★ Sleater-Kinney

★ Slipknot

★ Soul Asylum

★ Soundgarden

★ Regina Spektor

★ Spin Doctors

★ Staind

★ Sufjan Stevens

★ Angie Stone

★ Stone Temple Pilots

★ Switchfoot

★ SWV

★ System of a Down

★ 3 Doors Down

★ 311

★ Tool

★ Trivium

★ Josh Turner

★ Shania Twain

★ Weezer

★ The White Stripes

★ White Zombie