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Albums are listed in order of number of copies sold. If two or more artists have the same claimed sales, they are then ranked by certified units and thereafter by the artist's last name. Markets' order within the table is based on the number of compact discs sold in each market, largest market at the top and smallest at the bottom. [7]
The claimed sales figure and the total of certified units (for each country) within the provided sources include sales of albums, singles, compilation-albums, music videos as well as downloads of singles and full-length albums. Sales figures, such as those from SoundScan, which are sometimes published by Billboard magazine, have not been ...
Groupings are based on different benchmarks; the highest being for at least 20 million units, and the lowest being for multi-disc albums certified at least 10 times platinum and single-disc albums that have been certified at least 10 times platinum but with sales figures lower than 10,000,000. Albums are listed in order of units certified, or ...
This is a list of the best-selling albums by year in the United States, published by American music magazine Billboard since 1956 as year-end rankings of album sales. Until 1991, the Billboard album chart was based on a survey of representative retail outlets that determined a ranking, not a tally of actual sales.
The list is based on total certified album units sold in the US and includes streaming figures. ... Keep scrolling to see the 50 best-selling music artists of all time in the US by album sales.
Metallica's self-titled album is the highest selling record under Nielsen SoundScan, selling over 17 million copies. This is a list of best-selling albums in the United States of the Nielsen SoundScan era. SoundScan began tracking sales data for Billboard on March 1, 1991.
Speak Now TV sold 501,000 copies. Midnights, which Swift dropped in October 2022, came in third place with 492,000 vinyls sold. Besides breaking records for vinyl sales, Swift accomplished a lot ...
There were 669,000 CD albums sold in the week ending Sept. 1 (up 5% week-over-week) and 702,000 vinyl albums sold (up 0.3%). Year-to-date CD album sales stand at 22.870 million (down 8.5% compared ...