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The Beatles – The Beatles (the "White Album") (Parlophone UK album, 1968) – Ringo Starr's personal copy (No. 0000001) was sold for $790,000 in December 2015, according to Rolling Stone. This is the highest price ever paid for an album that has been commercially released.
The following is a list of the best-selling albums in the United States based on RIAA certification and Nielsen SoundScan sales tracking. The criteria are that the album must have been published (including self-publishing by the artist), and the album must have achieved at least a diamond certification from the RIAA. The albums released prior ...
Over the next 42 years, he moved Argy’s — named after the 1980 Squeeze album Argybargy — to the current location, stopped partying, got married to Roseline — they will celebrate 35 years ...
Harry Belafonte's Calypso (1956) was the first record to be recognized as a year's top-selling album by Billboard, when it started tracking sales figures. American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift is the first and only artist to have eight of their albums become best-selling records of their respective years.
John Peel's record collection contains 26,000 LPs, 40,000 singles and 40,000 CDs. [3] Julián Ruiz (born 1950): 623,202 items, mostly vinyl LPs and singles. [4] Phil Swern (born 1948): at least 200,000 vinyl singles, 80,000 vinyl albums, and 300,000 CDs. Swern notes that he may have between six and seven million titles in total, but no ...
Timeline of the highest-selling album record Year record set Artist Album Record-setting sales (millions) Total sales (millions) Ref(s) 1945 Various Artists Oklahoma! (78 rpm album) 0.5 1.0 [218] [219] After 1946 Al Jolson: The Jolson Story: 1 [220] 1956 Various Artists Oklahoma! (LP album) 1.75 2.5 [221] 1956/1957 Various Artists My Fair Lady: 2 5
The latter album is also the 21st best-selling Latin record in the United States with sales of over 603,000 copies. [4] Me Estoy Enamorando by Alejandro Fernández and Vuelve by Ricky Martin were the best-selling Latin albums of 1998 and 1999, respectively, and were both certified platinum by the RIAA.
The recording process traditionally requires an investment in studio time and skilled record production labor, and the process can be expensive. [1] In the late 1950s, the cost of producing pop albums ran from $3,000 to $7,000. [2] The average cost of producing an album climbed to $15,000 in the 1960s. [3]