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Top Album Sales is a music chart published by Billboard magazine documenting the best-selling albums on a weekly basis in the United States. Up until December 2014, this had been documented by the Billboard 200 chart, but that chart was altered to factor in music streaming by accounting for album-equivalent units in its tallies to document the effect of the rise of music streaming outlet such ...
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.
As single downloads grew in popularity, so did album downloads [4] – 1.8 million albums were downloaded in 2005; a further 825,000 were downloaded during the first three months of 2006. [5] [6] As a result of this growth, on 9 April 2006 the OCC began to include download sales alongside physical sales when compiling the UK Albums Chart. [7]
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 [217] [218] After 1946 Al Jolson: The Jolson Story: 1 [219] 1956 Various Artists Oklahoma! (LP album) 1.75 2.5 [220] 1956/1957 Various Artists My Fair Lady: 2 5
Year Album Artist Record label Ref. 2006 Eyes Open: Snow Patrol: Universal [15] 2007 Back to Black: Amy Winehouse: Universal [4] 2008 Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends: Coldplay: EMI [15] 2009 The Fame: Lady Gaga: Universal [15] 2010 Sigh No More: Mumford & Sons: Universal [15] 2011 21: Adele: Beggars [15] 2012 2013 Bad Blood: Bastille ...
The "2" was added by Andrews. [5] Its cover was designed and executed by Hipgnosis. It consists of an essay about how album covers are used to attract buyers of the album. On the first British pressings of the LP version of the Go 2 album the track listing on the vinyl disc label mimicked the type style of the cover art. The label is crammed ...
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.
Of the over 10% of total market growth taken by Digital Download, roughly 8% came from losses in Full-length CD sales. Full-length cassettes experienced the most loss (-14.5% market share) in the 10-Year period, although most of the loss (-13.1%) was experienced from 1998 to 2003.