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Michael Jackson's Thriller, estimated to have sold 70 million copies worldwide, is the best-selling album ever. [4] [5] [6] Jackson also currently has the highest number of albums on the list with five, Celine Dion has four, while the Beatles, Madonna and Whitney Houston each have three.
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 ...
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.
Kanye West's album The Life of Pablo achieved Platinum without selling a single copy and was only available for streaming. [ 8 ] Issued certifications for songs which have been recorded by multiple artists including featured artists are added to each artist's total amount of certified units, as all the artists would have played a significant ...
Eminem has the best-selling album of a calendar year twice (2002 and 2010). Drake has the year's top-consumed album (based on album-equivalent units ) twice (2016 and 2018). The following list includes the annual best-selling albums since 1991, as reported by MRC Data (formerly Nielsen SoundScan ).
The following is a list of best-selling albums by country. Depends on the measurement, record sales of albums are taken by estimations or certifications. Note that some of the data are incomplete due to a lack of available published data from a number of territories, unlike the United Kingdom and the United States with recognized national measurement firms and certifying bodies such as ...
Whitney Houston has six albums on the list (1985–2000). Janet Jackson has three albums on the list (1986–1993). Enya has three albums on the list (1988–2000). Shania Twain has three albums on the list (1995–2002). Britney Spears has three albums on the list (1999–2001). 21 by Adele is the best-selling album by a female artist in the ...
This is a list of the fastest-selling albums in South Korea as recorded by the Hanteo Information System [a] established in 1993. [60] Seventeenth Heaven by Seventeen is the fastest-selling album of all time in South Korea with 5,091,887 copies shipped to stores in its first seven days of release.