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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.
G ^ Sing You Home did not enter the Billboard 200, but peaked at No. 5 on the Heatseekers Album chart. H ^ The Complete Season 5 Collection (The Voice Performance) did not enter the Billboard 200, but peaked at No. 4 on the Heatseekers Album chart. J ^ "Carousel" did not enter the Hot 100, but peaked on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart at No. 19.
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 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 ...
It includes eight studio albums including one holiday release, plus five compilations and 11 singles. The Partridge Family were a pop music act linked to the popular 1970–74 ABC-TV television series The Partridge Family , featuring lead and backing vocals respectively by the programme's stars David Cassidy and Shirley Jones , plus ...
With the increase in album sales as the early 1950s format wars stabilized into market dominance by 45 RPM singles and long-playing 12-inch albums – and with 78 RPM record and long-playing 10-inch album sales decreasing dramatically – Billboard premiered a weekly "Best-Selling Popular Albums" chart on March 24, 1956. The position count ...
Television series: Jim Henson Joan Ganz Cooney Lloyd Morrisett: The Muppets Studio (The Walt Disney Company) Sesame Workshop: Ultra Series 1966 $7.4 billion: Merchandise sales – $7.4 billion [cg] Box office – $1.1 million [317] Home media – $1.4 million [318] Television series Eiji Tsuburaya: Tsuburaya Productions (Bandai Namco Holdings ...
The Simpsons: Testify, the third and latest album (as of 2012) to feature music from The Simpsons, was released eight years later in September 2007. [20] [21] Like its predecessors, the majority of the tracks were composed by Clausen. The album, which did not chart, contains songs from the series' eleventh season (1999) to its eighteenth season ...