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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
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.
Since February 2016, album certifications include "on-demand audio and video streams and a track sale equivalent" units. [ 1 ] 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 ...
RIAA ranked the best-selling musicians of all time based on total album units sold in the US. Swift, Drake , and Eminem are among the newest artists to make the cut.
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 ...
Luxury Is Calling. One man’s trash is very often another man’s treasure on eBay, which has been selling head-scratching items since 1995. But eBay is a place for a lot more than just cheap ...
The album was certified platinum on the day it was released [11] and became the first album to be streamed over one billion times in its release week. [12] It sold 732,000 album-equivalent units, which included 160,000 pure album sales, making it the biggest first week of the year. In August 2019, Drake released a compilation album titled Care ...
The sale of second-hand albums and singles continues into the 2020s, with many record stores having a used section, as well as pawn shops such as CeX, Cash Generator, Cash Converters, [39] and the emergence of eBay, MusicMagpie, Alibris and other dedicated websites.