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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) – The cover, costing £25,000, was reportedly the most expensive cover design up to this time. [ 75 ][ i ] Most covers up that point had a cost of about £50. [ 76 ] Aladdin Sane (1973) – reportedly was the most expensive album cover ever up to that point. [ 77 ]
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 Quarrymen – "That'll Be the Day"/"In Spite of All the Danger ...
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. She accomplished it with Fearless (2009), 1989 (2014), Reputation (2017), Lover (2019), Folklore (2020), Midnights (2022), 1989 (Taylor's Version) (2023). American acts Mariah Carey, Whitney ...
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, Pink Floyd, Madonna and Whitney Houston each have three. Groupings are based on different sales ...
His second longest album chart run was the 295 weeks belonging to his Platinum 1959 album Heavenly, which gave him five weeks in the top spot. [1] In a ranking of the top album artists of the last half of the 1950s in terms of Billboard chart performance, he comes in at number two, for the 1960s, number 10, [ 5 ] and for the period from 1955 to ...
An album is defined by the Official Charts Company (OCC) as being a type of music release that features more than four tracks and lasts longer than 25 minutes; [1] during the 1960s, sales of albums in the United Kingdom were compiled by several different magazines, including New Musical Express (NME), Record Retailer, Melody Maker, Disc and Record Mirror.
According to the most recent record album certifications, the holiday album title that has shipped the most copies in the United States is Elvis Presley's 1957 LP Elvis' Christmas Album, which is certified by the RIAA for shipment of 17 million copies in the U.S. (3 million copies of the original 1957 release on RCA Victor Records, plus 10 ...
Audio Fidelity Records, was a record company based in New York City, most active during the 1950s and 1960s.They are best known for having produced the first mass-produced American stereophonic long-playing record in November 1957 (although this was not available to the general public until March of the following year).