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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 ...
A Gold record is a song or album that sells 500,000 units (records, tapes, and compact discs). The award was launched in 1958; [5] originally, the requirement for a Gold single was one million units sold and a Gold album represented $1 million in sales (at wholesale value, around a third of the list price). [6]
Diamond awards, honoring those artists whose sales of singles or albums reached 10,000,000 copies, were introduced in 1999. [ 9 ] In the 20th century, and for a part of the first decade of the 21st, it was common for distributors to claim certifications based on their shipments – wholesale to retail outlets – which led to many ...
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 [216] [217] After 1946 Al Jolson: The Jolson Story: 1 [218] 1956 Various Artists Oklahoma! (LP album) 1.75 2.5 [219] 1956/1957 Various Artists My Fair Lady: 2 5
For albums released between September 25, 1999, and December 31, 2002, the thresholds are 150,000 for Gold and 300,000 for Platinum. Also, for Jazz albums, the thresholds are 10,000 for Gold and 20,000 for Platinum. Diamond-award is applicable to titles released on/after January 1, 2013. [19] ^ IV Hungarian sales figures provided refer to "Pop ...
The late Whitney Houston has earned her third diamond-certified album, becoming the first Black artist to achieve the feat. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and Legacy ...
Garth Brooks Elvis Presley Eagles Led Zeppelin Michael Jackson Billy Joel AC/DC Elton John Mariah Carey Pink Floyd Bruce Springsteen Aerosmith. The following is a list of 100 highest-certified artists in the United States based on album-equivalent units, which include physical album shipments, digital album downloads, as well as individual song downloads and streams.
The claimed sales figure and the total of certified units (for each country) within the provided sources include sales of albums, singles, compilation-albums, music videos as well as downloads of singles and full-length albums. Sales figures, such as those from SoundScan, which are sometimes published by Billboard magazine, have not been ...