2Pac - Greatest Hits Released: November 24, 1998 Label: Death Row/Interscope Records Units sold: 10 million 5. 25 eventually gave Adele the worlds best-selling album of 2015, with 17.4 million copies sold and has gone on to sell over 22 million copies worldwide. BTS' 'Yet to Come' Wins on 'Music Bank' - But Other Nominee Draws Attention, THIS Male Idol Draws Attention as HYBE's 'Hidden Card' Amid BTS Temporary Break, BTS Confirmed as 2030 Busan World Expo Official Ambassadors. If I had to guess, N.W.A. Looking at the top 10 is fun, but what about those that either almost made the list or still have a real chance of bumping others off the list? I wonder how Survivors Eye of the Tiger album ranks in sales? It spawned a musical in 2017 of the same name. 35. The list is obviously US-dominated, with 50 albums coming from the Hip Hop / R&B branch. The band members are among the richest musicians in the world and even funded the production of the Monty Python and the Holy Grail movie with the proceeds. It went 33x Platinum and won a record-breaking 8 Grammy Awards at the 1984 Grammy Awards. Bad came out in 1987, at a time when Rock was on the way out and Pop and R&B were taking over. Eric Robert/Sygma/Kevin Mazur/TAS18 via Getty Images. The title song became one of the most performed songs of the twentieth century, with over 50 artists, among them Elvis Presley and Aretha Franklin, covering the song. Older albums with re-releases or resurgences of popularity also have clear advantages. He was paid $5,000 for his work (too bad he got no royalties). Top 50 of ALL TIME and the Beach Boys Pet Shop isnt on this list is a SHAME. Since Spotify became a thing, you likely heard a lot of times how streaming was killing the album format. Trivia Facts: The title comes from Adeles age at the time of production. The winner? 15. Max Weinberg played drums on the record. "The Life Of Pablo" marks the first time in his career that a Kanye album does not have a top five debut week. It's Shania Twain's. It came out in 1977 and is a purely Disco album, almost entirely by the Bee Gees. Third biggest week in history for The Massacre and even the other members of G Unit were pushing 400k+ a week just by association. Well only be listing certified sales numbers. "The Eminem Show," Eminem's fourth album, sold 1,322,000 copies in the first week after its release. U.S. charts. The album contained 16 tracks and 12 of them were promoted as singles over the course of three years. Nielsen Music started tracking point-of-sales data for US music releases in 1991. The Thriller, Billie Jean, and Beat It videos continued to push sales of the album for a long time, as did the seven singles. Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV (1971) 37m Lets add this information to the table. After taking a seven-year hiatus from the music business, Justin Timberlake crooned his way back to the Billboard charts this week, selling a whopping 968,000 copies ofThe 20/20 Experiencein its first week of release. The sales definitely reflect part of the impact an artist had. im sure roddy is gonna drop something and he should put up really good numbers too. ha ha. It will be interesting to see if anyone will be able to challenge the records that currently stand. Beyonc 's Renaissance blasts in at No. Nirvana Nevermind (1991) 30m Trivia Facts: The album stayed in the top 10 for 52 weeks, set a record for 112 weeks in the top 20, and stayed in the top 40 for 127 weeks. Where Is Kang Seo Jin Now? Up to that point, no album had ever amassed 100 million streams on Spotify in its first week. 20. Drama in the music industry is fun! 49. Shania Twain, Up! Certified Lover Boy, Scorpion,More Life, andViewsbyDrakeall drop a lot of spots as they include from 20 to 25 songs. When released it became the fastest-selling album in British history and features the hit singles With or Without You, I Still Havent Found What Im Looking For, and Where the Streets Have No Name, the first two of which became the groups only number-one singles in the US. Some of these have had their time in the spotlight, but ones that are greatest hits records can still claim their higher spot over time. By then, the platform had 88 million monthly active users, a number that has now increased to over 300 million. Morissette married grunge, pop, and raw, universal emotions in that most 90s of genres, alternative rock. Nominated for nine Grammy Awards, winning five, including Album of the Year, Jagged Little Pill topped the charts in thirteen countries; with sales of over 33 million copies worldwide. Boyd Elder made the album cover from a plastic cast of a real eagle skull. According to Billboard, the album sold 1,061,000 copies in the week ending January 3, 1993, six weeks after its release. Carole King Tapestry (1971) 25m At the time, and perhaps still, Bad was called the most anticipated album in history. On the list of top 5 biggest first-week sales by albums of foreign artists, BTS holds the Nos. The song Bad was meant to be a duet between Michael and Prince. Celine Dion Lets Talk About Love (1997) 31m Here is a visual of the top 100 first weeks of all-time, I think its a given that drake and kendrick will both be in the top 5 this year and will crack the top 100 of all time but itll be interesting to see how much the new merch rules affect everyones sales. True Blue was an immediate global success, reaching number one in then record-breaking 28 countries across the world and became the worlds top-selling album of 1986. None of these album are what anyone might have considered popular music at the time. Also, on the 20th, BTS' anthology album "Proof" took the No. Guinness Book of World Records named the LP the best-selling debut studio effort in music history. The album produced seven singles The Girl Is Mine, Billie Jean, Beat It, Wanna Be Startin Somethin', Human Nature, P.Y.T. Both of them. Trivia Facts: Thriller marked the first time Michael Jackson reached the top of the Billboard 200, back when it was called the Billboard Top LPs & Tapes chart. Seven solo male artists occupy placements and the remaining 14 positions are occupied by bands. I Feel Like a Woman! It never had insanely large sales weeks. 14. 1. 9. Michael took advantage of all four genres to create the best-selling album of all time. 7. 48. Eminem's numbers in his prime were just out of this fucking world. In the 30+ years since, only 22 albums have sold at least 1 million copies in one week. RELATED:Pigeons & Planes - 10 Perfect Albums That Never Went Platinum Richies second solo studio album has sold over 20 million copies. 2Pac continued to post great first weeks with "Loyal to the Game" debuting with 330K. 3. The success of the album led to an 18 month worldwide tour and a VHS and DVD release of the tour. Abbey Road has sold over 31 million copies worldwide. Damn, Eminem really was that big, mans did basically 2x what Drake do rn, ig it makes sense tho, I'm in my early 20s and I've heard that ppl say I don't like rap but I like eminem. The album also won a Grammy Award in 1986 for Best Engineered Album. 57 million of these came from Old Town Roads two versions, The biggest EP debut belongs to The Weeknd though with My Dear Melancholy which contains just 6 original tracks. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. They just dont do it like they used to! 2004 - The rise of Kanye West. There are albums which got less than 79 million streams a long time ago that could have done well in a weighted list. The bands most commercially successful release sold a record-breaking 347,000 copies in its first week on sale in the UK, spent 10 weeks at number-one on the UK Albums Chart, and reached number four in the US Billboard 200. no one comes close now. The Spice Girls have sold 85 million records worldwide and became the biggest British pop success since The Beatles. Nielsen Music started tracking point-of-sales data for US music releases in 1991. This would become the basis for lead track Hotel California. It was played for the press live at the Rainbow Theatre a year before its release and they loved it. They went from smashing South Korean charts to smashing . var gcse = document.createElement('script'); Falling into You remains one of the best-selling albums of all time, with sales of over thirty-two million copies and won many awards around the world, including Grammy Award for Album of the Year and Best Pop Album at the 39th annual ceremony. Santana Supernatural (1999) 30m Divide takes a marginal lead here ahead of Purpose with 18.2% of Spotifys active users streaming it in full one time during its debut week. Born Geethali Norah Jones Shankar to American concert producer Sue Jones and Indian musician Ravi Shankar, Jones was a lounge singer before finding success. Written by James Horner and Will Jennings, and serving as the love theme for James Camerons blockbuster film Titanic. Everyone should become familiar with it, in my opinion. After observing sales trends for many years I started noticing that some artists shift such large quantities of albums in their first week, that they attract an immediate certification. Richie's second solo studio album has sold over 20 million copies. Backstreet Boys Millennium (1999) 24m He was disappointed that it didnt win a Grammy for Record of the Year and felt generally undervalued by the music industry. Its a tough juggling act. Swift broke her tie with Adele as the artist with the most million-selling weeks overall (four). We all like a list and here we bring you the latest sales for the best selling rock and pop albums of all time. Michael Jackson, *Nsync, Eminem, Ayumi Hamasaki and Bz have all placed two albums each on the list. This is not really the case, if we look at average US share of these streams its slightly under 50%. Bruce Springsteen Born In The U.S.A. 1984) 30m Matchbox Twenty Yourself or Someone Like You 12 million. Also despite female rappers being really dominant recently and Doja, cardi b and nicki all either being confirmed or likely to drop albums this upcoming year idk if any of them will make the top 5 for the year, just wondering, are you not counting post malone as hip hop? The top selling album of all time in the United States based on certified unit sales is currently the Eagles' Greatest Hits, with 38 million copies sold. 24 February 2023 - 02 March 2023. Trivia Facts: Bat Out of Hell had its share of drama. 6. Boston Boston (1976) 20m Def Leppard Hysteria (1987) 25m It received nearly unanimous perfect scores from all of the critics and still does retrospectively. Naturally, the leader of urban music comes on top. These includes DJ Khaled and Camila Cabello. https://chartmasters.org/spotify-top-album-debuts/?view=country&country_code2=WW. On June 21, Oricon officially announcedthat BTS' "Proof" had debuted at No. By now things have changed though. So many great albums that resonated different chapters of my life. Its a concept album that used a lot of experimental techniques, creating new sounds people had never heard. 1 on its Weekly Album chart for June 13 to 19. Wks on Chart 1 NEW Trustfall P!nk - 1 1 2 The Name Chapter: Temptation (EP) TOMORROW X TOGETHER 2 1 4 3 RE- ENTRY. "25," the third album by Adele, sold 3,378,000 copies in the first week after its release handily breaking a single-week record that was previously set by *NSYNC in 2000. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. Here are 20 albums with the biggest first-week sales in hip-hop history. Some of these will surprise you, and others youll have forgotten existed but will make you think of course.. Jagged Little Pill is unbelievably good. "Black & Blue," the fourth album by Backstreet Boys, sold 1,591,000 copies in the first week after its release. As a result, whether the song will enter the chart in the following weeks remains to be seen. Instead they recruited Brian Johnson to take over lead vocals and released Back in Black with an all-black cover in mourning for their lost bandmate. The release of this compilation of #1 singles led to ones by Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, the Bee Gees, and many more artists. Linkin Park Hybrid Theory (2000) 32m Michael Jackson, thriller, bad and dangerous. G-Unit's "Beg for Mercy" debuted with 377K. I Want It That Way, one of four singles from this album reached the number-one spot in more than 25 countries. Millennium sold almost half a million copies in the US on its first day. Some stats: Five out of the top ten best selling albums in the world were all released during the seventies, the most albums in the 50 by decade goes to the nineties with 16 albums, just beating the eighties with 15. No data for number 5 but I'm going to assume it was LL Cool J's "14 Shots to the Dome". It won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, among five others including the Hall of Fame Award. The fourth studio album by Def Leppard released in 1987 has sold over 25 million copies worldwide, including 12 million in the US, and spawned seven hit singles.