Deflated sales of ...Baby One More Time and Nevermind. Nevermind's certifications outside the US are only 5.6 million. BOMT's certifications outside the US add to less than 6 million (includes European cert.), very low for an album less than 15 years old. |
While the album may have sold over 10 million copies in the US and WAS the year-end No. 1 album in that country, the few certifications the album has are not enough to support that sales claim or a 30 million worldwide one. |
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Revision as of 22:14, 29 May 2013
This is a list of the world's best-selling albums of all time. The criteria are that the figure must have been published by a reliable source and the album must have sold at least 20 million copies worldwide. In this list the highest sales figure reported for an album is added to the list. This list can contain any types of albums, including studio albums, greatest hits, compilations, various artists, soundtracks and remixes.
All albums included on this list have their available claimed figure(s) supported by at least 20% in certified copies. The percentage amount of certified sales needed increases the newer the album is, so albums released before 1975 are only expected to have their claimed figures supported by at least 20% in certified copies. However, newer albums, such as 21 and Come Away with Me, are expected to have their claimed figures supported by at least 70% in certified copies. Certified copies are sourced from available online databases of local music industry associations.
This is the reason why albums such as The Sound of Music, Spirits Having Flown, Janet, Believe, The Colour of My Love, and Back to Black, have not been included on this list.
As a result of the methodology that the American certification-awarding body, the RIAA, uses, each disc in a multi-disc set is counted as one unit toward certification, leading to many double albums on the list—such as Pink Floyd's The Wall and the Beatles's The Beatles—being certified with a number double the number of copies sold there. Such albums have the certifications for the number of copies, not discs, shipped indicated.
Conversely, the American certification level for double albums that fit onto one compact disc such as the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack reflect the actual number of copies sold.
The figures given do not take into account the resale of used albums.
Michael Jackson's Thriller is the best-selling album of all time, and it is estimated to have sold between 51 to 65 million copies worldwide.[1][2][3] Although sales estimates for Thriller have been as high as 110 million copies, these sales figures are unreliable.[4] Jackson also currently has the highest number of albums on the list with five, while The Beatles, Madonna and Whitney Houston each have three.
Legend
Colors | |
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Studio Albums | |
Greatest Hits & Compilations | |
Soundtracks |
Groupings are based on different sales benchmarks, the highest being for claims of at least 40 million copies, and the lowest being for claims of 20–29 million copies. Albums are listed in order of number of copies sold and thereafter by the artist's first name.
40 million copies or more
- Markets' order within the table is based on the number of compact discs sold in each market, largest market at the top and smallest at the bottom.[5]
30–39 million copies
Artist | Album | Released | Genre | Total certified copies (from available markets) |
Claimed sales |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Led Zeppelin | Led Zeppelin IV | 1971 | Hard rock / Heavy metal | 37 million[51] | |
Michael Jackson | Bad | 1987 | Pop, funk, rock | 30-35 million[52][53][54] | |
Alanis Morissette | Jagged Little Pill | 1995 | Alternative rock | 33 million[55] | |
The Beatles | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 1967 | Rock | 32 million[56] | |
Celine Dion | Falling into You | 1996 | Pop / Soft rock |
20.2 million
|
32 million[58] |
Eagles | Hotel California | 1976 | Country rock / Hard rock | 32 million[59] | |
Mariah Carey | Music Box | 1993 | Pop / R&B |
20.3 million
|
32 million[61] |
Various artists | Dirty Dancing | 1987 | Pop, rock, R&B | 32 million[62] | |
The Beatles | 1 | 2000 | Rock |
21.6 million
|
31 million[65] |
Celine Dion | Let's Talk About Love | 1997 | Pop / Soft rock |
19.2 million
|
31 million[67] |
The Beatles | Abbey Road | 1969 | Rock | 30 million[68] | |
Bruce Springsteen | Born in the U.S.A. | 1984 | Rock | 30 million[69] | |
Dire Straits | Brothers in Arms | 1985 | Rock | 30 million[70] | |
Guns N' Roses | Appetite for Destruction | 1987 | Heavy metal / hard rock | 30 million[71] | |
James Horner | Titanic: Music from the Motion Picture | 1997 | Soundtrack |
18.2 million
|
30 million[73] |
Madonna | The Immaculate Collection | 1990 | Pop / Dance | 30 million[76] | |
Metallica | Metallica | 1991 | Heavy metal, thrash metal | 30 million[77] | |
Michael Jackson | Dangerous | 1991 | Rock / Funk / Pop |
16.7 million
|
30 million[81] |
Pink Floyd | The Wall | 1979 | Progressive rock | 30 million[82] | |
Santana | Supernatural | 1999 | Rock |
20.3 million
|
30 million[83] |
20–29 million copies
Timeline of the highest selling albums
Year record set | Artist | Album | Record setting sales (Total sales) |
Ref |
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1956 | Harry Belafonte | Calypso | 1,000,000 | [128] |
1956/1957 | Various Artists | My Fair Lady | 2,000,000 (5,000,000) |
[129][130] |
1968 | Various Artists | The Sound of Music | 8,000,000 | [131] |
1973 | Carole King | Tapestry | 10,000,000+ | [132] |
1975/1976 | Various Artists | The Sound of Music | 10,000,000+ 15,000,000SM-T |
[133][134] |
1976 | Carole King | Tapestry | 13,500,000SM-T (25,000,000) |
[135] |
1979 | Various Artists | Saturday Night Fever | 25,000,000/27,000,000 (40,000,000) |
[136][137] |
1984 | Michael Jackson | Thriller | 35,000,000 (51,000,000/65,000,000) |
[138] |
- SM-TThe exact year in which Tapestry regained the title of "best-selling album of all-time", if it ever regained it at all, is unclear. The album's 1976 sales claim is therefore only listed to be inclusive, as it is plausible that Tapestry have overtaken The Sound of Music in sales during this time period.
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