This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Seven solo male artists occupy placements and the remaining 14 positions are occupied by bands. umm, you missed Prince and The Revolutions Purple Rain with 25 million copies sold. The list is obviously US-dominated, with 50 albums coming from the Hip Hop / R&B branch. Continue reading to learn how many copies of BTS' anthology album were sold in the country. Michael Jackson Dangerous (1991) 32m None of the band members had any say in this release happening, and felt it was a ploy by the record company to make more money without additional expenses. According to Billboard, the album sold 1,061,000 copies in the week ending January 3, 1993, six weeks after its release. There are albums which got less than 79 million streams a long time ago that could have done well in a weighted list. With the release of his sophomore album The Marshall Mathers LP, the "Rap God" smashed records for the biggest first-week sales in hip-hop. In order for an album to attract a certification, they need to sell a certain number of units. A truly impressive feat. Its not one of the best musicals of all time, actually canceled in the U.S. in its early performances. "Double Live," the first live album from country star Garth Brooks, sold 1,085,000 copies in the first week after its release. 32. Whitney Houston Whitney Houston (1985) 22m Adele 21 (2010) 31m Well only be listing certified sales numbers. The fifth studio album by Irish rock band U2 had the provisional titles The Desert Songs and The Two Americas. Music Box remains Careys highest seller with 28 million copies sold worldwide. 7. 7 by BTS debuts with over 5 million sales - ChartMasters Sgt. The B-side song "Run BTS" also landed on this week's Global Excl. In fact, so far as many as 72 releases have broken the 100 million mark during their first week. With streams, all you need to do is go to the album page and play it in full. debut was Top 3 in every ranking, so its little surprise to see that Jul 27, 2022. 1 on Billboard 200 with the biggest first-week sales in the United States this year. 5. K-pop have upped its game as well with 4 albums by BTS and Blackpink inside the top 75. Beyonce's 'Renaissance' Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart - Billboard document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); document.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. by 12.4% of the users than 6 songs played by 14.3% of the users since Stray Kids Felix Fashion: Idol's Charming Styles To Try On For Boys Night Out. Led Zeppelins best-selling album in the US never topped the charts peaking at number-two. All Rights Reserved. After topping the Billboard 200 chart in its first week with 359,000 copies sold, the singer's MDNA is expected to suffer an 88 percent drop in sales to 46,000 units, according to Forbes. The latest mixtapes, videos, news, and anything else hip-hop/R&B/Future Beats related from your favorite artists, Press J to jump to the feed. For more K-Pop news, follow and subscribe to KpopStarz. Then, what happens when we mix both factors, the number of songs by album and Spotifys MAU? It also had a record-breaking run of 34 weeks at number one on the Australian Albums Chart. A New Day in Las Vegas Strip (200307), remains the highest-grossing concert residency of all time and Dion is the best-selling Canadian artist and one of the best-selling artists ever with record sales of over 200 million copies worldwide. The past year has . It worked, big time. Written by James Horner and Will Jennings, and serving as the love theme for James Camerons blockbuster film Titanic. Drake becomes the first artist to do a million in a week since Lil Wayne in 2008. 1 on Billboard's Global' Global Excl. So 34k rather than 125k. Only two albums from the sixties made it and British artists make up only 15 places on the list. BTS' 'Proof' Debuts at #1 on Oricon With Highest First-Week Sales of In 1996, Oasis performed two nights at Knebworth, England for an audience of 125,000 each night, which were at the time the largest outdoor concerts in UK history. The 20 Best Selling Hip-Hop Albums Of All Time The Eminem Show (2004) The Eminem Show Preview E Eminem Preview E 1 Curtains Up - Skit E Eminem 0:29 2 White America E Eminem 5:24 3 Business E Eminem 4:11 4 Which artists do you expect to have the five best first weeks this year and who do you expect will make the top 100? No Rolling Stones album ? Official Albums Sales Chart Top 100 | Official Charts Company Morgan Wallen 'One Thing at a Time' First Week Sales Projections Theres some newcomers that show that this list can change at any time. "The Marshall Mathers LP," Eminem's third album, sold 1,760,000 copies in the first week after its release. The soundtrack albums The Bodyguard, Saturday Night Fever, and Grease: The Original Soundtrack are also up there with the 10 best selling albums ever. That being said, there are still some artists that attain the USA platinum benchmark in the first week of release. Purpose and Scorpion are comfortably inside the Top 5, while Post Malone, Lamar and Grande record similar results one step behind, which was also expected. Must See: The 25 Biggest First Week-Sales In Music History 1 on the Billboard Global Excl. 's Raising Hell went multi-platinum within a year it proved that hip-hop was a truly a cultural force. Trivia Facts: This album hit #1 on the Billboard 200 and stayed on the charts for 950 total weeks. Trivia Facts: The album was delayed over the conversation of whether it should be released as a double album or even a set of EPs. Thriller is estimated to have sold 66 million copies worldwide. Top Album Sales Week of March 4, 2023 This Week Award i Last Week Peak Pos. Eminem, G-Unit & Nelly continue to dominate. Look at eminem. 44. I'm going to guess that Dr. Dre's "The Chronic", Beastie Boys' "Check Your Head", Too $hort's "Shorty the Pimp", MC Ren's "Kizz My Black Azz", and Ice Cube's "The Predator" (193K) round out the top 5. im sure roddy is gonna drop something and he should put up really good numbers too. 25. 1" from 1997 not to have a top five debut week. Bad Bunnys YHLQMDLG reached #11 with close to 0 impact outside Spanish speaking countries. At the time, and perhaps still, Bad was called the most anticipated album in history. Shania Twain Come On Over (1997) 40m The record labels marketing department knew better, even though Jim wrote the bulk of the material. The debut studio album by American rock band Boston became the best-selling debut album in the US when released in 1976. Trivia Facts: The album Rumours was originally called Yesterdays Gone. 35. "Feels Like Home," Norah Jones' sophomore album, sold 1,022,000 copies in the first week after its release. As Molly said, it seems like you guys are trying to insinuate something, that isnt the case when you look at actual figures, What are you insinuating by this? The album is the only re-recorded album to ever reach the top spot, and has made Swift the first woman to have three No. In the USA, Adele seemed to come out of nowhere, but 21 was her second album released in 2011 in the Pop and Soul genres. On average, each Spotify user streamed slightly over 3 songs from the album during its first week. It was promoted alongside the film Moonwalker, which starred Michael Jackson. Its ten tracks of high-energy thats still loved today. 39. The Bee Gees included so many songs in the soundtrack and the movie of the same name that they essentially lost an albums worth of material. This is partly due to a big growth in users across Asian markets like India, Japan and Indonesia. Langdon Winner said in Rolling Stone, The closest Western Civilization has come to unity since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 was the week the Sgt. The lyrics were printed in full on the back cover, the first time this had been done on a rock LP. "The Massacre," 50 Cent's sophomore album, sold 1,141,000 copies in the first week after its release. The list also flags up no Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Queen, and as yet (but it wont be long), no Ed Sheeran. So many great albums that resonated different chapters of my life. 18. (1995) 22m Both of them. Spice Girls Spice (1996) 23m It's Shania Twain's. Back in Black came out in 1980 at the height of the reign of Hard Rock, marking AC/DCs 7th studio album and the first with their new vocalist Brian Johnson. Normal artists will usually take a protracted time before their albums are certified, gold, platinum or diamond, but the sales of these mega albums are so large that they obtain instantaneous certifications. It would look very different Im sure. Additionally, the song has earned its first MelOn Weekly Popularity Award. 9. Lets add this information to the table. The 1.76 million copies it sold in its opening week is the most ever for a rap album, the previous record-holder being Snopp Dogg's Doggystyle in 1993.. One quirky fact that this album, 'Stan' actually created a word in the Oxford Dictionary. "Black & Blue," the fourth album by Backstreet Boys, sold 1,591,000 copies in the first week after its release. Michael Jackson, thriller, bad and dangerous. It is widely agreed that the duo is among the most significant and influential hip-hop acts of all time. 1. Five singles were released from Cant Slow Down, all of which hit the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, including two that reached number-one: All Night Long (All Night) and Hello. MC Hammer - Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em Released: February 12, 1990 Label: Capitol Records Units sold: 10 million 4. The movie itself is one of the best movies about music ever, which helped propel the sales of the soundtrack. U.S. charts. Drake's "Nothing Was The Same" became the most pirated album of all time. The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200, selling 1.78 million copies in the US in its first week alone, which made it the fastest-selling studio album in the United States at the time. 41. Certified Lover Boy, Scorpion,More Life, andViewsbyDrakeall drop a lot of spots as they include from 20 to 25 songs. 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. Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon (1973) 45m 46. The album has a perfect score among the top professional ratings critic groups. While it topped none of the previous lists, Divides By September 2018, the album had spent 500 weeks on the Billboard album chart, making it one of the four longest-running albums of all time and the best-selling metal album of all time. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. It was year 2000, the peak year of music record sales. Five singles from the album all charted: So Far Away, Money for Nothing, Brothers in Arms, Walk of Life and Your Latest Trick. Steeply influenced by Bruce Springsteens Born To Run, Bat Out of Hell combined the best elements of the urban rock opera and the musicianship of progressive-rock was not an immediate hit. With guest backing vocalists, including Helen Terry, Peter Gabriel and Sting the singles Sussudio and One More Night both reached number one on the US chart. But amazon is also paid and its dominated by pop and country. The album also won a Grammy Award in 1986 for Best Engineered Album. All we can now do is wait and see, Disclaimer: Whilst all attempts were made to secure worldwide first-week sales for all the albums listed in this article, sometimes only first-week sales figures from one country were available at the time this article was published. 20 of the Biggest First-Week Hip-Hop Album Sales - XXL - XXL Mag 2nd to only his own Scorpion. These includes DJ Khaled and Camila Cabello. The album was surrounded by significant controversy upon its release with criticism centered around lyrics that were considered violent, homophobic, and misogynistic. The band and studio had an open budget, which meant they did a lot of goofing off, which delayed the release of the album. By then, the platform had 88 million monthly active users, a number that has now increased to over 300 million. Eagles Hotel California (1976) 42m Jacksons previous album Off the Wall (1979) had been a critical success, but he wasnt happy. The tour even included the Jackson 5 again, together for the first time since 1972. Guns N Roses Appetite for Destruction (1987) 30m It later came to be considered one of the greatest albums of all time, as well as being one of the most well-known concept albums. (Pretty Young Thing), and Thriller all of which reached the top 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. That would mean Encore sold more (1.5M) in 7 days than the Eminem Show did (1.3M), But do we really want to see that album become Em's 2nd highest and the 2nd highest in hip hop history? and i wouldnt be surprised if someone like lil baby dropped again, i know that drip harder 2 has been teased and with how both of those artists have grown in status, that could be a monster release, also i know this sub hates him but the kid laroi is gearing up to have a huge year and i wouldnt be surprised if he snuck in with one of the biggest albums of 2021 as well. 1 on its Weekly Album chart for June 13 to 19. MTV dominated the pop culture market at the time & Eminem was riding that wave. Congratulations to BTS on their historic achievement in Japan with their anthology album! I Did It Again," the second album by Britney Spears, sold 1,319,000 copies in the first week after its release. By January 1992, it had replaced Michael Jacksons Dangerous at number one on the US chart. Richie's second solo studio album has sold over 20 million copies. Pepper album was released. for the 5th spot idk. DMX's "It's Dark and Hell Is Hot" also sold 251K making 1998 a dominant year for X. Eminem debuted with 283K first week for his "The Slim Shady LP". There hasnt been another quite like it before or since its release, a concept album, its themes exploring conflict, greed, time, death, and mental illness, the latter partly inspired by the deteriorating health of founding member Syd Barrett. The first few weeks after the initial release of an album (thats obvious); Christmas time: in the lead up to Christmas album sales increase exponentially; Grammy time: in the week after the Grammy ceremony album sales increase; After the death of a major celebrity, people seem to go out in droves to purchase an artists past catalogue, almost as a way to show respect to the artist or maybe as a way to hold on to something from their past.