Santana Supernatural (1999) 30m The Marshall Mathers LP has sold over 35 million copies worldwide, making it the best-selling album of the 21st century. We're only talking about projects that sold massively out the gate. (function() { The cover photograph was taken at Kings Laurel Canyon home and shows her sitting in a window frame, holding a tapestry she hand-stitched herself, with her cat Telemachus. MTV dominated the pop culture market at the time & Eminem was riding that wave. that's really cool seeing tribe on the top 5 for 2016.also wonder how much more drake would've sold if he did bundles for scorpion, feel like he easily could've done >1 mil. Alanis Morissette was backed by a super band, including Flea, one of the best bassists of all time from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, on You Oughta Know. It came out in 1995 and is purely an Alternative Rock album when that was the most popular genre. RELATED:Pigeons & Planes - 10 Perfect Albums That Never Went Platinum Music Box remains Careys highest seller with 28 million copies sold worldwide. Refresh the page, check Medium 's site status, or find. On the US Scale at least, Apple Music is completely paid, and Rap DOMINATES, compared to US Spotify where Pop fares way better. The feat got us thinking about other impressive opening weeks, like Taylor Swift's recent streak of dominance, or that time N Sync's sophomore LP went double platinum during its first seven days of availability. 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. 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. With this view, Scorpion takes back its crown. Do you think your favorite artist is among them? It will be interesting to see if anyone will be able to challenge the records that currently stand. 03. Oasis (Whats the Story) Morning Glory? im sure roddy is gonna drop something and he should put up really good numbers too. Guinness Book of World Records named the LP the best-selling debut studio effort in music history. If trav drops hell still certainly be in top 5 of the year but Idk if utopia would crack the top 100 oat. George Michael Faith (1987) 20m Shania Twain is a huge Country crossover artist, merging into the Pop genre. The release of this compilation of #1 singles led to ones by Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, the Bee Gees, and many more artists. U.S. chart. 25 by Adele is the fastest-selling album of all time in the US with 3,378,000 copies sold in its first seven days. See 20 of the Biggest First-Week Hip-Hop Album Sales Over the Years Aftermath Entertainment / Interscope Records Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP Release Date: May 23, 2000 First-Week. These cookies do not store any personal information. Mariah Carey Music Box (1993) 28m 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. "The Marshall Mathers LP," Eminem's third album, sold 1,760,000 copies in the first week after its release. Numbers behind streams ofThe WeekndsMy Dear Melancholy,Kanye WestsYeand Lil Nas Xs 7 EP take another feel when we see that they are so short. certainly the last biggest act in hiphop, i dont see it ever being surpassed with how BIG he was. The debut studio album by American rock band Linkin Park has sold over 11m copies in the US alone. In Spring 2017, the album broke the record for the longest-charting album by a female artist on the Billboard 200, surpassing Tapestry by Carole King. These includes DJ Khaled and Camila Cabello. b/c i was wondering where he'd fit in all-time herebut anyway drake/j cole/uzi/21 savage/roddy* for top 5 this year, drake and cole make it to the top 100, Which artists do you expect to have the five best first weeks this year, drake and travis are givens of course. The album made up 67% of all physical sales and became the most-streamed album of the week, with 55.7 million plays across all tracks. Country star Morgan Wallen released his third studio album One Thing at a Time this Friday and as expected, it is projected to do a big number in the first week. Michael Jackson, thriller, bad and dangerous. 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. The UK's Top 100 biggest artist albums of the week, compiled by the Official Charts Company, based on sales of CDs, vinyl . Third biggest week in history for The Massacre and even the other members of G Unit were pushing 400k+ a week just by association. By then, the platform had 88 million monthly active users, a number that has now increased to over 300 million. In 2014 Billboard began to take streaming into account for first week sales and total album sales. Its one of only 5 albums which hit 2 SPU. 1 on its Weekly Album chart for June 13 to 19. Those numbers make it one of thefastest-selling records of all time, or more accurately, sinceSoundscan started tracking sales in 1991. Her debut studio album topped the Billboard 200 for 14 weeks generating three number-one singles Saving All My Love for You, How Will I Know and Greatest Love of All. At the time, and perhaps still, Bad was called the most anticipated album in history. A truly impressive feat. Shania Twain also features in very high position in our Top 10 Richest Country Singers list. var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; The first time we updated this list there were no Latin albums to be seen on the list at all. 1991 - Nielsen begins to track music sales data. The album still scores around 10,000 sales a week due to covers of the entire album still coming out by various artists. Nielsen Music started tracking point-of-sales data for US music releases in 1991. 5. s.parentNode.insertBefore(gcse, s); Adele 21 (2010) 31m "Yet to Come (The Most Beautiful Moment)" successfully entered at No. 39. 14. In addition to recording the highest first-week sales this 2022, "Proof" also achieved the fifth-highest first-week sales by a foreign artist's album in Oricon history. Speaking about relevant factors, another one is the number of MAU (Monthly Active Users) of Spotify. This is the second fastest selling album of all-time. Even the critics liked it enough to not try to get attention by pretending to hate it. What you dont see are names like Eminem or Taylor Swift, which have had long careers but are always kind of fly-by-night pop sensations and then disappear again until the next album comes out. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. The latters Made In The A.M. reached that incredible milestone, while at the same time the formersPurpose went through the roof, topping 200 million. (Pretty Young Thing), and Thriller all of which reached the top 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. On the list of top 5 biggest first-week sales by albums of foreign artists, BTS holds the Nos. Filler tracks make zero sense on a music album. The boy band from Seoul sold over 5 million units with their new effort Map of the Soul: 7. As a result, whether the song will enter the chart in the following weeks remains to be seen. The album was recorded over two years in seven different recording studios. In 1986, when Run-D.M.C. This is easily one of the most important albums to ever be created. It reached number-one in eleven countries, including the US for 12 non-consecutive weeks. Required fields are marked *. Their Greatest Hits by the Eagles contains all of their Country Rock, Folk Rock, and Soft Rock singles between 1971 and 1975. "Born This Way," the second album by Lady Gaga, sold 1,108,000 copies in the first week after its release. Without further ado, here are the Top34 biggest opening weeks, for an album, in music history (the focus of this article): So these are the 35 biggest first weeks in the rock era. I've updated for 2017 and added the top 100 list. Bruce Springsteen Born In The U.S.A. 1984) 30m 2008 - Weezy F Baby and the F is for "first week king", 2009 - Eminem's return to the top and a new empire, 2011 - Weezy back on top and the rise of J. Cole. Post Malone makes a rather impressive feat as well with 2 albums inside the top 5. On average, each Spotify user streamed slightly over 3 songs from the album during its first week. Baby One More Time is Spears most successful album with sales of over 25 million copies worldwide. Also, on the 20th, BTS' anthology album "Proof" took the No. Phil Collins No Jacket Required (1985) 25m Everyone should become familiar with it, in my opinion. Not that it needed the boost, but its been remastered and re-issued four times with deluxe editions and even one including a DVD of all of their videos and promotional films. The list also flags up no Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Queen, and as yet (but it wont be long), no Ed Sheeran. :), Holy shit thats absurd. The B-side song "Run BTS" also landed on this week's Global Excl. Spears and her management were presented a track titled Hit Me Baby (One More Time) which had been rejected by girl group TLC. Michael Jackson Dangerous (1991) 32m The transatlantic pop rock band Fleetwood Macs 11th studio album won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1978, Rumours has since sold over 40 million copies worldwide, assisted by the hit songs Go Your Own Way, Dreams, Dont Stop, and You Make Loving Fun. 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Over time the eleventh and final album studio album by The Beatles became viewed as among the Beatles best and many critics have ranked it as one of the greatest albums of all time. The music buying public is fickle. The record label had low expectations, yet it topped the charts in over 30 countries, was the best-selling album for 2 years straight, and is the top seller of the 21st century. Tapestry received four Grammy Awards in 1972, including Album of the Year and the lead singles from the album Its Too Late/I Feel the Earth Move spent five weeks at number one on the US chart. It came out in 1977 and is a purely Disco album, almost entirely by the Bee Gees. Trivia Facts: The singles for this compilation come from the Eagles first four albums. Apart from that, "Proof" is now the group's tenth album to top Oricon's Weekly Album Chart. 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. umm, you missed Prince and The Revolutions Purple Rain with 25 million copies sold. 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. There are many factors why this is. A lot of data was impossible for me to find here. Trivia Facts: The title comes from Adeles age at the time of production. 1" from 1997 not to have a top five debut week. The album produced seven singles The Girl Is Mine, Billie Jean, Beat It, Wanna Be Startin Somethin', Human Nature, P.Y.T. In other news, the title track "Yet to Come" in BTS' anthology album "Proof" debuted on this week's Billboard 200 and Global Excl. For more K-Pop news, follow and subscribe to KpopStarz. once we account for everything it happens to be the top performer out of Madonna True Blue (1986) 25m It reached number one in nineteen countries and sold just under 4m copies in the US in the first month after release. Over the course of a year it was supported by six singles that all performed very well, but especially I Will Always Love You, originally written by Dolly Parton. The album only reached #2 on the Billboard 200. One album from 2020 joined the list (Legends Never Die) and bumped off Get Rich Or Die Tryin OST. This leads us to wonder how does the list look like if we factor in the number of songs into the picture? Bad came out in 1987, at a time when Rock was on the way out and Pop and R&B were taking over. Trivia Facts: This album hit #1 on the Billboard 200 and stayed on the charts for 950 total weeks. Eminem's numbers in his prime were just out of this fucking world. by 12.4% of the users than 6 songs played by 14.3% of the users since 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. Keep in mind that albums likeEminem's The Eminem Show and Whitney Houston's soundtrack for The Bodyguard sold over a million copies in weeks other than their first. Look at eminem. Nelly debuted with 235K sales for "Country Grammar". I find it super interesting to look at this and see how current artists stack up against artists of the past so I broke it down into a few charts. Michael Jackson, *Nsync, Eminem, Ayumi Hamasaki and Bz have all placed two albums each on the list. Only two albums from the sixties made it and British artists make up only 15 places on the list. The eleventh studio album by Pink Floyd was a rock opera; its story explores Pink, a jaded rock star whose eventual self-imposed isolation from society is symbolised by a wall. Trivia Facts: Bat Out of Hell had its share of drama. "Tha Carter III," Lil Wayne's sixth album, sold 1,006,000 copies in the first week after its release. Theres also situations where double-length albums count as two sales. Nothing Was The Same, If Youre Reading This Its Too Late, Views, and More Life all broke the US record for first week streams, showing that the Canadian rapper has been a monster force for many years. "Speak Now," Taylor Swift's third album, sold 1,047,000 copies in the first week after its release. Another interesting fact is that Asian artists, mainly from Japan and South Korea, have placed 16 albums on the list, indicating a growing worldwide appetite for Asian music and exhibiting their dominance on the list. Eagles Hotel California (1976) 42m 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 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. On June 21, Oricon officially announcedthat BTS' "Proof" had debuted at No. Dire Straits Brothers in Arms (1985) 30m The debut solo studio album by George Michael spawned four number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100: Faith, Father Figure, One More Try, and Monkey, making Michael the only British male solo artist to have four number one hits from one album. Yep, 710,000 in 3 days. 2018 - Drake cements himself as number one, Weezy is free, and the rise of Travis Scott, 2021 - Kanye v Drake: Dawn of Prolonged Album Rollouts, ---|---|----|----|---- 1| Eminem| The Marshall Mathers LP| 2000| 1.76M 2| Eminem| The Eminem Show| 2002| 1.322M 3| 50 Cent| The Massacre| 2005| 1.14M 4| Drake| Views| 2016| 1.075M 5| Lil Wayne| Tha Carter III| 2008| 1.006M 6| Lil Wayne| Tha Carter IV| 2011| 964K 7| Kanye West| Graduation| 2007| 957K 8| 50 Cent| Get Rich or Die Tryin'| 2003| 872K 9| Kanye West| Late Registration| 2005| 860K 10| Snoop Dogg| Doggystyle| 1993| 803K 11| Eminem| The Marshall Mathers LP 2| 2013| 792K 12| Drake| Scorpion| 2018| 749K 13| Eminem| Recovery| 2010| 741K 14| Nelly| Nellyville| 2002| 714K 15| Eminem| Encore | 2004| 710K 16| Eminem| 8 Mile OST| 2002| 702K 17| DMX| And Then There Was X| 1999| 698K 18| 50 Cent| Curtis| 2007| 697K 19| The Notorious B.I.G.| Life After Death| 1997| 690K 20| Beastie Boys| Hello Nasty| 1998| 681K 21| Jay-Z| Kingdom Come| 2006| 680K 22| DMX| Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood| 1998| 670K 23| 2Pac| The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory| 1996| 664K 24| Drake| Nothing Was the Same| 2013| 658K 25| Drake| Take Care| 2011| 631K 26| Drake | Certified Lover Boy | 2021| 613K 27| Wu-Tang Clan| Wu-Tang Forever| 1997| 612K 28| Kendrick Lamar| DAMN.| 2017| 610K 29| Eminem| Relapse| 2009| 608K 30| The Game| The Documentary| 2005| 586K 31| T.I.| Paper Trail| 2008| 568K 32| 2Pac| All Eyez On Me| 1996| 566K 33| P. Diddy| No Way Out| 1997| 561K 34| Jay-Z| The Dynasty: Roc La Familia| 2000| 558K 35| Travis Scott | Astroworld | 2018 | 553K 36| 2Pac| R U Still Down? Eminem, G-Unit & Nelly continue to dominate. The Dark Side of the Moon reached number-one on the US Billboard chart and has charted for over 900 weeks in total. The record labels marketing department knew better, even though Jim wrote the bulk of the material. NewJeans Danielle Net Worth 2023: How Wealthy Is Group's Lead Dancer So Far? The Swedish pop group consisting of Ulf Ekberg and three siblings: Jonas Berggren, Linn Berggren and Jenny Berggren had one of the best-selling debut albums of all time with Happy Nation (reissued as The Sign). 43. 3 Life and Times of S. Carter| 1999| 462K 59| Kanye West| 808's & Heartbreak | 2008| 450K 60| Drake| Thank Me Later| 2010| 447K 61| Kanye West| The College Dropout| 2004| 441K 62| DMX| The Great Depression| 2001| 439K 63| Jay-Z & Kanye West| Watch The Throne| 2011| 436K 64| Eminem| Kamikaze| 2018| 434K 65| Lloyd Banks| The Hunger for More| 2004| 433K 66| 2Pac| Tupac: Resurrection| 2003| 430K 67| Ludacris| Chicken-n-Beer| 2003| 429K 68| 2Pac| Until The End of Time| 2001| 427K 69| Jay-Z| American Gangster| 2007| 426K 70| Lauryn Hill| The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill| 1998| 423K 71| Jay-Z| The Blueprint| 2001| 420K 72| Method Man| Tical 2000: Judgement Day| 1998| 411K 73| 2Pac & Outlawz| Still I Rise| 1999| 408K 74| J. Cole | KOD| 2018| 398K 75| Snoop Dogg| Tha Last Meal| 2000| 397K 76| Nelly| Suit| 2004| 396K 77| Nicki Minaj| Pink Friday| 2010| 395K 78| Bone Thugs-N-Harmony| The Art Of War| 1997| 394K 79| Mystikal| Ghetto Fabulous| 1998| 385K 79| The Game| Doctor's Advocate| 2006| 385K 81| G-Unit| Beg for Mercy| 2003| 377K 82| J. Cole| 2014 Forest Hills Drive| 2014| 375K 82| Drake & Future| What A Time to Be Alive| 2015| 375K 84| D12| Devil's Night| 2001| 372K 85| 2Pac| Better Dayz| 2002| 366K 86| Kendrick Lamar| To Pimp a Butterfly| 2015| 363K 87| Ja Rule| Pain Is Love| 2001| 361K 87| Young Buck| Straight Outta Cashville| 2004| 361K 89| Beastie Boys| To the 5 Boroughs| 2004| 360K 90| Nas| Hip Hop Is Dead| 2006| 356K 91| Young Jeezy| The Inspiration| 2006| 352K 92| Jay-Z| Vol. 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. We all like a list and here we bring you the latest sales for the best selling rock and pop albums of all time. Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell (1977) 43m I find it super interesting to look at this and see how current artists stack up against artists of the past so I broke it down into a few charts. This website uses cookies to improve your experience. I really have no clue how shes gonna perform in the streaming age. The album peaked at number one in more than 17 countries across the world, and has sold a total of 23 million copies worldwide, becoming the best-selling album in music history by a girl group. Would love your thoughts, please comment. After singer Bon Scott went on a drinking binge and died of acute alcohol poisoning, the remaining members almost called it quits. The album lodged 35 weeks atop the Irish Albums Chart, the longest in the charts history. But amazon is also paid and its dominated by pop and country. kendrick and cole as well if they drop. 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. DONDA bests the 295,000 equivalent album unit start for Olivia Rodrigo's SOUR, which until now boasted 2021's biggest release week.Kanye is now one of just seven artists with at least 10 No. In South Korea, BTS' "Yet to Come" reached a new peak on the weekly charts of three major music platforms. And the biggest benefit goes to compilations and greatest hits records that are full of hit singles. Ruling radio in the 90s with hits like Man! "The Life Of Pablo" marks the first time in his career that a Kanye album does not have a top five debut week. AC/DC Back In Black (1980) 50m It has now reached a point that if an artist wants to be eligible for the Top 20 they need to have shipped over 2.1 million units in one week. Damn Jay-z had a rough time with DMX and Eminem. The third solo studio album by English drummer and singer-songwriter Phil Collins sold over twelve million copies in the US, and in the UK, over two million copies. Interestingly, the list appears to be fairly different once we display an average per song. The debut studio album by American rock band Boston became the best-selling debut album in the US when released in 1976. Perhaps the biggest outlier in the top 10 is Folklore by Taylor Swift which lies inside the indie genre. Some of the profits from the album were invested in the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. 11. We added a simple formula* to get an indicator in-between both views to get the top performing debuts of all-time on Spotify. K-pop have upped its game as well with 4 albums by BTS and Blackpink inside the top 75. Because I hope its not what I think youre saying, where do yall think adeles 4th album is going to place here (it may have 15 songs at best). The album was surrounded by significant controversy upon its release with criticism centered around lyrics that were considered violent, homophobic, and misogynistic. Britney Spears Oops! I Did It Again (2000) 20m adjusted for that, idk if Drake would be on level playing field, but it wouldn't be as crazy. 1. 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. Additionally, the song has earned its first MelOn Weekly Popularity Award. Older albums with re-releases or resurgences of popularity also have clear advantages. U.S. chart, while it debuted at No. 17, and "Run BTS" at No. (1995) 22m "1," a post-breakup compilation album by The Beatles, sold 1,259,000 copies in the week ending December 24, 2000, six weeks after its release. Trivia Facts: The album was recorded in Nassau in the Bahamas in a low-cost studio due to scheduling issues. Whos Next by the Who ? Guns N Roses Appetite for Destruction (1987) 30m It was a long-time coming, being their 8th studio album. It was actually untitled, with some fans calling it Zoso in response to the four symbols each band member chose, which were included in the LPs sleeve. This list seems suspect to me. The bottom 5 are all releases from the last 2 years. No data for number 5 but I'm going to assume it was LL Cool J's "14 Shots to the Dome". The title track was much misunderstood, accused of being repulsively nationalistic, and viciously Anti-American, the track was endorsed by conservative US politicians as an exemplar of classic American values whilst the bitter lyrics actually tell the story of disaffected Vietnam veteran. "Double Live," the first live album from country star Garth Brooks, sold 1,085,000 copies in the first week after its release. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) 32m })(); Best selling artists, albums and singles of all-time. Sky is the limit for J-Hope, Jimin, Jin, Jungkook, RM, Suga, and V. Since their 2013 debut, their sales figures keep booming album after album. I doubt they care at this point. Eagles Their Greatest Hits (19711975) has recently surpassed Michael Jacksons Thriller as the number-one best selling album of all time. The album has a perfect score among the top professional ratings critic groups. Meanwhile, "Yet to Come (The Most Beautiful Moment)" consistently ranks on the Worldwide iTunes Album Chart, along with B-side songs from "Proof." The album spent 31 non-consecutive weeks at number-one on the US charts. 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. Their other albums on the list are "MAP OF THE SOUL: 7 ~The Journey~" (564k copies) and "BTS, THE BEST" (782k copies). For example Bad Bunny and Jack Harlow were added today! 7. The band and studio had an open budget, which meant they did a lot of goofing off, which delayed the release of the album. Three singles were released from the album, each reaching high in the Billboard Hot 100: New Kid in Town (number one), Hotel California (number one), and Life in the Fast Lane (number 11). The albums singles, most notably More Than a Feeling and Long Time, were both AM and FM hits, and nearly the entire album receives constant rotation on classic rock radio. Q: Where is X album? It was her first international release and first not in the New Jack Swing and Dance-Pop genres. This Top 50 is for studio albums only and doesnt include any Greatest Hits, Soundtracks or compilation albums. The album went 23x Platinum in the USA. 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. I think theres an argument to be made that its hard to compare pre-streaming sales to sales with streaming. 04. The album also won a Grammy Award in 1986 for Best Engineered Album. 2004 - The rise of Kanye West. A: Only albums that make the top 50 in sales+streaming for their debut week are counted. Couldn't find much data for 92. Thank You 4 Your Service. Richie's second solo studio album has sold over 20 million copies. 3 lbum, no two. The album got a massive 34-million average per song. 8 spot. That didnt work out, and she suffered a breakup, and wrote this, another tragedian masterpiece. Rick Ross' "Port of Miami" debuted with 187K. 28. 42. Eminem's "Revival" had his worst first week since "The Slim Shady LP" in 1999. She wasnt satisfied with her first album capturing the sound of tragedy and tried to write an upbeat album. (And allow me to point out and/or bring the correction; she spells/writes her name Morissette with two s', Thriller is the bestselling album ever. Michael took advantage of all four genres to create the best-selling album of all time. Lets add this information to the table. The first indication that long playing discs may do well in a streaming world came in November 2015. It also had a record-breaking run of 34 weeks at number one on the Australian Albums Chart. "25" went on to sell 1,160,000 copies in its second week and 1,190,000 in its fifth week. It would be easy to jump on the conclusion that this genre is bigger in streaming. Second, I can see THREE Michael Jackson albums here (Thriller, Bad and Dangerous), while you stated two. This just goes to prove that if one produces something people want, audiences will go out and buy it, in droves. The album's first-week performance reflects that. Lionel Richie Cant Slow Down (1983) 20m The album was named after the age of Adele during its production, this her second album is the best-selling album of the past decade. 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. No Elvis? In truth, its surely way more loyal to this artform than downloads ever where. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Thank U, Next confirms that no matter how you look at it, it did very well. 7, while "For Youth" was at no. Its ten tracks of high-energy thats still loved today. Basically, longer albums have their raw streams inflated while shorter albums have their average streams inflate. In 1977, Fleetwood Mac released Rumours to the Soft Rock crowd, but obviously it had great mass appeal. BTS' "Proof" took the spot on Oricon's Weekly Album Chart, with the biggest first-week sales recorded in Japan this year. I update it frequently. I Want It That Way, one of four singles from this album reached the number-one spot in more than 25 countries. Morissette married grunge, pop, and raw, universal emotions in that most 90s of genres, alternative rock. 29. The album was so successful the media was making up stories about the members just to get more attention (some things never change). 8. He secured his spot once again as the king of streaming with Certified Lover Boy hitting nearly 500 million streams as well. With the bar for the list set as high as 79 million are big consistent streams of the entire album needed in most cases to get so high numbers. Despite low commercial expectations, the album became an unexpected breakout success, largely due to the popularity of its lead single Smells Like Teen Spirit. The Michael Jackson Estate resisted this claim, since the auditing window only goes back three years, but The Eagles got to break that rule. So many great albums that resonated different chapters of my life. Michael Jackson 's Thriller, estimated to have sold 70 million copies worldwide, is the best-selling album ever.
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