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. (Pretty Young Thing), and Thriller all of which reached the top 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. Only two albums from the sixties made it and British artists make up only 15 places on the list. Just topples everyone, he would have 3 top, first week sales if encore was counted right. 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. The record labels marketing department knew better, even though Jim wrote the bulk of the material. I for one would be interested to see who would be able to beat Michael Jacksons astounding 7 million unit achievement. That month, two major teen pop stars, Justin Bieber and One Direction, clashed when they dropped their new efforts at the same time. 1991 - Nielsen begins to track music sales data. 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. Shania Twain also features in very high position in our Top 10 Richest Country Singers list. U.S. charts. The movie itself is one of the best movies about music ever, which helped propel the sales of the soundtrack. 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. umm, you missed Prince and The Revolutions Purple Rain with 25 million copies sold. 20 of the Biggest First-Week Sales in Hip-Hop History - ONE37pm Where Is Kang Seo Jin Now? 30. 1 on Billboard's Global' Global Excl. "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. Before it even came out it had advance orders of 800,000 copies. By now things have changed though. Trivia Facts: In 2013, this album has been preserved by the Library of Congress in the National Recording Registry for being culturally significant. What fascinates me the most is the fact that an artist can so unanimously appeal to the social conscious that people will go out on mass to purchase their album and even more fascinating, in the albums first weeks of release. 30 's first-week sales of 692,000 not only mark the single-largest sales frame of 2021, but the largest sales week for any album since 2017. 50 Best Selling Studio Albums - This Day In Music Thank U, Next confirms that no matter how you look at it, it did very well. Trivia Facts: This was the first album to ever sell more than a million units in one week according to SoundScan. Since we can, why not quickly list off a bunch more that are very close to making it. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. None of these album are what anyone might have considered popular music at the time. Its one of only 5 albums which hit 2 SPU. This just goes to prove that if one produces something people want, audiences will go out and buy it, in droves. By then, the platform had 88 million monthly active users, a number that has now increased to over 300 million. Congratulations to BTS on their historic achievement in Japan with their anthology album! This albums music videos are said to have transformed videos into an art form. "Yet to Come" has now spent 11 days in a row on the chart. This just shows again how fucking insane peak 50 was. First week album sales: 29,000 Billboard 200 position: 12 Singles: "Decades", "Tetris", "Therapy Music", "Vinyl Days", "Orville", "Bleed It", "Breath Control" Features: Wiz Khalifa, Action Bronson, Russ, The Game, Royce da 5'9, RZA, DJ Premier, Currensy, Langston Bristol, Doc D, iamJMARS, Big Lenbo, C Dot Castro, Nezi Momodu, Like, Blu, Exile, AZ. Best-Selling Albums of All-Time (5160) Linkin Park Hybrid Theory 12 million. Drama in the music industry is fun! The first indication that long playing discs may do well in a streaming world came in November 2015. The Top 100 Best Selling Albums of All Time - Digital Music News 6. This was Meat Loafs debut studio album which contained Two Out of Three Aint Bad, easily his most successful single. Recorded under the working titles of Vodka and Tonics and Silent Movies, Talking Pictures, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road has come to be regarded as Johns best and most popular album. Spice Girls Spice (1996) 23m Michael Jackson 's Thriller, estimated to have sold 70 million copies worldwide, is the best-selling album ever. adjusted for that, idk if Drake would be on level playing field, but it wouldn't be as crazy. As you can expect, the likes Drake and Ariana Grande recorded several of the top album debuts on Spotify, but many more are performing incredibly well. I wonder how Survivors Eye of the Tiger album ranks in sales? In other news, the title track "Yet to Come" in BTS' anthology album "Proof" debuted on this week's Billboard 200 and Global Excl. The original title was Dark Side of the Moon: A Piece for Assorted Lunatics. 43. The Beatles Abbey Road (1969) 31m 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. Michael Jackson, thriller, bad and dangerous. Top 50 of ALL TIME and the Beach Boys Pet Shop isnt on this list is a SHAME. Some of the profits from the album were invested in the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. That sales sum marks the largest sales week for a digital album in 2022, and the biggest for any album since Adele's "30" debuted with 205,000 digital albums sold in its first week last fall. 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. We're only talking about projects that sold massively out the gate. Michael Jackson Thriller (1982) 66m Richie's second solo studio album has sold over 20 million copies. Apart from that, "Proof" is now the group's tenth album to top Oricon's Weekly Album Chart. In order for an album to attract a certification, they need to sell a certain number of units. It went 33x Platinum and won a record-breaking 8 Grammy Awards at the 1984 Grammy Awards. Certified Lover Boy, Scorpion,More Life, andViewsbyDrakeall drop a lot of spots as they include from 20 to 25 songs. 3 lbum, no two. Faith won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1989. They supported the sales with a seven-month long tour in the USA. These includes DJ Khaled and Camila Cabello. The Bodyguard soundtrack was released in 1992, sung entirely by Whitney Houston in the R&B, Soul, and Pop genres. It was her first international release and first not in the New Jack Swing and Dance-Pop genres. Adele 21 (2010) 31m Music industry One step closer to being accurate. 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). In truth, its surely way more loyal to this artform than downloads ever where. 33. At one stage that would have been a tall ask, but now we have had 22 artists that have achieved that feat, most of them in the new millennium. With 32 million copies sold, it the best-selling debut album since Guns N Roses Appetite for Destruction (1987) and the best-selling rock album of the 21st century. GRaceland (Paul Simon).Whats Goin On (Marvin Gaye)? 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. By 1991, Bad was the second-best-selling album of all time at the time, behind Thriller, having sold 25 million copies worldwide. It will be interesting to see if anyone will be able to challenge the records that currently stand. In 1977, Fleetwood Mac released Rumours to the Soft Rock crowd, but obviously it had great mass appeal. 17, and "Run BTS" at No. Everyone should become familiar with it, in my opinion. 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). "Black & Blue," the fourth album by Backstreet Boys, sold 1,591,000 copies in the first week after its release. 3. 8 on MelOn. 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. 8 spot. On the list of top 5 biggest first-week sales by albums of foreign artists, BTS holds the Nos. The fifth studio album by Irish rock band U2 had the provisional titles The Desert Songs and The Two Americas. Eminem's "Revival" had his worst first week since "The Slim Shady LP" in 1999. Phil Collins No Jacket Required 12 . All Rights Reserved. Adele's '30' Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 - Billboard Continue reading to learn how many copies of BTS' anthology album were sold in the country. As many as 3 pop albums feature inside the Top 10 with Ed Sheeran , Ariana Grande and recently released Sour by Olivia Rodrigo. 47. The 2015 album jumps to the 3rd spot with 2.35 streams per user. Nelly's "Sweat" debuted with 342K. Britney Spears Oops! I Did It Again (2000) 20m Celine Dion has three albums, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Britney Spears, Madonna, Eminem, Adele and Michael Jackson all have two albums each in the list. 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. Drake's "Nothing Was The Same" became the most pirated album of all time. Refresh the page, check Medium 's site status, or find. "Celebrity," the fourth and final album by *NSYNC, sold 1,880,000 copies in the first week after its release. George Michael Faith (1987) 20m debut was Top 3 in every ranking, so its little surprise to see that 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. Madonna's 'MDNA' Suffers Biggest Album Sales Drop of All Time Sour was available to way more people thanPurpose, for example. 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. Of course, its easier to repeat a 7-songs album than a 25-songs album, but its still a worthy element to factor in. It won Album of the Year from the Grammys, British Album of the Year from the Brit Award, and many more accolades. Official Albums Sales Chart Top 100 | Official Charts Company The final studio album by Simon & Garfunkel topped the charts in over ten countries and received two Grammy Awards. 12. Whos Next by the Who ? In 2014 Billboard began to take streaming into account for first week sales and total album sales. It is also interesting to note that female artists dominate the Top 30, with 14 positions occupied by solo female artists. Complex Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. MINIONS - THE RISE OF GRU. "Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water," Limp Bizkit's third album, sold 1,055,000 copies in the first week after its release. Check https://chartmasters.org/spotify-top-album-debuts/?view=country&country_code2=WW. Do you think your favorite artist is among them? U.S. chart, taking the No. Just like older albums are higher on this list, the recent ones are lower. Pepper become the first rock LP to receive a Grammy Award for Album of the Year and was lauded by critics for its innovations in production, song writing and graphic design. Lets add this information to the table. 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. It spawned a musical in 2017 of the same name. These cookies do not store any personal information. Those numbers make it one of thefastest-selling records of all time, or more accurately, sinceSoundscan started tracking sales in 1991. Trivia Facts: The singles for this compilation come from the Eagles first four albums. In 1994, their major label debut Dookie, became a breakout success and eventually shipped over 10 million copies in the US. Top Album Sales - Billboard The success of the album led to an 18 month worldwide tour and a VHS and DVD release of the tour. The best-selling boy band of all time are the first group since Led Zeppelin to have their first ten albums reach the top 10 on the Billboard 200. "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. The third studio album by Canadian country music singer Shania Twain became the best-selling country music album, the best-selling studio album by a female act, and the best selling album by a Canadian. 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. The number of remasters and re-releases have helped surge sales. Somehow 2Pac continued to stay on top. The record was a commercial success, charting at number-one in the US for 15 weeks. Even the critics liked it enough to not try to get attention by pretending to hate it. Saturday Night Fever is one of the best movie soundtracks of all time. The album was so successful the media was making up stories about the members just to get more attention (some things never change). 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. Sales were boosted when the single Smooth featuring Matchbox Twenty singer Rob Thomas, was a number one success worldwide and topped the Billboard chart for 12 weeks. So if you took US Spotify charts and separated it, Im willing to bet it is pop that sees harder falls while rap gains. For example Bad Bunny and Jack Harlow were added today! Led Zeppelin IV was their pinnacle achievement from 1971, focused on Hard Rock, Folk Rock, and pre-cursor Heavy Metal sounds. The album produced seven singles The Girl Is Mine, Billie Jean, Beat It, Wanna Be Startin Somethin', Human Nature, P.Y.T. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. G-Unit's "Beg for Mercy" debuted with 377K. It stayed on the UK charts for 485 weeks; a feat surpassed only by the 522 weeks of Fleetwood Macs Rumours and is the best selling album of all time in Australia. We added a simple formula* to get an indicator in-between both views to get the top performing debuts of all-time on Spotify. They take up a ton of slots further down the list, but their compilation of #1 singles is what makes up the album entitled 1. On top of that, Spotify links to you these pages for new releases by artists you follow. The sales definitely reflect part of the impact an artist had. 6. 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.
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