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. 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. Spice Girls Spice (1996) 23m By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. The album spent 31 non-consecutive weeks at number-one on the US charts. Eminem's numbers in his prime were just out of this fucking world. The Dark Side of the Moon is the insanely acclaimed 1973 Progressive Rock album from Pink Floyd. 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. 30. Boston Boston (1976) 20m 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. Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV (1971) 37m Drakes Scorpion posted an insane 559 million streams on its first week 2 years ago. 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. The first time we updated this list there were no Latin albums to be seen on the list at all. })(); Best selling artists, albums and singles of all-time. In fact, so far as many as 72 releases have broken the 100 million mark during their first week. gcse.type = 'text/javascript'; Perhaps the biggest outlier in the top 10 is Folklore by Taylor Swift which lies inside the indie genre. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Aug. 13) with 2022's biggest week by a woman - and the second-largest week of the year overall . 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. Bat Out of Hell went 14x Platinum and spent 522 weeks on the UK Albums Chart, the second longest run. The song Bad was meant to be a duet between Michael and Prince. It was played for the press live at the Rainbow Theatre a year before its release and they loved it. So 34k rather than 125k. 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 first number-one album since Santana III 28 years earlier, for his eighteenth studio album Carlos Santana wanted to focus his musical direction towards pop and radio friendly material and proceeded to do so by collaborating with various contemporary guest artists, including Eric Clapton, Rob Thomas, Eagle-Eye Cherry, Lauryn Hill, Dave Matthews and Cee-Lo Green. This is the second fastest selling album of all-time. Rick Ross' "Port of Miami" debuted with 187K. 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. While In 2014 Billboard began to take streaming into account for first week sales and total album sales. 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 band and studio had an open budget, which meant they did a lot of goofing off, which delayed the release of the album. 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. 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. Slippery When Wet transformed the New Jersey band into global superstars. This just goes to prove that if one produces something people want, audiences will go out and buy it, in droves. "Tha Carter III," Lil Wayne's sixth album, sold 1,006,000 copies in the first week after its release. 20. 2 Hard Knock Life| 1998| 350K 93| Nelly| Sweat| 2004| 342K 93| Nas| Stillmatic| 2001| 342K 95| Mystikal| Let's Get Ready| 2000| 330K 95| 2Pac| Loyal to the Game| 2004| 330K 97| Snoop Doggy Dogg| Murder Was the Case| 1994| 329K 98| Kanye West| Yeezus| 2013| 328K 99| Various Artists| Bad Boys II| 2003| 324K 100| Ludacris | The Red Light District | 2004 | 322K, Here is a graph showing the amount of albums in the top 100 per year. A truly impressive feat. 's record and had the most successful first week in hip hop by far. The album's first-week performance reflects that. 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 Life Of Pablo" marks the first time in his career that a Kanye album does not have a top five debut week. 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. holds a number of distinctions. "25" went on to sell 1,160,000 copies in its second week and 1,190,000 in its fifth week. Up to that point, no album had ever amassed 100 million streams on Spotify in its first week. Mariah Carey Music Box (1993) 28m Whilst this is not ideal, the albums for which I could not obtain worldwide figures, after further investigation, were not really big outside their country of origin, therefore, the quoted sales accounted for the majority of their worldwide sales in their debut week. It had some unbelievable singles that still get radio play today. So we took a look back in history at the 50 biggest first week album sales of all time - featuring multiple albums from Eminem, 50 Cent, Jay-Z, Drake, Lil Wayne, Kanye, Snoop Dogg and more. 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. Snoop set the record for best first week for a debut album. I really have no clue how shes gonna perform in the streaming age. 34. 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. 2nd to only his own Scorpion. Basically, longer albums have their raw streams inflated while shorter albums have their average streams inflate. G-Unit's "Beg for Mercy" debuted with 377K. U.S. charts. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. As a result, whether the song will enter the chart in the following weeks remains to be seen. 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. Outkast has their best commercial week thus far. If we go by certified sales only, Michael Jacksons Thriller remains the indisputed champion by far. Apart from that, "Proof" is now the group's tenth album to top Oricon's Weekly Album Chart. Yeah I don't remember 2019 being that weak in sales either. Whitney Houston in 1993 and Taylor Swift in 2018. The debut studio album by American rock band Linkin Park has sold over 11m copies in the US alone. The name and cover were both meant as signs of mourning at the time. A$AP Rocky's "Long. Official Albums Sales Chart Top 100. A track equivalent album is equal to 10 tracks, or 10 songs. By then, the platform had 88 million monthly active users, a number that has now increased to over 300 million. (Pretty Young Thing), and Thriller all of which reached the top 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. 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? Madonnas third studio album was inspired by her then husband Sean Penn, to whom Madonna dedicated the album. The Thriller, Billie Jean, and Beat It videos continued to push sales of the album for a long time, as did the seven singles. "Red," Swift's fourth album, sold 1,208,000 copies in the first week after its release. 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 bottom 5 are all releases from the last 2 years. Seven solo male artists occupy placements and the remaining 14 positions are occupied by bands. 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. 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. Despite the albums success, the duo went their separate ways shortly after the albums release with their last performance at that time in the Forest Hills Stadium on July 18, 1970. 6. In South Korea, BTS' "Yet to Come" reached a new peak on the weekly charts of three major music platforms. 2 and 4 spots, and now the No. Trivia Facts: This was the first album to ever sell more than a million units in one week according to SoundScan. The final studio album by Simon & Garfunkel topped the charts in over ten countries and received two 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. On June 21, Oricon officially announcedthat BTS' "Proof" had debuted at No. 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. 47. BTS' "Proof" took the spot on Oricon's Weekly Album Chart, with the biggest first-week sales recorded in Japan this year. 1 on Billboard's Global' Global Excl. (Remember Me)| 1997| 549K 37| Jay-Z| The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse| 2002| 545K 38| D12| D12 World| 2004| 544K 39| Drake| If You're Reading This It's Too Late| 2015| 535K 40| Outkast| Stankonia| 2000| 530K 41| Jay-Z| Magna Carta Holy Grail| 2013| 527K 42| T.I.| King| 2006| 522K 43| Snoop Dogg| Da Game Is to Be Sold, Not to Be Told| 1998| 520K 44| Dr. Dre| 2001| 1999| 516K 45| J. Cole| 4 Your Eyez Only| 2016| 511K 46| Outkast| Speakerboxxx/The Love Below| 2003| 510K 47| Drake| More Life| 2017| 505K 48| Juice WRLD| Legends Never Die|2020|497K 49| Kanye West| My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy| 2010| 496K 50| Master P| MP Da Last Don| 1998| 495K 51| The Notorious B.I.G.| Born Again| 1999| 485K 52| Lil Wayne | Tha Carter V | 2018 | 480K 53| Snoop Dogg| Tha Doggfather| 1996| 479K 54| Jay-Z| The Blueprint 3| 2009| 476K 55| Nas| I Am| 1999| 470K 56| T.I.| T.I. Its not one of the best musicals of all time, actually canceled in the U.S. in its early performances. 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. Check https://chartmasters.org/spotify-top-album-debuts/?view=country&country_code2=WW. Britney Spears Baby One More Time (1999) 25m There are albums which got less than 79 million streams a long time ago that could have done well in a weighted list. The World's Biggest First Week Album Sales | by Sheldon Rocha Leal, PhD | Medium 500 Apologies, but something went wrong on our end. Celine Dion Falling into You (1997) 32m Thank U, NextbyAriana Grandeis the only other album over the 30-million threshold. 42. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. That month, two major teen pop stars, Justin Bieber and One Direction, clashed when they dropped their new efforts at the same time. Idol Trainee's Status After Joining 'Girls Planet 999'. 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. by 12.4% of the users than 6 songs played by 14.3% of the users since 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. It reached number one in nineteen countries and sold just under 4m copies in the US in the first month after release. U2 The Joshua Tree (1987) 25m var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; MLD Entertainment To Debut New Boy Group HORI7ON: Concept, Date, More Details! The Dark Side of the Moon reached number-one on the US Billboard chart and has charted for over 900 weeks in total. Couldn't find much data for 92. 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. Second, I can see THREE Michael Jackson albums here (Thriller, Bad and Dangerous), while you stated two. 8 spot. certainly the last biggest act in hiphop, i dont see it ever being surpassed with how BIG he was. Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973) 30m 50. We all like a list and here we bring you the latest sales for the best selling rock and pop albums of all time. Def Leppard Hysteria (1987) 25m It would be easy to jump on the conclusion that this genre is bigger in streaming. 22. 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. 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. Only two albums from the sixties made it and British artists make up only 15 places on the list. 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. When you downloaded a single, you still had no right to take a look at the rest of the album. Required fields are marked *. :), Holy shit thats absurd. The title track rose to No. This is a list of the fastest-selling albums (pure sales) in the United States since Nielsen SoundScan tracking began on March 1, 1991. 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. But amazon is also paid and its dominated by pop and country. 1. She was the youngest to win it at 21 years of age until Taylor Swift took the record at age 20. 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. "Reputation," Swift's sixth album, sold 1,238,000 equivalent album units in the first week after its release. 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.
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