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. "Tha Carter III," Lil Wayne's sixth album, sold 1,006,000 copies in the first week after its release. Meek Mill's "Dreams & Nightmares" debuts with 165K. "No Strings Attached," the third album by *NSYNC, sold 2,416,000 copies in the first week after its release. Once a crab shuffled across the wooden floor, interrupting the recordings. Trivia Facts: The album was recorded in Nassau in the Bahamas in a low-cost studio due to scheduling issues. 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. Slippery When Wet transformed the New Jersey band into global superstars. The first time we updated this list there were no Latin albums to be seen on the list at all. "The Eminem Show," Eminem's fourth album, sold 1,322,000 copies in the first week after its release. The B-side song "Run BTS" also landed on this week's Global Excl. Trivia Facts: Bat Out of Hell had its share of drama. Her debut studio album received Grammy Awards for Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album; the song Dont Know Why won Song of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. 1 on Bugs, climbed up to No. In the Netherlands, the album used to hold the record for longest run ever on the Dutch Album chart with 269 weeks (non-consecutive) but lost it to Adeles 21 in 2016. 1 on the Billboard Global Excl. The World's Biggest First Week Album Sales | by Sheldon Rocha Leal, PhD | Medium 500 Apologies, but something went wrong on our end. On the list of top 5 biggest first-week sales by albums of foreign artists, BTS holds the Nos. 1. 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. This website uses cookies to improve your experience. The album won the band a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Album in 1995. Record labels and artists often post much higher claimed sales than can be certified by companies like Nielsen SoundScan and the RIAA. gcse.type = 'text/javascript'; The list is obviously US-dominated, with 50 albums coming from the Hip Hop / R&B branch. Brothers in Arms was the first album certified 10-times platinum in the UK and is the eighth-best-selling album in UK chart history. Perhaps the biggest outlier in the top 10 is Folklore by Taylor Swift which lies inside the indie genre. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. The. 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. 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. The sales definitely reflect part of the impact an artist had. In every city in Europe and America the radio stations played it and everyone listened.. Look at those sales numbers! You were probably waiting on The Beatles to make an appearance. 1991 - Nielsen begins to track music sales data. U.S. charts. certainly the last biggest act in hiphop, i dont see it ever being surpassed with how BIG he was. 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. Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC, and Eminem trail with two apiece. 10. 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. :), Holy shit thats absurd. Spears and her management were presented a track titled Hit Me Baby (One More Time) which had been rejected by girl group TLC. Huh I did not remember JIK having the biggest first week last year. A lot of data was impossible for me to find here. 8 spot, spending its 11th consecutive day on the tally. Nas - I Am Released: April 6, 1999 First week sales numbers: 470,000 Singles: "Nas Is Like", "Hate Me Now" Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3 Released: September 8, 2009 Michael Jackson Bad (1987) 35m 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. Interestingly, the list appears to be fairly different once we display an average per song. The album contained 16 tracks and 12 of them were promoted as singles over the course of three years. "The Massacre," 50 Cent's sophomore album, sold 1,141,000 copies in the first week after its release. First, Eagles Greatest Hits surpassed Thriller (actually in very suspicious ways) only for USA sales (37 million Eagles, 34 millions Thriller), but worldwide Thriller is by far and with no comparison the best selling album ever the most conservative estimates tell Thriller sold double than Eagles album worldwide. 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 Led Zeppelin IV was their pinnacle achievement from 1971, focused on Hard Rock, Folk Rock, and pre-cursor Heavy Metal sounds. Their other albums on the list are "MAP OF THE SOUL: 7 ~The Journey~" (564k copies) and "BTS, THE BEST" (782k copies). The past year has . For her third studio album Mariah Carey employed Kenneth Babyface Edmonds, Robert Clivills and David Cole (also known as C+C Music Factory) and Daryl Simmons for production duties. Also, on the 20th, BTS' anthology album "Proof" took the No. Only two albums from the sixties made it and British artists make up only 15 places on the list. Crazy. 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. Madonnas third studio album was inspired by her then husband Sean Penn, to whom Madonna dedicated the album. 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'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. 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. "Double Live," the first live album from country star Garth Brooks, sold 1,085,000 copies in the first week after its release. U2 The Joshua Tree (1987) 25m 8 spot. K-pop have upped its game as well with 4 albums by BTS and Blackpink inside the top 75. Nominated for nine Grammy Awards, winning five, including Album of the Year, Jagged Little Pill topped the charts in thirteen countries; with sales of over 33 million copies worldwide. Adele 25 (2015) 22m Swift is the only artist in history to have five different albums with million-selling weeks. In order to attain this level of success an act really needs to be in tune with what is happening on society, what audiences want, whilst remaining true to their brand and music. MLD Entertainment To Debut New Boy Group HORI7ON: Concept, Date, More Details! 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. 's record and had the most successful first week in hip hop by far. that logically includes way more repeat streams. And the biggest benefit goes to compilations and greatest hits records that are full of hit singles. 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. This led 300 million, 400 million, and 500 million first week streams barriers to be broken. 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? This albums music videos are said to have transformed videos into an art form. 2000 - A new millennium and the rise of Eminem. 45. Of course, its easier to repeat a 7-songs album than a 25-songs album, but its still a worthy element to factor in. MC Hammer - Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em Released: February 12, 1990 Label: Capitol Records Units sold: 10 million 4. 2nd to only his own Scorpion. I Feel Like a Woman and That Dont Impress Me Much, the album stayed on the US top 10 for 54 weeks, and set a record for longest stay in the Top 20 of the Billboard 200 of 112 weeks. Would love your thoughts, please comment. He was disappointed that it didnt win a Grammy for Record of the Year and felt generally undervalued by the music industry. Theres some newcomers that show that this list can change at any time. Phil Collins No Jacket Required (1985) 25m In 1986, when Run-D.M.C. 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. 7. With estimated sales now standing at over 45 million copies. Top 50 of ALL TIME and the Beach Boys Pet Shop isnt on this list is a SHAME. The album was surrounded by significant controversy upon its release with criticism centered around lyrics that were considered violent, homophobic, and misogynistic. Just like older albums are higher on this list, the recent ones are lower. 35. Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV (1971) 37m umm, you missed Prince and The Revolutions Purple Rain with 25 million copies sold. Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973) 30m The original title was Dark Side of the Moon: A Piece for Assorted Lunatics. Outkast was an American hip-hop duo formed in 1992 consisting of rappers Andre 3000 and Big Boi. Jagged Little Pill is unbelievably good. The biggest is that more and more markets are getting into Spotify making it harder to be big everywhere. 31. This is partly due to a big growth in users across Asian markets like India, Japan and Indonesia. Trivia Facts: In 2013, this album has been preserved by the Library of Congress in the National Recording Registry for being culturally significant. They sold out the Wembley Stadium for seven nights in a row, a record breaking run. 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? Bad came out in 1987, at a time when Rock was on the way out and Pop and R&B were taking over. Lil Nas X and his 7 EP containing only 7 original tracks reached 102 million streams in its debut week. Stray Kids Felix Fashion: Idol's Charming Styles To Try On For Boys Night Out. GRaceland (Paul Simon).Whats Goin On (Marvin Gaye)? 21. Alanis Morisette Jagged Little Pill (1995) 33m Nielsen Music started tracking point-of-sales data for US music releases in 1991. In 2014 Billboard began to take streaming into account for first week sales and total album sales. The seventh studio album by American rock singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen produced seven top-10 hit singles and was promoted with a worldwide concert tour by Springsteen. As a result, many anticipated that "Yet to Come" would rank high on this week's Billboard Hot 100; however, the track failed to do so. She was the youngest to win it at 21 years of age until Taylor Swift took the record at age 20. adjusted for that, idk if Drake would be on level playing field, but it wouldn't be as crazy. In truth, its surely way more loyal to this artform than downloads ever where. Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell (1977) 43m 1991 was the first year that Nielsen started tracking music sales data. Eagles Their Greatest Hits (19711975) has recently surpassed Michael Jacksons Thriller as the number-one best selling album of all time. Before it even came out it had advance orders of 800,000 copies. 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. 2 and 4 spots, and now the No. Feeling instantly nostalgic. That month, two major teen pop stars, Justin Bieber and One Direction, clashed when they dropped their new efforts at the same time. 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. 37. I update it frequently. This just shows again how fucking insane peak 50 was. 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. 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). Bad Bunnys YHLQMDLG reached #11 with close to 0 impact outside Spanish speaking countries. 2002 - Eminem continues to dominate, the rise of Nelly. I think theres an argument to be made that its hard to compare pre-streaming sales to sales with streaming. 36. With streams, all you need to do is go to the album page and play it in full. Some argue that its in the Progressive Rock genre as well, which has a core set of diehard fans. 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. 25. I understand, you milk it while the getting is good, but with The Beatles its always good, though this almost feels like cheating. (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. 17. You know what Id love to see is a spotify chart of all the streams by paying members and then the non paying. Their self-titled fifth album (the Black Album) marked a change in the bands sound from the thrash metal style of the previous four albums to a slower and heavier one rooted in heavy metal. I've updated for 2017 and added the top 100 list. This Top 50 is for studio albums only and doesnt include any Greatest Hits, Soundtracks or compilation albums. Less hip hop and trap style beats dominating the charts. A: Track equivalent sales (or TEA/Track Equivalent Albums) is a term used to describe the sale of music downloads or singles. Adele's three were all achieved with the same album. Everyone should become familiar with it, in my opinion. When it came to hitting the studio lead guitarist Don Felder couldnt quite remember a guitar hook hed been experimenting with at home so asked his housekeeper to play the tape down the phone for him. As of May 2016, Rumours has spent 630 weeks in the UK Top 75 album chart and is the 11th best-selling album in UK history. Ruling radio in the 90s with hits like Man! 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. No Elvis? In the US, Bat Out of Hell still sells about 200,000 copies a year and has sold an estimated 43 million copies worldwide, including 14 million in the United States alone. 50. On the list of top 5 . Freddie Gibbs - Soul Sold Separately Released: September 30, 2022 Label: ESGN, Warner First week album sales: 22,000 Billboard 200 position: 14 Singles: "Too Much" Features: Kelly Price, Offset, Moneybagg Yo, Rick Ross, Anderson .Paak, Raekwon, Pusha T, Musiq Soulchild, Scarface Latto - 777 Released: March 25, 2022 Label: RCA, Streamcut Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. 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. 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. 57 million of these came from Old Town Roads two versions, The biggest EP debut belongs to The Weeknd though with My Dear Melancholy which contains just 6 original tracks. The tour earned them three Guinness World Records. The label claimed to have found records of old sales, adding millions to their total sales. Only 22 albums in history have sold 1 million copies in a single week here they all are. 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. 1 albums in less than a year, according to Billboard. var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; The album became one of the best-selling albums in history. Jacksons previous album Off the Wall (1979) had been a critical success, but he wasnt happy. On average, each Spotify user streamed slightly over 3 songs from the album during its first week. Refresh the page, check Medium 's site status, or find. It won Album of the Year from the Grammys, British Album of the Year from the Brit Award, and many more accolades. Learn how your comment data is processed. It will be interesting to see if anyone will be able to challenge the records that currently stand. Drama in the music industry is fun! Falling into You remains one of the best-selling albums of all time, with sales of over thirty-two million copies and won many awards around the world, including Grammy Award for Album of the Year and Best Pop Album at the 39th annual ceremony. This is one of my desert island albums for sure. 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. Rick Ross' "Port of Miami" debuted with 187K. 17, and "Run BTS" at No. As many as 3 pop albums feature inside the Top 10 with Ed Sheeran , Ariana Grande and recently released Sour by Olivia Rodrigo. 24. It also had a record-breaking run of 34 weeks at number one on the Australian Albums Chart. Guinness Book of World Records named the LP the best-selling debut studio effort in music history. It says something that DSOTM is stuck between Bat Out of Hell and Back in Black. [4] [5] [6] Jackson also currently has the highest number of albums on the list with five, Celine Dion has four, while the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Madonna and Whitney Houston each have three. 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. The Bodyguard soundtrack was released in 1992, sung entirely by Whitney Houston in the R&B, Soul, and Pop genres. Those numbers make it one of thefastest-selling records of all time, or more accurately, sinceSoundscan started tracking sales in 1991. Q: Where is X album? all. BLACK PANTHER - WAKANDA FOREVER. The tour even included the Jackson 5 again, together for the first time since 1972. 43. This is why Billboard is honestly a joke and it's silly to compare artists with different demographics to each other. It topped the Billboard 200 and became the best-selling debut album of all time, as well as the eleventh best-selling album of all time in the United States. Thats ridiculous. 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. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. This performance indicator has been applied only to the initial list of 85 albums. 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. Pepper album was released. 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. None would have troubled the very top end of the ranking yet. Her label certainly wants to push pure sales with her history in that segment, but I wouldnt count out a really big streaming debut. As many as 3 pop albums feature inside the Top 10 with Ed Sheeran , Ariana Grande and recently released Sour by Olivia Rodrigo. The movie itself is one of the best movies about music ever, which helped propel the sales of the soundtrack. It is also interesting to note that female artists dominate the Top 30, with 14 positions occupied by solo female artists. It comes as no surprise. This is the best kind of album: it only had 8 tracks and they were all great. The Michael Jackson Estate resisted this claim, since the auditing window only goes back three years, but The Eagles got to break that rule. For her second studio album Madonna chose Nile Rodgers for production duties due to his work with David Bowie. 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. Phil Collins No Jacket Required 12 . At the time, and perhaps still, Bad was called the most anticipated album in history. Boyd Elder made the album cover from a plastic cast of a real eagle skull. Divide by British superstar Ed Sheeran is a close runner up with almost 3 streams per user. 22. 14. The numbers mark the biggest first week for an album since . 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. 24 February 2023 - 02 March 2023. On June 20, "Yet to Come" ranked No. 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. Its been re-printed and re-issued countless times, as recently as 2014, helping boost the sales numbers. The follow up to Thriller reached number-one in 25 countries, sold at least two million copies in its first week in the US and remained in the top five on the Billboard 200 album chart for 38 weeks, setting a record for the longest run in the top five by an album from a male solo artist. 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. Do you think your favorite artist is among them? I Want It That Way, one of four singles from this album reached the number-one spot in more than 25 countries. The Dark Side of the Moon is the insanely acclaimed 1973 Progressive Rock album from Pink Floyd. If I had to guess, N.W.A. The first indication that long playing discs may do well in a streaming world came in November 2015. The cover image of the Beatles on the Abbey Road crossing has become one of the most famous and imitated in recording history and is a popular destination for Beatles fans. On the US Scale at least, Apple Music is completely paid, and Rap DOMINATES, compared to US Spotify where Pop fares way better.
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