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Swift is also the only artist to have the annual top-selling album in three separate decades (2000s, 2010s and 2020s). [1] This is a list of the best-selling albums by year in the United States, published by American music magazine Billboard since 1956 as year-end rankings of album sales.
The following is a list of the best-selling albums in the United States based on RIAA certification and Nielsen SoundScan sales tracking. The criteria are that the album must have been published (including self-publishing by the artist), and the album must have achieved at least a diamond certification from the RIAA.
Eminem has the best-selling album of a calendar year twice (2002 and 2010). Drake has the year's top-consumed album (based on album-equivalent units) twice (2016 and 2018). The following list includes the annual best-selling albums since 1991, as reported by MRC Data (formerly Nielsen SoundScan).
Michael Jackson's Thriller, estimated to have sold 70 million copies worldwide, is the best-selling album ever. [4] [5] [6] Jackson also currently has the highest number of albums on the list with five, Celine Dion has four, while the Beatles, Madonna, Whitney Houston and Pink Floyd each have three.
The Billboard Year-End chart is a chart published by Billboard which denotes the top song of each year as determined by the publication's charts. Since 1946, Year-End charts have existed for the top songs in pop, R&B, and country, with additional album charts for each genre debuting in 1956, 1966, and 1965, respectively.
The figures of total certified units within the tables below are based on certified units of albums, singles (including digital downloads) and videos. Markets' order within the tables is based on Retail Value: each market generates respectively, the largest market at the top and smallest at the bottom. [9] [10]
The Beatles went on to earn the most best-selling albums of the year, five times with With the Beatles (1963), Beatles for Sale (1964), Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), Abbey Road (1969) and 1 (2000). Adele had the best-selling album four times, the most for a female artist with 21 (2011), 25 (2015, 2016) and 30 (2021).
It became the best-selling album of the year, with over 1.9 million copies sold within 2023. [2] Mañana Será Bonito, the fourth studio album by Colombian singer Karol G, became the first-ever Spanish-language album by a female artist to reach the number-one spot, and only the third Spanish-language album to top the chart in its 78-year ...