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Timeline of the highest-selling album record Year record set Artist Album Record-setting sales (millions) Total sales (millions) Ref(s) 1945 Various Artists Oklahoma! (78 rpm album) 0.5 1.0 [214] [215] After 1946 Al Jolson: The Jolson Story: 1 [216] 1956 Various Artists Oklahoma! (LP album) 1.75 2.5 [217] 1956/1957 Various Artists My Fair Lady: 2 5
This is a list of number-one albums in the United States by year from the main Billboard albums chart, currently called the Billboard 200. Billboard first began publishing an album chart on March 24, 1945. The chart expanded to 200 positions on the week ending May 13, 1967, and adopted its current name on March 14, 1992.
The albums in this list are ordered first by number of units, then by platinum awards received, and finally by artist name and album title. Albums with two references for their estimated actual sales include sales through BMG Music Club. Albums with three references for their estimated actual sales include sales through BMG Music Club and ...
The issue dated July 11, 2009, was the first time any catalog album outsold the number one album on the Billboard 200. Three of Michael Jackson 's albums – Number Ones , The Essential Michael Jackson and Thriller – claimed positions 1–3, respectively, on "Top Pop Catalog Albums" and "Top Comprehensive Albums" in the week following Jackson ...
"The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" is a recurring opinion survey and music ... was featured at the number one ... All Time Top 1000 Albums; Apple Music's 100 Best ...
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 articles contain lists of number-one albums: List of number-one albums in Argentina; List of number-one albums in Australia; List of number-one albums (Finland) List of number-one albums in Greece; List of number-one albums (Ireland) List of number-one albums (Japan) List of number-one albums (Mexico) List of number-one albums ...
It broke several all-time Billboard 200 records, including becoming the first album by a female artist to spend its first 12 weeks at the chart's number-one spot. [1] It also earned over 2 million album-equivalent units in its first week—the largest sum of the year and a record seventh album by Swift to earn more than a million units in a ...