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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 following albums predate the introduction of Nielsen SoundScan, and are possibly subject to manipulation or inflation as sales were self-reported by record labels: [87] In 1963, John Fitzgerald Kennedy—A Memorial Album, recorded on the day of John F. Kennedy's assassination, sold 4 million copies at 99 cents each within six days of its ...
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. The albums released prior ...
Michael Jackson’s last solo album for Motown, released a few months before Moving Violation, was the lowest-charting album of his career, peaking at No. 101 on the Billboard 200.
If two or more artists have the same claimed sales, they are then ranked by certified units. The claimed sales figure and the total of certified units (for each country) within the provided sources include sales of albums, singles, compilation-albums, music videos as well as downloads of singles and full-length albums.
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. Until 1991, the Billboard album chart was based on a survey of representative retail outlets that determined a ranking, not a tally of actual sales.
The band The Beatles is #1 on the 200 list, in addition to being the most featured in the rankings Pink Floyd appears at 2nd in the 200 list, in addition to appearing 3 times in the rankings Michael Jackson is number 3 with the album Thriller Led Zeppelin is number 4 with the album Led Zeppelin IV The Rolling Stones is 6th with Exile on Main St. Carole King is the highest ranked woman on the ...
In 2016, McCartney was named the top U.K. album seller of all time with 22 albums reaching the No. 1 spot, including solo albums "McCartney II" in 1980, "Tug of War" in 1982, "Give My Regards to ...