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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.
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 Columbia House. The best-selling album in the United States is Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) by the Eagles.
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 [216] [217] After 1946 Al Jolson: The Jolson Story: 1 [218] 1956 Various Artists Oklahoma! (LP album) 1.75 2.5 [219] 1956/1957 Various Artists My Fair Lady: 2 5
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).
Dion has released 27 albums, 10 of which have reached the top 10. ... 51 years after their debut album was released. Lisa Lake/Getty Images. ... " is the best-selling album of the 20th century in ...
The Tortured Poets Department, the eleventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, is the longest-running number-one album of the year with 17 cumulative weeks atop the chart. 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 ...
The Grateful Dead hold the record for the most Top 40 albums on the Billboard 200, with 60 having charted at number 40 or higher. [204] In 2023's year-end chart, Taylor Swift became the first artist to have 5 of the 10 best selling albums in a calendar year.
TLC's third album, Fanmail, the year's top selling hip-hop album, [4] remained at number one for five weeks and won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Album at the 42nd Grammy Awards. [5] I Am…, the third studio album by rapper Nas, stayed at the top of the chart for two weeks and has been certified double platinum by the RIAA. [6]