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English singer Adele's (pictured) third studio album, 25, was the quickest best-seller of 2015 by the year's end and stayed at the top slot on the Billboard 200 for the final three weeks of that year. The highest-selling albums and EPs in the United States are ranked in the Billboard 200, which is published by Billboard magazine.
In addition, certain additions post-2015 may differ from best-selling albums in the United States of the Nielsen SoundScan era, which includes album-equivalent units by means of streaming. [ 2 ] Harry Belafonte 's Calypso (1956) was the first record to be recognized as a year's top-selling album by Billboard , when it started tracking sales ...
The following is a list of albums, EPs, and mixtapes released in 2015. These albums are (1) original, i.e. excluding reissues , remasters , and compilations of previously released recordings, and (2) notable , defined as having received significant coverage from reliable sources independent of the subject.
Adele had the best-selling album of 2015 with her third studio album 25. As well as being this year's Christmas number-one album, 25 would also become the best-selling album of 2016. Since its release, the album has sold an estimated 3,500,000 million copies in the UK alone.
Adele has the annual best seller five times (2011, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2021). 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 ...
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.
With the increase in album sales as the early 1950s format wars stabilized into market dominance by 45 RPM singles and long-playing 12-inch albums – and with 78 RPM record and long-playing 10-inch album sales decreasing dramatically – Billboard premiered a weekly "Best-Selling Popular Albums" chart on March 24, 1956. The position count ...
It tops the US all-format Billboard 200 album chart, selling 218,000 album equivalent units. It is their third album to top the chart. [8] The Decemberists release their seventh studio album, What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World. It debuts at number seven on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 51,000 album equivalent units. [8]