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This is a list of the fastest-selling albums in New Zealand since the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand, later renamed as Recorded Music NZ, was founded in 1972. 25 by Adele is the fastest-selling album of all time in NZ with over 18,766 copies sold in its first seven days following release.
The fastest-selling debut albums (first-week sales): All-time highest sales by a solo female artist is Susan Boyle with I Dreamed a Dream , which sold 411,820 copies in November 2009 By a band is Arctic Monkeys with Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not , which sold 363,735 copies in 2006 [ 69 ]
Upon release, it became the fastest-selling debut album in British music history, selling over 360,000 copies in its first week, and remains the fastest-selling debut album by a band in the country. It has since been certified 8× platinum in the UK by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI).
Of the UK's 40 best-selling albums, more than half are by British artists, [1] with the remaining albums being by artists from the United States, Canada, Sweden, Jamaica and Ireland. [6] Six acts feature on the chart with more than one album, with Michael Jackson being the only artist to feature three times.
The first-week sales earned Definitely Maybe the record of the fastest-selling debut album in British history. [28] "Cigarettes & Alcohol" was released as the fourth single from the album in October, peaking at No. 7 in the UK, which was then a career high for the band.
Between 2000 and 2009, more than 100 albums sold more than 1 million copies in the United Kingdom. At the end of the decade, a retrospective chart was compiled by the Official Charts Company to determine the best-selling artist album of this ten-year period. The title was won by James Blunt, with his debut album Back to Bedlam, released in 2004 ...
Her album Spirit became the fastest-selling debut album of all time in the UK. Rihanna spent ten weeks at number one with "Umbrella", the longest stay for any artist at number 1 for thirteen years and the second best selling single of the year, and Amy Winehouse had the biggest selling album of the year with Back to Black.
In March 2001, their debut album Popstars topped the chart and became the fastest-selling debut in UK chart history to that date. [13] The only reality television stars to top the album chart with two different releases were Will Young , the 2002 winner of Pop Idol , [ 14 ] Girls Aloud , the girl group formed by the TV series Popstars: The ...