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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.
Kanye West's album The Life of Pablo achieved Platinum without selling a single copy and was only available for streaming. [ 8 ] Issued certifications for songs which have been recorded by multiple artists including featured artists are added to each artist's total amount of certified units, as all the artists would have played a significant ...
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 ...
Thriller is the best-selling album of all time with claimed sales of 70-100 million [44] [45] Michael Jackson has sold the most studio albums in history with over 210 million across his 10 releases [46] Jackson was the recipient of the Artist of the Millennium award and Artist of the Century Award. [47] [48] [49]
The following is a list of best-selling albums by country. Depends on the measurement, record sales of albums are taken by estimations or certifications. Note that some of the data are incomplete due to a lack of available published data from a number of territories, unlike the United Kingdom and the United States with recognized national measurement firms and certifying bodies such as ...
This list documents Britain's best-selling music artists alphabetically as well as by record sales. This page lists those artists who have had claims of over one million or more records in sales. The list is divided into numerous record-sales brackets within each of which, artists are listed in alphabetical order, rather than by number of records sold. The artists on the list are supported by ...
This is a list of the fastest-selling albums in South Korea as recorded by the Hanteo Information System [a] established in 1993. [60] Seventeenth Heaven by Seventeen is the fastest-selling album of all time in South Korea with 5,091,887 copies shipped to stores in its first seven days of release. [61]
Whitney Houston' Whitney Houston remains the biggest-selling debut album of all time by a female artist (and a solo artist). Britney Spears' …Baby One More Time is the best-selling debut album by a female teenage artist. Numerous artists have multiple entries, led by Madonna with nine of her albums and followed by Celine Dion (seven), Mariah ...