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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.
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 [218] [219] After 1946 Al Jolson: The Jolson Story: 1 [220] 1956 Various Artists Oklahoma! (LP album) 1.75 2.5 [221] 1956/1957 Various Artists My Fair Lady: 2 5
In 1971, the… It's become a cliché, even for post-Baby Boomers, to look back wistfully on the early '70s as some kind of untouchable golden age for popular music. ... But when you survey all ...
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 album was noted for its debut sales figure of 2.4 million, the highest first-week sales in the Billboard 200 history. The figure marked as the only album to have sold more than two million copies in a one-week period, a distinction held until the release of Adele's 25. [3] [4] Rapper Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP sold over 7.92 million ...
One of the most infamous live albums of the ‘70s is barely music at all. In the King of Rock and Roll’s less profitable final years, his manager, Col. Tom Parker, came up with the incorrect ...
These are the Billboard magazine number-one albums for each week in 1970. Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel was the best-selling album of 1970, spending ten consecutive weeks at number one.