Led Zeppelin IV was their pinnacle achievement from 1971, focused on Hard Rock, Folk Rock, and pre-cursor Heavy Metal sounds. debut was Top 3 in every ranking, so its little surprise to see that TOP GUN - MAVERICK. The bands most commercially successful release sold a record-breaking 347,000 copies in its first week on sale in the UK, spent 10 weeks at number-one on the UK Albums Chart, and reached number four in the US Billboard 200. Guinness Book of World Records named the LP the best-selling debut studio effort in music history. This is a continuation of a post I made last year. Sour was available to way more people thanPurpose, for example. Matchbox Twenty Yourself or Someone Like You 12 million. For her second studio album Madonna chose Nile Rodgers for production duties due to his work with David Bowie. DMX's "It's Dark and Hell Is Hot" also sold 251K making 1998 a dominant year for X. Eminem debuted with 283K first week for his "The Slim Shady LP". Lets take a look at the next ten that performed really well and may make it in the next decade. Richie's second solo studio album has sold over 20 million copies. So 34k rather than 125k. Trivia Facts: This album hit #1 on the Billboard 200 and stayed on the charts for 950 total weeks. that's really cool seeing tribe on the top 5 for 2016.also wonder how much more drake would've sold if he did bundles for scorpion, feel like he easily could've done >1 mil. Youd recognize songs like Youre Still the One, That Dont Impress Me Much, and Man! The UK's Top 100 biggest artist albums of the week, compiled by the Official Charts Company, based on sales of CDs, vinyl . March 5, 2023. Theres also situations where double-length albums count as two sales. MLD Entertainment To Debut New Boy Group HORI7ON: Concept, Date, More Details! As you can guess, the MAU is the number of users by the time each album was released. With album sales dropping, fewer artists are achieving these targets. This just shows again how fucking insane peak 50 was. 20. The cover image of the Beatles on the Abbey Road crossing has become one of the most famous and imitated in recording history and is a popular destination for Beatles fans. 34. The album's first-week performance reflects that. U.S. chart, while it debuted at No. There hasnt been another quite like it before or since its release, a concept album, its themes exploring conflict, greed, time, death, and mental illness, the latter partly inspired by the deteriorating health of founding member Syd Barrett. Sgt. This is one of my desert island albums for sure. Richies second solo studio album has sold over 20 million copies. 1 on Billboard's Global' Global Excl. no one comes close now. im sure roddy is gonna drop something and he should put up really good numbers too. A track equivalent album is equal to 10 tracks, or 10 songs. The numbers mark the biggest first week for an album since . 2002 - Eminem continues to dominate, the rise of Nelly. Feeling instantly nostalgic. 2Pac - Greatest Hits Released: November 24, 1998 Label: Death Row/Interscope Records Units sold: 10 million 5. The success of the album led to an 18 month worldwide tour and a VHS and DVD release of the tour. Eminem, G-Unit & Nelly continue to dominate. we are getting results which are closer and closer to something truly It was recorded at Abbey Road Studios. 33. It was actually untitled, with some fans calling it Zoso in response to the four symbols each band member chose, which were included in the LPs sleeve. meaningful, its still arguably better to get 25 songs streamed one time Max Weinberg played drums on the record. :), Holy shit thats absurd. Whos Next by the Who ? By now things have changed though. The album has a perfect score among the top professional ratings critic groups. Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell (1977) 43m 1 Song on the Billboard Hot 100 Since 2000, Pigeons & Planes - 10 Perfect Albums That Never Went Platinum, Green Label - The Top 10 Best Selling Albums of 2013. The follow up El ltimo Tour Del Mundo made the top 20 as well! GRaceland (Paul Simon).Whats Goin On (Marvin Gaye)? Britney Spears Oops! I Did It Again (2000) 20m It became Madonnas first number one album on the Billboard 200 and set the record as the first female album in history to sell over five million copies in the United States. Eminem - The Eminem Show Released: May 28, 2002 Label: Aftermath Entertainment/Interscope Records "25" went on to sell 1,160,000 copies in its second week and 1,190,000 in its fifth week. None of these album are what anyone might have considered popular music at the time. By September 2018, the album had spent 500 weeks on the Billboard album chart, making it one of the four longest-running albums of all time and the best-selling metal album of all time. By January 1992, it had replaced Michael Jacksons Dangerous at number one on the US chart. On the list of top 5 biggest first-week sales by albums of foreign artists, BTS holds the Nos. Among the 17 tracks, this double set contains the hits Candle in the Wind, Bennie and the Jets, Saturday Nights Alright for Fighting and the title track. 2Pac continued to post great first weeks with "Loyal to the Game" debuting with 330K. 27. Michael Jackson, *Nsync, Eminem, Ayumi Hamasaki and Bz have all placed two albums each on the list. 3. Lets Talk About Love includes Celine Dions biggest hit, My Heart Will Go On. 01. J Balvin was able to reach past the 100 million mark with Colores too. 57 million of these came from Old Town Roads two versions, The biggest EP debut belongs to The Weeknd though with My Dear Melancholy which contains just 6 original tracks. That would mean Encore sold more (1.5M) in 7 days than the Eminem Show did (1.3M), But do we really want to see that album become Em's 2nd highest and the 2nd highest in hip hop history? Whilst this is not ideal, the albums for which I could not obtain worldwide figures, after further investigation, were not really big outside their country of origin, therefore, the quoted sales accounted for the majority of their worldwide sales in their debut week. Another factor is already established markets getting more and more closed off to International releases as their local scenes are booming. Not just hard rock but medieval folk, electrified blues, and the majestic epic Stairway to Heaven, Led Zeppelin IV has now sold over 37 million copies worldwide. As many as 3 pop albums feature inside the Top 10 with Ed Sheeran , Ariana Grande and recently released Sour by Olivia Rodrigo. This record won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year and went 18x Platinum. "The Bodyguard" soundtrack co-executive produced by Clive Davis and Whitney Houston, who starred in the film became the first album verified by Nielsen to move more than 1 million units in the US in a single week. Some argue that its in the Progressive Rock genre as well, which has a core set of diehard fans. Trivia Facts: Bad debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums and Billboard 200 charts. 30 's first-week sales of 692,000 not only mark the single-largest sales frame of 2021, but the largest sales week for any album since 2017. 25 by Adele is the fastest-selling album of all time in the US with 3,378,000 copies sold in its first seven days. He secured his spot once again as the king of streaming with Certified Lover Boy hitting nearly 500 million streams as well. Drakes Scorpion posted an insane 559 million streams on its first week 2 years ago. The Swedish pop group consisting of Ulf Ekberg and three siblings: Jonas Berggren, Linn Berggren and Jenny Berggren had one of the best-selling debut albums of all time with Happy Nation (reissued as The Sign). Those numbers make it one of thefastest-selling records of all time, or more accurately, sinceSoundscan started tracking sales in 1991. 31. Thriller is estimated to have sold 66 million copies worldwide. Alanis Morisette Jagged Little Pill (1995) 33m The Beatles Sgt. A few artists were still able to get a huge album debut on the back of mostly a massive hit or two. Her debut studio album topped the Billboard 200 for 14 weeks generating three number-one singles Saving All My Love for You, How Will I Know and Greatest Love of All. The bottom 5 are all releases from the last 2 years. 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This is easily one of the most important albums to ever be created. The World's Biggest First Week Album Sales | by Sheldon Rocha Leal, PhD | Medium 500 Apologies, but something went wrong on our end. ASAP" debuts with 139K. Outkast has their best commercial week thus far. The title of the album was thought up by drummer Rick Allen, referring to his 1984 car accident and the ensuing worldwide media coverage surrounding it. Whitney Houston in 1993 and Taylor Swift in 2018. Lil Nas X and his 7 EP containing only 7 original tracks reached 102 million streams in its debut week. 1. 02. A$AP Rocky's "Long. You may wonder if this list looks somewhat biased towards older releases since the highest 2020s release barely reach the top 20. gcse.type = 'text/javascript'; b/c i was wondering where he'd fit in all-time herebut anyway drake/j cole/uzi/21 savage/roddy* for top 5 this year, drake and cole make it to the top 100, Which artists do you expect to have the five best first weeks this year, drake and travis are givens of course. It's already the biggest debut sales week of her career, surpassing "1989.". The Dark Side of the Moon is the insanely acclaimed 1973 Progressive Rock album from Pink Floyd. The title song became one of the most performed songs of the twentieth century, with over 50 artists, among them Elvis Presley and Aretha Franklin, covering the song. Madonna True Blue (1986) 25m 2 Hard Knock Life| 1998| 350K 93| Nelly| Sweat| 2004| 342K 93| Nas| Stillmatic| 2001| 342K 95| Mystikal| Let's Get Ready| 2000| 330K 95| 2Pac| Loyal to the Game| 2004| 330K 97| Snoop Doggy Dogg| Murder Was the Case| 1994| 329K 98| Kanye West| Yeezus| 2013| 328K 99| Various Artists| Bad Boys II| 2003| 324K 100| Ludacris | The Red Light District | 2004 | 322K, Here is a graph showing the amount of albums in the top 100 per year. 1 on Billboard 200 with the biggest first-week sales in the United States this year. The album made up 67% of all physical sales and became the most-streamed album of the week, with 55.7 million plays across all tracks. In the USA, for example, there are three major categories: It is clear, therefore, that all of the artists, in the list that follows attain Platinum status in their first week of sales in the USA alone, if sales were limited to the USA. The cover photograph was taken at Kings Laurel Canyon home and shows her sitting in a window frame, holding a tapestry she hand-stitched herself, with her cat Telemachus. The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200, selling 1.78 million copies in the US in its first week alone, which made it the fastest-selling studio album in the United States at the time. The debut studio album by American rock band Linkin Park has sold over 11m copies in the US alone. Led Zeppelins best-selling album in the US never topped the charts peaking at number-two. The album was so successful the media was making up stories about the members just to get more attention (some things never change). Wks on Chart 1 NEW Trustfall P!nk - 1 1 2 The Name Chapter: Temptation (EP) TOMORROW X TOGETHER 2 1 4 3 RE- ENTRY. Just like older albums are higher on this list, the recent ones are lower. It has since sold more than 12 million copiesin the US and remains the best-selling soundtrack of all time. The Beatles Abbey Road (1969) 31m Nielsen Music started tracking point-of-sales data for US music releases in 1991. Santana Supernatural (1999) 30m The album sold a whopping 1.7 million copies. Celine Dion The Colour of My Love (1993) 20m No Rolling Stones album ? Rap fans give more credit to the album format as a whole. The bands first number-one album since Santana III 28 years earlier, for his eighteenth studio album Carlos Santana wanted to focus his musical direction towards pop and radio friendly material and proceeded to do so by collaborating with various contemporary guest artists, including Eric Clapton, Rob Thomas, Eagle-Eye Cherry, Lauryn Hill, Dave Matthews and Cee-Lo Green. I Feel Like a Woman and That Dont Impress Me Much, the album stayed on the US top 10 for 54 weeks, and set a record for longest stay in the Top 20 of the Billboard 200 of 112 weeks. Interestingly, the list appears to be fairly different once we display an average per song. Adele 25 (2015) 22m ROALD DAHL'S MATILDA THE MUSICAL. The release of this compilation of #1 singles led to ones by Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, the Bee Gees, and many more artists. Fleetwood Mac Rumours (1977) 40m The anthology album impressively racked up sales of 514,000 units in its first week. "No Strings Attached," the third album by *NSYNC, sold 2,416,000 copies in the first week after its release. After singer Bon Scott went on a drinking binge and died of acute alcohol poisoning, the remaining members almost called it quits. "1," a post-breakup compilation album by The Beatles, sold 1,259,000 copies in the week ending December 24, 2000, six weeks after its release. Pepper become the first rock LP to receive a Grammy Award for Album of the Year and was lauded by critics for its innovations in production, song writing and graphic design. Complex Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Live. Learn how your comment data is processed. Sour by Olivia Rodrigo shots to the top spot with this view. If those claimed sales arent even remotely similar to those collected by the certification-awarding companies, they werent included. })(); Best selling artists, albums and singles of all-time. Trivia Facts: The album Rumours was originally called Yesterdays Gone. 26. Trivia Facts: Bat Out of Hell had its share of drama. 7, while "For Youth" was at no. The album peaked at number one in more than 17 countries across the world, and has sold a total of 23 million copies worldwide, becoming the best-selling album in music history by a girl group. It was a good choice, being one of the best performing singles ever. After taking a seven-year hiatus from the music business, Justin Timberlake crooned his way back to the Billboard charts this week, selling a whopping 968,000 copies ofThe 20/20 Experiencein its first week of release. The record labels marketing department knew better, even though Jim wrote the bulk of the material. Eminem The Eminem Show (2002) 27m The list is obviously US-dominated, with 50 albums coming from the Hip Hop / R&B branch. The second studio album by Britney Spears was released in 2000 and debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200, with first-week sales of 1,319,000 copies. Crazy. (Remember Me)| 1997| 549K 37| Jay-Z| The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse| 2002| 545K 38| D12| D12 World| 2004| 544K 39| Drake| If You're Reading This It's Too Late| 2015| 535K 40| Outkast| Stankonia| 2000| 530K 41| Jay-Z| Magna Carta Holy Grail| 2013| 527K 42| T.I.| King| 2006| 522K 43| Snoop Dogg| Da Game Is to Be Sold, Not to Be Told| 1998| 520K 44| Dr. Dre| 2001| 1999| 516K 45| J. Cole| 4 Your Eyez Only| 2016| 511K 46| Outkast| Speakerboxxx/The Love Below| 2003| 510K 47| Drake| More Life| 2017| 505K 48| Juice WRLD| Legends Never Die|2020|497K 49| Kanye West| My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy| 2010| 496K 50| Master P| MP Da Last Don| 1998| 495K 51| The Notorious B.I.G.| Born Again| 1999| 485K 52| Lil Wayne | Tha Carter V | 2018 | 480K 53| Snoop Dogg| Tha Doggfather| 1996| 479K 54| Jay-Z| The Blueprint 3| 2009| 476K 55| Nas| I Am| 1999| 470K 56| T.I.| T.I. The biggest is that more and more markets are getting into Spotify making it harder to be big everywhere. Born Geethali Norah Jones Shankar to American concert producer Sue Jones and Indian musician Ravi Shankar, Jones was a lounge singer before finding success. 8. Best-Selling Albums of All-Time (5160) Linkin Park Hybrid Theory 12 million. Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP (2000) 35m Amazon isnt close to Apple Music in the US, so a mute point. This is partly due to a big growth in users across Asian markets like India, Japan and Indonesia. It was supported over two years with a drip-feed of nine singles, starting with I Just Cant Stop Loving You. Nine singles is a lot when theres only 11 total tracks. K-pop have upped its game as well with 4 albums by BTS and Blackpink inside the top 75. By then, the platform had 88 million monthly active users, a number that has now increased to over 300 million. "Celebrity," the fourth and final album by *NSYNC, sold 1,880,000 copies in the first week after its release. The label claimed to have found records of old sales, adding millions to their total sales. When you downloaded a single, you still had no right to take a look at the rest of the album. hollywoods bleeding had a bigger first week but i assume its not included here bc its not a full hip hop record. With the release of his sophomore album The Marshall Mathers LP, the "Rap God" smashed records for the biggest first-week sales in hip-hop. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. G-Unit's "Beg for Mercy" debuted with 377K. The fourth studio album by Def Leppard released in 1987 has sold over 25 million copies worldwide, including 12 million in the US, and spawned seven hit singles. Faith won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1989. In 1996, Oasis performed two nights at Knebworth, England for an audience of 125,000 each night, which were at the time the largest outdoor concerts in UK history. Her debut studio album received Grammy Awards for Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album; the song Dont Know Why won Song of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Yeah I don't remember 2019 being that weak in sales either. Recorded under the working titles of Vodka and Tonics and Silent Movies, Talking Pictures, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road has come to be regarded as Johns best and most popular album. The album also won a Grammy Award in 1986 for Best Engineered Album. This just goes to prove that if one produces something people want, audiences will go out and buy it, in droves. Drake becomes the first artist to do a million in a week since Lil Wayne in 2008. Normal artists will usually take a protracted time before their albums are certified, gold, platinum or diamond, but the sales of these mega albums are so large that they obtain instantaneous certifications. The follow up to Thriller reached number-one in 25 countries, sold at least two million copies in its first week in the US and remained in the top five on the Billboard 200 album chart for 38 weeks, setting a record for the longest run in the top five by an album from a male solo artist. Must See: The 25 Biggest First Week-Sales In Music History Published: Tuesday 16th Apr 2013 by David Justin Timberlake reigns supreme on the Official Top 25 Biggest First Week-Sales In Music. "Tha Carter III," Lil Wayne's sixth album, sold 1,006,000 copies in the first week after its release. In 1986, when Run-D.M.C. 23. Additionally, the song has earned its first MelOn Weekly Popularity Award. Theres some newcomers that show that this list can change at any time. Spice Girls Spice (1996) 23m It received nearly unanimous perfect scores from all of the critics and still does retrospectively. The album only reached #2 on the Billboard 200. He was paid $5,000 for his work (too bad he got no royalties). After topping the Billboard 200 chart in its first week with 359,000 copies sold, the singer's MDNA is expected to suffer an 88 percent drop in sales to 46,000 units, according to Forbes. They sold out the Wembley Stadium for seven nights in a row, a record breaking run. Michael Jackson merged all of them, plus his typical Funk sound, to great success. The record label had low expectations, yet it topped the charts in over 30 countries, was the best-selling album for 2 years straight, and is the top seller of the 21st century. COMPLEX participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means COMPLEX gets paid commissions on purchases made through our links to retailer sites. Additionally, 15 acts are from the USA, whilst three positions are occupied by British artists. Perhaps the biggest outlier in the top 10 is Folklore by Taylor Swift which lies inside the indie genre. The latest mixtapes, videos, news, and anything else hip-hop/R&B/Future Beats related from your favorite artists, Press J to jump to the feed. RELATED:Green Label - The Top 10 Best Selling Albums of 2013, Every No. No filler on this album! 47. Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet (1986) 28m Instead they recruited Brian Johnson to take over lead vocals and released Back in Black with an all-black cover in mourning for their lost bandmate. Phil Collins No Jacket Required (1985) 25m The winner? It hit the top of the Billboard 200 and UK Albums charts and each of its four singles reached the US top 10, like Go Your Own Way and Dreams. The album has been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and the National Recording Registry. Since Spotify became a thing, you likely heard a lot of times how streaming was killing the album format. vs. T.I.P.| 2007| 468K 57| Jay-Z| The Black Album| 2003| 463K 58| Jay-Z| Vol. The number of remasters and re-releases have helped surge sales. The B-side song "Run BTS" also landed on this week's Global Excl. A: Track equivalent sales (or TEA/Track Equivalent Albums) is a term used to describe the sale of music downloads or singles. Before it even came out it had advance orders of 800,000 copies. Naturally, the leader of urban music comes on top. Famous Idol Trainee's Status After Leaving YG Entertainment, Where Is Guinn Myah Now? 7. 8 on MelOn. But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience. All we can now do is wait and see, Disclaimer: Whilst all attempts were made to secure worldwide first-week sales for all the albums listed in this article, sometimes only first-week sales figures from one country were available at the time this article was published. 2005 - 50 Cent "massacres" the competition, the rise of Lil Wayne.
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