A lot of data was impossible for me to find here. "Millennium," the third album by Backstreet Boys, sold 1,134,000 copies in the first week after its release. The rappers fourth studio album is often debated as Eminems most personal and best work. 34. 1 . After observing sales trends for many years I started noticing that some artists shift such large quantities of albums in their first week, that they attract an immediate certification. 28. The album lodged 35 weeks atop the Irish Albums Chart, the longest in the charts history. In the USA, Adele seemed to come out of nowhere, but 21 was her second album released in 2011 in the Pop and Soul genres. Taylor Swift and BTS both have placed 4 albums in the Top 34, whilst Utada Hikaru has placed 3. [Discussion] First Week Album Sales Since 1991 & The Top 100 Hip-Hop First Weeks of All Time (2021 Edition) 1991 was the first year that Nielsen started tracking music sales data. holds a number of distinctions. Outkast has their best commercial week thus far. Without further ado, here are the Top34 biggest opening weeks, for an album, in music history (the focus of this article): So these are the 35 biggest first weeks in the rock era. The album went 23x Platinum in the USA. 48. Adele's three were all achieved with the same album. Its not one of the best musicals of all time, actually canceled in the U.S. in its early performances. The winner? Which artists do you expect to have the five best first weeks this year and who do you expect will make the top 100? This performance indicator has been applied only to the initial list of 85 albums. True Blue was an immediate global success, reaching number one in then record-breaking 28 countries across the world and became the worlds top-selling album of 1986. Come Around Sundown was. Michael Jackson Dangerous (1991) 32m The movie itself is one of the best movies about music ever, which helped propel the sales of the soundtrack. In 1977, Fleetwood Mac released Rumours to the Soft Rock crowd, but obviously it had great mass appeal. I Did It Again," the second album by Britney Spears, sold 1,319,000 copies in the first week after its release. 2 and 4 spots, and now the No. [4] [5] [6] Jackson also currently has the highest number of albums on the list with five, Celine Dion has four, while the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Madonna and Whitney Houston each have three. Adele 21 (2010) 31m Around the time of this release the Gallagher brothers were featured regularly in tabloid newspapers for their sibling disputes and wild lifestyles. Bruce Springsteen Born In The U.S.A. 1984) 30m The fool writer notes that The Eagles recently surpassed it in sales up top-but neglects to mention this is true for the U.S. ONLY, Thriller is still the bestselling world-wide album by a wide margin, They should have put 50cents debut album get rich or die tryin it not only was hip hops highest selling rap debut album but was the highest selling album of 2003 of all genres sold over 10 million records now thats worthy of putting on the list plus his second album sold 1.5 million the first week that also went diamond, Youo left out out whitney houston the bodyguard which sold over 42 million and Whitney which sold about 27 million, Tghe Bodyguard is not considered a STUDIO ALBUM. Divide takes a marginal lead here ahead of Purpose with 18.2% of Spotifys active users streaming it in full one time during its debut week. Led Zeppelins best-selling album in the US never topped the charts peaking at number-two. The first indication that long playing discs may do well in a streaming world came in November 2015. It would look very different Im sure. "Yet to Come (The Most Beautiful Moment)" successfully entered at No. 04. 38. Yeah I don't remember 2019 being that weak in sales either. 4. Michael Jackson Bad (1987) 35m First, Eagles Greatest Hits surpassed Thriller (actually in very suspicious ways) only for USA sales (37 million Eagles, 34 millions Thriller), but worldwide Thriller is by far and with no comparison the best selling album ever the most conservative estimates tell Thriller sold double than Eagles album worldwide. If trav drops hell still certainly be in top 5 of the year but Idk if utopia would crack the top 100 oat. I've updated for 2017 and added the top 100 list. Both of them. Linkin Park Hybrid Theory (2000) 32m Eminem - The Eminem Show Released: May 28, 2002 Label: Aftermath Entertainment/Interscope Records Eagles Their Greatest Hits (19711975) has recently surpassed Michael Jacksons Thriller as the number-one best selling album of all time. In 1986, friends Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt, 14 years old at the time, formed a band called Sweet Children and played their debut gig the following year. :), Holy shit thats absurd. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Before it even came out it had advance orders of 800,000 copies. With this view, Scorpion takes back its crown. 3 lbum, no two. I find it super interesting to look at this and see how current artists stack up against artists of the past so I broke it down into a few charts. HARRY STYLES. Whitney Houston was a first cousin of singers Dionne Warwick and Dee Dee Warwick. Their other albums on the list are "MAP OF THE SOUL: 7 ~The Journey~" (564k copies) and "BTS, THE BEST" (782k copies). Ruling radio in the 90s with hits like Man! U.S. chart. The tour even included the Jackson 5 again, together for the first time since 1972. The top selling album of all time in the United States based on certified unit sales is currently the Eagles' Greatest Hits, with 38 million copies sold. Green Day Dookie (1994) 20m None of these album are what anyone might have considered popular music at the time. BTS' 'Yet to Come' Wins on 'Music Bank' - But Other Nominee Draws Attention, THIS Male Idol Draws Attention as HYBE's 'Hidden Card' Amid BTS Temporary Break, BTS Confirmed as 2030 Busan World Expo Official Ambassadors. This is one of my desert island albums for sure. 01. 6. Additionally, the song has earned its first MelOn Weekly Popularity Award. 6. They supported the sales with a seven-month long tour in the USA. Nielsen Music started tracking point-of-sales data for US music releases in 1991. Written by James Horner and Will Jennings, and serving as the love theme for James Camerons blockbuster film Titanic. Famous Idol Trainee's Status After Leaving YG Entertainment, Where Is Guinn Myah Now? Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. So we took a look back in history at the 50 biggest first week album sales of all time - featuring multiple albums from Eminem, 50 Cent, Jay-Z, Drake, Lil Wayne, Kanye, Snoop Dogg and more. 1 on Bugs, climbed up to 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. "The Marshall Mathers LP," Eminem's third album, sold 1,760,000 copies in the first week after its release. The band and studio had an open budget, which meant they did a lot of goofing off, which delayed the release of the album. A: Track equivalent sales (or TEA/Track Equivalent Albums) is a term used to describe the sale of music downloads or singles. (And allow me to point out and/or bring the correction; she spells/writes her name Morissette with two s', Thriller is the bestselling album ever. 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. *ARe multiplied by (100 + 4 times the number of songs) divided by 100 and brought to a base 100. Michael Jackson, *Nsync, Eminem, Ayumi Hamasaki and Bz have all placed two albums each on the list. Boston Boston (1976) 20m As of May 2016, Rumours has spent 630 weeks in the UK Top 75 album chart and is the 11th best-selling album in UK history. Langdon Winner said in Rolling Stone, The closest Western Civilization has come to unity since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 was the week the Sgt. It spawned a musical in 2017 of the same name. 1991 - Nielsen begins to track music sales data. It simply sold consistently, week after week, for years. A truly impressive feat. Our editorial content is not influenced by any commissions we receive. 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. None would have troubled the very top end of the ranking yet. Trivia Facts: This album was issued on the 30th anniversary of the bands break-up. 8 spot, spending its 11th consecutive day on the tally. Somehow 2Pac continued to stay on top. On average, each Spotify user streamed slightly over 3 songs from the album during its first week. After singer Bon Scott went on a drinking binge and died of acute alcohol poisoning, the remaining members almost called it quits. None of the band members had any say in this release happening, and felt it was a ploy by the record company to make more money without additional expenses. It was a long-time coming, being their 8th studio album. Finally Springsteen became as powerful in the studio as he always had been on stage. Numbers behind streams ofThe WeekndsMy Dear Melancholy,Kanye WestsYeand Lil Nas Xs 7 EP take another feel when we see that they are so short. Trivia Facts: This album hit #1 on the Billboard 200 and stayed on the charts for 950 total weeks. 7. 1. The album sold a whopping 1.7 million copies. 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. It was promoted alongside the film Moonwalker, which starred Michael Jackson. It was a good choice, being one of the best performing singles ever. With streams, all you need to do is go to the album page and play it in full. On the US Scale at least, Apple Music is completely paid, and Rap DOMINATES, compared to US Spotify where Pop fares way better. debut was Top 3 in every ranking, so its little surprise to see that 11. The album was surrounded by significant controversy upon its release with criticism centered around lyrics that were considered violent, homophobic, and misogynistic. Three singles were released from the album, each reaching high in the Billboard Hot 100: New Kid in Town (number one), Hotel California (number one), and Life in the Fast Lane (number 11). You dont need to go to the album, it comes to you. The album produced seven singles The Girl Is Mine, Billie Jean, Beat It, Wanna Be Startin Somethin', Human Nature, P.Y.T. With album sales dropping, fewer artists are achieving these targets. certainly the last biggest act in hiphop, i dont see it ever being surpassed with how BIG he was. George Michael Faith (1987) 20m 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. Only two albums from the sixties made it and British artists make up only 15 places on the list. Jacksons previous album Off the Wall (1979) had been a critical success, but he wasnt happy. The new title song has now joined BTS' previous hits such as "Dynamite," "Butter," "Life Goes On," "Permission to Dance," and "My Universe" as the group's song to land at No. That stunt helped create the mystique around the album. "25," the third album by Adele, sold 3,378,000 copies in the first week after its release handily breaking a single-week record that was previously set by *NSYNC in 2000. Literally everybody knew about Eminem whether they listened to his music or not. 2nd to only his own Scorpion. Eminem The Eminem Show (2002) 27m Thank U, NextbyAriana Grandeis the only other album over the 30-million threshold. A: Only albums that make the top 50 in sales+streaming for their debut week are counted. 2 on Global 200. Whitney Houston in 1993 and Taylor Swift in 2018. "25" went on to sell 1,160,000 copies in its second week and 1,190,000 in its fifth week. It had some unbelievable singles that still get radio play today. 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. Damn, Eminem really was that big, mans did basically 2x what Drake do rn, ig it makes sense tho, I'm in my early 20s and I've heard that ppl say I don't like rap but I like eminem. Do you think your favorite artist is among them? A slow burner when first released in 1987, it wasnt until the following year that Appetite for Destruction became a massive commercial success, after the band had toured and received airplay with the singles Welcome to the Jungle, Paradise City and Sweet Child o Mine. gcse.type = 'text/javascript'; Oasis (Whats the Story) Morning Glory? Ace of Base Happy Nation/The Sign (1992) 23m The release of this compilation of #1 singles led to ones by Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, the Bee Gees, and many more artists. Music Box remains Careys highest seller with 28 million copies sold worldwide. Ed Sheeran is unbeatable at this point lmao, Check you out, having a wank over Ed Sheeran. Trivia Facts: The album stayed in the top 10 for 52 weeks, set a record for 112 weeks in the top 20, and stayed in the top 40 for 127 weeks. Kings of Leon have broken the all-time sales barrier for the biggest first week digital album sales after the release of their fifth studio record. The original title was Dark Side of the Moon: A Piece for Assorted Lunatics. Some of these will surprise you, and others youll have forgotten existed but will make you think of course.. Phil Collins No Jacket Required 12 . In Spring 2017, the album broke the record for the longest-charting album by a female artist on the Billboard 200, surpassing Tapestry by Carole King. In the US, Bat Out of Hell still sells about 200,000 copies a year and has sold an estimated 43 million copies worldwide, including 14 million in the United States alone. Live. Check https://chartmasters.org/spotify-top-album-debuts/?view=country&country_code2=WW. "Tha Carter III," Lil Wayne's sixth album, sold 1,006,000 copies in the first week after its release. "Reputation," Swift's sixth album, sold 1,238,000 equivalent album units in the first week after its release. Theres some newcomers that show that this list can change at any time. Even the critics liked it enough to not try to get attention by pretending to hate it. On top of that, Spotify links to you these pages for new releases by artists you follow. 50. Their Greatest Hits by the Eagles contains all of their Country Rock, Folk Rock, and Soft Rock singles between 1971 and 1975. 25. Her godmother was Darlene Love and her honorary aunt was Aretha Franklin. 24 February 2023 - 02 March 2023. Some of these have had their time in the spotlight, but ones that are greatest hits records can still claim their higher spot over time. Due to Tidal not reporting streaming numbers, Jay-Z's "4:44" is his first album since "In My Lifetime, Vol. Divide by British superstar Ed Sheeran is a close runner up with almost 3 streams per user. Because I hope its not what I think youre saying, where do yall think adeles 4th album is going to place here (it may have 15 songs at best). 19. The album became one of the best-selling albums in history. The debut solo studio album by George Michael spawned four number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100: Faith, Father Figure, One More Try, and Monkey, making Michael the only British male solo artist to have four number one hits from one album. When released it became the fastest-selling album in British history and features the hit singles With or Without You, I Still Havent Found What Im Looking For, and Where the Streets Have No Name, the first two of which became the groups only number-one singles in the US. The singles Dreamlover, Hero and Without You, became worldwide chart-topping hits, the latter becoming Careys highest charting international single of her career. 9. Celine Dion The Colour of My Love (1993) 20m Eminem, G-Unit & Nelly continue to dominate. The Dark Side of the Moon is the insanely acclaimed 1973 Progressive Rock album from Pink Floyd. It came out in the year 2000 and contains their typical Pop and Rock songs that we all know and love. It stayed in the top spot for 37 weeks. 1 on its Weekly Album chart for June 13 to 19. Of course, its easier to repeat a 7-songs album than a 25-songs album, but its still a worthy element to factor in. U.S. chart, while it debuted at No. Neil Diamond? no one comes close now. At one stage that would have been a tall ask, but now we have had 22 artists that have achieved that feat, most of them in the new millennium. Lil Nas X and his 7 EP containing only 7 original tracks reached 102 million streams in its debut week. 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? Top Album Sales Week of March 4, 2023 This Week Award i Last Week Peak Pos. This just shows again how fucking insane peak 50 was. The B-side song "Run BTS" also landed on this week's Global Excl. Drake's "Nothing Was The Same" became the most pirated album of all time. and i wouldnt be surprised if someone like lil baby dropped again, i know that drip harder 2 has been teased and with how both of those artists have grown in status, that could be a monster release, also i know this sub hates him but the kid laroi is gearing up to have a huge year and i wouldnt be surprised if he snuck in with one of the biggest albums of 2021 as well. Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC, and Eminem trail with two apiece. Bat Out of Hell was released in 1977 in the Hard Rock and Glam Rock sub-genres. MLD Entertainment To Debut New Boy Group HORI7ON: Concept, Date, More Details! Likely the most famous musician since the peak of Michael Jacksons fame. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Aug. 13) with 2022's biggest week by a woman - and the second-largest week of the year overall . and top 5 all-time. 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. Youd recognize songs like Youre Still the One, That Dont Impress Me Much, and Man! Her label certainly wants to push pure sales with her history in that segment, but I wouldnt count out a really big streaming debut. It is also interesting to note that female artists dominate the Top 30, with 14 positions occupied by solo female artists. The album got a massive 34-million average per song. 20. 1 albums in Japan. Tapestry received four Grammy Awards in 1972, including Album of the Year and the lead singles from the album Its Too Late/I Feel the Earth Move spent five weeks at number one on the US chart. Young Buck's "Straight Outta Cashville" debuted with 361K. Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell (1977) 43m U.S. chart, taking the No. With over 510k copies sold in its first week, the album shot straight to the top of the Billboard 200. Michael Jackson's 1982 . document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); document.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. (Pretty Young Thing), and Thriller all of which reached the top 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. Its ten tracks of high-energy thats still loved today. 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. 5 position-meaning the septet now has the three best-selling albums in the first week in Japan of all time. So 34k rather than 125k. var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; vs. T.I.P.| 2007| 468K 57| Jay-Z| The Black Album| 2003| 463K 58| Jay-Z| Vol. MTV dominated the pop culture market at the time & Eminem was riding that wave. 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. 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. 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. Celine Dion Lets Talk About Love (1997) 31m The Marshall Mathers LP has sold over 35 million copies worldwide, making it the best-selling album of the 21st century. I must admit though that the only album on which I have actually loved every single song / the only one that I would listen to from A to Z without skipping a single one was Jagged Little Pill! 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Led Zeppelin IV was their pinnacle achievement from 1971, focused on Hard Rock, Folk Rock, and pre-cursor Heavy Metal sounds. Various songs were discussed to be the big one but Kevin Costner ended up suggesting I Will Always Love You by Dolly Parton. In the 30+ years since, only 22 albums have sold at least 1 million copies in one week. "Confessions," Usher's fourth album, sold 1,096,000 copies in the first week after its release. The album was so successful the media was making up stories about the members just to get more attention (some things never change). Michael Jackson 's Thriller, estimated to have sold 70 million copies worldwide, is the best-selling album ever. Alanis Morisette Jagged Little Pill (1995) 33m The final studio album by Simon & Garfunkel topped the charts in over ten countries and received two Grammy Awards. Backstreet Boys Millennium (1999) 24m This website uses cookies to improve your experience. The eighth studio album by Michael Jackson dominated worldwide charts reaching number-one in over 10 countries, helped along by his worldwide number-one hit single Black or White. It won Album of the Year from the Grammys, British Album of the Year from the Brit Award, and many more accolades. 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. "No Strings Attached," the third album by *NSYNC, sold 2,416,000 copies in the first week after its release. 45. Some stats: Five out of the top ten best selling albums in the world were all released during the seventies, the most albums in the 50 by decade goes to the nineties with 16 albums, just beating the eighties with 15. Pepper album was released. 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. Shania Twain Come On Over (1997) 40m 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. Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon (1973) 45m It has now reached a point that if an artist wants to be eligible for the Top 20 they need to have shipped over 2.1 million units in one week. This is why Billboard is honestly a joke and it's silly to compare artists with different demographics to each other. @Hulkenburg Smash Thats because Purple Rain is technically a soundtrack to the movie of the same name. Here is a visual of the top 100 first weeks of all-time, I think its a given that drake and kendrick will both be in the top 5 this year and will crack the top 100 of all time but itll be interesting to see how much the new merch rules affect everyones sales. Stray Kids Felix Fashion: Idol's Charming Styles To Try On For Boys Night Out. This list seems suspect to me. The album has a perfect score among the top professional ratings critic groups. meaningful, its still arguably better to get 25 songs streamed one time A few artists were still able to get a huge album debut on the back of mostly a massive hit or two. This would become the basis for lead track Hotel California. These cookies do not store any personal information. A New Day in Las Vegas Strip (200307), remains the highest-grossing concert residency of all time and Dion is the best-selling Canadian artist and one of the best-selling artists ever with record sales of over 200 million copies worldwide. The first time we updated this list there were no Latin albums to be seen on the list at all. A track equivalent album is equal to 10 tracks, or 10 songs. Eagles Hotel California (1976) 42m The sales definitely reflect part of the impact an artist had. It reached number one in nineteen countries and sold just under 4m copies in the US in the first month after release. The latters Made In The A.M. reached that incredible milestone, while at the same time the formersPurpose went through the roof, topping 200 million. Crazy. Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973) 30m In order for an album to attract a certification, they need to sell a certain number of units.
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