This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. Same for Scorpion as well as Post Malones Beerbongs & Bentleys, they belong to the top 10 in every metric. The past year has . Perhaps the biggest outlier in the top 10 is Folklore by Taylor Swift which lies inside the indie genre. 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. Its one of the best arena rock albums ever and a high watermark for heavy metal music. They take up a ton of slots further down the list, but their compilation of #1 singles is what makes up the album entitled 1. Somehow 2Pac continued to stay on top. "The Massacre," 50 Cent's sophomore album, sold 1,141,000 copies in the first week after its release. Britney Spears Oops! I Did It Again (2000) 20m The album was recorded over two years in seven different recording studios. With the bar for the list set as high as 79 million are big consistent streams of the entire album needed in most cases to get so high numbers. Its not one of the best musicals of all time, actually canceled in the U.S. in its early performances. 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. 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. The soundtrack albums The Bodyguard, Saturday Night Fever, and Grease: The Original Soundtrack are also up there with the 10 best selling albums ever. The band decided their fourth album would officially be untitled, and would be represented instead by four symbols chosen by each band member, without featuring the name or any other details on the cover. 2nd to only his own Scorpion. 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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. Michael Jackson, thriller, bad and dangerous. 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. None would have troubled the very top end of the ranking yet. "Yet to Come (The Most Beautiful Moment)" successfully entered at No. Best-Selling Albums of All-Time (5160) Linkin Park Hybrid Theory 12 million. Here are 20 albums with the biggest first-week sales in hip-hop history. meaningful, its still arguably better to get 25 songs streamed one time Pink Floyd The Wall (1979) 30m im sure roddy is gonna drop something and he should put up really good numbers too. Various songs were discussed to be the big one but Kevin Costner ended up suggesting I Will Always Love You by Dolly Parton. Trivia Facts: Thriller marked the first time Michael Jackson reached the top of the Billboard 200, back when it was called the Billboard Top LPs & Tapes chart. While it topped none of the previous lists, Divides On the list of top 5 . That stunt helped create the mystique around the album. Check out BTS' "Yet to Come (The Most Beautiful Moment)," which currently has 102 million views, here! once we account for everything it happens to be the top performer out of It was year 2000, the peak year of music record sales. 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. 15. [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. The transatlantic pop rock band Fleetwood Macs 11th studio album won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1978, Rumours has since sold over 40 million copies worldwide, assisted by the hit songs Go Your Own Way, Dreams, Dont Stop, and You Make Loving Fun. He secured his spot once again as the king of streaming with Certified Lover Boy hitting nearly 500 million streams as well. By 1991, Bad was the second-best-selling album of all time at the time, behind Thriller, having sold 25 million copies worldwide. The record continues to be so strong on weekly charts today that we tend to miss the fact that Spotify had almost 200 million less users when it came out than now. 48. I for one would be interested to see who would be able to beat Michael Jacksons astounding 7 million unit achievement. The 2015 album jumps to the 3rd spot with 2.35 streams per user. Britney Spears Baby One More Time (1999) 25m With streams, all you need to do is go to the album page and play it in full. Their first album with guitarist Joe Walsh topped the charts and won the band two Grammy Awards for title track and New Kid in Town. It has since sold more than 12 million copiesin the US and remains the best-selling soundtrack of all time. Post Malone makes a rather impressive feat as well with 2 albums inside the top 5. It was the first album to reach 14 million and 15 million sales in the USA since 1991. You know what Id love to see is a spotify chart of all the streams by paying members and then the non paying. 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. Lionel Richie Cant Slow Down (1983) 20m 3 Life and Times of S. Carter| 1999| 462K 59| Kanye West| 808's & Heartbreak | 2008| 450K 60| Drake| Thank Me Later| 2010| 447K 61| Kanye West| The College Dropout| 2004| 441K 62| DMX| The Great Depression| 2001| 439K 63| Jay-Z & Kanye West| Watch The Throne| 2011| 436K 64| Eminem| Kamikaze| 2018| 434K 65| Lloyd Banks| The Hunger for More| 2004| 433K 66| 2Pac| Tupac: Resurrection| 2003| 430K 67| Ludacris| Chicken-n-Beer| 2003| 429K 68| 2Pac| Until The End of Time| 2001| 427K 69| Jay-Z| American Gangster| 2007| 426K 70| Lauryn Hill| The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill| 1998| 423K 71| Jay-Z| The Blueprint| 2001| 420K 72| Method Man| Tical 2000: Judgement Day| 1998| 411K 73| 2Pac & Outlawz| Still I Rise| 1999| 408K 74| J. Cole | KOD| 2018| 398K 75| Snoop Dogg| Tha Last Meal| 2000| 397K 76| Nelly| Suit| 2004| 396K 77| Nicki Minaj| Pink Friday| 2010| 395K 78| Bone Thugs-N-Harmony| The Art Of War| 1997| 394K 79| Mystikal| Ghetto Fabulous| 1998| 385K 79| The Game| Doctor's Advocate| 2006| 385K 81| G-Unit| Beg for Mercy| 2003| 377K 82| J. Cole| 2014 Forest Hills Drive| 2014| 375K 82| Drake & Future| What A Time to Be Alive| 2015| 375K 84| D12| Devil's Night| 2001| 372K 85| 2Pac| Better Dayz| 2002| 366K 86| Kendrick Lamar| To Pimp a Butterfly| 2015| 363K 87| Ja Rule| Pain Is Love| 2001| 361K 87| Young Buck| Straight Outta Cashville| 2004| 361K 89| Beastie Boys| To the 5 Boroughs| 2004| 360K 90| Nas| Hip Hop Is Dead| 2006| 356K 91| Young Jeezy| The Inspiration| 2006| 352K 92| Jay-Z| Vol. But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience. It went 33x Platinum and won a record-breaking 8 Grammy Awards at the 1984 Grammy Awards. A few artists were still able to get a huge album debut on the back of mostly a massive hit or two. 3. A$AP Rocky's "Long. 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. holds a number of distinctions. Bruce Springsteen Born In The U.S.A. 1984) 30m You dont need to go to the album, it comes to you. Where Is Kang Seo Jin Now? 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. 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. Matchbox Twenty Yourself or Someone Like You 12 million. "Reputation," Swift's sixth album, sold 1,238,000 equivalent album units in the first week after its release. 42. Madonnas third studio album was inspired by her then husband Sean Penn, to whom Madonna dedicated the album. Copyright 2023 KpopStarz.com. Shania Twain also features in very high position in our Top 10 Richest Country Singers list. 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. Eric Robert/Sygma/Kevin Mazur/TAS18 via Getty Images. 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. It received nearly unanimous perfect scores from all of the critics and still does retrospectively. Complex Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This is a continuation of a post I made last year. Eagles Hotel California (1976) 42m 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. Drake's "Nothing Was The Same" became the most pirated album of all time. 23. Shania Twain Come On Over (1997) 40m It's Shania Twain's. The album was so successful the media was making up stories about the members just to get more attention (some things never change). 2. It says something that DSOTM is stuck between Bat Out of Hell and Back in Black. 1 on the Billboard Global Excl. Adele 21 (2010) 31m 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. "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. You may wonder if this list looks somewhat biased towards older releases since the highest 2020s release barely reach the top 20. 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. 4. Couldn't find much data for 92. 5 position-meaning the septet now has the three best-selling albums in the first week in Japan of all time. Their self-titled fifth album (the Black Album) marked a change in the bands sound from the thrash metal style of the previous four albums to a slower and heavier one rooted in heavy metal. Neil Diamond? U.S. chart, while it debuted at No. MC Hammer - Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em Released: February 12, 1990 Label: Capitol Records Units sold: 10 million 4. The album also won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1985. As Molly said, it seems like you guys are trying to insinuate something, that isnt the case when you look at actual figures, What are you insinuating by this? Michael Jackson Thriller (1982) 66m Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell (1977) 43m The album only reached #2 on the Billboard 200. The album's first-week performance reflects that. that logically includes way more repeat streams. This beast of an album went 16x Platinum, was #1 on the Billboard 200 for 24 weeks straight, and stayed on the charts for 120 total weeks. It won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, among five others including the Hall of Fame Award. The album spent 31 non-consecutive weeks at number-one on the US charts. Sales of the album now stand at over 32 million copies. 2Pac continued to post great first weeks with "Loyal to the Game" debuting with 330K. The follow up El ltimo Tour Del Mundo made the top 20 as well! 1" from 1997 not to have a top five debut week. Basically, longer albums have their raw streams inflated while shorter albums have their average streams inflate. 1 Song on the Billboard Hot 100 Since 2000 When you downloaded a single, you still had no right to take a look at the rest of the album. Phil Collins No Jacket Required (1985) 25m "Yet to Come" has now spent 11 days in a row on the chart. The Spice Girls have sold 85 million records worldwide and became the biggest British pop success since The Beatles. 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. A: Track equivalent sales (or TEA/Track Equivalent Albums) is a term used to describe the sale of music downloads or singles. Whitney Houston in 1993 and Taylor Swift in 2018. Literally everybody knew about Eminem whether they listened to his music or not. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Your email address will not be published. Eminem's "Revival" had his worst first week since "The Slim Shady LP" in 1999. 17. 8 spot. A truly impressive feat. With guest backing vocalists, including Helen Terry, Peter Gabriel and Sting the singles Sussudio and One More Night both reached number one on the US chart. As you can expect, the likes Drake and Ariana Grande recorded several of the top album debuts on Spotify, but many more are performing incredibly well. If trav drops hell still certainly be in top 5 of the year but Idk if utopia would crack the top 100 oat. Young Buck's "Straight Outta Cashville" debuted with 361K. This is why Billboard is honestly a joke and it's silly to compare artists with different demographics to each other. 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. 35. Swift broke her tie with Adele as the artist with the most million-selling weeks overall (four). Thats ridiculous. Not that it needed the boost, but its been remastered and re-issued four times with deluxe editions and even one including a DVD of all of their videos and promotional films. Speaking about relevant factors, another one is the number of MAU (Monthly Active Users) of Spotify. Jul 27, 2022. The title track rose to No. Whitney Houston was a first cousin of singers Dionne Warwick and Dee Dee Warwick. These includes DJ Khaled and Camila Cabello. 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. This leads us to wonder how does the list look like if we factor in the number of songs into the picture? 2 on Global 200. The winner? BTS' "Proof" took the spot on Oricon's Weekly Album Chart, with the biggest first-week sales recorded in Japan this year. 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. 2008 - Weezy F Baby and the F is for "first week king", 2009 - Eminem's return to the top and a new empire, 2011 - Weezy back on top and the rise of J. Cole. Trivia Facts: The singles for this compilation come from the Eagles first four albums. On June 21, Oricon officially announcedthat BTS' "Proof" had debuted at No. It is also interesting to note that female artists dominate the Top 30, with 14 positions occupied by solo female artists. Congratulations to BTS on their historic achievement in Japan with their anthology album! Led Zeppelin themselves called it a fully realized hybrid of the folk and hard-rock directions.. Morissette married grunge, pop, and raw, universal emotions in that most 90s of genres, alternative rock. That sales sum marks the largest sales week for a digital album in 2022, and the biggest for any album since Adele's "30" debuted with 205,000 digital albums sold in its first week last fall. Also, on the 20th, BTS' anthology album "Proof" took the No. Pepper album was released. These cookies do not store any personal information. 1 albums in less than a year, according to Billboard. 6. gcse.async = true; Released in 1982, it was a weird transition time for music when Disco and Funk were on the way out and Rock and Pop were on the way in. The tour even included the Jackson 5 again, together for the first time since 1972. The album got a massive 34-million average per song. 1 albums in Japan. 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. RELATED:Green Label - The Top 10 Best Selling Albums of 2013, Every No. 8. 27. Ed Sheeran is unbeatable at this point lmao, Check you out, having a wank over Ed Sheeran. Drake becomes the first artist to do a million in a week since Lil Wayne in 2008. ROALD DAHL'S MATILDA THE MUSICAL. Finally Springsteen became as powerful in the studio as he always had been on stage. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Another factor is already established markets getting more and more closed off to International releases as their local scenes are booming. It stayed on the UK charts for 485 weeks; a feat surpassed only by the 522 weeks of Fleetwood Macs Rumours and is the best selling album of all time in Australia. It came out in the year 2000 and contains their typical Pop and Rock songs that we all know and love. The debut studio album by American rock band Boston became the best-selling debut album in the US when released in 1976. Lets add this information to the table. The album also won a Grammy Award in 1986 for Best Engineered Album. There are many factors why this is. "The Eminem Show," Eminem's fourth album, sold 1,322,000 copies in the first week after its release. Up to that point, no album had ever amassed 100 million streams on Spotify in its first week. 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. She was so huge at the time that her 1997 album Come On Over is now way up this list. This list seems suspect to me. It was a long-time coming, being their 8th studio album. Youd recognize songs like Youre Still the One, That Dont Impress Me Much, and Man! With estimated sales now standing at over 45 million copies. First week album sales: 29,000 Billboard 200 position: 12 Singles: "Decades", "Tetris", "Therapy Music", "Vinyl Days", "Orville", "Bleed It", "Breath Control" Features: Wiz Khalifa, Action Bronson, Russ, The Game, Royce da 5'9, RZA, DJ Premier, Currensy, Langston Bristol, Doc D, iamJMARS, Big Lenbo, C Dot Castro, Nezi Momodu, Like, Blu, Exile, AZ. A lot of data was impossible for me to find here. He was disappointed that it didnt win a Grammy for Record of the Year and felt generally undervalued by the music industry. 39. 1 on Billboard 200 with the biggest first-week sales in the United States this year. COMPLEX participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means COMPLEX gets paid commissions on purchases made through our links to retailer sites. In 1977, Fleetwood Mac released Rumours to the Soft Rock crowd, but obviously it had great mass appeal. 16. Feeling instantly nostalgic. (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. gcse.type = 'text/javascript'; 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. Backstreet Boys Millennium (1999) 24m Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon (1973) 45m Its hard to explain to people who werent there just how fucking big a star Eminem was. ha ha. (function() { Another interesting fact is that Asian artists, mainly from Japan and South Korea, have placed 16 albums on the list, indicating a growing worldwide appetite for Asian music and exhibiting their dominance on the list. Some of these will surprise you, and others youll have forgotten existed but will make you think of course.. This albums music videos are said to have transformed videos into an art form. The album produced seven singles The Girl Is Mine, Billie Jean, Beat It, Wanna Be Startin Somethin', Human Nature, P.Y.T. Adele 25 (2015) 22m 8 spot, spending its 11th consecutive day on the tally. 9. The debut studio album by American rock band Linkin Park has sold over 11m copies in the US alone. K-pop have upped its game as well with 4 albums by BTS and Blackpink inside the top 75. 38. 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. With 33m units sold in the US since 1982, Jacksons sixth studio album won a record-breaking eight Grammy Awards in 1984, including Album of the Year. 24. I'm going to guess that Dr. Dre's "The Chronic", Beastie Boys' "Check Your Head", Too $hort's "Shorty the Pimp", MC Ren's "Kizz My Black Azz", and Ice Cube's "The Predator" (193K) round out the top 5. This is easily one of the most important albums to ever be created. Madonna True Blue (1986) 25m The album sold a whopping 1.7 million copies. He was paid $5,000 for his work (too bad he got no royalties). The rappers fourth studio album is often debated as Eminems most personal and best work. With eight weeks at the top of the US album chart, the album features songs that are considered Bon Jovis best known, including You Give Love a Bad Name, Livin on a Prayer and Wanted Dead or Alive. This is not really the case, if we look at average US share of these streams its slightly under 50%. When the song was released as Baby One More Time as Spears debut single in October 1998 it reached number one in at least 18 countries. 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. 47. The original title was Dark Side of the Moon: A Piece for Assorted Lunatics. AC/DC Back In Black (1980) 50m Guinness Book of World Records named the LP the best-selling debut studio effort in music history. Only two albums from the sixties made it and British artists make up only 15 places on the list. 29. 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. 2005 - 50 Cent "massacres" the competition, the rise of Lil Wayne. This is the second fastest selling album of all-time.
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