Millennium sold almost half a million copies in the US on its first day. 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. 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? 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. 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. It reached number one in nineteen countries and sold just under 4m copies in the US in the first month after release. The album went 23x Platinum in the USA. 25. With album sales dropping, fewer artists are achieving these targets. Michael Jackson Bad (1987) 35m U.S. charts. 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. After having observed the charts for many years, I have noticed a few trends regarding the way in which people buy albums. The tour even included the Jackson 5 again, together for the first time since 1972. Michael Jackson Dangerous (1991) 32m For example Bad Bunny and Jack Harlow were added today! Faith won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1989. 1 . Lionel Richie - Can't Slow Down (1983) 20m. It is widely agreed that the duo is among the most significant and influential hip-hop acts of all time. MLD Entertainment To Debut New Boy Group HORI7ON: Concept, Date, More Details! In order for an album to attract a certification, they need to sell a certain number of units. There was a time when you couldnt not hear a Shania single on the radio. 1 on Billboard 200 with the biggest first-week sales in the United States this year. Swift is the only artist in history to have five different albums with million-selling weeks. It's already the biggest debut sales week of her career, surpassing "1989.". Country star Morgan Wallen released his third studio album One Thing at a Time this Friday and as expected, it is projected to do a big number in the first week. Eminem, G-Unit & Nelly continue to dominate. @Hulkenburg Smash Thats because Purple Rain is technically a soundtrack to the movie of the same name. Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet (1986) 28m It came out in 1977 and is a purely Disco album, almost entirely by the Bee Gees. It was recorded at Abbey Road Studios. Shania Twain, Up! Drakes Scorpion posted an insane 559 million streams on its first week 2 years ago. I doubt they care at this point. It also had a record-breaking run of 34 weeks at number one on the Australian Albums Chart. 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. Trivia Facts: The album was recorded in Nassau in the Bahamas in a low-cost studio due to scheduling issues. "Confessions," Usher's fourth album, sold 1,096,000 copies in the first week after its release. Literally everybody knew about Eminem whether they listened to his music or not. Damn Jay-z had a rough time with DMX and Eminem. The album is the only re-recorded album to ever reach the top spot, and has made Swift the first woman to have three No. 17, and "Run BTS" at No. 21. [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. The debut studio album by American rock band Boston became the best-selling debut album in the US when released in 1976. Bad Bunnys YHLQMDLG reached #11 with close to 0 impact outside Spanish speaking countries. The anthology album impressively racked up sales of 514,000 units in its first week. 15. The Canadian singer emerged as a teen star in her homeland with a series of French-language albums during the 1980s. 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. Its a concept album that used a lot of experimental techniques, creating new sounds people had never heard. Look at eminem. 4. Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon (1973) 45m The. 2Pac - Greatest Hits Released: November 24, 1998 Label: Death Row/Interscope Records Units sold: 10 million 5. The one which impresses the most is maybePurpose by Justin Bieber. Boston Boston (1976) 20m The album contained 16 tracks and 12 of them were promoted as singles over the course of three years. Is this something you'd be interested in me posting annually? Celine Dion Falling into You (1997) 32m Naturally, the leader of urban music comes on top. Eagles Their Greatest Hits (19711975) has recently surpassed Michael Jacksons Thriller as the number-one best selling album of all time. Third biggest week in history for The Massacre and even the other members of G Unit were pushing 400k+ a week just by association. Metallica Metallica (1991) 31m By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. 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 . Green Day has sold more than 85 million records worldwide. 50 Best Selling Studio Albums - This Day In Music (Pretty Young Thing), and Thriller all of which reached the top 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. You know what Id love to see is a spotify chart of all the streams by paying members and then the non paying. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. : 874,000 Image via Complex Original Release Date: 11/18/2002 Up! 13. 2nd to only his own Scorpion. A massive commercial success, debuting at number one in 32 countries and breaking first-week sales records. ha ha. This is a list of the fastest-selling albums (pure sales) in the United States since Nielsen SoundScan tracking began on March 1, 1991. Theres also situations where double-length albums count as two sales. Bad came out in 1987, at a time when Rock was on the way out and Pop and R&B were taking over. A lot of data was impossible for me to find here. Certified Lover Boy, Scorpion,More Life, andViewsbyDrakeall drop a lot of spots as they include from 20 to 25 songs. Whitney Houston was a first cousin of singers Dionne Warwick and Dee Dee Warwick. This makes BTS the first and only foreign artist so far to ever achieve ten No. Trivia Facts: The title comes from Adeles age at the time of production. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) 32m If I had to guess, N.W.A. Seven solo male artists occupy placements and the remaining 14 positions are occupied by bands. :), Holy shit thats absurd. That didnt work out, and she suffered a breakup, and wrote this, another tragedian masterpiece. 8. 25 eventually gave Adele the worlds best-selling album of 2015, with 17.4 million copies sold and has gone on to sell over 22 million copies worldwide. Pink Floyd The Wall (1979) 30m March 5, 2023. 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. 40. On average, each Spotify user streamed slightly over 3 songs from the album during its first week. Your email address will not be published. 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. Michael Jackson Thriller (1982) 66m Simon & Garfunkel Bridge over Troubled Water (1970) 25m Outkast has their best commercial week thus far. This would become the basis for lead track Hotel California. 44. 1. Phil Collins No Jacket Required 12 . 35. He secured his spot once again as the king of streaming with Certified Lover Boy hitting nearly 500 million streams as well. 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. A few artists were still able to get a huge album debut on the back of mostly a massive hit or two. Beyonce's 'Renaissance' Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart - Billboard Filler tracks make zero sense on a music album. 20. 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. Interestingly, the list appears to be fairly different once we display an average per song. ROALD DAHL'S MATILDA THE MUSICAL. The 20 Best Selling Hip-Hop Albums Of All Time In truth, its surely way more loyal to this artform than downloads ever where. 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 comes as no surprise. That being said, there are still some artists that attain the USA platinum benchmark in the first week of release. 1 albums in less than a year, according to Billboard. Its ten tracks of high-energy thats still loved today. We added a simple formula* to get an indicator in-between both views to get the top performing debuts of all-time on Spotify. Eric Robert/Sygma/Kevin Mazur/TAS18 via Getty Images. 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. "Double Live," the first live album from country star Garth Brooks, sold 1,085,000 copies in the first week after its release. Since Spotify became a thing, you likely heard a lot of times how streaming was killing the album format. 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. She wasnt satisfied with her first album capturing the sound of tragedy and tried to write an upbeat album. 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. The UK's Top 100 biggest artist albums of the week, compiled by the Official Charts Company, based on sales of CDs, vinyl . Would love your thoughts, please comment. The Official Top 40 Biggest Albums of 2022 - Official Charts Company When it came to hitting the studio lead guitarist Don Felder couldnt quite remember a guitar hook hed been experimenting with at home so asked his housekeeper to play the tape down the phone for him. Thank U, Next confirms that no matter how you look at it, it did very well. 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. Which artists do you expect to have the five best first weeks this year and who do you expect will make the top 100? It was the first album to reach 14 million and 15 million sales in the USA since 1991. They sold out the Wembley Stadium for seven nights in a row, a record breaking run. Nielsen Music started tracking point-of-sales data for US music releases in 1991. 29. the late 90s/early aughts were a high point for music sales in general. 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. Spice Girls Spice (1996) 23m Born Geethali Norah Jones Shankar to American concert producer Sue Jones and Indian musician Ravi Shankar, Jones was a lounge singer before finding success. The feat got us thinking about other impressive opening weeks, like Taylor Swift's recent streak of dominance, or that time N Sync's sophomore LP went double platinum during its first seven days of availability. Divide by British superstar Ed Sheeran is a close runner up with almost 3 streams per user. 30. 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. None of these album are what anyone might have considered popular music at the time. Famous Idol Trainee's Status After Leaving YG Entertainment, Where Is Guinn Myah Now? The record was a commercial success, charting at number-one in the US for 15 weeks. While "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. So if you took US Spotify charts and separated it, Im willing to bet it is pop that sees harder falls while rap gains. 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. Nas - I Am Released: April 6, 1999 First week sales numbers: 470,000 Singles: "Nas Is Like", "Hate Me Now" Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3 Released: September 8, 2009 With estimated sales now standing at over 45 million copies. 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. The albums singles, most notably More Than a Feeling and Long Time, were both AM and FM hits, and nearly the entire album receives constant rotation on classic rock radio. 38. It was a good choice, being one of the best performing singles ever. You can attribute the success to three things: its a double album so the sales count twice, the movie was great, and the Bee Gees were on top of the game at the time. Trivia Facts: This album was issued on the 30th anniversary of the bands break-up. Yeah I don't remember 2019 being that weak in sales either. Nevermind not only popularised the Seattle grunge movement but also brought alternative rock as a whole into the mainstream. The first time we updated this list there were no Latin albums to be seen on the list at all. 8 spot. The debut studio album by American rock band Linkin Park has sold over 11m copies in the US alone. Jagged Little Pill is unbelievably good. [Discussion] First Week Album Sales Since 1991 & The Top 100 - reddit Perhaps the biggest outlier in the top 10 is Folklore by Taylor Swift which lies inside the indie genre. 1" from 1997 not to have a top five debut week. Rick Ross' "Port of Miami" debuted with 187K. The album also reached number one in fifteen other countries. 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. Norah Jones Come Away with Me (2002) 27m Looking at the top 10 is fun, but what about those that either almost made the list or still have a real chance of bumping others off the list? 34. Morissette married grunge, pop, and raw, universal emotions in that most 90s of genres, alternative rock. There are many factors why this is. The Spice Girls have sold 85 million records worldwide and became the biggest British pop success since The Beatles. 9. Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP (2000) 35m Of course, its easier to repeat a 7-songs album than a 25-songs album, but its still a worthy element to factor in. Older albums with re-releases or resurgences of popularity also have clear advantages. The list is obviously US-dominated, with 50 albums coming from the Hip Hop / R&B branch. 08/7/2022. Everything hip-hop, R&B and Future Beats! This record won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year and went 18x Platinum. The B-side song "Run BTS" also landed on this week's Global Excl. The winner? Eminem's "Revival" had his worst first week since "The Slim Shady LP" in 1999. The follow up El ltimo Tour Del Mundo made the top 20 as well! 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. Perhaps the biggest outlier in the top 10 is Folklore by Taylor Swift which lies inside the indie genre. 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. 1 albums in Japan. "Red," Swift's fourth album, sold 1,208,000 copies in the first week after its release. The numbers mark the biggest first week for an album since . Thats ridiculous. Record labels and artists often post much higher claimed sales than can be certified by companies like Nielsen SoundScan and the RIAA. Required fields are marked *. The 25 Biggest First-Week Album Sales in Music History 18. Its hard to explain to people who werent there just how fucking big a star Eminem was. It remains the only album in history to sell one million copies in at least two different weeks. COMPLEX participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means COMPLEX gets paid commissions on purchases made through our links to retailer sites. Beyonc 's Renaissance blasts in at No. The album won the band a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Album in 1995. Up to that point, no album had ever amassed 100 million streams on Spotify in its first week. 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. Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV (1971) 37m 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. Sour was available to way more people thanPurpose, for example. Abbey Road has sold over 31 million copies worldwide. The tour earned them three Guinness World Records. On the list of top 5 biggest first-week sales by albums of foreign artists, BTS holds the Nos. Learn how your comment data is processed. The massive 36-song . Lets take a look at the next ten that performed really well and may make it in the next decade. RELATED:Pigeons & Planes - 10 Perfect Albums That Never Went Platinum Somehow Pac was still having huuge debuts even 6 years after his death. Jacksons previous album Off the Wall (1979) had been a critical success, but he wasnt happy. When you downloaded a single, you still had no right to take a look at the rest of the album. No Rolling Stones album ? Trivia Facts: In 2013, this album has been preserved by the Library of Congress in the National Recording Registry for being culturally significant. On top of that, Spotify links to you these pages for new releases by artists you follow. This is why Billboard is honestly a joke and it's silly to compare artists with different demographics to each other. Purpose and Scorpion are comfortably inside the Top 5, while Post Malone, Lamar and Grande record similar results one step behind, which was also expected. 2 and 4 spots, and now the No. Eminem's numbers in his prime were just out of this fucking world. As many as 3 pop albums feature inside the Top 10 with Ed Sheeran , Ariana Grande and recently released Sour by Olivia Rodrigo. Max Weinberg played drums on the record. 42. Richies second solo studio album has sold over 20 million copies. Must See: The 25 Biggest First Week-Sales In Music History
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