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. Post Malone makes a rather impressive feat as well with 2 albums inside the top 5. 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. GRaceland (Paul Simon).Whats Goin On (Marvin Gaye)? 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. The title track was much misunderstood, accused of being repulsively nationalistic, and viciously Anti-American, the track was endorsed by conservative US politicians as an exemplar of classic American values whilst the bitter lyrics actually tell the story of disaffected Vietnam veteran. In other news, the title track "Yet to Come" in BTS' anthology album "Proof" debuted on this week's Billboard 200 and Global Excl. certainly the last biggest act in hiphop, i dont see it ever being surpassed with how BIG he was. 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? He was disappointed that it didnt win a Grammy for Record of the Year and felt generally undervalued by the music industry. 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. ASAP" debuts with 139K. Sour by Olivia Rodrigo shots to the top spot with this view. 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. Thank U, NextbyAriana Grandeis the only other album over the 30-million threshold. Carole King Tapestry (1971) 25m The Spice Girls have sold 85 million records worldwide and became the biggest British pop success since The Beatles. Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973) 30m Top 50 of ALL TIME and the Beach Boys Pet Shop isnt on this list is a SHAME. Madonna True Blue (1986) 25m Once a crab shuffled across the wooden floor, interrupting the recordings. These areThe 25 Biggest First-Week Album Sales in Music History. 13. Spice Girls Spice (1996) 23m 31. The success of the album led to an 18 month worldwide tour and a VHS and DVD release of the tour. Despite the albums success, the duo went their separate ways shortly after the albums release with their last performance at that time in the Forest Hills Stadium on July 18, 1970. 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. 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. Matchbox Twenty Yourself or Someone Like You 12 million. once we account for everything it happens to be the top performer out of The bottom 5 are all releases from the last 2 years. It went 33x Platinum and won a record-breaking 8 Grammy Awards at the 1984 Grammy Awards. 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. They went from smashing South Korean charts to smashing . 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. 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. 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. A: Only albums that make the top 50 in sales+streaming for their debut week are counted. 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Led Zeppelins best-selling album in the US never topped the charts peaking at number-two. 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. The success of the album led to an 18 month worldwide tour and a VHS and DVD release of the tour. 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. MTV dominated the pop culture market at the time & Eminem was riding that wave. 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. U.S. chart. The UK's Top 100 biggest artist albums of the week, compiled by the Official Charts Company, based on sales of CDs, vinyl . Divide by British superstar Ed Sheeran is a close runner up with almost 3 streams per user. 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. To recall, BTS' "Proof" ranked first on Oricon's Daily Chart on June 23 with 463,718 copies-their own highest first-day sales figure in Japan to date, surpassing "MAP OF THE SOUL: 7," which only sold 227,204 copies. 2 on Global 200. 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 . The tour earned them three Guinness World Records. The boy band from Seoul sold over 5 million units with their new effort Map of the Soul: 7. Check out BTS' "Yet to Come (The Most Beautiful Moment)," which currently has 102 million views, here! 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. The album contained 16 tracks and 12 of them were promoted as singles over the course of three years. George Michael Faith (1987) 20m The album lodged 35 weeks atop the Irish Albums Chart, the longest in the charts history. This would become the basis for lead track Hotel California. The debut studio album by American rock band Boston became the best-selling debut album in the US when released in 1976. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Your email address will not be published. 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. This albums music videos are said to have transformed videos into an art form. and top 5 all-time. It would be easy to jump on the conclusion that this genre is bigger in streaming. 2005 - 50 Cent "massacres" the competition, the rise of Lil Wayne. Its ten tracks of high-energy thats still loved today. Bat Out of Hell was released in 1977 in the Hard Rock and Glam Rock sub-genres. The album produced seven singles The Girl Is Mine, Billie Jean, Beat It, Wanna Be Startin Somethin', Human Nature, P.Y.T. This also goes to prove how overwhelmingly popular these albums were, that they were able to make it onto this list, based purely on the sales from one country, whilst other albums needed worldwide figures to qualify for the list, Musicologist, Musician, Songwriter, Music Business Enthusiast and Music Teacher, There are reports that Jive shipped over 4.2million units worldwide on the first day and an additional 2.3million the day after the release of the album, but these were just shipped and not necessarily sold. Madonna Like a Virgin (1984) 21m This is why Billboard is honestly a joke and it's silly to compare artists with different demographics to each other. 1 albums in Japan. The rappers fourth studio album is often debated as Eminems most personal and best work. It stayed in the top spot for 37 weeks. This led 300 million, 400 million, and 500 million first week streams barriers to be broken. ha ha. Thats ridiculous. The album went 23x Platinum in the USA. Trivia Facts: The title comes from Adeles age at the time of production. Written by James Horner and Will Jennings, and serving as the love theme for James Camerons blockbuster film Titanic. Celine Dion Falling into You (1997) 32m Some argue that its in the Progressive Rock genre as well, which has a core set of diehard fans. :), Holy shit thats absurd. Nielsen Music started tracking point-of-sales data for US music releases in 1991. 38. Of course, its easier to repeat a 7-songs album than a 25-songs album, but its still a worthy element to factor in. 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. Due to Tidal not reporting streaming numbers, Jay-Z's "4:44" is his first album since "In My Lifetime, Vol. 14. 29. 11. This performance indicator has been applied only to the initial list of 85 albums. U.S. charts. This is a continuation of a post I made last year. If I had to guess, N.W.A. Five singles from the album all charted: So Far Away, Money for Nothing, Brothers in Arms, Walk of Life and Your Latest Trick. No filler on this album! It will be interesting to see if anyone will be able to challenge the records that currently stand. Seven solo male artists occupy placements and the remaining 14 positions are occupied by bands. We're only talking about projects that sold massively out the gate. It also had a record-breaking run of 34 weeks at number one on the Australian Albums Chart. Likely the most famous musician since the peak of Michael Jacksons fame. Alanis Morisette Jagged Little Pill (1995) 33m With over 510k copies sold in its first week, the album shot straight to the top of the Billboard 200. By then, the platform had 88 million monthly active users, a number that has now increased to over 300 million. Ed Sheeran is unbeatable at this point lmao, Check you out, having a wank over Ed Sheeran. Eric Robert/Sygma/Kevin Mazur/TAS18 via Getty Images. Brothers in Arms was the first album certified 10-times platinum in the UK and is the eighth-best-selling album in UK chart history. The album spent 31 non-consecutive weeks at number-one on the US charts. meaningful, its still arguably better to get 25 songs streamed one time Thank U, Next confirms that no matter how you look at it, it did very well. Continue reading to learn how many copies of BTS' anthology album were sold in the country. Also, on the 20th, BTS' anthology album "Proof" took the No. Richie's second solo studio album has sold over 20 million copies. We all like a list and here we bring you the latest sales for the best selling rock and pop albums of all time. "The Massacre," 50 Cent's sophomore album, sold 1,141,000 copies in the first week after its release. 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. 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. Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV (1971) 37m The album also won a Grammy Award in 1986 for Best Engineered Album. Once the songs were written, rehearsals lasted one week and recording took seven weeks, and the rest was history. Yep, 710,000 in 3 days. Copyright 2023 KpopStarz.com. Eminem The Eminem Show (2002) 27m MINIONS - THE RISE OF GRU. No Elvis? 15. Five singles were released from Cant Slow Down, all of which hit the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, including two that reached number-one: All Night Long (All Night) and Hello. Even the critics liked it enough to not try to get attention by pretending to hate it. Guns N Roses Appetite for Destruction (1987) 30m On the list of top 5 . After singer Bon Scott went on a drinking binge and died of acute alcohol poisoning, the remaining members almost called it quits. The music buying public is fickle. Green Day has sold more than 85 million records worldwide. Feeling instantly nostalgic. 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. 8. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. It won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, among five others including the Hall of Fame Award. Same for Scorpion as well as Post Malones Beerbongs & Bentleys, they belong to the top 10 in every metric. For her second studio album Madonna chose Nile Rodgers for production duties due to his work with David Bowie. Back in Black came out in 1980 at the height of the reign of Hard Rock, marking AC/DCs 7th studio album and the first with their new vocalist Brian Johnson. Trivia Facts: This album hit #1 on the Billboard 200 and stayed on the charts for 950 total weeks. Certified Lover Boy, Scorpion,More Life, andViewsbyDrakeall drop a lot of spots as they include from 20 to 25 songs. 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. 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. kendrick and cole as well if they drop. Faith won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1989. 42. RELATED: Every No. You were probably waiting on The Beatles to make an appearance. The 2015 album jumps to the 3rd spot with 2.35 streams per user. we are getting results which are closer and closer to something truly "Tha Carter III," Lil Wayne's sixth album, sold 1,006,000 copies in the first week after its release. 25. 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. Look at eminem. Both of them. Since Spotify became a thing, you likely heard a lot of times how streaming was killing the album format. 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. Eminem smashed N.W.A. Millennium sold almost half a million copies in the US on its first day. 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. 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. In every city in Europe and America the radio stations played it and everyone listened.. Third biggest week in history for The Massacre and even the other members of G Unit were pushing 400k+ a week just by association. 3. 23. 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. That stunt helped create the mystique around the album. "Celebrity," the fourth and final album by *NSYNC, sold 1,880,000 copies in the first week after its release. Sgt. Jacksons previous album Off the Wall (1979) had been a critical success, but he wasnt happy. All Rights Reserved. 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. Here are 20 albums with the biggest first-week sales in hip-hop history. 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. It simply sold consistently, week after week, for years. "Feels Like Home," Norah Jones' sophomore album, sold 1,022,000 copies in the first week after its release. "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. In 1994, their major label debut Dookie, became a breakout success and eventually shipped over 10 million copies in the US. Falling into You remains one of the best-selling albums of all time, with sales of over thirty-two million copies and won many awards around the world, including Grammy Award for Album of the Year and Best Pop Album at the 39th annual ceremony. The numbers mark the biggest first week for an album since . When we go deeper on numbers, we notice these records are often stronger thanks to high streams from the entire tracklist. 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. The bottom says Songs by Jim Steinman as a compromise for not being billed as Jim Steinmant presents or Jim and Meat as the artist. 03. 1 . 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. 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! 22. If NF sold 30k pure like Chance and the other 51k people that bought the album streamed the album 100 times each first week instead then he'd have 30k pure + 3.4k sales from streaming. G-Unit's "Beg for Mercy" debuted with 377K. Backstreet Boys Millennium (1999) 24m Nevermind not only popularised the Seattle grunge movement but also brought alternative rock as a whole into the mainstream. Alanis Morissette was backed by a super band, including Flea, one of the best bassists of all time from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, on You Oughta Know. It came out in 1995 and is purely an Alternative Rock album when that was the most popular genre. With album sales dropping, fewer artists are achieving these targets. 2. 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. 2004 - The rise of Kanye West. Music Box remains Careys highest seller with 28 million copies sold worldwide. I Want It That Way, one of four singles from this album reached the number-one spot in more than 25 countries. Trivia Facts: Bad debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums and Billboard 200 charts. 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. Less hip hop and trap style beats dominating the charts. Naturally, the leader of urban music comes on top. Damn Jay-z had a rough time with DMX and Eminem. U.S. chart, while it debuted at No. It topped the Billboard 200 and became the best-selling debut album of all time, as well as the eleventh best-selling album of all time in the United States. Jul 27, 2022. Keep in mind that albums likeEminem's The Eminem Show and Whitney Houston's soundtrack for The Bodyguard sold over a million copies in weeks other than their first. 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. Drakes Scorpion posted an insane 559 million streams on its first week 2 years ago. The movie itself is one of the best movies about music ever, which helped propel the sales of the soundtrack. BTS' "Proof" took the spot on Oricon's Weekly Album Chart, with the biggest first-week sales recorded in Japan this year. 17. Snoop set the record for best first week for a debut album. 8 spot, spending its 11th consecutive day on the tally. Additionally, 15 acts are from the USA, whilst three positions are occupied by British artists. 39. Drake becomes the first artist to do a million in a week since Lil Wayne in 2008. K-pop have upped its game as well with 4 albums by BTS and Blackpink inside the top 75. 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. Eminem's "Revival" had his worst first week since "The Slim Shady LP" in 1999. The album got a massive 34-million average per song. "The Marshall Mathers LP," Eminem's third album, sold 1,760,000 copies in the first week after its release. The singles Dreamlover, Hero and Without You, became worldwide chart-topping hits, the latter becoming Careys highest charting international single of her career. (1995) 22m I really have no clue how shes gonna perform in the streaming age. Some of the profits from the album were invested in the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The first time we updated this list there were no Latin albums to be seen on the list at all. 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. This leads us to wonder how does the list look like if we factor in the number of songs into the picture? 6 on Genie, and No. Michael took advantage of all four genres to create the best-selling album of all time. 1" from 1997 not to have a top five debut week. no one comes close now. 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. The album sold a whopping 1.7 million copies. Shania Twain, Up! Idol Trainee's Status After Joining 'Girls Planet 999'. 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. Swift broke her tie with Adele as the artist with the most million-selling weeks overall (four). "1989," Swift's fifth album, sold 1,287,000 copies in the first week after its release. MLD Entertainment To Debut New Boy Group HORI7ON: Concept, Date, More Details! Sales of the album now stand at over 32 million copies. 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 Beatles Abbey Road (1969) 31m Live. Michael Jackson, thriller, bad and dangerous. The album was named after the age of Adele during its production, this her second album is the best-selling album of the past decade. Bad came out in 1987, at a time when Rock was on the way out and Pop and R&B were taking over. In addition to recording the highest first-week sales this 2022, "Proof" also achieved the fifth-highest first-week sales by a foreign artist's album in Oricon history. Their Greatest Hits by the Eagles contains all of their Country Rock, Folk Rock, and Soft Rock singles between 1971 and 1975. 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. The list is obviously US-dominated, with 50 albums coming from the Hip Hop / R&B branch. The one which impresses the most is maybePurpose by Justin Bieber. With streams, all you need to do is go to the album page and play it in full. Abbey Road has sold over 31 million copies worldwide. 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. Sky is the limit for J-Hope, Jimin, Jin, Jungkook, RM, Suga, and V. Since their 2013 debut, their sales figures keep booming album after album. "The Life Of Pablo" marks the first time in his career that a Kanye album does not have a top five debut week. Lets Talk About Love includes Celine Dions biggest hit, My Heart Will Go On. As you can guess, the MAU is the number of users by the time each album was released. Michael Jackson's 1982 . (Pretty Young Thing), and Thriller all of which reached the top 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. It came out in 1977 and is a purely Disco album, almost entirely by the Bee Gees. That month, two major teen pop stars, Justin Bieber and One Direction, clashed when they dropped their new efforts at the same time. 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. Ace of Base Happy Nation/The Sign (1992) 23m Q: Where is X album? For her third studio album Mariah Carey employed Kenneth Babyface Edmonds, Robert Clivills and David Cole (also known as C+C Music Factory) and Daryl Simmons for production duties. Where Is Kang Seo Jin Now?
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