The first time we updated this list there were no Latin albums to be seen on the list at all. 2Pac continued to post great first weeks with "Loyal to the Game" debuting with 330K. Do you think your favorite artist is among them? (Pretty Young Thing), and Thriller all of which reached the top 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. 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. 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. 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. As you can guess, the MAU is the number of users by the time each album was released. "Born This Way," the second album by Lady Gaga, sold 1,108,000 copies in the first week after its release. "The Eminem Show," Eminem's fourth album, sold 1,322,000 copies in the first week after its release. This is not really the case, if we look at average US share of these streams its slightly under 50%. 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. 49. No data for number 5 but I'm going to assume it was LL Cool J's "14 Shots to the Dome". MC Hammer - Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em Released: February 12, 1990 Label: Capitol Records Units sold: 10 million 4. One album from 2020 joined the list (Legends Never Die) and bumped off Get Rich Or Die Tryin OST. 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. In the Netherlands, the album used to hold the record for longest run ever on the Dutch Album chart with 269 weeks (non-consecutive) but lost it to Adeles 21 in 2016. U.S. chart, while it debuted at No. Metallica Metallica (1991) 31m It simply sold consistently, week after week, for years. (1995) 22m In 2014 Billboard began to take streaming into account for first week sales and total album sales. 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. by 12.4% of the users than 6 songs played by 14.3% of the users since Once the songs were written, rehearsals lasted one week and recording took seven weeks, and the rest was history. Trivia Facts: The singles for this compilation come from the Eagles first four albums. Boston Boston (1976) 20m Five singles were released from Can't 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". 2002 - Eminem continues to dominate, the rise of Nelly. Is this something you'd be interested in me posting annually? For example Bad Bunny and Jack Harlow were added today! It was nominated for six Grammy Awards, winning some and winning Album of the Year from the Billboard Music Awards. These areThe 25 Biggest First-Week Album Sales in Music History. He secured his spot once again as the king of streaming with Certified Lover Boy hitting nearly 500 million streams as well. It won six of the most prestigious Juno Awards in 1996. Its not one of the best musicals of all time, actually canceled in the U.S. in its early performances. 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. 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. If those claimed sales arent even remotely similar to those collected by the certification-awarding companies, they werent included. Thank U, Next confirms that no matter how you look at it, it did very well. Learn how your comment data is processed. Complex Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Your email address will not be published. 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. 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. "Yet to Come" has now spent 11 days in a row on the chart. Trivia Facts: In 2013, this album has been preserved by the Library of Congress in the National Recording Registry for being culturally significant. A: Only albums that make the top 50 in sales+streaming for their debut week are counted. 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. The biggest is that more and more markets are getting into Spotify making it harder to be big everywhere. It reached number-one in eleven countries, including the US for 12 non-consecutive weeks. 2004 - The rise of Kanye West. You know what Id love to see is a spotify chart of all the streams by paying members and then the non paying. 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. })(); Best selling artists, albums and singles of all-time. Sour was available to way more people thanPurpose, for example. Jagged Little Pill is unbelievably good. Copyright 2023 KpopStarz.com. Up to that point, no album had ever amassed 100 million streams on Spotify in its first week. 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. Nielsen Music started tracking point-of-sales data for US music releases in 1991. Rick Ross' "Port of Miami" debuted with 187K. Swift is the only artist in history to have five different albums with million-selling weeks. This is one of my desert island albums for sure. Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon (1973) 45m The last time an album sold more. Trivia Facts: Bad debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums and Billboard 200 charts. Post Malone makes a rather impressive feat as well with 2 albums inside the top 5. The release of this compilation of #1 singles led to ones by Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, the Bee Gees, and many more artists. (function() { 43. 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. 19. G-Unit's "Beg for Mercy" debuted with 377K. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. It had some unbelievable singles that still get radio play today. In the US, the album sold over 3.38 million copies in its first week, marking the largest single-week sales for an album. Whitney Houston was a first cousin of singers Dionne Warwick and Dee Dee Warwick. 30. Some of the profits from the album were invested in the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Madonnas third studio album was inspired by her then husband Sean Penn, to whom Madonna dedicated the album. Divide by British superstar Ed Sheeran is a close runner up with almost 3 streams per user. Abbey Road has sold over 31 million copies worldwide. The Dark Side of the Moon is the insanely acclaimed 1973 Progressive Rock album from Pink Floyd. "Reputation," Swift's sixth album, sold 1,238,000 equivalent album units in the first week after its release. Previously, Billboardrevealedthat BTS' "Proof" debuted at No. Michael Jackson 's Thriller, estimated to have sold 70 million copies worldwide, is the best-selling album ever. Pepper album was released. Whitney Houston in 1993 and Taylor Swift in 2018. In the 30+ years since, only 22 albums have sold at least 1 million copies in one week. Also, on the 20th, BTS' anthology album "Proof" took the No. A few artists were still able to get a huge album debut on the back of mostly a massive hit or two. Q: Where is X album? What you dont see are names like Eminem or Taylor Swift, which have had long careers but are always kind of fly-by-night pop sensations and then disappear again until the next album comes out. The album sold a whopping 1.7 million copies. This performance indicator has been applied only to the initial list of 85 albums. GRaceland (Paul Simon).Whats Goin On (Marvin Gaye)? Once a crab shuffled across the wooden floor, interrupting the recordings. MINIONS - THE RISE OF GRU. Naturally, the leader of urban music comes on top. The album also reached number one in fifteen other countries. for the 5th spot idk. Phil Collins No Jacket Required (1985) 25m 1 on Billboard 200 with the biggest first-week sales in the United States this year. 41. 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. The Canadian singer emerged as a teen star in her homeland with a series of French-language albums during the 1980s. It was promoted alongside the film Moonwalker, which starred Michael Jackson. 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. It was played for the press live at the Rainbow Theatre a year before its release and they loved it. 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. 10. 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. 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. Perhaps the biggest outlier in the top 10 is Folklore by Taylor Swift which lies inside the indie genre. BLACK PANTHER - WAKANDA FOREVER. Eminem, G-Unit & Nelly continue to dominate. Trivia Facts: The album Rumours was originally called Yesterdays Gone. Richies second solo studio album has sold over 20 million copies. Eminem's numbers in his prime were just out of this fucking world. It remains the only album in history to sell one million copies in at least two different weeks. The singles Dreamlover, Hero and Without You, became worldwide chart-topping hits, the latter becoming Careys highest charting international single of her career. Apart from that, "Proof" is now the group's tenth album to top Oricon's Weekly Album Chart. By January 1992, it had replaced Michael Jacksons Dangerous at number one on the US chart. 45. "Celebrity," the fourth and final album by *NSYNC, sold 1,880,000 copies in the first week after its release. #8 - Adele - 21 Certified Sales: 27.1 million 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. NewJeans Danielle Net Worth 2023: How Wealthy Is Group's Lead Dancer So Far? These includes DJ Khaled and Camila Cabello. 35. Second, I can see THREE Michael Jackson albums here (Thriller, Bad and Dangerous), while you stated two. Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell (1977) 43m They sold out the Wembley Stadium for seven nights in a row, a record breaking run. Thats ridiculous. This is why Billboard is honestly a joke and it's silly to compare artists with different demographics to each other. The UK's Top 100 biggest artist albums of the week, compiled by the Official Charts Company, based on sales of CDs, vinyl . Whos Next by the Who ? Steeply influenced by Bruce Springsteens Born To Run, Bat Out of Hell combined the best elements of the urban rock opera and the musicianship of progressive-rock was not an immediate hit. Seven solo male artists occupy placements and the remaining 14 positions are occupied by bands. 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 . Celine Dion The Colour of My Love (1993) 20m It reached number one in nineteen countries and sold just under 4m copies in the US in the first month after release. 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. 2Pac - Greatest Hits Released: November 24, 1998 Label: Death Row/Interscope Records Units sold: 10 million 5. The number of remasters and re-releases have helped surge sales. Each of its five singles, with three of them being international chart toppers. Check https://chartmasters.org/spotify-top-album-debuts/?view=country&country_code2=WW. The Thriller, Billie Jean, and Beat It videos continued to push sales of the album for a long time, as did the seven singles. If we go by certified sales only, Michael Jacksons Thriller remains the indisputed champion by far. For more K-Pop news, follow and subscribe to KpopStarz. Just topples everyone, he would have 3 top, first week sales if encore was counted right. In other news, the title track "Yet to Come" in BTS' anthology album "Proof" debuted on this week's Billboard 200 and Global Excl. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website.