Top Selling Albums Soundscan Era (1991-2006)

[MIAMI4LIFE]

got this from ukmix.org site

http://www.ukmix.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=22680&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=1575

1   1 15,409  54 Shania Twain - Come On Over [15,423]
 2   2 14,820 275 Metallica - Metallica
 3   3 14,513  60 Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
 4   4 12,091   9 Backstreet Boys - Millennium
 5   5 11,790  12 Bodyguard - Soundtrack
 6   6 11,588  58 Santana - Supernatural
 7   7 11,484  20 Creed - Human Clay
 8   8 11,099   6 N Sync - No Strings Attached
 9  11 10,821 451 Beatles - 1
10   9 10,753  24 Celine Dion - Falling Into You
11  10 10,525   6 Britney Spears - Baby One More Time
12  12 10,123  20 Hootie & The Blowfish - Cracked Rear View
13  14 10,096  20 Titanic - Soundtrack
14  13 10,091   7 Backstreet Boys - Backstreet Boys
15  15 10,010  91 Eminem - Marshall Mathers LP [10,061]
16  16  9,960 311 Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
17  18  9,608  89 Eminem - Eminem Show
18  17  9,570   5 Garth Brooks - Ropin' The Wind
19  20  9,440  86 Pearl Jam - Ten
20  19  9,425  21 Celine Dion - Let's Talk About Love
21  21  9,343 154 Usher - Confessions
22  22  9,173   6 Britney Spears - Oops!...I Did It Again
23  24  9,078 201 Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
24  26  9,041 284 Bob & The Wailers Marley - Legend [9,216]
25  23  9,008   9 Garth Brooks - No Fences
26  27  8,823 122 Kid Rock - Devil Without A Cause
27  25  8,761   2 N Sync - N Sync
28  28  8,567   3 Boyz II Men - II
29  29  8,555  95 Dixie Chicks - Wide Open Spaces
30  31  8,430 143 Nirvana - Nevermind
31  32  8,382 146 Eagles - Hell Freezes Over
32  30  8,369  50 Nelly - Country Grammar
33  33  8,231  58 Dixie Chicks - Fly
34  34  8,130  37 Christina Aguilera - Christina Aguilera
35  35  8,065  21 No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom
36  37  8,023  64 Matchbox Twenty - Yourself Or Someone Like You
37  36  8,021  15 Kenny G - Breathless
38  45  7,948 506 Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon [8,067]
39  48  7,915 490 Bob Seger - Greatest Hits
40  40  7,824 148 Green Day - Dookie
41  38  7,820   0 Garth Brooks - Hits
42  39  7,703  24 Lion King - Soundtrack
43  47  7,612 186 50 Cent - Get Rich Or Die Tryin'
44  41  7,596  11 Shania Twain - Woman In Me
45  42  7,541   6 Mariah Carey - Daydream
46  43  7,514  19 Limp Bizkit - Significant Other
47  44  7,505  37 Eric Clapton - Unplugged
48  46  7,445   7 Billy Ray Cyrus - Some Gave All
49  50  7,410 152 Celine Dion - All The Way-A Decade Of Song
50  49  7,388  15 Spice Girls - Spice
51  52  7,266  41 Jewel - Pieces Of You
52  55  7,261 128 O Brother Where Art Thou? - Soundtrack
53  51  7,253  17 Tlc - Crazysexycool
54  53  7,195  13 Kenny G - Miracles-Holiday Album
55  54  7,162   8 Mariah Carey - Music Box
56  56  7,122  84 Dr. Dre - Dr. Dre 2001
57  58  6,977  29 Janet Jackson - Janet
58  57  6,954   3 Boyz II Men - Cooleyhighharmony
59  59  6,942   8 Ricky Martin - Ricky Martin
60  65  6,882 339 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Greatest Hits
61  60  6,860  59 Enya - Day Without Rain
62  62  6,751  34 Shaggy - Hotshot
63  61  6,728   0 Michael Bolton - Time Love & Tenderness
64  68  6,701 309 Evanescence - Fallen
65  64  6,675  98 Lauryn Hill - Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill
66  63  6,638  30 Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish
67  66  6,566  63 Avril Lavigne - Let Go
68  67  6,498   5 Ace Of Base - Sign
69  69  6,454  79 Faith Hill - Breathe
70  70  6,402  42 Nelly - Nellyville
71  74  6,350 173 James Taylor - Greatest Hits
72  71  6,347  16 Creed - Weathered
73  72  6,329  14 Creed - My Own Prison
74  73  6,239  27 Destiny's Child - Writing's On The Wall
75  75  6,167  28 Offspring - Smash
76  76  6,143  15 Natalie Cole - Unforgettable With Love
77  79  6,048  52 Alicia Keys - Songs In A Minor
78  82  6,045 126 Jimmy Buffett - Songs You Know By Heart [6,112]
79  77  6,032   5 Will Smith - Big Willie Style
80  92  6,023 327 Queen - Greatest Hits
81  78  6,015   6 Garth Brooks - Double Live
82  87  5,999 189 Journey - Greatest Hits [6,138]
83  80  5,970  18 Leann Rimes - Blue
84  81  5,964  29 Tim Mcgraw - Not A Moment Too Soon
85  83  5,909  19 Pearl Jam - Vs.
86  84  5,906  40 Bush - Sixteen Stone
87  85  5,900  41 Counting Crows - August & Everything After
88  86  5,897  73 Dixie Chicks - Home
89  90  5,816  82 Fugees - Score
90  88  5,785   0 Michael Jackson - Dangerous [5,915]
91  89  5,778  36 Live - Throwing Copper
92 127  5,751 782 Mariah Carey - Emancipation Of Mimi
93  91  5,725   2 Garth Brooks - Sevens
94  93  5,688  49 Sarah Mclachlan - Surfacing
95 174  5,6391193 Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway
96 117  5,626 462 Green Day - American Idiot
97 100  5,620 190 Sublime - Sublime
98  94  5,605  48 Outkast - Speakerboxx-Love
99  97  5,546  67 Alan Jackson - Greatest Hits Collection
100 95  5,524  24 Guns N'Roses - Use Your Illusion 2

New entries below #100:
158 NEW 4,663 1,105 Rascal Flatts - Feels Like Today
160 NEW 4,653 3,016 Carrie Underwood - Some Hearts
162 NEW 4,645 2,688 Nickelback - All The Right Reasons
186 NEW 4,404   258 Gretchen Wilson - Here For The Party
191 NEW 4,355   289 Coldplay - Rush Of Blood To The Head
199 NEW 4,300    47 U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
200 NEW 4,297   243 Def Leppard - Vault-Greatest Hits

#101 is Madonna's "Immaculate Collection" (5.51 million)

Notes:
The list shows only the highest selling edition of each album.
For some albums in the list I've added the total edition sales number between brackets.
When all releases would be included, the albums below would enter the top 100:

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - East 1999 Eternal (sales 6.12 million)
Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle (6.01 million)
AC/DC - Back In Black (5.73 million)

Average album year sales for the top 100 is 102K (down from 109K last year).

[J$crILLa]

no 2pac or big... lol

i dont know if that list is right

[MIAMI4LIFE]

no 2pac or big... lol

i dont know if that list is right

Pac and Big albums were double CDs so they were counted twice, Soundscan only counts them once so they are probably around 5 million even though they are 10X Plat

[J$crILLa]

^oh i thought soundscan was the same as RIAA with counting doubles as 2

[Suffice]

Crazy how much the Dark Side of The Moon has sold in the 90's... That album was relesed in the 70's!

[WC Iz Active]

This list aint legit, what about Guns N Roses "Appetite for Destruction"  LMAO, that album has sold over 20 million worldwide.

[MIAMI4LIFE]

This list aint legit, what about Guns N Roses "Appetite for Destruction"  LMAO, that album has sold over 20 million worldwide.

that album came out in the 80's, Soundscan started in 91

[K.Dub]

fucked up list. too much bs

[Trauma-san]

That's crazy to see Norah Jones so high on the list!

[T-Dogg]

fucked up list. too much bs

They're sales figures, don't get worked up about it.

[white Boy]

That's crazy to see Norah Jones so high on the list!

ye, shes greeat tho, i downloaded her new album, havent got a chance to peep it, and shes going to be in some new movie with jude law and natalie portman so that will be very interesting to see

[akcranker - The Dangerous Crew Movement]

That's crazy to see Norah Jones so high on the list!

ye, shes greeat tho, i downloaded her new album, havent got a chance to peep it, and shes going to be in some new movie with jude law and natalie portman so that will be very interesting to see

Norah Jones is an awesome singer.

What's her new album?  I thought it didn't come out for a few months???  Hook it up man.

[white Boy]

its called not to late, and you can get it on any torrent site, its store relase is end of january.

[akcranker - The Dangerous Crew Movement]

sweet thanks.. I went and checked albumbase and they got it.. hopefully it's good quality and the right tracklist.

Do you listen to Joss Stone or any other good female singers?

[white Boy]

^ shes nice, too heavily influenced by hip hop tho, i like nora cause shes like a old old jazz singer (billie holiday, ella fitzgerrald, etc.)