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Title: The best selling albums of all time
Post by: Lincoln on May 08, 2005, 07:29:26 PM
http://members.aol.com/PaulHry/music/riaa.html

Few albums I was surprised to see on there.
Title: Re: The best selling albums of all time
Post by: Elevz on May 08, 2005, 09:17:51 PM
So the best selling rap album of all time is MC Hammer, and 2nd is Big's Life After Death? That's a surprise for me.
Title: Re: The best selling albums of all time
Post by: GangstaBoogy on May 08, 2005, 09:23:23 PM
i hope everybody sees that 2Pac aint number 1!

i though "Thriller" pushed 50million?
Title: Re: The best selling albums of all time
Post by: Ðøšïå on May 08, 2005, 09:29:08 PM
kid rock sold 10 mill? thats a surprise to me.
Title: Re: The best selling albums of all time
Post by: PLANT on May 08, 2005, 09:43:35 PM
Hooooooooooooooooooootie  :D
Title: Re: The best selling albums of all time
Post by: davida.b. on May 08, 2005, 10:30:12 PM
Wow, The Eagles sold more than Michael Jackson? That's pretty shocking.
Title: Re: The best selling albums of all time
Post by: Leggy Hendrix on May 09, 2005, 01:49:46 AM
god damn Garth Brooks
Title: Re: The best selling albums of all time
Post by: West Coast Veteran on May 09, 2005, 03:53:31 AM
So the best selling rap album of all time is MC Hammer, and 2nd is Big's Life After Death? That's a surprise for me.

Big really only did 5 million (riaa doubles the numbers for double albums)....

MC Hammer is the king!

Michael Jackson has the highest numbers worldwide with Thriller (46 million). These figures are just US Sales...
Title: Re: The best selling albums of all time
Post by: notorious^q8I on May 09, 2005, 05:47:09 AM
highest sellin rappers with single albums
hammer 20 mill
fugees 20 ( i suppose)
eminem 9 mill
nelly i sold 8 or 9 i guess
i dunno what are these numbers but am sure hammer sold 20 mill and fugess sold somn around that
maybe they were world wide sales
Title: Re: The best selling albums of all time
Post by: eS El Duque on May 09, 2005, 12:01:27 PM
god damn Garth Brooks

yea...that dude sells a lot

and Led Z sold shit load aswell
Title: Re: The best selling albums of all time
Post by: topdogg187 on May 09, 2005, 01:25:57 PM
i hope everybody sees that 2Pac aint number 1!

i though "Thriller" pushed 50million?

2Pac doesn't have the Best Selling Rap Album of all time but he is still by far the Best Selling Rapper Ever with more than 38 Million Sold in the US alone.
Title: Re: The best selling albums of all time
Post by: Machiavelli on May 09, 2005, 04:11:48 PM
i hope everybody sees that 2Pac aint number 1!

i though "Thriller" pushed 50million?

2Pac doesn't have the Best Selling Rap Album of all time but he is still by far the Best Selling Rapper Ever with more than 38 Million Sold in the US alone.

Try over 50 million.

AEOM was certified 9 x platinum almost 7 years ago, and has been a steady catalog seller since. It has passed BIGs Life after Death and MC Hammers album most likely.
Title: Re: The best selling albums of all time
Post by: J Bananas on May 09, 2005, 05:58:31 PM
WHO THE FUCK ARE THE EAGLES?
jk, but really I dont know a single damn person who bought that album.
Title: Re: The best selling albums of all time
Post by: Just Another Sunny day in California on May 09, 2005, 07:22:32 PM
i hope everybody sees that 2Pac aint number 1!

i though "Thriller" pushed 50million?

2Pac doesn't have the Best Selling Rap Album of all time but he is still by far the Best Selling Rapper Ever with more than 38 Million Sold in the US alone.

Try over 50 million.

AEOM was certified 9 x platinum almost 7 years ago, and has been a steady catalog seller since. It has passed BIGs Life after Death and MC Hammers album most likely.


yeah that's what i was thinking because i heard AEOM had gone diamond but that was years ago.  I'm pretty sure it passed Hammers and BIGs albums
Title: Re: The best selling albums of all time
Post by: Don Jacob on May 10, 2005, 11:19:28 AM
every old man i know owns that eagles album and led zeppelin iv.....i wouldn't be suprised if more albums passed thriller, because mj's sells have been falling drastically and pink floyd, led zeppelin and the beatles keep increasing their catelouges every year
Title: Re: The best selling albums of all time
Post by: Twentytwofifty on May 10, 2005, 11:30:15 AM
I love these 2Pac groupies trying to boost his album sales to look better.  Just look at the link.  AEOM did not sell more than Biggie's album.
And he's not "by far" the best selling rapper.  Eminem will catch him.  His average per album is way higher than 2Pac's.
Title: Re: The best selling albums of all time
Post by: topdogg187 on May 10, 2005, 12:12:04 PM
I love these 2Pac groupies trying to boost his album sales to look better.  Just look at the link.  AEOM did not sell more than Biggie's album.
And he's not "by far" the best selling rapper.  Eminem will catch him.  His average per album is way higher than 2Pac's.

No way Em will catch him. Pac is Certified for over 38 million in sales and Em is certified for 24 and Pac still puts an album out every year and sellf 1-2 million and Em's sales are starting to decline as well his next album may not even reach 4x platinum cause encore barely did, so It is a possiblity he may catch him but at that pace i don't think so because I don't think Em has many albums left in him.
Title: Re: The best selling albums of all time
Post by: notorious^q8I on May 10, 2005, 01:17:32 PM
^^ how is selling 4.6 milllion barely 4 x platinum and still pushin 20k+ a week
only one competing with em's sales is 50(which em makes more money off than 50) and used to be nelly
pac aeom didnt go diamond it is certified 9x platinum
same goes for biggie and they both reached that status because of the double album thing so basically both never reached 5x platinum
i think that only ppl who went diamond are fugees and mc hammerboth off single disks


Title: Re: The best selling albums of all time
Post by: Twentytwofifty on May 10, 2005, 01:43:01 PM
2Pac - 2Pacalypse Now - 500K
2Pac - Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. - 1 mill.
2Pac - Me Against the World - 2 mill.
2Pac - All Eyez on Me - 5 mill.
2Pac - The 7 Day Theory - 4 mill.
2Pac - R U Still Down - 4 mill.
2Pac - Greatest hits - 5 mill.
2Pac - Until the end of time - 2 mill.
2Pac - Betta Dayz - 2 mill.
2Pac - Loyal 2 The Game - 1 mill.

= 26.5 million copies

Eminem - Slim Shady LP - 4 mill.
Eminem - Marshal Mathers LP - 9 mill.
Eminem - The Eminem Show - 8 mill.
Eminem - Encore - 4 mill.

= 25 million copies


And I was rounding up for 2Pac.
Title: Re: The best selling albums of all time
Post by: notorious^q8I on May 10, 2005, 03:34:56 PM
no offense to u at all
 but these numbers rnt even accurate, they r far less than that

2Pac - 2Pacalypse Now - 300K
2Pac - Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. -500 K
2Pac - Me Against the World - 1 mill.
2Pac - All Eyez on Me - 4. some thing mill. (if it reached 5 it woulda been certified diamond , which is not the case
2Pac - The 7 Day Theory - 7 mill.
2Pac - Greatest hits - 4. some thing too ( look at aeom)
2Pac - Until the end of time - 1 mill.
2Pac - Betta Dayz - 1 mill.
2Pac - Loyal 2 The Game - 1 mill.


i dunno about this one
2Pac - R U Still Down - 4 mill.
but assuming its accurate

25 million copies

as for eminem
Eminem - Slim Shady LP - 5 mill.
Eminem - Marshal Mathers LP - 9 mill.
Eminem - The Eminem Show - 8 mill.
Eminem - Encore - 4.6 mill. and still counting.....

= 27.5 million and still counting
thats only off 4 LP's

and to be fair comparing the first 4 albums of both MC's
eminem= 27.5 and tupac =6.8

of course this has nuthin to do with talent and whose a better MC
am just trying to co sign u

and the only reason am spending so much time on this is that i have a final exam 2morow and i dont feel like studying
so am doing any thing to avoid studying lol
props any ways

Title: Re: The best selling albums of all time
Post by: Twentytwofifty on May 10, 2005, 03:49:05 PM
^^^What's your source for all those numbers?

Mine are all from the RIAA.
Title: Re: The best selling albums of all time
Post by: Machiavelli on May 10, 2005, 03:56:57 PM
Dont believe all the numbers you see at RIAA.......alot of the numbers aint been updated in ages. All Eyez On Me is listed there as 9 million, but that shits been past 10 million for over 3 years now. Some of RIAA's numbers are fine, but alot of them arent. Remember, lables have to pay for certifications, so alot of albums dont get updated, thus the albums dont look like they've gone up, but indeed have. Alot of Pac's numbers aint updated. Im pretty sure Me Against The World has gone up since its last certification, as has 2Pacalypse Now, R U Still Down, etc etc....

50 million...

Title: Re: The best selling albums of all time
Post by: Twentytwofifty on May 10, 2005, 04:02:13 PM
I don't think so.  Those are Pac's numbers, just accept that.  26.5 million copies in the U.S., that's it.
Like Suge wouldn't pay to certify AEOM to get it diamond status and have a special "diamond" re-release of the album.

Those numbers are all from the same source so like it or not Eminem is right behind 2Pac and will catch him.
Title: Re: The best selling albums of all time
Post by: Machiavelli on May 10, 2005, 04:12:08 PM
I don't think so.  Those are Pac's numbers, just accept that.  26.5 million copies in the U.S., that's it.
Like Suge wouldn't pay to certify AEOM to get it diamond status and have a special "diamond" re-release of the album.

Those numbers are all from the same source so like it or not Eminem is right behind 2Pac and will catch him.


You really think AEOM hasnt sold at least 1 million since 1998 when it was certified 9 times platinum.

Title: Re: The best selling albums of all time
Post by: Twentytwofifty on May 10, 2005, 04:25:11 PM
No I don't, not many albums sell 500,000 more copies 2 years and 4 months after they were released.
Title: Re: The best selling albums of all time
Post by: LyRiCaL_G on May 10, 2005, 04:45:50 PM
who gives a fuck who sold mo, pac shits all over em, nuff said.........even ems a groupie

peace
Title: Re: The best selling albums of all time
Post by: Im A Hustler on May 10, 2005, 05:05:08 PM
Haha @ you fools believing anything that refers to album sales as being "official".

And Master P has pushed over 75 million units in his career.
Title: Re: The best selling albums of all time
Post by: notorious^q8I on May 10, 2005, 06:05:02 PM
^^ true where do u think he got his 500 million from?
the night club he owns?? hell naaah
u guyz forgot when even 504 boyz sold a million copies?? lol
and btw ppl always think thatsellin 1million copies is easy
i highly doubt aeom sold a million since it was certified 9x platinum
it took nas 7 years to sell 1 milion, with all the exposure and major releases he had
7 YEARS, can u imagine that
Title: Re: The best selling albums of all time
Post by: rafsta on May 11, 2005, 03:02:06 AM
where did everyone hear MJ pushed 50 mill ? he only pushed 26 or something...
Title: Re: The best selling albums of all time
Post by: rafsta on May 11, 2005, 03:04:39 AM
also tupac had a double CD.
Title: Re: The best selling albums of all time
Post by: ToOoOoN!!! on May 12, 2005, 05:23:22 PM
i wonder how many cd Run-Dmc have sold
Title: Re: The best selling albums of all time
Post by: West Coast Veteran on May 12, 2005, 05:30:51 PM
where did everyone hear MJ pushed 50 mill ? he only pushed 26 or something...

50 is worldwide...

26 is US sales...
Title: Re: The best selling albums of all time
Post by: big mat on May 12, 2005, 08:52:18 PM
all eyes on me was certified 9x platinum in 98, but since 2001 they count double albums as double disc. So all eyes on me must be something around 18 million... but in the guiness book they say he sold 50 million worldwide. I think vanilla ice sold something like 18 million worldwide, but in the us i dont know.
Title: Re: The best selling albums of all time
Post by: Shallow on May 13, 2005, 06:02:27 AM
all eyes on me was certified 9x platinum in 98, but since 2001 they count double albums as double disc. So all eyes on me must be something around 18 million... but in the guiness book they say he sold 50 million worldwide. I think vanilla ice sold something like 18 million worldwide, but in the us i dont know.


Double LPs were alwats counted as 2. This dates back to Pink Floyd's The Wall from '79, The Beatles White Album etc. Pac may have 50 worldwide but Em has a lot more than 26 world wide. MMLP and Em Show each did over 15 world wide. Besides who cares who the highest selling rapper is? None are anywhere near the top artists of all time. It's like asking who's the best Canadian Basketball player in the NBA. Nash is a good player but calling him the best Canadian of all time doesn't mean shit. Most of Pac's record sales come from post death sales and double albums. If Eminem died today and released a double album every two years, he'd destroy every record Tupac could even think of getting. Em is more popular, so what? Get over it. 2Pac is still the better artist.