biggest first week album sales of all time

ROALD DAHL'S MATILDA THE MUSICAL. Her previous albums were titled 19 and 25. Trivia Facts: The album was recorded in Nassau in the Bahamas in a low-cost studio due to scheduling issues. BTS' "Proof" took the spot on Oricon's Weekly Album Chart, with the biggest first-week sales recorded in Japan this year. J Balvin was able to reach past the 100 million mark with Colores too. Wks on Chart 1 NEW Trustfall P!nk - 1 1 2 The Name Chapter: Temptation (EP) TOMORROW X TOGETHER 2 1 4 3 RE- ENTRY. The rappers fourth studio album is often debated as Eminems most personal and best work. kendrick and cole as well if they drop. Check https://chartmasters.org/spotify-top-album-debuts/?view=country&country_code2=WW. Literally everybody knew about Eminem whether they listened to his music or not. Michael Jackson merged all of them, plus his typical Funk sound, to great success. Their Greatest Hits by the Eagles contains all of their Country Rock, Folk Rock, and Soft Rock singles between 1971 and 1975. In order for an album to attract a certification, they need to sell a certain number of units. Only two albums from the sixties made it and British artists make up only 15 places on the list. The final studio album by Simon & Garfunkel topped the charts in over ten countries and received two Grammy Awards. 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. 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. 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. "Celebrity," the fourth and final album by *NSYNC, sold 1,880,000 copies in the first week after its release. It was year 2000, the peak year of music record sales. Michael Jackson Thriller (1982) 66m It is widely agreed that the duo is among the most significant and influential hip-hop acts of all time. 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. Spears and her management were presented a track titled Hit Me Baby (One More Time) which had been rejected by girl group TLC. "Confessions," Usher's fourth album, sold 1,096,000 copies in the first week after its release. It comes as no surprise. The Dark Side of the Moon is the insanely acclaimed 1973 Progressive Rock album from Pink Floyd. The Bee Gees included so many songs in the soundtrack and the movie of the same name that they essentially lost an albums worth of material. In 1977, Fleetwood Mac released Rumours to the Soft Rock crowd, but obviously it had great mass appeal. 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. Michael Jackson 's Thriller, estimated to have sold 70 million copies worldwide, is the best-selling album ever. Shania Twain, Up! MC Hammer - Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em Released: February 12, 1990 Label: Capitol Records Units sold: 10 million 4. The song Bad was meant to be a duet between Michael and Prince. The number of remasters and re-releases have helped surge sales. 1 on its Weekly Album chart for June 13 to 19. Lets take a look at the next ten that performed really well and may make it in the next decade. 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. Slippery When Wet transformed the New Jersey band into global superstars. The last time an album sold more. So many great albums that resonated different chapters of my life. Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV (1971) 37m If I had to guess, N.W.A. Langdon Winner said in Rolling Stone, The closest Western Civilization has come to unity since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 was the week the Sgt. Metallica Metallica (1991) 31m Drake becomes the first artist to do a million in a week since Lil Wayne in 2008. 6. Max Weinberg played drums on the record. No Rolling Stones album ? 33. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. 21. This just shows again how fucking insane peak 50 was. Top Album Sales Week of March 4, 2023 This Week Award i Last Week Peak Pos. K-pop have upped its game as well with 4 albums by BTS and Blackpink inside the top 75. Perhaps the biggest outlier in the top 10 is Folklore by Taylor Swift which lies inside the indie genre. all. On June 21, Oricon officially announcedthat BTS' "Proof" had debuted at No. Sour was available to way more people thanPurpose, for example. 1. This just goes to prove that if one produces something people want, audiences will go out and buy it, in droves. Shania Twain Come On Over (1997) 40m Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet (1986) 28m It hit the top of the Billboard 200 and UK Albums charts and each of its four singles reached the US top 10, like Go Your Own Way and Dreams. The album has been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and the National Recording Registry. Bat Out of Hell went 14x Platinum and spent 522 weeks on the UK Albums Chart, the second longest run. Its a tough juggling act. The boy band from Seoul sold over 5 million units with their new effort Map of the Soul: 7. Look at eminem. 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. Its one of the best arena rock albums ever and a high watermark for heavy metal music. 2nd to only his own Scorpion. They just dont do it like they used to! (Remember Me)| 1997| 549K 37| Jay-Z| The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse| 2002| 545K 38| D12| D12 World| 2004| 544K 39| Drake| If You're Reading This It's Too Late| 2015| 535K 40| Outkast| Stankonia| 2000| 530K 41| Jay-Z| Magna Carta Holy Grail| 2013| 527K 42| T.I.| King| 2006| 522K 43| Snoop Dogg| Da Game Is to Be Sold, Not to Be Told| 1998| 520K 44| Dr. Dre| 2001| 1999| 516K 45| J. Cole| 4 Your Eyez Only| 2016| 511K 46| Outkast| Speakerboxxx/The Love Below| 2003| 510K 47| Drake| More Life| 2017| 505K 48| Juice WRLD| Legends Never Die|2020|497K 49| Kanye West| My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy| 2010| 496K 50| Master P| MP Da Last Don| 1998| 495K 51| The Notorious B.I.G.| Born Again| 1999| 485K 52| Lil Wayne | Tha Carter V | 2018 | 480K 53| Snoop Dogg| Tha Doggfather| 1996| 479K 54| Jay-Z| The Blueprint 3| 2009| 476K 55| Nas| I Am| 1999| 470K 56| T.I.| T.I. "25," the third album by Adele, sold 3,378,000 copies in the first week after its release handily breaking a single-week record that was previously set by *NSYNC in 2000. adjusted for that, idk if Drake would be on level playing field, but it wouldn't be as crazy. Lil Nas X and his 7 EP containing only 7 original tracks reached 102 million streams in its debut week. Three singles were released from the album, each reaching high in the Billboard Hot 100: New Kid in Town (number one), Hotel California (number one), and Life in the Fast Lane (number 11). 16. 5 position-meaning the septet now has the three best-selling albums in the first week in Japan of all time. The band members are among the richest musicians in the world and even funded the production of the Monty Python and the Holy Grail movie with the proceeds. It was a long-time coming, being their 8th studio album. So we took a look back in history at the 50 biggest first week album sales of all time - featuring multiple albums from Eminem, 50 Cent, Jay-Z, Drake, Lil Wayne, Kanye, Snoop Dogg and more. 44. The name and cover were both meant as signs of mourning at the time. The album sold a whopping 1.7 million copies. Adele's three were all achieved with the same album. With estimated sales now standing at over 45 million copies. Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP (2000) 35m 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. I've updated for 2017 and added the top 100 list. "The Marshall Mathers LP," Eminem's third album, sold 1,760,000 copies in the first week after its release. 1 on Billboard 200 with the biggest first-week sales in the United States this year. Michael Jackson's 1982 . The music buying public is fickle. HARRY STYLES. This Top 50 is for studio albums only and doesnt include any Greatest Hits, Soundtracks or compilation albums. Up to that point, no album had ever amassed 100 million streams on Spotify in its first week. Outkast has their best commercial week thus far. I Want It That Way, one of four singles from this album reached the number-one spot in more than 25 countries. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Your email address will not be published. For more K-Pop news, follow and subscribe to KpopStarz. The debut solo studio album by George Michael spawned four number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100: Faith, Father Figure, One More Try, and Monkey, making Michael the only British male solo artist to have four number one hits from one album. "1989," Swift's fifth album, sold 1,287,000 copies in the first week after its release. Eminem's numbers in his prime were just out of this fucking world. Neil Diamond? 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 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. Swift is the only artist in history to have five different albums with million-selling weeks. It had some unbelievable singles that still get radio play today. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. The cover photograph was taken at Kings Laurel Canyon home and shows her sitting in a window frame, holding a tapestry she hand-stitched herself, with her cat Telemachus. Even the critics liked it enough to not try to get attention by pretending to hate it. 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. The album peaked at number one in more than 17 countries across the world, and has sold a total of 23 million copies worldwide, becoming the best-selling album in music history by a girl group. On the list of top 5 biggest first-week sales by albums of foreign artists, BTS holds the Nos. 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 list also flags up no Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Queen, and as yet (but it wont be long), no Ed Sheeran. 1991 was the first year that Nielsen started tracking music sales data. Led Zeppelins best-selling album in the US never topped the charts peaking at number-two. 1 on Bugs, climbed up to No. hollywoods bleeding had a bigger first week but i assume its not included here bc its not a full hip hop record. 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. And the biggest benefit goes to compilations and greatest hits records that are full of hit singles. George Michael Faith (1987) 20m Which artists do you expect to have the five best first weeks this year and who do you expect will make the top 100? Come Around Sundown was. I wonder how Survivors Eye of the Tiger album ranks in sales? On the US Scale at least, Apple Music is completely paid, and Rap DOMINATES, compared to US Spotify where Pop fares way better. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Would love your thoughts, please comment. 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. In 1996, Oasis performed two nights at Knebworth, England for an audience of 125,000 each night, which were at the time the largest outdoor concerts in UK history. 38. 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. This albums music videos are said to have transformed videos into an art form. Continue reading to learn how many copies of BTS' anthology album were sold in the country. meaningful, its still arguably better to get 25 songs streamed one time "25" went on to sell 1,160,000 copies in its second week and 1,190,000 in its fifth week. With 32 million copies sold, it the best-selling debut album since Guns N Roses Appetite for Destruction (1987) and the best-selling rock album of the 21st century. As you can expect, the likes Drake and Ariana Grande recorded several of the top album debuts on Spotify, but many more are performing incredibly well. Yep, 710,000 in 3 days. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) 32m Nielsen Music started tracking point-of-sales data for US music releases in 1991. The success of the album led to an 18 month worldwide tour and a VHS and DVD release of the tour. None of the band members had any say in this release happening, and felt it was a ploy by the record company to make more money without additional expenses. 10. U.S. chart. The. 1 albums in less than a year, according to Billboard. The album also won a Grammy Award in 1986 for Best Engineered Album. That being said, there are still some artists that attain the USA platinum benchmark in the first week of release. The second studio album by Britney Spears was released in 2000 and debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200, with first-week sales of 1,319,000 copies. 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! In 1994, their major label debut Dookie, became a breakout success and eventually shipped over 10 million copies in the US. Both of them. 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. 1. 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. Copyright 2023 KpopStarz.com. 3. *ARe multiplied by (100 + 4 times the number of songs) divided by 100 and brought to a base 100. 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. Divide by British superstar Ed Sheeran is a close runner up with almost 3 streams per user. A New Day in Las Vegas Strip (200307), remains the highest-grossing concert residency of all time and Dion is the best-selling Canadian artist and one of the best-selling artists ever with record sales of over 200 million copies worldwide. With this view, Scorpion takes back its crown. 1991 - Nielsen begins to track music sales data. The one which impresses the most is maybePurpose by Justin Bieber. 7. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. 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? 4. The first indication that long playing discs may do well in a streaming world came in November 2015. Before it even came out it had advance orders of 800,000 copies. Damn, Eminem really was that big, mans did basically 2x what Drake do rn, ig it makes sense tho, I'm in my early 20s and I've heard that ppl say I don't like rap but I like eminem. Due to Tidal not reporting streaming numbers, Jay-Z's "4:44" is his first album since "In My Lifetime, Vol. Trivia Facts: The album Rumours was originally called Yesterdays Gone. Trivia Facts: 23 years later, theres now a stage musical adaptation of the album, which is absurd. 11. Young Buck's "Straight Outta Cashville" debuted with 361K. This list seems suspect to me. It was nominated for six Grammy Awards, winning some and winning Album of the Year from the Billboard Music Awards. At the time, and perhaps still, Bad was called the most anticipated album in history. by 12.4% of the users than 6 songs played by 14.3% of the users since It simply sold consistently, week after week, for years. Nirvana Nevermind (1991) 30m By then, the platform had 88 million monthly active users, a number that has now increased to over 300 million. 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. This is partly due to a big growth in users across Asian markets like India, Japan and Indonesia. 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. Led Zeppelin themselves called it a fully realized hybrid of the folk and hard-rock directions.. "Feels Like Home," Norah Jones' sophomore album, sold 1,022,000 copies in the first week after its release. In South Korea, BTS' "Yet to Come" reached a new peak on the weekly charts of three major music platforms. 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. Green Day Dookie (1994) 20m U.S. chart, while it debuted at No. As you can guess, the MAU is the number of users by the time each album was released. Finally Springsteen became as powerful in the studio as he always had been on stage. Richie's second solo studio album has sold over 20 million copies. 26. 2000 - A new millennium and the rise of Eminem. 1 on the Billboard Global Excl. The UK's Top 100 biggest artist albums of the week, compiled by the Official Charts Company, based on sales of CDs, vinyl . 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Previously, Billboardrevealedthat BTS' "Proof" debuted at No. The album contained 16 tracks and 12 of them were promoted as singles over the course of three years. It reached number one in nineteen countries and sold just under 4m copies in the US in the first month after release. I Did It Again," the second album by Britney Spears, sold 1,319,000 copies in the first week after its release. Also, on the 20th, BTS' anthology album "Proof" took the No.

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