Top 100 Best Selling Albums of All Time
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This list is based upon a system called Equivalent Album Sales (EAS). This takes into account multiple facets of an album’s success beyond simply physical copies sold, and helps to show a more complete look at the best performing albums of all time.
ts is not true back in black is not number 6 it is number 2 and bad has sold way less than it. nevermind is not number seven and the black album has sold more than appetite for destruction
Conversion ratio between formats:
Studio album: sales of the original album (ratio 1/1)
album metallica by metallica sonion😭😭
Other LPs: sales of compilations generated thanks to the album (ratio 1/1)
Physical singles: sales of physical singles from the album (added to CSPC total with a ratio 3/10 for 2-tracks, 5/10 for EPs and Maxis)
72 million to 121 million is crazy
Digital singles: sales of digital singles from the album (ratio 1.5/10 for CSPC total)
Streaming: EAS of all the album tracks (ratio 1/1500 for Audio stream and 1/6750 for Video stream)
Michael Jackson with an extrodinary 5 albums selling over 30M+ copies is mindblowing. Thriller is a masterpiece, the greatest pop album in the entire HISTORY of MUSIC. I love ...But Seriously, No Jacket Required, Face Value, Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack, Grease Soundtrack, Hybrid Theory, Metallica, The Beatles, Sgt. Peppers Lonely Heart's Club Band, Divide, Appetite for Destruction, Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall, Led Zeppelin IV, Faith, True Blue, The Works, News of the World, The Game and Purple Rain.
Source: https://chartmasters.org/
0:00 100-76
100 best selling in AMERICA only 👎🏻
2:43 75-51
5:27 50-26
Lets see what album will get number 1 ❌
Let's see what album will get number 2 ☑️
8:10 25-1
More User Perspectives
Black magic woman from santana is actually cover of Fleetwood Macs song when Peter Green was with them
@olivergreig3128so many Beatles
@olivergreig3128Fleetwood Mac was and still is such A HUGE band. i dont think people truly understand
@olivergreig3128the gap between thriller and the rest of the albums is just crazy, MJ truly the king of pop
@Amit_edits_5000No American Idiot 😢
@MovieMaverick2610:32 best
@Yuan_1432Michael Jackson, what an absolute mythical legend 👑
@zazmiomzom3876Any other radiohead fans here looking for an album
@chrisgalbraith6633Celine Dione having so many is tragic.
@hpfan1330'face value'... 'is the absolute worst album of phil collins imo('...but seriously' is his best album).... total sales ranking is so fake, it is like people are stupid buying those, face value is the epitome example, but this fake is seen in other 'groups' other than phil collins as well
@cristianmicuFascinating to see ABBA's ARRIVAL album on the list but yet their biggest selling album (ABBA GOLD) isn't on the list.
@markstevenson7577Uhhhh a bunch of these are lower than should be
@Anime_X_Games-w9mThere seems to be a lot of rock music, not much hip-hop or classical
@zestyut1344Michael Jackson e The Beatles são os que mais aparecem.
@CadosansSwifties be going batshit crazy that all her albums aren't on here and aren't all in the top 15 😂
@jacobmassey3897MJ owning it yet again. GOAT
@DinDjarin914The difference between number 1 and number 2 is bigger than the difference between number 2 and number 100 btw
@TakatacionBackstreet Boys 🤦
@DrSara622Um yeah not the wright number of albums ..sorry . Another made up list
@joromeo3376Does big album sales actually stand for quality or did they just capture a moment in time with a big promotion campaign behind them from a powerful record company
@martinkristensen8398I thought nevermind would be top 5, didnt realise hotel califkrnia would be hugher
@2llmenBack in Black is horrible: no Bon, no ACDC
@tomkelsey23031:57 😂😂😂
@cuongphamba69615:50 Em
@togonumberWhere is abbey road?!?
@ANGYpugU2 joshua tree
@lacicsanyi2227Po sa me fait chier je voulais tellement être comme eux
@KiljaraSAMUELWhere is Linkin Park’s Meteora???
@IAmStripped-w4gI think this list excludes greatest hits compilations. Eagles’ greatest hits Volume 1 would be on this list.
@Simon-oq6ds9:31 perfect,the only song who's in top20 in the 21st sentury ❤
@VincentanecitoGuiñezWhat, No Drake 😂😂😂
@adonisblake4905JUDAS PRIEST BRITISH STEEL
@Terry-e6nThis list is so inaccurate.
First, the album sales are way off. Thriller (which undoubtedly has the most sales) sold roughly 70 million copies not 120mil. This is followed by an almost near tie between Dark Side of the Moon and Back in Black (various sites poll evenly for both at around 50mil).
Also Hotel California is NOT the Eagles biggest album. It’s being confused with “The Eagles Greatest Hits” album which is somewhere around 4th (also largest album in America fun fact), but even its sales are over exaggerated on this list.
Finally Divide and 1989(and literally any album that came after Adele’s 25)’s sales are completely made up. When these albums were released, we had already switched to streaming as the main way of playing music.
Anyways, this video gets literally nothing right except that Thriller is at #1. Everything under top 10 is completely up in the air.
No hard feelings to this guy, all his other videos have been perfectly fine to me except this video. Just wanted you guys to know.
No Jacket Required had problems in the USA because "white" radio stations wouldn't play it because of the horns, and "black" radio stations wouldn't play it because he's white. So much for the fact that there's no racism in the USA.
@Silver-e7mI was pretty sure that EVERY BEATLES ALBUM should have been on this list...surprised NO REVOLVER, NO RUBBER SOUL, NO MEET THE BEATLES??? They all sold like HOTCAKES and have been out for 60 years or more of sales...
@georgegbalzano9239Dire straits the goats
@archie1373Following Paranoid with Shape of You feels like a war crime.
@toadfan64So more current albums sold more. Got it.
@KennethPerlmanWhere are these numbers from?
@eddiebranden1What would this list look like if people were still buying albums?
@seanzingerboston made in a garage in the 70s btw
@HerbertNenningerLet’s go the top fife song at my favorite albums of all time specifically hotel California and rumors
@Rory-o4j