Top10 Best Selling Albums Of All Time
Music had been in existence for as long as the world has been in existence. All generations has their hit song regardless of the genre. It’s only the best however who got to the top of the industry through sales of albums. This list takes us back in time by ranking the best selling artists of all time. Enjoy!!!
1. Michael Jackson – Thriller
Sold 65 million albums in 1982
The eighth child of the Jackson family, Michael Jackson debuted on the professional music scene along with his brothers as a member of The Jackson 5 in 1964, and began his solo career in 1971. In the early 1980s, Jackson became a dominant figure in popular music.
2. Whitney Houston – The body Guard
Sold 40 million copies in 1992
Whitney Houston is the only artist to chart seven consecutive No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hits. She is the second artist behind Elton John and the only woman to have two number-one Billboard 200 Album awards on the Billboard magazine year-end charts.
3. Celine Dion – Falling into you
Sold 32 million copies in 1996
Celine Dion’s music has been influenced by genres ranging from rock and R&B to gospel and classical. Her recordings are mainly in French and English, although she also sings in Spanish, Italian, German, Latin, Japanese and Mandarin Chinese. Dion has won five Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year for Falling Into You and Record of the Year for “My Heart Will Go On (Love Theme from Titanic).
4. Mariah Carey – Music Box
Sold 32 million copies in 1993
Throughout her career, Carey has sold more than 200 million records worldwide, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. In 1998, she was honoured as the world’s best-selling recording artist of the 1990s at the World Music Awards. Carey was also named the best-selling female artist of the millennium in 2000. According to the Recording Industry Association of America, she is the third-best-selling female artist in the United States, with 63.5 million certified albums.
5. Adele – 21
Sold 29 million copies in 2011
Adele’s debut album, 19, was released in 2008 to commercial and critical success. It certified four times platinum in the UK, and double platinum in the US. Her career in the US was boosted by a Saturday Night Live appearance in late 2008. At the 51st Annual Grammy Awards, Adele received the awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Adele released her second studio album, 21, in early 2011.
6. Spice Girl –Girls
Sold 28 million copies in 1996
The Spice Girls were a British pop girl group formed in 1994. The group consisted of five members, who each later adopted nicknames initially ascribed to them: Melanie Brown “Scary Spice”, Melanie Chisholm “Sporty Spice”, Emma Bunton “Baby Spice”, Geri Halliwell “Ginger Spice”, and Victoria Beckham, née Adams “Posh Spice”. Credited for being the pioneers that paved the way for the commercial breakthrough of teen pop in the late 1990s, their debut album Spice sold more than 30 million copies worldwide and their follow up album Spiceworld sold over 20 million copies worldwide.
7. Britney Spears – …Baby one more time
Sold 26 million copies in 1999
Britney Spears’s first and second studio albums, …Baby One More Time and Oops!… I Did It Again, became international successes, with the former becoming the best-selling album by a teenage solo artist. Title tracks “…Baby One More Time” and “Oops!… I Did It Again” broke international sales records. In 2001, Spears released her self-titled third studio album, Britney, and played the starring role in the film Crossroads. She assumed creative control of her fourth studio album, In the Zone, which yielded the worldwide success of the “Toxic” single.
8. Bob Marley and the Wailers – The best of Bob Marley and the Wailers
Sold 25 million copies in 1984
Bob Marley and the Wailers were a Jamaican reggae and ska band created by Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer. The band formed when self-taught musician Hubert Winston McIntosh (Peter Tosh) met Neville Livingston (Bunny Wailer), and Robert Nesta Marley (Bob Marley) in 1963. By late 1963 Junior Braithwaite, Beverley Kelso, and Cherry Smith had joined the Wailers.
9. Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP
Sold 21 million copies in 2000
In addition to his solo career, Eminem is a member of the group D12, as well as one half of the hip hop duo Bad Meets Evil, alongside Royce da 5’9″. Eminem is the best-selling artist of the 2000s in the United States. Rolling Stone magazine ranked him 82nd on its list of The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
10. Usher – Confessions
Sold 20 million copies in 2004
Usher rose to fame in the late 1990s with the release of his second album My Way, which spawned his first Billboard Hot 100 number-one hit, “Nice & Slow”. The album has been certified 6-times platinum by the RIAA. His follow-up album, 8701, produced the Billboard Hot 100 number one hits “U Remind Me” and “U Got It Bad”. The album has been certified 4-times platinum by the RIAA.
