Top album – Pure sales

This list reflects the top album based on pure sales.

Also, studio albums alone are considered here. Compilations, lives and box sets are not.

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Please keep in mind that some artists are missing, because their analysis has not been done yet. Here is the complete list of covered artists. All figures reflect the value as collected at the time of the artist’s respective articles.

Top studio albums – Pure sales

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Year:

#	g#		Album	Year	Units sold	As of
	1		Thriller Michael Jackson	1982	65,800,000	09/27/17
	2		The Dark Side of the Moon Pink Floyd	1973	43,300,000	06/18/17
	3		The Bodyguard Whitney Houston	1992	41,100,000	05/04/17
	4		Grease Various Artists	1978	38,100,000	09/14/21
	5		Led Zeppelin IV Led Zeppelin	1971	36,800,000	09/07/21
	6		Back in Black AC/DC	1980	35,810,000	02/20/18
	7		Rumours Fleetwood Mac	1977	35,500,000	10/21/21
	8		Saturday Night Fever Bee Gees & Various Artists	1977	34,800,000	04/09/17
	9		Bad Michael Jackson	1987	33,600,000	09/27/17
	10		Jagged Little Pill Alanis Morissette	1995	33,570,000	06/05/18
	11		Come On Over Shania Twain	1997	33,500,000	02/25/22
	12		The Wall Pink Floyd	1979	31,300,000	06/18/17
	13		Brothers in Arms Dire Straits	1985	30,850,000	03/23/18
	14		Metallica Metallica	1991	30,790,000	02/13/19
	15		Appetite For Destruction Guns N' Roses	1987	30,770,000	03/01/18
	16		21 Adele	2011	30,380,000	06/21/22
	17		Hotel California Eagles	1976	30,050,000	12/20/17
	18		Dirty Dancing Dirty Dancing	1987	29,970,000	01/13/18
	19		Let's Talk About Love Céline Dion	1997	29,800,000	09/28/21
	20		Dangerous Michael Jackson	1991	29,550,000	09/27/17
	21		Born in the U.S.A. Bruce Springsteen	1984	29,300,000	07/07/17
	22		Titanic James Horner	1997	28,510,000	06/18/18
	23		Falling Into You Céline Dion	1996	28,100,000	09/28/21
	24		Nevermind Nirvana	1991	27,750,000	07/09/17
	25		Bat Out of Hell Meat Loaf	1977	27,410,000	06/16/18
	26		The Joshua Tree U2	1987	26,800,000	09/18/21
	27		Abbey Road The Beatles	1969	26,700,000	04/17/22
	28		Music Box Mariah Carey	1993	26,100,000	04/28/17
	29		Supernatural Santana	1999	25,990,000	08/05/20
	30		Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band The Beatles	1967	24,800,000	04/17/22
	31		...Baby One More Time Britney Spears	1999	24,195,000	04/28/19
	32		Come Away With Me Norah Jones	2002	23,900,000	01/16/22
	33		Millennium Backstreet Boys	1999	23,800,000	04/02/22
	34		Slippery When Wet Bon Jovi	1986	23,600,000	01/28/22
	35		The Marshall Mathers LP Eminem	2000	23,340,000	06/22/21
	36		No Jacket Required Phil Collins	1985	23,310,000	04/11/18
	37		Purple Rain Prince and the Revolutions	1984	23,030,000	10/04/18
	38		The Eminem Show Eminem	2002	23,020,000	06/22/21
	39		True Blue Madonna	1986	22,550,000	08/20/17
	40		Tracy Chapman Tracy Chapman	1988	22,470,000	06/25/19
	41		Boston Boston	1976	22,430,000	06/01/19
	42		Wish You Were Here Pink Floyd	1975	22,300,000	06/18/17
	43		Led Zeppelin II Led Zeppelin	1969	21,900,000	09/07/21
	44		Spice Spice Girls	1996	21,900,000	03/23/17
	45		Whitney Houston Whitney Houston	1985	21,900,000	05/04/17
	46		Like A Virgin Madonna	1984	21,250,000	08/20/17
	47		25 Adele	2015	20,935,000	06/21/22
	48		...But Seriously Phil Collins	1989	20,810,000	04/11/18
	49		Hybrid Theory Linkin Park	2000	20,800,000	06/04/17
	50		Daydream Mariah Carey	1995	19,900,000	04/28/17
	51		Whitney Whitney Houston	1987	19,800,000	05/04/17
	52		Dookie Green Day	1994	19,750,000	03/11/17
	53		Bridge over Troubled Water Simon & Garfunkel	1970	19,580,000	05/11/18
	54		Off the Wall Michael Jackson	1979	19,425,000	09/27/17
	55		Oops!... I Did It Again Britney Spears	2000	19,305,000	04/28/19
	56		The Beatles (White Album) The Beatles	1968	19,000,000	04/17/22
	57		Faith George Michael	1987	18,850,000	05/06/17
	58		Use Your Illusion II Guns N' Roses	1991	18,800,000	03/01/18
	59		HIStory: Past, Present and Future Michael Jackson	1995	18,625,000	09/27/17
	60		Use Your Illusion I Guns N' Roses	1991	18,010,000	03/01/18
	61		Tragic Kingdom No Doubt	1995	18,000,000	03/29/20
	62		No Need to Argue Cranberries	1994	17,840,000	01/25/18
	63		Houses Of The Holy Led Zeppelin	1973	17,700,000	09/07/21
	64		(What's the Story) Morning Glory? Oasis	1995	17,660,000	12/06/17
	65		Achtung Baby U2	1991	17,500,000	09/18/21
	66		Breakfast in America Supertramp	1979	16,760,000	08/13/19
	67		Fallen Evanescence	2003	16,730,000	06/30/19
	68		No Fences Garth Brooks	1990	16,640,000	01/05/19
	69		The Colour Of My Love Céline Dion	1993	16,600,000	09/28/21
	70		The Score Fugees	1996	16,525,000	02/18/21
	71		Californication Red Hot Chili Peppers	1999	16,270,000	03/29/18
	72		Let Go Avril Lavigne	2002	16,220,000	02/10/18
	73		Out of Time R.E.M.	1991	16,005,000	09/24/21
	74		Ray Of Light Madonna	1998	16,000,000	08/20/17
	75		The Woman in Me Shania Twain	1995	16,000,000	02/25/22
	76		Back To Black Amy Winehouse	2006	15,940,000	07/19/19
	77		CrazySexyCool TLC	1994	15,900,000	04/07/19
	78		...And Justice For All Metallica	1988	15,840,000	02/13/19
	79		Led Zeppelin I Led Zeppelin	1969	15,800,000	09/07/21
	80		The Fame / The Fame Monster Lady Gaga	2008	15,745,000	12/22/20
	81		Face Value Phil Collins	1981	15,640,000	04/11/18
	82		The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Ms. Lauryn Hill	1998	15,610,000	02/21/21
	83		Flashdance Various Artists	1983	15,590,000	12/05/18
	84		Van Halen Van Halen	1978	15,575,000	08/14/20
	85		Private Dancer Tina Turner	1984	15,551,000	04/10/23
	86		Confessions Usher	2004	15,500,000	09/04/17
	87		1984 Van Halen	1984	15,440,000	08/14/20
	88		Harvest Neil Young	1972	15,325,000	05/16/21
	89		The Stranger Billy Joel	1977	15,300,000	11/03/21
	90		No Strings Attached NSYNC	2000	15,300,000	02/09/18
	91		American Idiot Green Day	2004	15,250,000	03/11/17
	92		Highway to Hell AC/DC	1979	15,150,000	02/20/18
	93		Synchronicity The Police	1983	15,050,000	06/06/20
	94		Déjà Vu [CSNY] Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young	1970	14,600,000	05/16/21
	95		Graceland Paul Simon	1986	14,570,000	05/10/18
	96		No Angel Dido	1999	14,460,000	02/18/19
	97		A Day Without Rain Enya	2000	14,430,000	02/25/18
	98		Blood Sugar Sex Magik Red Hot Chili Peppers	1991	14,430,000	03/29/18
	99		Rubber Soul The Beatles	1965	14,400,000	04/17/22
	100		Like A Prayer Madonna	1989	14,275,000	08/20/17
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