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Top selling albums (US pure sales) by year of release in millions.

 

1963 - 3.0 - Various Artists - West Side Story

1964 - 4.8 - The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night

1965 - 8.3 - The Beatles - Rubber Soul

1966 - 6.5 - The Beatles - Revolver

1967 - 14.1 - The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band

1968 - 11.5 - The Beatles - The Beatles

1969 - 15.3 - The Beatles - Abbey Road

1970 - 10.0 - Elvis Presley - Elvis' Christmas Album (1970 re-issue)

1971 - 23.0 - Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

1972 - 14.0 - Simon & Garfunkel - Simon & Garfunkel's Greatest Hits

1973 - 15.0 - Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

1974 - 17.0 - Elton John - Greatest Hits

1975 - 8.0 - Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti

1976 - 38.0 - Eagles - Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975)

1977 - 20.0 - Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

1978 - 14.0 - Steve Miller - Greatest Hits 1974-78

1979 - 23.0 - Pink Floyd - The Wall

1980 - 22.0 - AC/DC - Back In Black

1981 - 10.0 - REO Speedwagon - Hi Infidelity

1982 - 33.0 - Michael Jackson - Thriller

1983 - 10.0 - Def Leppard - Pyromania // Lionel Richie - Can't Slow Down // ZZ Top - Eliminator

1984 - 15.0 - Bob Marley - Legend // Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA

1985 - 13.0 - Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston

1986 - 12.0 - Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet

1987 - 18.0 - Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction

1988 - 15.0 - Journey - Greatest Hits

1989 - 10.0 - Garth Brooks - Garth Brooks

1990 - 17.0 - Garth Brooks - No Fences

1991 - 16.0 - Metallica - Metallica

1992 - 18.0 - Whitney Houston - The Bodyguard

1993 - 8.2 - Tom Petty - Greatest Hits

1994 - 9.9 - Boyz II Men - II

1995 - 16.0 - Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill

1996 - 11.8 - Celine Dion - Falling Into You

1997 - 20.0 - Shania Twain - Come On Over 

1998 - 10.6 - Kid Rock - Devil Without A Cause

1999 - 14.2 - Britney Spears - ...Baby One More Time

2000 - 12.9 - Eminem - Marshall Mathers LP

2001 - 7.5 - Alicia Keys - Songs In A Minor

2002 - 11.0 - Norah Jones - Come Away With Me

2003 - 7.0 - Linkin Park - Meteora

2004 - 10.3 - Usher - Confessions

2005 - 8.0 - Nickelback - All The Right Reasons

2006 - 5.7 - Taylor Swift - Taylor Swift

2007 - 6.0 - Josh Groban - Noel

2008 - 7.1 - Taylor Swift - Fearless

2009 - 4.0 - Susan Boyle - I Dreamed A Dream

2010 - 4.8 - Eminem - Recovery

2011 - 11.9 - Adele -21

2012 - 4.4 - Taylor Swift - Red

2013 - 4.0 - Various Artists - Frozen

2014 - 6.1 - Taylor Swift - 1989

2015 - 9.5 - Adele - 25

2016 - 1.9 - Beyonce - Lemonade

2017 - 2.2 - Taylor Swift - Reputation

2018 - 1.2 - Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper - A Star Is Born

2019 - 1.1 - Taylor Swift - Lover

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Let me know if any corrections need to be made. Also had a hard time finding good data for the 1960s but I think the 1967-1969 albums are accurate as the top sellers for those years.

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Taylor the only one having the best selling album for 5 times. :eek:

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3 minutes ago, NMiguelCosta said:

Taylor the only one having the best selling album for 5 times. :eek:

Not that anyone's done it 4 times. Also Speak Now is less than 200k sales from giving her a double hat-trick.

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4 minutes ago, NMiguelCosta said:

Taylor the only one having the best selling album for 5 times. :eek:

Speak Now could've also been on this list, its numbers are so close to Recovery's. I think it's at 4.6-4.7M now.

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Taylor and Adele keeping US Album sakes alive :clap3:

The way 2018 is gonna nosedive to like 600k :rip: 

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2018 - A Star Is Born Soundtrack

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Taylor is impressive by being steady then we also have Adele with her mammoth 11.5 and 9.5 million :deadbanana4:

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It will never stop being the most irritating thing that Eminem is a few hundred thousand copies ahead of Taylor in 2010, blocking her from a full sweep. :deadbanana2:

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33 minutes ago, MJLover said:

wow she's actually pretty famous in the us oh wow

it’s her more than 80% of her sales come from 

 

OT : adele and taylor’s dominance ?

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Wow, females have really slayed in terms of pure album sales this decade.

 

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20 minutes ago, americanlife said:

I thought High School Musical soundtrack was the best selling album of 2006, not Taylor?

Her Self-Titled album had most of its sales after 2006, mainly spread out across 2007-2009, so that's why it didn't chart as high on year end lists. The highest sales figure I could find for High School Musical soundtrack was 5 million in 2016, but if you can find a higher figure I'll update.

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1995 - 16.0 - Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill

1996 - 11.8 - Celine Dion - Falling Into You

1997 - 17.0 - Shania Twain - Come On Over 

 

The 1-2-3 punch of Canadian female dominance :jonny:

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Ahhh my faves Taylor and Gaga, their impact :jonny5:

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Taylor streak is so impressive.

 

Sad that we dont have any catalogue pure sales for Speak now and Recovery. Maybe in 100 years, looking back we can say she had 1st 6 albums on top of their years.

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