These are the Female Albums With the Biggest 100K+ Opening Weeks in the U.K since 2000 which, as you can see from the list below, is a rarity.
 

 

 

1) Adele - 25: 803K 

 

2) Susan Boyle - I Dreamed A Dream: 411K

 

3) Dido - Life For Rent - 402K

 

4) Leona Lewis - Spirit: 375K

 

5) Madonna - Confessions On A Dancefloor: 217K 

 

6) Lady Gaga - Born This Way: 215K 

 

7) Adele - 21: 208K 

 

8) Amy Winehouse - Lioness, Hidden Treasures: 194K

 

9) Duffy - Rockferry: 180K

 

10) Rihanna - Talk That Talk: 163K

 

11) Leona Lewis - Echo: 161K

 

12) Kylie Minogue - Fever: 158K

 

13) Madonna - Music: 151K

 

14) Katie Melua - Call Off The Search: 150K

 

 

 

[CUT-OFF / 150K+]
 

 

 

• Anastacia - Anastacia: 149K

• Spice Girls - Forever: 145K 

 

• Hannah Montana: Hannah Montana 2/Meet Miley Cyrus: 138K

 

• Alexandra Burke - Overcome: 132K 

 

• Cheryl - 3 Words: 125K

 

• Adele - 19: 121K

 

• Katie Melua - Piece By Piece: 120K

 

• Emeli Sandé - Our Version Of Events: 118K

 

• Britney Spears - My Prerogative, Greatest Hits: 115K

 

• Lana Del Rey - Born To Die: 116K 

 

• Pink - Funhouse: 112K

 

• Norah Jones - Feels Like Home: 111K

 

• Corinne Bailey Rae - Corinne Bailey Rae: 108K

 

• Destiny’s Child - Survivor: 106K

 

• Jessie J - Who You Are: 105K

 

• Whitney Houston - The Greatest Hits: 105K

 

• Susan Boyle - The Gift: 102K 

 

• Kelly Rowland - Simply Deep: 101K

 

• Rihanna - Unapologetic: 100K

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited June 25, 20206 yr by GoodGuyGoneGhetto

Source: UK Mix.

 

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• Hannah Montana: Hannah Montana 2/Meet Miley Cyrus: 138K

• Lana Del Rey - Born To Die: 116K 

• Kelly Rowland - Simply Deep: 101K

 

These ones are really surprising! 

A shame Adele couldn't snatch 1 m first week but still insane 

BORN THIS WAY 

and that's without a $0.99

Edited June 25, 20206 yr by Cryptique

P!nk's Funhouse sold 112,419 btw

Also, can you put the year of release?? For comparison

No H8te towards kelly rowland(she was always underapriciated) or the Queen but not her having a bigger debut week than any B Albumstill remember Stole though, i liked it. Kelly actually has some great bops.

Edited June 25, 20206 yr by TheObserv3r
correction

3 minutes ago, Cryptique said:

Also, can you put the year of release?? For comparison

They're all before the streaming era because the UK chartrules for streaming are horrendous

Loud and Britney's Greatest Hits: My Prerogative should be here too.

10 minutes ago, Underdogs said:

P!nk's Funhouse sold 112,419 btw

I’ll add that. Thank you. 

 

10 minutes ago, Cryptique said:

Also, can you put the year of release?? For comparison

Sis...

 

All of these albums are pre-2015 when ‘pure sales’ were incredibly strong, like @Cain said.

 

The only artists that have managed to sell 100K+ units since 2016 are Adele and Ed Sheeran and Take That. 

24 minutes ago, TheObserv3r said:

No H8te towards kelly rowland(she was always underapriciated) or the Queen but not her having a bigger debut week than any B Albumstill remember Stole though, i liked it. Kelly actually has some great bops.

Beyoncé’s biggest debut week was with “Dangerously In Love” which sold 96K units. There’s also “Self-Titled” which had its full week cut off. 
 

Nonetheless, Rowland could have been such a FORCE. The fact that she sold 100K units of her first album in its opening week with her only singles having been “Dilemma” and “Stole”. 

Edited June 25, 20206 yr by GoodGuyGoneGhetto

Some of those are shocking. Kelly Rowland  

34 minutes ago, Cain said:

They're all before the streaming era because the UK chartrules for streaming are horrendous

They HAVE to be. They haven't changed their certification thresholds since the 1960s and they sure aren't now, since their certifications are automatically handed out once the threshold is reached they have to avoid making it too easy to get them.

6 minutes ago, KillingYourCareer said:

Some of those are shocking. Kelly Rowland  

Which ones are shocking? 
 

And...

 

Ms. Rowland was a FORCE! 

Just now, GoodGuyGoneGhetto said:

Which ones are shocking? 
 

And...

 

Ms. Rowland was a FORCE! 

Lana Del Rey with her DEBUT, Hannah Montana, Anastacia (I know she was very popular back then, but wow!) and Corinne Bailey Rae!

7 minutes ago, KillingYourCareer said:

Lana Del Rey with her DEBUT, Hannah Montana, Anastacia (I know she was very popular back then, but wow!) and Corinne Bailey Rae!

Anastacia has 3 million selling albums in UK and a GH approaching that figure. She was force. If only you could see chart runs of her first 3 albums across the world, if she had US behind her all three albums would've been over 10m sales globally....

14 minutes ago, StrangerInTheDark said:

Anastacia has 3 million selling albums in UK and a GH approaching that figure. She was force. If only you could see chart runs of her first 3 albums across the world, if she had US behind her all three albums would've been over 10m sales globally....

Which GH for Anastacia? POD is only 1 X Plat.

36 minutes ago, Rusty said:

Which GH for Anastacia? POD is only 1 X Plat.

Just checked, it's only at 500k, I got it confused with someone else's GH...

 

 

Omg "Simply Deep" sold that much 

 

I knew UK had taste but damn 

Also why is Hannah Montana only certified Gold with a 116k debut 

 

Her label needs to do better

Adele having all 3 of her albums achieve that