Green Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 I tried to do this list based on the calendar years (January-December) to reflect the best selling female album artists each year since 1991 which was the year when Soundscan started to track album sales in the US. I'll post overall numbers for each year if they are available. * Since 2016 I used SPS numbers. US Biggest female album artists by year (1991-2020) 1991 Mariah Carey Biggest Album: Mariah Carey: 3.4 million Other Charting Albums: Emotions 1992 Whitney Houston Biggest Album: The Bodyguard (soundtrack): 3.3 million 1993 Whitney Houston Biggest Album: The Bodyguard (soundtrack): 5.5 million 1994 Mariah Carey Biggest Album: Music Box: 2.7 million Other Charting Albums: Merry Christmas: 1.9 million 1995 TLC Biggest Album: CrazySexyCool: 4.8 million 1996 Alanis Morissette Biggest Album: Jagged Little Pill : 7.4 million Overall Album Sales: 7.4 million 1997 LeAnn Rimes Biggest Album: You Light Up My Life - Inspirational Songs: 2.9 million Other Charting Albums: Blue: 2.7 million Unchained Melody/The Early Years: 2 million Overall Album Sales: 7.6 million 1998 Celine Dion Biggest Album: Let's Talk About Love: 5.9 million Other Charting Albums: These Are Special Times: 2.7 million 1999 Britney Spears Biggest Album: ...Baby One More Time: 8.4 million Overall Album Sales: 8.4 million 2000 Britney Spears Biggest Album: Oops!... I Did It Again: 7.9 million Other Charting Albums: ...Baby One More Time: 1.6 million Overall Album Sales: 9.5 million 2001 Enya Biggest Album: A Day Without Rain: 4.4 million 2002 Avril Lavigne Biggest Album: Let Go: 4.1 million Overall Album Sales: 4.1 million 2003 Norah Jones Biggest Album: Come Away With Me: 5.1 million Overall Album Sales: 5.1 million 2004 Norah Jones Biggest Album: Feels Like Home: 3.84 million Other Charting Albums: Come Away With Me: 1.32 million Overall Album Sales: 5.2 million 2005 Mariah Carey Biggest Album: The Emancipation of Mimi: 4.97 million Overall Album Sales: 5.54 million 2006 Carrie Underwood Biggest Album: Some Hearts: 3 million Overall Album Sales: 3 million 2007 Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus Biggest Album: Hannah Montana 2/Meet Miley Cyrus: 2.48 million Other Charting Albums: Soundtrack - Hannah Montana: 1.36 million Overall Album Sales: 3.85 million 2008 Taylor Swift Biggest Album: Fearless: 2.1 million Other Charting Albums: Taylor Swift: 1.6 million Overall Album Sales: 4 million 2009 Taylor Swift Biggest Album: Fearless: 3.2 million Other Charting Albums: Taylor Swift: 0.78 million Overall Album Sales: 4.64 million 2010 Taylor Swift Biggest Album: Speak Now: 2.96 million Other Charting Albums: Fearless: 0.88 million Overall Album Sales: 4.5 million 2011 Adele Biggest Album: 21: 5.82 million Other Charting Albums: 19: 0.86 million Overall Album Sales: 6.74 million 2012 Adele Biggest Album: 21: 4.4 million Other Charting Albums: 19: 0.72 million Overall Album Sales: 5.2 million 2013 Beyoncé Biggest Album: BEYONCÉ: 1.3 million Overall Album Sales: 1.57 million 2014 Taylor Swift Biggest Album: 1989: 3.66 million Overall Album Sales: 4.1 million 2015 Adele Biggest Album: 25: 7.44 million Overall Album Sales: 8 million 2016 Beyoncé Biggest Album: Lemonade: 2.2 million SPS Overall Albums SPS: 3.2 million SPS 2017 Taylor Swift Biggest Album: Reputation: 2.34 million SPS Overall Albums SPS: 3.4 million SPS 2018 Cardi B Biggest Album: Invasion of Privacy: 2.1 million SPS Overall Albums SPS: 2.1 million SPS 2019 Billie Eilish Biggest Album: When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?: 2.52 million SPS Overall Albums SPS: 3.94 million SPS ------------------------------------ * If I had used pure sales for the last 4 years instead of SPS these would have been the best selling females each year since 2016: 2016: Adele - 2.2 million 2017: Taylor Swift - 2.2 million 2018: Lady Gaga - 0.82 million 2019: Taylor Swift - 1.3 million Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
istan4badgalriri Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 2016 would be Anti with 3.7m SPS (in Billboard units) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idkwiam Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Taylor's slayage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brando Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Taylor appearing 5 times Mariah / Adele next with 3 2020 is also in the bag lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Posted December 30, 2020 Author Share Posted December 30, 2020 33 minutes ago, istan4badgalriri said: 2016 would be Anti with 3.7m SPS (in Billboard units) This is based on album sales/SPS during the calendar year Rihanna did 2.6 million in 2016 overall and ANTI did 1.96 million that year based on the Soundscan report. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rihannabiggestfan Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Enya slaying in her 3rd decade Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BGood2Me Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 (edited) Britneys numbers best selling teenage artist of all time Edited December 30, 2020 by BGood2Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cockney Cupcake Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Nnnn Adele being just 40k behind Beyonce in overall units in 2016 after already doing 8m in 2015 I just Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Posted December 30, 2020 Author Share Posted December 30, 2020 30 minutes ago, Cockney Cupcake said: Nnnn Adele being just 40k behind Beyonce in overall units in 2016 after already doing 8m in 2015 I just They were really close in 2016: 1. Drake 6.4 million 2. Beyoncé 3.2 million 3. Adele 3.16 million Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tayloralison Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Taylor Swift Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cockney Cupcake Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 3 minutes ago, Green said: They were really close in 2016: 1. Drake 6.4 million 2. Beyoncé 3.2 million 3. Adele 3.16 million Yeah 25 beat Lemonade in SPS that year but overall Bey has a bigger catalogue that pulled her ahead a-bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russell22 Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Taylor will get it again this year 2.1 M for folklore .8M for Lover .5M for evermore and her previous albums probably did .5M - 1M combined Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KillingYourCareer Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 2008-17 being three people I can't wait for Adele's comeback Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyoto Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Not Billie moving almost 4m units in 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MALAMENTE Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Taylor queen of albums Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterstyles13 Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Taylor coming for 2020 too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cliche_display Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Beyonce, Billie, Whitney, Mariah, and Carrie and TLC. Queens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thisisit Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 49 minutes ago, Green said: They were really close in 2016: 1. Drake 6.4 million 2. Beyoncé 3.2 million 3. Adele 3.16 million How close was 2013? I was surprised Red didn’t sell more than 1.57 that year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Posted December 30, 2020 Author Share Posted December 30, 2020 30 minutes ago, Thisisit said: How close was 2013? I was surprised Red didn’t sell more than 1.57 that year Most of the sales of Red were in 2012 Beyoncé was the only female in the top 10 of 2013: 2013 Top Ten Selling Artists (Based on total album sales in 2013) 1 TIMBERLAKE*JUSTIN 3,445,000 2 BRYAN*LUKE 2,740,000 3 EMINEM 2,518,000 4 ONE DIRECTION 1,973,000 5 SHELTON*BLAKE 1,720,000 6 MARS*BRUNO 1,708,000 7 DRAKE 1,605,000 8 BEYONCE 1,573,000 9 MUMFORD & SONS 1,534,000 10. IMAGINE DRAGONS 1,434,000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
By the Water Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Albums artists only Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter_13 Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Taylor should get 2020 too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CandyBling Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Yas Mimi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
State of Grace. Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Taylor snatching 2020 as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stepfon Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Cardi being the ONLY solo female rapper here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JawBreaker Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 17 hours ago, Brando said: Taylor appearing 5 times Mariah / Adele next with 3 2020 is also in the bag lol Truly the biggest female artist of ALL TIME in the US Theres no question about it at this point Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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