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Biggest selling albums - Music Head - 29-02-2012
Jerome Wrote:I'll take a stab - Floyd, Meatloaf, Mac, ACDC & Eagles. How did I do?
nailed mine, replacing Eagles with Jackson.
Biggest selling albums - CRAZY-HORSE - 29-02-2012
good choices Jerome, i'll lay down a fiver on those five myself!
Biggest selling albums - CRAZY-HORSE - 29-02-2012
ok, found the list of biggest selling albums...minus the "best of" and "soundtrack" sets...and here it is,
110million MICHAEL JACKSON "thriller"
50 million PINK FLOYD "dark side of the moon"
49 million AC/DC "back in black"
43 million MEATLOAF "bat out of hell"
40 million FLEETWOOD MAC "rumours"
40 million SHANIA TWAIN "come on over"
37 million LED ZEPPLIN "IV aka four symbols"
33 million ALANIS MORRISSETTE "jagged little pill"
four albums all have sales of 32 million to round out the top 10 at #10...
THE BEATLES "sgt.peppers lonely hearts club band"
CELINE DION "falling into you"
MARIAH CAREY "music box"
MICHAEL JACKSON "dangerous"
for a more complets list of the best selling albums of all time go to the wiki link provided, which includes all albums including best of sets and soundtracks as per the original list above...
List of best-selling albums - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Biggest selling albums - hatchetman - 29-02-2012
Shania Twain is the only one that startles me. She really has a big following I guess.
Biggest selling albums - jazzboCR - 18-02-2014
Interesting as this Thread is, don't forget it's a dying, frozen metric. In the download/streaming era, these numbers won't/can't be touched again. Revel in the numbers but these numbers will no longer reflect an artist's importance or place--it'll be strictly number of earholes reached and tunes remembered/inculcated by whatever means--no more, no less...and ephemeral rules the day.
RE: Biggest selling albums - Jerome - 19-05-2020
(28-02-2012, 13:41)Music Head Wrote: interesting topic, your first cd purchase
mine, Paul Simon - Graceland
Saw him in Cape Town on the Graceland tour. Stunning concert.