“Back in Black” is the second best-selling album of all time. It was the seventh album by the Australian hard rock band AC/DC. The album, released in July 1980, sold around51 milliontimes globally. The album marked the first one after the tragic death of the band’s lead vocalist R...
While the U.S. is by far the biggest market for album sales, several of the LPs achieved their ranking here without a lot of help from American audiences, most notably ABBA, who sold nearly as many copies of “Gold: Greatest Hitsin the U.K. as they did in the States. Only one cou...
This list of the best-selling albums of all time has more to it than you'd might think. Record labels and artists often post much higher claimed sales than can be certified by companies like Nielsen SoundScan and the RIAA. If those claimed sales aren't even remotely similar to those colle...
Even if numbers alone don't always tell the whole story, they do tell some sort of story. Here arethe 50 Best Selling Rap Albums of All Time. [Ed. Note—All sales listed are based on domestic sales in the US, not worldwide sales.] 50. Run-D.M.C.Raising Hell(1986) Label: Arist...
3. There were dozens of Elvis Presley compilation and greatest hits albums, which probably diluted sales. His record label claims 600 Million album sales in the US alone. 4. You can see a breakdwonhere. Post navigation ←Previous Post ...
On release, The Beatles received favourable reviews from the majority of music critics, and since then has been regarded as on of the greatest albums of all time. On watching both the album's 50th anniversary and the sales of the album rising up to nearly double diamond (20 million ...
It's fair to say that this one didn't do too badly on the sales front - over 32 million and counting worldwide. It wasn't all plain sailing though - Black Sabbath were recording in the studio next door and the band often had to stop because of the noise coming through the walls. ...
If record sales were comparable to a band’s influence, Big Star would have been the biggest selling band of all time. As incredible as it sounds today, in the early Seventies, the melodic pop proffered by the Beatles was at an all-time nadir. Alex Chilton and his band of Memphis musi...
The news comes as the record labels' association, theBPI, revealed that sales of vinyl were up 26.8%, a tenth consecutive year of growth, with 4.1 million purchased in 2017 compared to 205,000 in 2007. Vinyl sales now account for almost 1 in 10 of all physical music sa...
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