Lists of fastest-selling albums

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This is a list of the world's fastest-selling albums of recorded music. To appear on the list, the figure must have been published by a reliable source and all sales must have occurred in the first week of release.[1] This list can contain any type of album, including studio albums, extended plays, greatest hits, compilations, various artists, soundtracks and remixes. Market order within the article is ranked alphabetically. Albums within each table are listed in order of number of copies sold and thereafter by the artist's first name.

Argentina

This is a list of the fastest-selling albums in Argentina.

Rank Year Title Artist Sales Reference
1 1997 Romances Luis Miguel 400,000 [2]

Cameroon

Year Title Artist Sales Reference
1996 Class F/M (fr) Petit-Pays 50,000 [3]

Canada

This is a list of the fastest-selling albums in Canada since Nielsen SoundScan tracking began in 1995. 25 by Adele is the fastest-selling album of all time in Canada with over 305,928 copies sold in its first seven days of release.

Rank Year Title Artist Sales Reference
1 2015 25 Adele 305,928 [4]
2 1997 Let's Talk About Love Céline Dion 230,212 [5][6]
3 1999 Millennium Backstreet Boys 191,791 [7][8]
4 2003 Star Académie Star Académie 173,000 [9]
5 2000 Black & Blue Backstreet Boys 156,307 [7]
6 2002 A New Day Has Come Céline Dion 151,600 [10]
7 2002 Up! Shania Twain 150,000 [11]
8 2008 Black Ice AC/DC 119,000 [12]
9 2006 I Think of You Gregory Charles 109,000 [13]
10 2014 1989 Taylor Swift 107,000 [14]

Colombia

This is a list of the fastest-selling albums in Colombia.

Rank Year Title Artist Sales
Shipments		 Reference
1 1997 Tengo Fe Carlos Vives 300,000 [15]
2 2013 Loco de Amor Juanes 240,000 [16]
3 2013 Corazón Profundo Carlos Vives 120,000 [17]
4 2009 Clásicos de la Provincia II Carlos Vives 42,000 [18]

France

This is a list of the fastest-selling albums in France.

Rank Year Title Artist Sales Reference
1 2018 Mon pays c'est l'amour Johnny Hallyday 780,177 [19][20]
2 2002 À la vie, à la mort 305,634 [19][20]
3 2013 Random Access Memories Daft Punk 195,013 [21]
4 2015 25 Adele 169,693 [22]
5 2012 Monkey Me Mylène Farmer 147,530 [23]
6 2011 Bleu noir 139,176 [24]
7 2015 Interstellaires 109,971 [25]

Germany

This is a list of the fastest-selling albums in Germany.

Rank Year Title Artist Sales Reference
1 2007 12 Herbert Grönemeyer >300,000 [26]
2 2017 Helene Fischer Helene Fischer 300,000 [26]
3 2015 25 Adele 263,000 [27]
4 2019 Untitled Rammstein 260,000 [28]

Greece

Year Title Artist Sales Reference
1996 Antidoto Anna Vissi 80,000 [29]

Ireland

In Ireland, the fastest-selling album is The Best of 1980–1990 by U2 in November 1998.[30]

Japan

This is a list of the fastest-selling albums in Japan since Oricon was founded in November 1967. The top two sales records were achieved in the same week, on March 28, 2001, as both albums were promoted as a direct competition between J-pop singer-songwriters Hikaru Utada and Ayumi Hamasaki.[31]

Rank Year Title Artist Sales Reference
1 2001 Distance Hikaru Utada 3,002,720 [32][33]
2 2001 A Best Ayumi Hamasaki 2,874,870 [32][33]
3 1998 The Best "Pleasure" B'z 2,709,530 [33][34]
4 1998 The Best "Treasure" 2,500,120 [33][35]
5 2002 Deep River Hikaru Utada 2,350,170 [33][36]
6 2000 Delicious Way Mai Kuraki 2,218,640 [33][37]
7 1999 First Love Hikaru Utada 2,026,870 [33][38]
8 1997 Review Glay 2,003,150 [33][39]
9 1996 Sweet 19 Blues Namie Amuro 1,921,850 [33][40]
10 2002 I Am... Ayumi Hamasaki 1,751,360 [33][41]

Mexico

Luis Miguel holds several of the fastest-selling albums in Mexico. His seventh studio album Cómplices sold 320,000 units in its first day alone.[42]

Rank Year Title Artist Sales Reference
1 1990 20 Años Luis Miguel 600,000 [43]
2 1997 Romances 560,000 [44]
3 1996 Nada Es Igual... 500,000 [45]
4 2004 México en la Piel 400,000 [46]
5 2008 Cómplices 320,000 [42]

New Zealand

This is a list of the fastest-selling albums in New Zealand since the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand, later renamed as Recorded Music NZ, was founded in 1972. 25 by Adele is the fastest-selling album of all time in NZ with over 18,766 copies sold in its first seven days following release.

Rank Year Title Artist Sales Reference
1 2015 25 Adele 18,766 [47]
2 2009 I Dreamed a Dream Susan Boyle 17,435 [47]

Spain

Year Title Artist Sales Reference
2002 Corazón latino David Bisbal 600,000 [48]

South Korea

This is a list of the fastest-selling albums in South Korea as recorded by the Hanteo Information System[lower-alpha 1] established in 1993.[49] 5-Star by Stray Kids is the fastest-selling album of all time in South Korea with 4,617,499 copies shipped to stores in its first seven days of release.[50]

Rank Year Title Artist Sales Ref.
1 2023 5-Star Stray Kids 4,617,499 [50]
2 2023 FML Seventeen 4,550,214 [50]
3 2023 ISTJ NCT Dream 3,652,897 [51]
4 2020 Map of the Soul: 7 BTS 3,378,633 [52]
5 2022 Proof 2,752,496 [53]
6 2020 Be 2,274,882 [54]
7 2022 The Name Chapter: Temptation TXT 2,180,889 [55]
8 2022 Maxident Stray Kids 2,163,349 [56]
9 2019 Map of the Soul: Persona BTS 2,130,480 [57]
10 2022 Face the Sun Seventeen 2,067,769 [58]
  1. ↑ The Hanteo chart provides real-time daily, weekly, and monthly sales updates, but only accounts for data received from affiliated stores and therefore does not reflect the total sales of a given release. The Circle Album Chart (formerly Gaon), counts albums shipped to all stores regardless of affiliation, so there is always a noticeable difference between its figures and Hanteo's. Gaon, however, only began providing realtime data from 2019. Given this article's scope, and the limitations of existing sources, Hanteo's numbers alone are used.

United Kingdom

This is a list of the fastest-selling albums in the United Kingdom. 25 by Adele is the fastest-selling album of all time in the UK with just over 803,000 copies sold in its first seven days.

Rank Year Title Artist Sales Reference
1 2015 25 Adele 803,000 [59]
2 1997 Be Here Now Oasis 696,000 [59]
3 2017 ÷ Ed Sheeran 672,000 [60]
4 1963 With the Beatles The Beatles 530,000 [61]
5 2010 Progress Take That 518,601 [62]
6 2005 X&Y Coldplay 464,471 [63]
7 2008 The Circus Take That 432,490 [64]
8 2009 I Dreamed a Dream Susan Boyle 411,820 [65]
9 2003 Life for Rent Dido 400,351 [66]
10 2008 Now That’s What I Call Music! 70 Various Artists 383,002 [67]

Notes:

  • Be Here Now was unconventionally released on a Thursday and debuted at number one based on three-day sales of 696,000 copies. Sales accumulated during its first full week of availability, which went from Thursday to Wednesday, totaled 813,000 copies, which remains the most an album has sold in its first week on sale.[59]
  • 25 sold 439,000 copies in its second week.[68]
  • 25 sold 450,000 copies in its fifth week.[69]

United States

This is a list of the fastest-selling albums (pure sales) in the United States since Nielsen SoundScan tracking began on March 1, 1991. 25 by Adele is the fastest-selling album of all time in the US with 3,378,000 copies sold in its first seven days.

Rank Year Title Artist Sales Reference
1 2015 25 Adele 3,378,000 [70]
2 2000 No Strings Attached *NSYNC 2,416,000 [70]
3 2001 Celebrity 1,880,000 [70]
4 2000 The Marshall Mathers LP Eminem 1,760,000 [70]
5 2000 Black & Blue Backstreet Boys 1,591,000 [70]
6 2004 Encore Eminem 1,582,000 [71]
7 2002 The Eminem Show 1,322,000[upper-alpha 1] [70]
8 2000 Oops!... I Did It Again Britney Spears 1,319,000 [70]
9 2014 1989 Taylor Swift 1,287,000 [70]
10 2017 Reputation 1,216,000 [72]
11 2012 Red 1,208,000 [70]
12 2005 The Massacre 50 Cent 1,141,000[upper-alpha 2] [70]
13 2022 Midnights Taylor Swift 1,140,000 [73]
14 1999 Millennium Backstreet Boys 1,134,000 [70]
15 2011 Born This Way Lady Gaga 1,108,000 [70]
16 2004 Confessions Usher 1,096,000 [70]
17 1998 Double Live Garth Brooks 1,095,000 [70]
18 2000 Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water Limp Bizkit 1,055,000 [70]
19 2010 Speak Now Taylor Swift 1,047,000 [70]
20 2004 Feels Like Home Norah Jones 1,022,000 [70]

Notes:

  1. ↑ denotes sales from The Eminem Show's second week of availability, which was its first full week of activity. In its opening week, only one day of sales—284,000 copies—was recorded as the album's release date was pushed up due to bootlegging.
  2. ↑ denotes sales from The Massacre's first four days of availability as the album was unconventionally released in the middle of an ongoing tracking week.

Additional records

Pre-SoundScan era

The following albums predate the introduction of Nielsen SoundScan, and are possibly subject to manipulation or inflation as sales were self-reported by record labels:[74]

SoundScan era

  • Although not in its opening week, Whitney Houston's The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album moved 1,061,000 units during Christmas week 1992.[83]
  • Although not in its opening week, the Beatles' compilation 1 moved 1,258,667 units during Christmas week 2000.[84]
  • 25 by Adele sold 1.11 million and 1.16 million copies in its second[85] and fifth weeks of availability respectively.[86]
  • Encore by Eminem sold 1.58 million copies in its first ten days of availability, after an abbreviated three-day first week.[87]

See also

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