Music Lovers::::::::::: Have a peek !!!!! The Best Selling Albums Worldwide

40 million copies or more
Artist Album Released Genre Sales (millions) Source
Michael Jackson
Thriller
1982 Pop / Rock / R&B
110 [1][2]

Pink Floyd
The Dark Side of the Moon
1973 Progressive rock
50 [3]

AC/DC
Back in Black
1980 Hard rock / Heavy metal
49 [4]

Whitney Houston / Various artists The Bodyguard
1992 Soundtrack 44 [5]

Meat Loaf
Bat Out of Hell
1977 Hard rock
43 [6]

Eagles
Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975)
1976 Rock 42 [1]

Various artists Dirty Dancing
1987 Soundtrack 42 [7]

Bee Gees / Various artists Saturday Night Fever
1977 Soundtrack 40 [8]

Fleetwood Mac
Rumours
1977 Rock 40 [9]

Shania Twain
Come On Over
1997 Country / Pop 40 [10]

30–39 million copies
Artist Album Released Genre Sales (millions) Source
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin IV
1971 Hard rock / Heavy metal
37 [11]

Alanis Morissette
Jagged Little Pill
1995 Rock 33 [12]

The Beatles
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1967 Rock 32 [13]

Celine Dion
Falling into You
1996 Pop 32 [14]

Mariah Carey
Music Box
1993 Pop / R&B 32 [15]

Michael Jackson
Dangerous
1991 Pop / Rock 32 [16]

The Beatles
1
2000 Rock 31 [17]

Celine Dion
Let's Talk About Love
1997 Pop 31 [18]

Backstreet Boys
Millennium
1999 Pop 30 [19][20]

Bee Gees
Spirits Having Flown
1979 Disco / Pop 30 [21]

Bruce Springsteen
Born in the U.S.A.
1984 Rock 30 [22]

Dire Straits
Brothers in Arms
1985 Rock 30 [23]

James Horner
Titanic
1997 Soundtrack 30 [24]

Madonna
The Immaculate Collection
1990 Pop / Dance 30 [25][26]

Michael Jackson
Bad
1987 Pop / Rock 30 [16][27]

Pink Floyd
The Wall
1979 Progressive rock 30 [28]

Nirvana
Nevermind
1991 Grunge / Alternative rock
30 [29]

20–29 million copies
Artist Album Released Genre Sales (millions) Source
ABBA
ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits
1992 Pop 28 [30]

Backstreet Boys
Backstreet's Back
1997 Pop 28 [31]

Bon Jovi
Slippery When Wet
1986 Hard rock
28 [32]

Guns N' Roses
Appetite for Destruction
1987 Hard rock / Heavy metal
28 [33]

Various artists Grease
1978 Soundtrack 28 [24]

Santana
Supernatural
1999 Rock 27 [34]

Britney Spears
...Baby One More Time
1999 Pop 26 [35]

Carole King
Tapestry
1971 Pop 25 [36]

Iron Butterfly
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
1968 Psychedelic rock
25 [37]

Mariah Carey
Daydream
1995 Pop / R&B 25 [38]

Queen
Greatest Hits
1981 Rock 25 [39]

Simon & Garfunkel
Bridge over Troubled Water
1970 Folk Rock 25 [40]

U2
The Joshua Tree
1987 Rock 25 [41]

Whitney Houston
Whitney Houston
1985 Pop / R&B 25 [42]

Backstreet Boys
Black & Blue
2000 Pop 24 [31]

Linkin Park
Hybrid Theory
2000 Nu metal / Rap metal / Alternative rock 24 [43]

Madonna
True Blue
1986 Pop 24 [44]

Ace of Base
Happy Nation/The Sign
1993 Pop 23 [45]

Spice Girls
Spice
1996 Pop 23 [46]

Metallica
Metallica
1991 Heavy metal
22 [47]

Oasis
(What's the Story) Morning Glory?
1995 Britpop / Rock 22 [48][49]

Bon Jovi
Cross Road
1994 Rock 21 [50]

Dido
No Angel
1999 Pop 21 [51]

Madonna
Like a Virgin
1984 Pop / Dance 21 [52]

Andrea Bocelli
Romanza
1997 Pop / Operatic Pop
20 [53]

Billy Ray Cyrus
Some Gave All
1992 Country 20 [54]

Bob Marley & The Wailers
Legend: The Best of Bob Marley & The Wailers
1984 Reggae 20 [55]

Blondie
Parallel Lines
1978 Rock 20 [56]

Britney Spears
Oops!... I Did It Again
2000 Pop 20 [57]

Céline Dion
The Colour of My Love
1993 Pop 20 [58]

Def Leppard
Hysteria
1987 Hard rock
20 [59]

Janet Jackson
janet.
1993 Pop / R&B 20 [60]

Michael Jackson
HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I
1995 Pop / Rock / R&B 20 [61]

Michael Jackson
Off the Wall
1979 Soul / Disco / R&B 20 [61][62]

Norah Jones
Come Away with Me
2002 Jazz 20 [63]

Prince & The Revolution
Purple Rain
1984 Soundtrack 20 [24]

Tina Turner
Private Dancer
1984 Rock 20 [64]

Usher
Confessions
2004 R&B 20 [65]