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Top 10 Best Selling Music Album in the World

By Srideep Sarkar

Music is a medium of expression. There is a difference between oriental and Western music philosophy. It has been giving us pleasure . As music sales are more and more because we continue to listen to more songs in a streaming format, it means that the world’s top 10 sales album’s most probably will not change until a list that has a change in our listening to music. Although we can debate all day I think it is better to get along with the list. Top 10 best selling music album in the world.

 

Top 10 Best Selling Music Album in the World

10. Album Name – 1

top 10 best selling music album in the world

Artist – The Beatles

Copies Sold – 22.6 million

Release date- 13 Nov 2000

The selection of top 10 best selling music album starts with the album named as 1. It is a collection of songs of British rock band The Beatles. The album features virtually every number-one single the band achieved in the United Kingdom and United States from 1962 to 1970.

 

9. Album Name – The dark side of the moon

top 10 best selling music album in the world

Artist – Pink Floyd

Copies sold – 24.2 million

Release date – 1 Sep 1973

We have the dark side of the moon in the 9th. It is the 8th album by English rock band Pink Floyd and recorded by Harvest records.The album was created based on the ideas  of previous recordings and live shows, but lacks the extended instrumental excursions following the departure of founding member and principal contributor, Syd Barrett, in 1968, that characterized their earlier work.

 

8. Album Name – Jagged Little Pill

top 10 best selling music album in the world

Artist – Alanis Morissette

Copies Sold – 24.4 million

Release date – 1995

To the top 10 best selling music album includes Jagged little pill in the 8th.Jagged Little Pill is the third album by Canadian singer Alanis Morissette and it was Morissette’s first album released outside Canada.

 

7.Album Name – 21

top 10 best selling music album in the world

Artist – Adele

Copies sold – 25.3 million

British singer Adele’s 2nd album is 21. It was released on 24 January 2011 in most of Europe, and on 22 February 2011 in North America. The album was named after the age of the singer during its production. 21 compiles the folk and Motown soul influences of her 2008 debut album 19.

 

6.Album Name – Back in Black

top 10 best selling music album in the world

Artist – AC/DC

Copies sold – 26.1 million

Release Date – 25 Jul 1980

It  is the seventh studio album by Australian rock band AC/DC. It was Produced by Robert John “Mutt” Lange, and recorded by Atlantic Records. By the late 1970’s, AC/DC began to achieve significant popularity outside their native Australia, with high-energy live performances and a string of successful albums.

 

5.Album Name – Rumours

top 10 best selling music album in the world

Artist – Fleetwood Mac

Copies sold – 27.9

Release date – 4 Feb 1977

 

Rumours is in the 5th place in top 10 best selling music album list. It is the eleventh studio album by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac. Largely recorded in California during 1976, Ken Caillat and Richard Dashut produced this album and was released on 4 February 1977 by Warner Bros. Records.

 

4.Album Name – Led zeppelin IV

top 10 best selling music album in the world

Artist – Led zeppelin

Copies sold – 29 million

Release date – 8 Nov 1971

 

To the top 10 best selling music album , we have Led zeppelin IV in the 4th. This fourth studio album by English rock band Led Zeppelin  was released on 8 November 1971 by Atlantic Records. Produced by guitarist Jimmy Page, it was recorded between November 1970 and January 1971 at several locations, most prominently the Victorian house Headley Grange.

 

3.Album Name – Come on Over

top 10 best selling music album in the world

Artist – Shania Twain

Copies sold – 29.6 million

Release date – 4 Nov 1997

 

We have the album named Come On Over in the 3rd place in this top 10 best selling music album list.It is the third studio album recorded by Canadian singer Shania Twain. It became the best-selling country music album, the best-selling studio album by a female act, and the best selling album by a Canadian. It is the sixth best-selling album in the United States.

 

2. Album Name- Their Greatest Hits

top 10 best selling music album in the world

Artist – Eagles

Copies sold – 32.2 million

Release date – 1976

 

2nd Place is acquired by the album of Eagles ‘Their Greatest Hits’. It (1971–1975) is the first compilation album by the Eagles, released in 1976. The album contains a selection of songs from the Eagles’ first four albums released in the period from the Eagles’ formation in 1971 up to 1975.

 

1.Album Name – Thriller

top 10 best selling music album in the world

Artist – Michael Jackson

Copies sold – 47.3 million

Release date – 30 Nov 1982

 

The album ‘Thriller’ got the 1st place in top 10 best selling music album list. This album has made history by selling. Thriller is the sixth studio album by American singer Michael Jackson,  It was released in the United States by Epic Records and internationally by CBS Records. The follow-up to Jackson’s successful previous studio album, Off the Wall, it explores genres similar to those of its predecessor, including pop, post-disco and rock.

 

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