Top 20 Selling Albums of all time

[Spinaroonie]

Yeah, most of this stuff like boston isn't my sort of thing, but I can see one thing on the list that absolutley should not be. Can you?

1. Eagles: Greatest Hits
2. Michael Jackson: Thriller
3. Pink Floyd: The Wall
4. Led Zeppelin IV
5. Billy Joel: Greatest Hits
6. AC/DC: Back in Black
7.Shania Twain: Come on Over
8.Beatles: White Album
9.Fleetwood Mac: Rumours
10.The Bodyguard Motion Picture Soundtrack
11.Boston: Boston
12.Alanis Morissette: Jagged Little Pill
13.Garth Brooks: No Fences
14.Hootie and the Blowfish: Cracked Rear View
15.Eagles: Hotel California
16.Beatles: Beatles
17.Bruce Springsteen: Born in the USA
18.Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
19.Guns N Roses: Appetite For Destruction
20.Elton John: Greatest Hits

 

[Ice Cold]

I'm thinking it's Hootie and the Blowfish.

 

[medjay]

Gotta go with the Bodyguard soundtrack.

 

[Lost Cause]

Alanis Morissette for sure...

Skanky! I think the "Top Seller" list is kinda bogus, as the different decades had different marketing media. The newcomers have it alot easier than the "old school" bands. The elder rockers had to go with the Top 40, Rolling Stone, and other print media. Oh yeah, there was Ed Sullivan, Midnight Special, and Don Krishner's Rock Concert for television exposure. The newbies use Mp3, websites, MTV, with a slicker marketing machine than the Hippies that ran the old system!

Groovy! Outta site, man!

 

[Monazwx]

Maybe it's the Shania?

 

[Spinaroonie]

Re: Alanis Morissette for sure...

Skanky! I think the "Top Seller" list is kinda bogus, as the different decades had different marketing media. The newcomers have it alot easier than the "old school" bands. The elder rockers had to go with the Top 40, Rolling Stone, and other print media. Oh yeah, there was Ed Sullivan, Midnight Special, and Don Krishner's Rock Concert for television exposure. The newbies use Mp3, websites, MTV, with a slicker marketing machine than the Hippies that ran the old system!

Groovy! Outta site, man!

The newbies have sales stolen from them by mp3s.

The oldies have the advantage of people buying their album on record, then tape, then CD. That's three sales!

 

[Lost Cause]

Spin, I love ya, man....

But the thread was about album sales, I assume reported sales. The newbies have a more versatile market for exposure that didn't exist with the older artists. They spend less to manufacture CD's, than it took to make a licorice pizza. Man, don't tread on me!

 

[Spinaroonie]

Re: Spin, I love ya, man....

But the thread was about album sales, I assume reported sales. The newbies have a more versatile market for exposure that didn't exist with the older artists. They spend less to manufacture CD's, than it took to make a licorice pizza. Man, don't tread on me!

LC....

It IS reported sales. I'm saying the oldiest get many albums bought three times.

 

[Guest]

Floyd Fan

I'm not sure how it charts on the sales boards but Pink Floyd's Darkside of the Moon set the record for staying in the Top 100 for years, Led Zepplin's Song Remains the Same did pretty well too in that category.....

 

[Oasis690]

alanis and the bodyguard do not belong on any top selling list...where's liberace?

 

[Rodney King]

all right guys, enough of the arguing....

let's get back to what's really important here....



It has to be the Bodyguard album.....





Please tell me its so.........

 

[Lost Cause]

Okay Spinneroonie.....

Point taken, I concede to you the win...no wait! It was the voting machine! No! It was the confused voter! No! It was Jeb's fault! Ahh heck, I lost, you won! Peace man!

 

[Spinaroonie]

Re: Okay Spinneroonie.....

Point taken, I concede to you the win...no wait! It was the voting machine! No! It was the confused voter! No! It was Jeb's fault! Ahh heck, I lost, you won! Peace man!

You know what, When it happens to your guy in Pennslyvania, you'll be claming the same things

Anyways, I think the Hootie one on there is pretty sad. Shows how much people bought into a bad trand.

The Alanis one on there is her good album.

The bodygaurd one on there... It had that one song... I don't think people claim ownership of that... however... Go to a singing audition... EVERY SINGLE woman will sing it if they'd let them!

 

[chromefreak]

What! No Johnny Cash!

He ought to be in there somewhere.

Only recording artist to be in the country, rock & roll and singer / songwriter hall of fames. Career spanning 5 decades.

Simply amazing.

Then again, we are talking sales figures, not talent or taste.

 

[Spinaroonie]

Johnny Cash is the man... but not on the list. Sorry.

 

[TheDR4KE]

... and you're talking sales figure of individual albums, not all albums. What would the top 20 artists be?

Quack

the D

 

[TheDR4KE]

... and you're talking sales figure of individual albums, not all albums. What would the top 20 artists be?

Quack

the D

A little research shows that list, at least according to the RIAA, to be:

Artist - Certified Units (in Millions)
BEATLES, THE 164.50
LED ZEPPELIN 105.00
BROOKS, GARTH 105.00
PRESLEY, ELVIS 100.00
EAGLES 83.50
JOEL, BILLY 77.00
PINK FLOYD 73.50
STREISAND, BARBRA 68.50
JOHN, ELTON 64.50
AEROSMITH 63.50
AC/DC 63.00
MADONNA 59.00
JACKSON, MICHAEL 58.00
SPRINGSTEEN, BRUCE 56.50
ROLLING STONES, THE 53.50
CAREY, MARIAH 53.00
HOUSTON, WHITNEY 52.00
ROGERS, KENNY 50.50
STRAIT, GEORGE 50.50
VAN HALEN 50.50

Quack

the D

 

[teddybear4play]

Re: Re: Okay Spinneroonie.....

Anyways, I think the Hootie one on there is pretty sad. Shows how much people bought into a bad trand.

I own it. I still think it's a solid album. Sadly, while groups like the Dave Matthews Band learned to adapt, Hootie and his Blowfish did not.

The Alanis one on there is her good album.

True. I own that one, too.

The bodygaurd one on there... It had that one song... I don't think people claim ownership of that... however... Go to a singing audition... EVERY SINGLE woman will sing it if they'd let them!

That, if you ask me, is the one that doesn't belong. Irrespective of what you personally think of Alanis, Shania, or Hootie, at least their albums had more than one popular song belted out shrilly by a stoner who covered it from a country star whose voice is equally as bad, but at least has nice tits . . .

TB4p

 

[bigjacknyc]

Don't know if there's a typo but the official name of The White Album is The Beatles. Both The White Album and The Beatles are on that list (8 and 16 respectively)??????

And I thought I'd heard that The Beatles 1 had already become one of the best-selling records ever. Marketing bs or is that true? (Maybe it's the one listed as The Beatles at # 16).

And as for the "no-accounting-for-taste" section: I'd SO toss out The Bodyguard. How the hell did THAT get in there?! Hard to believe Hootie's there too.

And I will always love YOU...

 

[Guest]

 

[Spinaroonie]

Re: Re: Re: Okay Spinneroonie.....

That, if you ask me, is the one that doesn't belong. Irrespective of what you personally think of Alanis, Shania, or Hootie, at least their albums had more than one popular song belted out shrilly by a stoner who covered it from a country star whose voice is equally as bad, but at least has nice tits . . .

TB4p

True, Hootie had, what, at least three hits off of that album?

 

[sunstruck]

This list depresses me. I need tea now.

 

[brokenbrainwave]

the Bodyguard sound track. Tis a travesty that it made any top list save for worst movies of all time. It ranks right down there with "What do women want" yuuuuucccckkkkkk

 

[teddybear4play]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Okay Spinneroonie.....

True, Hootie had, what, at least three hits off of that album?

Four:

"Let Her Cry"
"Hold My Hand"
"Only Wanna Be With You"
"Time"

"Drowning" also got airplay on some rock stations.

TB4p

 

[Spinaroonie]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Okay Spinneroonie.....

Four:

"Let Her Cry"
"Hold My Hand"
"Only Wanna Be With You"
"Time"

"Drowning" also got airplay on some rock stations.

TB4p

Now they're all coming back to me.