Posted November 13, 201014 yr Here are the 20 albums that have sold the most copies in any one week in the Nielsen/SoundScan era (1991-Present). All of these albums ranked #1 on The Billboard 200 at the time. 1. *NSYNC, No Strings Attached, 2,416,000. 2. *NSYNC, Celebrity, 1,880,000. 3. Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP, 1,760,000. 4. Backstreet Boys, Black & Blue, 1,591,000. 5. Eminem, The Eminem Show, 1,322,000. 6. Britney Spears, Oops!...I Did It Again, 1,319,000. Spears was just 18 when this album, her second, was released in May 2000. It sold more copies in one week than any other album by a female artist. It spawned the top 10 hit "Oops!...I Did It Again." 7. The Beatles, 1, 1,259,000. 8. 50 Cent, The Massacre, 1,141,000. 9. Backstreet Boys, Millennium, 1,134,000. 10. Usher, Confessions, 1,096,000. 11. Garth Brooks, Double Live, 1,085,000. 12. Whitney Houston/Soundtrack, The Bodyguard, 1,061,000. 13. Limp Bizkit, Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water, 1,055,000. 14. Taylor Swift, Speak Now, 1,047,000. 15. Norah Jones, Feels Like Home, 1,022,000. 16. Lil Wayne, Tha Carter III, 1,006,000. 17. Kanye West, Graduation, 957,000. 18. Pearl Jam, Vs., 950,000. 19. Garth Brooks, The Hits, 907,000. 20. Garth Brooks, Sevens, 897,000. Source Britney Spears also holds the record for the most consecutive number one albums by a female in American music history.
