Artist Title (Year) Sales To Date*

1 Metallica Metallica (1991) 15.79 million

2 Shania Twain Come On Over (1997) 15.52 million

3 Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill (1995) 14.75 million

4 Backstreet Boys Millennium (1999) 12.19 million

5 The Beatles 1 (2000) 12.07 million

6 Whitney Houston/ Soundtrack The Bodyguard (1992) 12.03 million

7 Santana Supernatural (1999) 11.73 million

8 Creed Human Clay (1999) 11.59 million

9 'N Sync No Strings Attached (2000) 11.13 million

10 Bob Marley & the Wailers Legend (1984) 11.06 million**

11 Norah Jones Come Away With Me (2002) 10.85 million

12 Celine Dion Falling Into You (1996) 10.79 million

13 Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP (2000) 10.61 million

14 Britney Spears . . .Baby One More Time (1999) 10.55 million

15 Hootie & the Blowfish Cracked Rear View (1994) 10.27 million

16 Soundtrack Titanic (1997) 10.17 million

17 Backstreet Boys Backstreet Boys (1997) 10.12 million

18 Eminem The Eminem Show (2002) 10.08 million

19 Usher Confessions (2004) 10.00 million

*SOURCE: NIELSEN SOUNDSCAN,

sales through the week ending July 1, 2012

**11.06 million between 1991-present; earlier sales not included

Wow is 'Metallica' really the biggest selling album of the last 20 years?! Bizurr.

Hmm, so neither "Dookie" nor "Hybrid Theory" have actually crossed 10 million despite being certified Diamond? Buggery.

Wonder where Adele will land in that list. I'm thinking she'll easy peasy finish off with about 13mil?

Shania was like my childhood with that album, glad to see it so high!

N Sync and Britney :wub:

 

Shania's is surprisingly good too! My mum used to play it all the time, so I got used to it and there are some genuinely good songs on there.

Shania's is surprisingly good too! My mum used to play it all the time, so I got used to it and there are some genuinely good songs on there.

 

Same! Basically know every song on the album and listen to it regular. She was a massive hit back in those days. I long for another album *Fingers Crossed*

Hmm, so neither "Dookie" nor "Hybrid Theory" have actually crossed 10 million despite being certified Diamond? Buggery.

 

Hybrid Theory must be only 100k away or so.

 

Funny that people think some albums "finish off", most of the big smashes continue to sell for decades and decades to come. For example Legend visits the weekly top 100 chart every now and then.

Hmm, so neither "Dookie" nor "Hybrid Theory" have actually crossed 10 million despite being certified Diamond? Buggery.

 

Until 16th May Hybrid Theory sold 9,949k, and according to ukmix Dookie sold only 8.1 mln copies.

Edited July 6, 201213 yr by Tommy