List of fastest-selling albums
This is a list of the fastest-selling albums in global recorded music. To appear on the list, the figure must have been published by a reliable source and all sales must have occurred in the first week of release. This list may include any type of album, including studio albums, extended plays, greatest hits, compilations, soundtracks and remixes. Market order within the article is ranked alphabetically. Albums within each table are listed in order of the number of copies sold and thereafter by the artist's first name.
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NotesBe Here Now by Oasis debuted at number one based on three-day sales of 696,000 copies, while its first full week actually totaled 813,000 copies.25 by Adele sold 439,000 copies in its second week of availability, followed by 450,000 in its fifth.United States
Since 1991
| Year | Album | Artist | Sales | |
| 2025 | ||||
| 2015 | 25 | Adele | ||
| 2000 | No Strings Attached | NSYNC | ||
| 2024 | ||||
| 2001 | Celebrity | NSYNC | ||
| 2000 | Eminem | |||
| 2000 | Black & Blue | Backstreet Boys | ||
| 2023 | 1989 (Taylor's Version) | |||
| 2002 | Eminem | |||
| 2000 | Oops!... I Did It Again | |||
| 2014 | 1989 | |||
| 2017 | Reputation | |||
| 2012 | Red | |||
| 2005 | 50 Cent | |||
| 2022 | Midnights | |||
| 1999 | Millennium | Backstreet Boys | ||
| 2011 | Born This Way | |||
| 2004 | Confessions | Usher | ||
| 1998 | Double Live | |||
| 2000 | Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water | Limp Bizkit | ||
| 2010 | Speak Now | |||
| 2004 | Feels Like Home | |||
| 2008 | Lil Wayne |
Notes
- The Bodyguard by Whitney Houston sold 1.06 million copies in its Christmas week.
- 1 by the Beatles sold 1.25 million copies in its Christmas week.Encore by Eminem sold 1.58 million copies in its first ten days of availability, after an abbreviated three-day first week.25 by Adele sold 1.11 million copies in its second week of availability, followed by 1.16 million in its fifth.
Worldwide
| Year | Album | Artist | Sales/Shipments | |
| 1991 | Dangerous | |||
| 1987 | Bad | |||
| 2015 | 25 | Adele | ||
| 2025 | The Life Of A Showgirl | Taylor Swift | 5,500,000 | ] |
| 1995 | HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I | |||
| 2023 | Seventeenth Heaven | Seventeen | ||
| 2022 | Greatest Works of Art | |||
| 2005 | X&Y | Coldplay | ||
| 2000 | Black & Blue | Backstreet Boys | ||
| 2002 | Elvis: 30 #1 Hits | |||
| 2023 | 5-Star | Stray Kids | ||
| 2023 | FML | Seventeen | ||
| 1963 | John Fitzgerald Kennedy – A Memorial Album | |||
| 2020 | Map of the Soul: 7 | BTS | ||
| 2000 | 1 | |||
| 2023 | ISTJ | NCT Dream | ||
| 2005 | Confessions on a Dance Floor | Madonna | ||
| 1968 | ||||
| 2010 | Michael | |||
| 2008 | Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | Coldplay | ||
| 2001 | Invincible | |||
| 2001 | Distance | |||
| 2000 | Music | Madonna | ||
| 1998 | Ray of Light | Madonna | ||
| 2001 | ||||
| 2022 | Proof | BTS | ||
| 1998 | B'z The Best "Pleasure" | B'z | ||
| 2000 | Oops!... I Did It Again | |||
| 1998 | B'z The Best "Treasure" | B'z | ||
| 2023 | Golden | Jungkook | ||
| 2000 | No Strings Attached | NSYNC | ||
| 2024 | ||||
| 2023 | TXT | |||
| 2020 | Be | BTS | ||
| 1998 | Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie | |||
| 2022 | TXT | |||
| 2002 | Coldplay |