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Top 10 Albums of the SoundScan Era
These are the Top 10 best-selling albums since Nielsen SoundScan began recording sales data in 1991 up through 1/1/2012. It’s amazing to think that it wasn’t very long ago that records could still sell on this level. These days it’s a miracle to sell a million records. (See also, for contrast.)
1. Metallica - Metallica [1991] (15,735,000)
2. Shania Twain - Come On Over [1997] (15,513,000)
3. Alanis Morrissette - Jagged Little Pill [1995] (14,714,000)
4. Backstreet Boys - Millennium [1999] (12,168,000)
5. The Beatles - 1 [2000] (11,985,000)
6. soundtrack - The Bodyguard [1992] (11,829,000)
7. Santana - Supernatural [1999] (11,772,000)
8. Creed - Human Clay [1999] (11,574,000)
9. ‘N Sync - No Strings Attached [2000] (11,122,000)
10. Celine Dion - Falling Into You [1996] (10,790,000)
Please note that Creed outsold Pearl Jam’s Ten and Nirvana’s Nevermind and made the most popular grunge album of all time.
