Top best-selling pop albums in the world circulation 21-28 million copies!
Today it will be about the best-selling pop albums in the history of music, the circulation of which varies from 21 to 28 million copies! These masterpieces were huge, it can be said - an invaluable effect on modern pop performers! Today they occupy prestigious places in various tops and lists, and hit tracks with them continue to actively sound on the radio ... The list is based on the data taken from Wikipedia. The number of sales is taken into account throughout the world and for all time since the release of a particular album. Pleasant dive into nostalgia, and we start!
Madonna - "Like A Virgin" (21 million)
"Like a virgin" has become the second studio work in the discography of Madonna ... and what else! The plate saw the light in 1984, however, a deafening success did not make himself wait a long time: the album became the leader of a number of countries and ... the first multiplatin album of the singer! He took the third place on sales among the 1985 music albums, and later was certified as platinum ...
It is noteworthy that the producer of the album - Niall Rogers - was chosen just because she had previously collaborated with David Bowie ...
DIDO - "NO ANGEL" (21 million)
And this is a dazzling debut of the British pop singer Daido, released at the order of the 90s. The album went around the world with a huge circulation - 21 million copies! However, if you speak very honestly, a lot of success was due to the Rapper Eminem: he seized the Thak You Dido track on his single "Stan", which was released later. By the way: Dido herself also took part in the shooting of the clip, which rightfully can be called a masterpiece ...
As for "No Angel", this album has become one of the main bestsellers of 2001 (it was at this point that the most peak of his sales).
Backstreet BOYS - "Black & Blue" (24 million)
The album was released in 2000, and for the first week was sold 5 million copies with a circulation! Later he received a platinum status in more than 30 countries!
The main hit track was the song "Shape of My Heart", which became the leader at once seven countries of the world!
Carol King - "Tapestry" (25 million)
"Tapestry" American singer Carol King, released in 1971, became one of the best-selling pop-rocks in the history: more than 10 million copies took place in the USA, because of which the album was certified as a diamond ... "Tapestry" remained the Billboard 200 leader on During 15 weeks!
He later entered the list of the greatest albums in history, and the main single from him - "I Feel The Earth Move" - became an excellent hit of the 70s ...
Madonna - True Blue (25 million)
This album of charming Madonna is notable for the fact that in it harmoniously combined the sound of various tools: acoustic guitars, drums, synthesizers and even Cuban musical instruments! As for lyrics, it affects the topics such as love and freedom ... The album was warmly taken by critics, which characterized his "archetype of the pop scene of the late 80s and early 90s ..." It is also impossible not to emphasize the voice of Madonna, which on this record Sounds much more confident than on previous ...
From the hits you can allocate "Live to Tell", "Papa don't Preach" and "Open Your Heart": they all became the leaders of the Billboard Hot 100!
ACE OF BASE - "Happy Nation" (25 million)
"Happy nation" - such a positive name received the Debut Studio Album of the Swedish Group Ace Of Base! The album quickly reached the first position in a number of countries (at least 14 countries) after the release in 1992: more than 8 million copies were sold in the United States in the United States! The main hits of the song "The Sign", "All That She Wants" and, "Don't Turn Around"!
To date, the world circulation "Happy Nation" is approximately 25 million copies!
Mariah Carey - "Daydream" (25 million)
"Daydream" became for Carey a kind of innovative album: the tracks outlines that this time the singer studies the world of R & B and Hip-Hop ... Today Daydream is a musical bestseller in the USA: approximately 10 million were sold in the territory of this state. Copies (only for the first week 224 thousand copies took ...)!
He also became one of the best-selling and critical recognized albums of 1995 ...
Whitney Houston - WHITNEY Houston (25 million)
Quite often, debut albums become bestsellers, like, for example, the album "Whitney Houston": despite the fact that the first time the plate showed weak commercial results, after a year she brought the singer a loud name! Especially the album was popular in the United States, where he became a diamond and was sold 10 million copies with a circulation!
Three hit singles from him - "Saving All My Love for You", "How Will I Know" and "Greatest Love of All" - in the Billboard Hot 100, which made Whitney Houston Chart's record holder among women musicians!
SPICE (28 million)
The debut album of the legendary group SPICE GIRLS was becoming platinum in the UK and 7 in the United States! And the world circulation of 28 million copies makes the "Spice" best-selling album among Görlz Bendov in the history of music!
The main hit track was the composition "Wannabe" ...
"ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits" (28 million)
Collection of the best songs of the legendary Swedish team ABBA could not but enter today's rating! Especially, he gained stunning success in the UK, where he became a bestseller ... The album included such hits like "Dancing Queen", "Mamma Mia", "S.O.S" and many-many others!
In 2008, ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits became the 4th-selling album album in the entire history of UK Album Chart, Chart, in which he spent 439 weeks ...
Britney Spears - "... Baby One More Time" (30 million)
Britney Spears - "... Baby One More Time"We will finish our top debut album of the magnificent pop singer Britney Spears, whose world circulation is 30 million copies ... After the release of this album, many critics called Spears "New Madonna", but did not cost anyone who accounts the album too naive and unfinished ...
Anyway, and "... Baby One More Time" was partitioned by a huge circulation worldwide: Total, in the whole of Europe, he became platinum 4 times (only in the USA 14 times!) And to this day, sales of the album continuously grow, and compositions from it continue to sound on many radio stations ...