Best-selling albums of all time — the full ranked list
The complete ranking of best-selling albums of all time, in order, with what the ranking counts and how firm the figures behind it are. Free reference, no sign-up — and the guessing game that plays the same list.
Claimed worldwide sales — the industry's own numbers, so take the order as a genre war rather than an audit. Number one has held the crown for four decades.
The figures behind this ranking move over time, so the order is right for now rather than fixed.
100 entries, in order.
- Thriller
- Back in Black
- The Bodyguard
- The Dark Side of the Moon
- Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975)
- Bat Out of Hell
- Saturday Night Fever
- Rumours
- Come On Over
- Grease
- Led Zeppelin IV
- Jagged Little Pill
- Falling into You
- 21
- Hotel California
- Millennium
- Let's Talk About Love
- Born in the U.S.A.
- The Wall
- Brothers in Arms
- Nevermind
- Appetite for Destruction
- Abbey Road
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- 1
- The White Album
- Bad
- Dangerous
- Off the Wall
- Purple Rain
- Like a Virgin
- True Blue
- The Immaculate Collection
- Ray of Light
- Whitney Houston
- Legend
- Greatest Hits Queen
- A Night at the Opera
- The Black Album
- Ten
- Dookie
- American Idiot
- Hybrid Theory
- Meteora
- Cracked Rear View
- No Jacket Required
- Face Value
- Tapestry
- Bridge Over Troubled Water
- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
- Physical Graffiti
- Led Zeppelin II
- Slippery When Wet
- Hysteria
- Pyromania
- 1984
- Escape
- Supernatural
- Unplugged
- The Joshua Tree
- Achtung Baby
- OK Computer
- Morning Glory
- Definitely Maybe
- Parachutes
- A Rush of Blood to the Head
- Divide
- Multiply
- 25
- 30
- 1989
- Fearless
- Red
- Lover
- Folklore
- Midnights
- Scorpion
- Views
- Take Care
- The Marshall Mathers LP
- The Eminem Show
- Recovery
- Confessions
- Music Box
- Daydream
- The Woman in Me
- Baby One More Time
- No Strings Attached
- Spice
- Ropin' the Wind
- No Fences
- Come Away with Me
- Bat Out of Hell II
- Music Box Christmas
- Greatest Hits Volume II
- The Colour of My Love
- Falling into You Encore
- Crazy Sexy Cool
- Jagged Little Pill Acoustic
- Bad Reputation
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