Here are the YEAR TO DATE Worldwide sales totals for ALL CD's.....

01- Green Day - American Idiot (Reprise) - 7.986 million
02- Coldplay - X&Y (Parlophone) - 7.766 million
03. 50 Cent - The Massacre (Shady / Interscope) - 7.12 million
04. Mariah Carey - The Emancipation Of Mimi (Island) - 6.972 million
05. Black Eyed Peas - Monkey Business (A&M / Interscope) - 6.09 million
06. Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway (RCA) - 5.493 million
07. Gwen Stefani - Love, Angel, Music, Baby (Interscope) - 4.685 million
08. James Blunt - Back To Bedlam (Atlantic) - 4.462 million
09. Gorillaz - Demon Days (Parlophone) - 4.079 million
10. Madonna - Confessions On A Dance Floor (Warner Bros.) - 4.031 million
11. The Killers - Hot Fuss (Lizard King / Island) - 3.487 million
12. Robbie Williams - Intensive Care (Chrysalis) - 3.386 million
13. Michael Bublé - It's Time (Warner Bros.) - 3.05 million
14. Eminem - Curtain Call (The Hits) (Shady / Interscope) - 2.967 million
15. Kanye West - Late Registration (Roc-A-Fella / Def Jam) - 2.933 million
16. U2 - How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (Island) - 2.899 million
17 Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams (Jack Johnson / Brushfire) - 2.821 million
18. The Game - The Documentary (Aftermath / Interscope) - 2.725 million
19. System Of A Down - Mezmerize (Columbia) - 2.618 million
20. Il Divo - Il Divo (Syco Music) - 2.515 million

SOURCE.....
WWW.mediatraffic.de/albums.htm

the top album of the year sold 7 million...that's not so great, is it?

Anxiety said:

the days of the 10+ seller i think are over.

Go Gorillaz...I love that such a weird little album with a song about an exploding mountain called Monkey has done so well!

ehuffnsd said:

Indeed. Only seven albums released during this decade have received diamond certification from the RIAA for sales over 10 million. One of those was a greatest hits set and another was a double disc set (5 million units actually sold):

(2000) N Sync - No Strings Attached - 11 million
(2000) The Beatles - 1 - 10 million
(2000) Britney Spears - Oops...I Did It Again - 10 million
(2000) Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory - 10 million
(2002) Norah Jones - Come Away with Me - 10 million
(2002) Shania Twain - Up - 11 million
(2003) Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below - 10 million

Those year end tally's are inaccurate. You can add 480,000 copies minimum onto "MIMI" since that 6.9million figure was reached two weeks ago. Since then she sold 190,000 and 290,000 in the preceeding weeks in the US alone. So the actual year end figure for that album is 500,000 more minimum.

Also, the top album of 2001 would have been Invincible since it sold between 9-11million copies.

What a sad list.

RipHer2Shreds said:

but those sales are for the usa only, the list posted in the first post is worldwide. these albums you posted here sold far more copies worldwide, and many more albums in the 00's have sold over 10 million worldwide. this defiently is a sad sad year for album sales if even worldwide people cant sell 10 million or over. although you can see already that madonnas is gonna sell over 10 million by next year if shes already sold 4 million in the first couple of months.


but these sales are only for how much the album sold in 2005 right? so the albums that were released in 2004 dont get the 2004 years sales counted, dont they?
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hellomoto said:

You are correct. I should have prefaced my post by saying those were USA sales only. My point was that not long ago the list ehuff posted could have been USA sales only, but they're worldwide figures.

RipHer2Shreds said:

Actually, I think Shania's "Up!" is probably considered a double disc (I highly doubt it sold 11 million copies....it just didn't have the popularity of her "Come On Over" and they killed it when they could have kept releasing singles).

VinnyM27 said:

It sold a little over 5 million. It got double-disc credit, just like OutKast did.

FunkyBrotha said:

OMG...what are you talking about?

VinnyM27 said:

Worldwide. After cutout bins.

RipHer2Shreds said:

I've seen a much higher figure attributed to the Beatles 1 album, like double if not triple that.

VoicesCarry said:

No, why is MJ's album being discussed as the top album of 2001? It never came up...

mynameisnotsusan said:

US sales only. Diamond is 10 million sold in the US (since every country has different gold/platinum standards).

VinnyM27 said:

Because an MJ fam entered the thread?

Anxiety said:

No... Green Day's album is not so great.

ehuffnsd said:

Exactly.That's why many artists (and their labels) need to lower their expectations.If Madonna can sell around 7 or 8 million copies worldwide (a very likely figure for COADF),then I consider that a success.Anyone expecting her CD to sell like 'True Blue' or 'Like A Virgin' needs a reality check.

MendesCity said:

I'm thrilled that their album is doing so well.It's one of the best CDs I bought in 2005."Feel Good Inc" and "Dare" are excellent singles.

VoicesCarry said:

You said it...I notice I do that with Donna Summer, just kind of name drop, but most of the time it's apporpraite to the topic. That was scary out of place!

DavidEye said:

Well if everyone would just buy three copies of it like I did (regular CD, the non-stop mix on Itunes and the deluxe edtion), then she we can get it up there (and I'm tempted to buy a forth, or would that be overkill)?

VinnyM27 said:

yeah,that would be overkill

According to an article published in Billboard at the beginning of 2002. MJ's Invincible was the world's #11 best selling album of 2001 selling 5.4 million units. Not bad at all considering the album was only available for two months in 2001.

I think Janet's All For You came in with 5.1 million that year.