Top 100 Best Selling Albums of All Time

This list is based upon a system called Equivalent Album Sales (EAS). This takes into account multiple facets of an album’s success beyond simply physical copies sold, and helps to show a more complete look at the best performing albums of all time.

Conversion ratio between formats:
Studio album: sales of the original album (ratio 1/1)
Other LPs: sales of compilations generated thanks to the album (ratio 1/1)
Physical singles: sales of physical singles from the album (added to CSPC total with a ratio 3/10 for 2-tracks, 5/10 for EPs and Maxis)
Digital singles: sales of digital singles from the album (ratio 1.5/10 for CSPC total)
Streaming: EAS of all the album tracks (ratio 1/1500 for Audio stream and 1/6750 for Video stream)

0:00 100-76
2:43 75-51
5:27 50-26
8:10 25-1

[TheManInMeOfficial]

This list is based upon a system called Equivalent Album Sales (EAS). This takes into account multiple facets of an album’s success beyond simply physical copies sold, and helps to show a more complete look at the best performing albums of all time. More info provided in the description.

[Verdun]

I’m so happy The Doors debut album is on here. Definitely my favorite album of all time. Same with The Dark Side of The Moon and Led Zeppelin IV.

[floridapmi]

the gap between first and second is AMAZING

[rbl]

I'm in my 60s, and this list is literally the soundtrack to our lives... very enjoyable to watch and hear!

[tobismusicchannel]

Most sources I found say that Dark Side Of The Moon is at least #3

[mrfakefake]

Total number of the Beatles album im the list:-8

Albums missing
With the Beatles
Beatles for sale
Rubber soul
Revolver
(Yellow Submarine if you want to count it )

[MelanieGonzalez-uyfj]

0:01 bookends
0:08 pet sounds
0:14 faith
0:22 doo wops hooligans
0:28 dookie
0:33 toys in the Attic
0:40 the Works QUEEEN
0:46 Whitney
0:53 come away With me
1:00 Use your Illusion I
1:06 múltiply X
1:13 face value
1:19 tracy champman
1:26 Californication
1:32 a hard Day night
1:38 make It big
1:44 Backstreets Back
1:52 white y Houston
1:58 Magical mystery tour
2:05 BOSTON
2:11 whats the story morning glory
2:18 the Beatles the white álbum
2:24 Blue Hawái
2:31 Every pictures tells a story
2:37 but seriously
2:44 breakfast in america
2:51 showhand
2:57 please please me
3:04 spice
3:10 Millenium
3:17 no Jacket required
3:23 súpernatural
3:30 News of the World
3:36 daydream
3:43 25
3:49 off the Wall
3:56 SGT peppers Lonely Hearts club band
4:03 Goodbye yellow brick road
4:09 history past present and future
4:15 baby One more time
4:22 wish you were here
4:29 private dancer
4:36 hysteria
4:41 paranoid
4:49 divide
4:55 no fences
5:01 the game
5:08 Let It be
5:14 exodus
5:21 escape
5:27 help
5:34 music box
5:40 led zeppelin II
5:47 1989
5:53 the marshall matherps LP
6:00 Machine head
6:06 bat out of hell
6:13 dirty dancer
6:20 hybrid theory
6:26 Elvis christmas álbum
6:33 titanic
6:39 arrival
6:46 reckless
6:52 true Blue
6:59 synchroncity
7:06 Purple rain
7:12 the Eminem show
7:19 are you experienced
7:25 the Doors
7:31 the fame mounster
7:38 like a virgin
7:44 abraxas Santana

[derrikmartin]

Sgt. Pepper being 64 is the best thing ever

[MrGaminweb]

Top 3 of selling album
3.Pink Floyd: Dark side of the moon
2.ACDC : Back in black
1.Michael Jackson :Thriller
And that s all, for a long, long, long, long, long

[watching]

Nice man. This is the music compilation channel I've always wanted

[kylerusk]

The fact that 49 million sales separates #1 from #2 is truly mind blowing!! 🤯

[MischaGER]

Saturday Night Fever - 70 million units 😱 genius epicness from the amazing Brothers Gibb 26 weeks on #1 only in the US - in Germany this masterpiece was two years in the charts ‼

[villain]

I saw Hotel California but I read their biggest selling album was Eagles Greatest Hits vol.1

[robingardella]

Wish the year of release was included. This list was much more fun Than I thought it would be!!

[maryckhkaidze]

All albums by led Zeppelin Beatles black Sabbath abba and pink Floyd doors jimi Hendrix are so perfect. and queen also

[albert]

Led Zeppelin IV and The Dark side of the moon are the GOATs.

[paulravenhill]

Adding singles sold on the back of the album isn’t album sales. This is a metric for people who don’t like listening to albums

[MelancholyPageyBoy]

Led Zeppelin IV and Back in Black have to be my favorite albums ever

[Beatleslover]

I love all these albums especially the Beatles one!🫶🏾❤

[Вагнера_]

Todos os Álbuns que estão no vídeo que eu ouvi até o momento:

0:00 Bookends do Simon e Garfunkel
0:07 Pet Sounds do Beach Boys
0:58 Use Your Illusion I do Guns N' Roses
1:24 Californication do Red Hot Chili Peppers
2:16 White Álbum(ou só Beatles) do Beatles
4:40 Paranoid do Black Sabbath
5:59 Machine Head do Deep Purple (Depois daquela enquete de qual é o melhor, eu fui ouvir esse album)
8:23 Bridge Over Troubled Water do Simon e Garfunkel
9:02 Black Álbum(ou só Metallica) do Metallica

Essas são a que eu ouvi até o momento que no caso é no dia 01/03/24 as 14 e 08 horas

A Enquete que eu tô me referindo na parte do Machine Head é a Enquete de qual álbum é melhor que tinha Rubber Soul, Psychi Griffith(não me julguem, não me lembro muito bem da escrita) L.A. Woman e o Machine Head

Quais são os álbuns que vcs já ouviram que estão no vídeo? Comente aí