This is a list of the best selling artists this MILLENIUM ( not overall careers) and only regarding ALBUM SALES not singles.
* Albums released PRE 2001 are not counted because it is not possible to know exactly how much they sold before the millenium began *
* This is about pure album sales, no streaming or single sales included *
1) Eminem : 72,743,000
2) Adele : 61,375,00
3) Coldplay : 55,949,000 millions.
4) Britney : 34,752,003
You can check the sales in detail here with certifications to see these are fair estimates and done by people who know about charts.
I just added it, she is actually the second best selling artist this millenium. At first I did not include her because I am dumb and thought 2000(year) sales counted towards this millenium
I am editing the OP and adding other big sellers as well.
You guys can do the maths if you want to see if I made a mistake somewhere. I'll add Alicia, Bey, Gaga, Katy, Taylor, Rihanna and some others tomorrow.
Don't forget this does not count albums released pre 2001. If you can provide receipts of how much X album released pre 2001 sold this millenium I might consider to add it to the OP.
The OP doesn't include Glory (300k) or the other 480k A Head Full Of Dreams has sold according to chartdata.
You guys can do the maths if you want to see if I made a mistake somewhere. I'll add Alicia, Bey, Taylor, Rihanna and some others tomorrow.
Don't forget this does not count albums released pre 2001. If you can provide receipts of how much X album released pre 2001 sold this millenium I might consider to add it to the OP.
just took a look at at katy's page and it has One of the Boys at 1.85M in the US and PRISM as 2.03M in the US, a few hundred thousand off from the actual #'s
if they can't recent US numbers right i wouldn't trust them for dated/foreign numbers
actually just checked a few other artists and their US album numbers are usually like 200k+ more than what they should be lmao, what a mess, there truly isn't a good WW album/song totals website
