From Billboard Magazine's Decade/Year End In Review Issue:
Soundscan Top 50 Selling Albums Of The 2000's
01 The Beatles - 1 11,515,000
02 N'SYNC - No Strings Attached 11,112,000
03 Norah Jones - Come Away With Me 10,557,000
04 Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP 10,208,000
05 Eminem - The Eminem Show 9,806,000
06 Usher - Confessions 9,719,000
07 Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory 9,716,000
08 Creed - Human Clay 9,492,000
09 Britney Spears - Oops!...I Did It Again 9,185,000
10 Nelly - Country Grammar 8,462,000
11 50 Cent - Get Rich Or Die Tryin' 7,517,000
12 Soundtrack - O Brother, We Art Thou? 7,517,000
13 Evanescence - Fallen 7,318,000
14 Nickelback - All The Right Reasons 7,264,000
15 Santana - Supernatural 6,953,000
16 Enya - A Day Without Rain 6,926,000
17 Carrie Underwood - Some Hearts 6,876,000
18 Shaggy - Hot Shot 6,800,000
19 Avril Lavigne - Let Go 6,732,000
20 Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water 6,703,000
21 Nelly - Nellyville 6,458,000
22 Creed - Weathered 6,380,000
23 Alicia Keys - Songs In A Minor 6,210,000
24 Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway 6,109,000
25 Tim McGraw - Greatest Hits 6,020,000
26 Dixie Chicks - Home 6,007,000
27 Mariah Carey - The Emancipation Of Mimi 5,922,000
28 Green Day - American Idiot 5,911,000
29 Josh Grobal - Closer 5,792,000
30 Linkin Park - Meteora 5,732,000
31 Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below 5,674,000
32 Dixie Chicks - Fly 5,640,000
33 Staind - Break The Cycle 5,593,000
34 3 Doors Down - The Better Life 5,563,000
35 Nickleback - Silver Side ZUp 5,446,000
36 P!nk - Mizundastood - 5,441,000
37 Backstreet Boys - Black & Blue 5,414,000
38 Dr. Dre - Dr. Dre - 2001 5,404,000
39 Shania Twain - Up! 5,396,000
40 50 Cent - The Massacre - 5,217,000
41 Eminem - Encore 5,156,000
42 Rascal Flatts - Feels Like Today 5,152,000
43 Faith Hill - Breathe 5,083,000
44 Kid Rock - Cocky 5,072,000
45 Josh Groban - Josh Groban 5,047,000
46 Celine Dion - All The Way... A Decade Of Song 4,997,000
47 N'SYNC - Celebrity 4,903,000
48 Soundtrack - High School Musical 4,849,000
49 Rascal Flatts - Me and My Gang 4,802,000
50 Various Artists - Now 5 4,789,000
Source: Nielsen Soundscan for the period of January 2000 through the week ending November 29th, 2009.
Soundscan Top 50 Album Sellers Of The 2000's
01 Eminem 32,241,000
02 The Beatles 30,182,000
03 Tim McGraw 24,769,000
04 Toby Keith 24,469,000
05 Britney Spears 22,969,000
06 Kenny Chesney 22,034,000
07 Linkin Park 21,421,000
08 Nelly 21,232,000
09 Creed 20,594,000
10 Jay-Z 20,424,000
11 Nickelback 19,817,000
12 Rascal Flatts 19,408,000
13 Josh Groban 19,348,000
14 Alan Jackson 18,857,000
15 N'Sync 18,303,000
16 Dixie Chicks 18,178,000
17 Johnny Cash 18,143,000
18 Kid Rock 17,614,000
19 Metallica 17,403,000
20 Celine Dion 17,363,000
21 George Strait 17,275,000
22 Michael Jackson 17,261,000
23 Norah Jones 17,087,000
24 U2 16,817,000
25 Elvis Presley 16,486,000
26 Usher 16,329,000
27 Dave Matthews Band 16,025,000
28 AC/DC 15,935,000
29 50 Cent 15,868,000
30 Alicia Keys 15,561,000
31 Rod Stewart 15,561,000
32 Santana 14,975,000
33 Destiny's Child 14,878,000
34 Coldplay 14,604,000
35 Mariah Carey 14,341,000
36 Pink Floyd 14,164,000
37 Shania Twain 13,850,000
38 Ludacris 13,442,000
39 Enya 13,422,000
40 Green Day 13,363,000
41 Andrea Boccelli 13,353,000
42 Outkast 13,277,000
43 R. Kelly 13,234,000
44 Faith Hill 12,899,000
45 Mary J. Blige 12,614,000
46 3 Doors Down 12,551,000
47 Christina Aguilera 12,380,000
48 Limp Bizkit 12,378,000
49 Bon Jovi 12,378,00
50 Frank Sinatra 12,221,000
Source: Nielsen Soundscan for the period of January 2000 through the week ending Nov. 29, 2009.
Wow, no Bouncy in either one of these.
