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Chart Listings: Top Album Debuts by Year.
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Top Album Debuts by Year.
I composed this all on my own, finding the information for myself -- these are each the Top Debut Weeks by Year since Soundscan began tracking in 1991. To see my recently made Top Single Sales Weeks by Year, click this.
1991: Guns N Roses - Use Your Illusion II
(770,000) [October 5, 1991]
1992: Garth Brooks - The Chase
(402,500) [November 28, 1993]
1993: Pearl Jam - Vs.
(950,000) [November 6, 1993]
1994: Pink Floyd - The Division Bell
(465,000) [April 24, 1994]
1995: Michael Jackson - HIStory
(391,000) [July 8, 1995]
1996: Metallica - Load
(680,000) [June 22, 1996]
1997: Garth Brooks - Sevens
(897,000) [December 13, 1997]
1998: Garth Brooks - Double Live
(1,085,000) [December 5, 1998]
1999: Backstreet Boys - Millennium
(1,134,000) [June 5, 1999]
2000: N Sync - No Strings Attached
(2,400,000) [April 8, 2000]
2001: N Sync - Celebrity
(1,879,955) [August 11, 2001]
2002: Eminem - The Eminem Show
(1,322,000) [June 8, 2002]
2003: 50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Tryin'
(872,000) [February 22, 2003]
2004: Usher - Confessions
(1,096,000) [April 10, 2004] 
2005: 50 Cent - The Massacre
(1,140,000) [March 19, 2005]
2006: Mary J Blige - The Breakthrough
(729,000) [January 7, 2006]
2007: Kanye West - Graduation
(957,000) [September 29, 2007]
2008: Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
(1,005,545) [June 28, 2008]
2009: Susan Boyle - I Dreamed a Dream
(701,000) [December 12, 2009]
2010: Taylor Swift - Speak Now
(1,047,000) [November 13, 2010]
2011: Lady Gaga - Born This Way
(1,108,000) [June 11, 2011]
2012: Taylor Swift - Red
(1,280,000) [November 10, 2012]
2013: Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience
(968,000) [April 6, 2013]
Additional Notes:
"The Eminem Show" had street date violations (stores selling albums earlier than their release dates, illegally) and the release date got switched @ the last minute due to it leaking, resulting in it doing 285,000 in one day. It debuted a week early at #1, then went on next week to do the 1,322,000. If you count his 285k week at #1, then Shania Twain's "Up!" with 874k was 2002's highest.
"Born This Way" had that notorious Amazon MP3 99 cent discount that resulted in an additional 400k+ copies.  If you do not count those towards it's debut, then Lil Wayne's "Tha Carter IV" had the highest debut of 2011 with 964k.
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Iconic albums, and Born This Way too 
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That discount will forever haunt gaga 
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Garth and Nsync absolutely slaying. I wish we could go back to a time where albums actually sold because there was no way to illegally download the ****.
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Never heard of him. Is he local? Two years in a row is impressive. 50¢ featured twice too!
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Garth 
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The gentlemen destroying the pop gurls as usual
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Nsync slaying in just 1 week! Opening with 2+ million? That will NEVER happen again lol 1D who?!
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WAIT, Mary J was the first female to ever get the #1 debut of a year. 
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Originally posted by J a y
Never heard of him. Is he local? Two years in a row is impressive.
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He was the biggest album seller of the whole 90's decade in U.S.
And he's a Country artist, so most likely.
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Quote:
Originally posted by FreeXone
Nsync slaying in just 1 week! Opening with 2+ million? That will NEVER happen again lol 1D who?!
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JT his power 
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Quote:
Originally posted by FreeXone
Nsync slaying in just 1 week! Opening with 2+ million? That will NEVER happen again lol 1D who?!
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Being global in 2013 > being local in 2000. 
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Garth slayage was unreal
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Quote:
Originally posted by Idontcareaboutyou
Being global in 2013 > being local in 2000. |
Explain how N'SYNC is local
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wait mary j blige 
slay a bit!
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Originally posted by Idontcareaboutyou
Being global in 2013 > being local in 2000. |
Not when in 2013 you have the digital era, and social media power. 
Being local in 2000 actually sold you more than being global in 2013 too (2000 being the biggest album year in music ever).
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