It is kind of interesting to look at the list of 30m+ albums in order of release year
1975-1985 was just insane.
Year
Artist Name
Album Title
WW Sales
1971
Led Zeppelin
"IV"
35,700,000
1972
Simon & Garfunkel
"Greatest Hits"
30,700,000
1973
Pink Floyd
"Dark Side of the Moon"
44,200,000
1976
The Eagles
"Greatest Hits (1971-1975)"
36,900,000
1976
The Eagles
"Hotel California"
30,000,000
1977
Fleetwood Mac
"Rumours"
33,000,000
1977
Bee Gees
"Saturday Night Fever"
37,200,000
1978
Soundtrack
"Grease"
44,700,000
1979
Pink Floyd
"The Wall"
31,900,000
1980
AC/DC
"Back in Black"
35,700,000
1981
Queen
"Greatest Hits"
30,600,000
1982
Michael Jackson
"Thriller"
66,200,000
1984
Bob Marley
"Legend"
36,800,000
1985
Dire Straits
"Brother in Arms"
33,200,000
1987
Guns n' Roses
"Appetite for Destruction"
30,800,000
1987
Soundtrack
"Dirty Dancing"
33,300,000
1987
Michael Jackson
"Bad"
34,700,000
1991
Michael Jackson
"Dangerous"
30,200,000
1992
ABBA
"Gold"
31,400,000
1992
Whitney Houston
"The Bodyguard"
38,600,000
1995
Alanis Morrissette
"Jagged Little Pill"
33,200,000
1996
Celine Dion
"Falling Into You"
30,200,000
1997
Shania Twain
"Come on Over"
35,400,000
1997
Celine Dion
"Let's Talk About Love"
30,300,000
2000
The Beatles
"1"
32,400,000
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This is based on MJDangerous his list btw.
You should add to your study some research into when these albums sold the majority of their copies and on what format. It's strange because no album sold 10M copies globally during the 1960s.
Is MJDangerous the person behind FanofMusic? Because there are a lot of albums on there that are NOT accurate. Born in the USA sold 30 million copies WW. This is fact.
Is MJDangerous the person behind FanofMusic? Because there are a lot of albums on there that are NOT accurate. Born in the USA sold 30 million copies WW. This is fact.
Yes he is. Dunno when he updated Bruce his sales last.
Yes he is. Dunno when he updated Bruce his sales last.
He doesn't have Wrecking Ball or The Promise on his Bruce artist page which means he hasn't updated it since 2010. 900k in 4 years for a legendary album (when it has been on and off in the Top 300 on iTunes in many countries since then) does not seem too improbable
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He doesn't have Wrecking Ball or The Promise on his Bruce artist page which means he hasn't updated it since 2010. 900k in 4 years for a legendary album (when it has been on and off in the Top 300 on iTunes in many countries since then) does not seem too improbable
Maybe a bit over the top...I think DSOTM sold about 1-1.5M in that time frame.
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