I dont have time to look back but did Lauryn Hill make it? The Miseducation is a flawfree album and was a pretty big album in 1998-99 and she got like 5 grammys
6. Whitney Houston
Whitney Houston: #1 best selling album of 1986
Whitney: #12 best selling album of 1988
I'm Your Baby Tonight: #10 best selling album of 1991
The Bodyguard: #1 best selling album of 1993
The Preacher's Wife: #17 best selling album of 1997
Whitney: The Greatest Hits: #18 best selling album of 2012
Total Score: 20+9+11+20+4+3=67
Billboard themselves said Blown Away was the 7th best selling album. Source
Yes, they did. But Billboard's Year-End Chart runs from the beginning of Dec. of the previous year to the end of Nov. of the following year. That article was for the calendar year of 2012, not the Year-End Chart.
Whitney would've been #3 if Waiting to Exhale was counted, but she only sings 3 songs on it any many others sing on it as well, so it wouldn't be fair to include it with her receipts.