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What is the fastest-selling album ever?

25 by Adele This is a list of the fastest-selling albums (pure sales) in the United States since Nielsen SoundScan tracking began on Ma. 25 by Adele is the fastest-selling album of all time in the US with 3,378,000 copies sold in its first seven days.

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This is a list of the world's fastest-selling albums of recorded music. To appear on the list, the figure must have been published by a reliable source and all sales must have occurred in the first week of release.[1] This list can contain any type of album, including studio albums, extended plays, greatest hits, compilations, various artists, soundtracks and remixes. Market order within the article is ranked alphabetically. Albums within each table are listed in order of number of copies sold and thereafter by the artist's first name.

Argentina [ edit ]

This is a list of the fastest-selling albums in Argentina.

Rank Year Title Artist Sales Reference 1 1997 Romances Luis Miguel 400,000 [2]

Canada [ edit ]

This is a list of the fastest-selling albums in Canada since Nielsen SoundScan tracking began in 1995. 25 by Adele is the fastest-selling album of all time in Canada with over 305,928 copies sold in its first seven days of release.

France [ edit ]

This is a list of the fastest-selling albums in France.

Germany [ edit ]

This is a list of the fastest-selling albums in Germany.

Ireland [ edit ]

In Ireland, the fastest-selling album is The Best of 1980–1990 by U2 in November 1998.[24]

Japan [ edit ]

This is a list of the fastest-selling albums in Japan since Oricon was founded in November 1967. The top two sales records were achieved in the same week, on March 28, 2001, as both albums were promoted as a direct competition between J-pop singer-songwriters Hikaru Utada and Ayumi Hamasaki.[25]

Mexico [ edit ]

Luis Miguel holds several of the fastest-selling albums in Mexico. His seventh studio album Cómplices sold 320,000 units in its first day alone.[36]

New Zealand [ edit ]

This is a list of the fastest-selling albums in New Zealand since the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand, later renamed as Recorded Music NZ, was founded in 1972. 25 by Adele is the fastest-selling album of all time in NZ with over 18,766 copies sold in its first seven days following release.

South Korea [ edit ]

This is a list of the fastest-selling albums in South Korea as recorded by the Hanteo Information System[a] established in 1993.[42] Map of the Soul: 7 by BTS is the fastest-selling album of all time in South Korea with 3,378,633 copies shipped to stores in its first seven days of release.[43] ^ The Hanteo chart provides real-time daily, weekly, and monthly sales updates, but only accounts for data received from affiliated stores and therefore does not reflect the total sales of a given release. The Gaon Album Chart , established in 2010, counts albums shipped to all stores regardless of affiliation, so there is always a noticeable difference between its figures and Hanteo's. Gaon, however, only began providing realtime data from 2019. Given this article's scope, and the limitations of existing sources, Hanteo's numbers alone are used.

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United Kingdom [ edit ]

This is a list of the fastest-selling albums in the United Kingdom. 25 by Adele is the fastest-selling album of all time in the UK with just over 803,000 copies sold in its first seven days.

Notes:

† Be Here Now was unconventionally released on a Thursday and debuted at number one based on three-day sales of 696,000. Sales from its first full week of availability, which went from Thursday to Wednesday were 813,000, which remains the most copies an album has sold in its first week on sale.[53]

The second week's sales for 25 were 439,000. [62]

were 439,000. The fifth week's sales for 25 were 450,000.[63]

In 1987, Michael Jackson's Bad debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart, selling 350,000 copies in its first-week, a record by that time, followed by Madonna among females with The Immaculate Collection.[64]

United States [ edit ]

This is a list of the fastest-selling albums (pure sales) in the United States since Nielsen SoundScan tracking began on March 1, 1991. 25 by Adele is the fastest-selling album of all time in the US with 3,378,000 copies sold in its first seven days. Notes: ^ I The opening number denotes sales from the first four days of availability as The Massacre was unconventionally released in the middle of the week. ^ II' The Eminem Shows release was pushed up due to bootlegging. In its first week, an unconventional week with only one day of sales, it did 284 000. The opening number denoted is the sales of the albums second week, its first full week of sales.

Pre-SoundScan era [ edit ]

The following albums predate the introduction of Nielsen SoundScan, and are possibly subject to manipulation or inflation as sales were self-reported by record labels:[69]

SoundScan era [ edit ]

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