The 25 Biggest First-Week Album Sales in Music History

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25.Kanye West, Late Registration: 860,000

24.50 Cent, Get Rich Or Die Tryin': 872,000

23.Shania Twain, Up!: 874,000

22.The Beatles, Anthology 1: 885,000

21.Creed, Weathered: 887,000

20.Garth Brooks, Sevens: 897,000

19.Pearl Jam, Vs.: 950,000

18.Kanye West, Graduation: 957,000

17.Lil Wayne, Tha Carter IV: 964,000

16.Justin Timberlake, The 20/20 Experience: 968,000

15.Lil Wayne, Tha Carter III: 1,006,000

14.Norah Jones, Feels Like Home: 1,022,000

13.Taylor Swift, Speak Now: 1,047,000

12.Limp Bizkit, Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water: 1,055,000

11.Garth Brooks, Double Live: 1,085,000

10.Usher, Confessions: 1,096,000

9.Lady Gaga, Born This Way: 1,108,000

8.Backstreet Boys, Millennium: 1,134,000

7.50 Cent, The Massacre: 1,141,000

6.Taylor Swift, Red: 1,208,000

5.Britney Spears, Oops!...I Did It Again: 1,319,000

4.Backstreet Boys, Black & Blue: 1,591,000

3.The Marshall Mathers LP: 1,760,000

2.N Sync, Celebrity: 1,880,000

1.N Sync, No Strings Attached: 2,416,000

http://www.complex.com/music/2013/03/the-25-biggest-first-week-album-sales-in-music-history

 

[meek meals]

SMH 2 Million albums in a week is just disgusting

Think about how hard it is for artists to even get 100k but 2 MILLION?

 

[currensy]

Yeezus.

 

[dt43]

Carter IV is easily the worst project on there, by far.. Wayne is winning man

 

[certifiedflyboi23]

Where Jay-Z at?

 

[ninjahood]

Where Jay-Z at?

 

[basick]

N SYNC Won 

 

[DrizzyNYC]

Smh at the carter 4 on there. Seems about right though, The Carter 4 being the only terrible album.....

 

[travis]

Damn boy bands play no games I see .

 

[dat dude chris]

Damn nsync got the top 2 spots?! Dayum smh. N where is jay z haha

 

[ripc]

MMLP

 

[miamiboy]

50 killing em.

 

[dipsetgeneral]

I think "Kingdom Come" was Shawn's biggest first week release wit' like 605K?

+

Tune wit' back to back Carter's

Taylor, Gaga, Wayne, Justin, and Adele are probably the only artists that can pull 1 Millions in today's computer age.

 

[Bert.]

N SYNC Won 

screw them, i got love for Backstreet boys tho

 

[black migo]

screw them, i got love for Blackstreet tho

No diggity

 

[trilluminated]

Damn boy bands played no games I see .

fixed.

 

[$tacy]

Damn wayne had the teenage white kids heads gone, ive never met anyone that even had the bootleg carter iv

 

[shannonscrooks]

Lou Pearlman won and then he lost, but he won.

 

[Hahahaha]

24.50 Cent, Get Rich Or Die Tryin': 872,000
18.Kanye West, Graduation: 957,000
16.Justin Timberlake, The 20/20 Experience: 968,000
12.Limp Bizkit, Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water: 1,055,000
7.50 Cent, The Massacre: 1,141,000
3.The Marshall Mathers LP: 1,760,000
 

Bought these.

N'SYNC >>> Backstreet Boys

and Get Rich or Die Tryin' sold 870K the second week as well

 

[6 Rings G.O.A.T.]

N Sync put up #s!!

 

[sequan]

For some reason when I was that age I thought the Backstreet Boys were more popular than N'Sync. Anyways Drake sold 631,000 first week for his last album, I wonder if he can get that #15 spot.

 

[sequan]

For some reason when I was that age I thought the Backstreet Boys were more popular than N'Sync. Anyways Drake sold 631,000 first week for his last album, I wonder if he can get that #15 spot.

Nevermind the Backstreet Boys were more popular dudes sold 28 million with Millenium :x :x

 

[cash money 1999]

alot of these arent great albums , goes to show

that hype >>>

norah jones though

come away with me probably my all time favorite album

i hate the wave of copy cats that came after her though

i think feels like home only did 1 million first week because

of come away with me cleaning up at the grammy's

come away with me went diamond too i believe

 

[servechilled81]

what's even more impressive about NSync's 2M first week is that they topped 1M the very first DAY of release....

NSync >> Backstreet Boys, Backstreet Boys were corny even back then

 

[illphillip]

I'm almost thinking this is not in "music history" but moreso in the Soundscan era.

I say this because, with those NSync and BSB #'s, I'm surprised not to see New Kids or Michael Jackson on there.

Limp Bizkit was LARGE once!