Best-selling album in the United States since Nielsen SoundScan tracking began

This is a list of best-selling albums in the United States of the Nielsen SoundScan era. SoundScan began tracking sales data for Billboard on March 1, 1991. SoundScan data is unrelated to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certifications, and is based on actual sales while the RIAA's certification process is based on shipments.

Best-sellers (overall)

Shania Twain's *Come On Over* (released in 1997) has sold over 15.7 million copies.

List of the best-selling albums in the United States since 1991, showing title, release year, artist, and sales figure
Album	Release year	Artist(s)	Pure sales figures	Ref.
Metallica	1991	Metallica	17,300,000	^[1]
Come On Over	1997	Shania Twain	15,730,000	^[2]
Jagged Little Pill	1995	Alanis Morissette	15,200,000	^[3]
1	2000	The Beatles	13,000,000	^[4]
Legend	1984	Bob Marley and the Wailers	12,300,000	^[5]
Millennium	1999	Backstreet Boys	12,300,000^[a]	^[7]
The Bodyguard	1992	Whitney Houston	12,140,000	^[8]
21	2011	Adele	12,100,000	^[9]
Supernatural	1999	Santana	11,850,000	^[8]
Human Clay	1999	Creed	11,690,000	^[8]
No Strings Attached	2000	NSYNC	11,160,000^[b]	^[8]
Come Away with Me	2002	Norah Jones	11,100,000	^[12]
The Marshall Mathers LP	2000	Eminem	11,000,000	^[7]
Falling into You	1996	Celine Dion	10,900,000	^[13]
...Baby One More Time	1999	Britney Spears	10,700,000^[c]	^[17]
The Eminem Show	2002	Eminem	10,600,000	^[12]
Hybrid Theory	2000	Linkin Park	10,500,000	^[18]
Confessions	2004	Usher	10,300,000	^[12]
Cracked Rear View	1994	Hootie & the Blowfish	10,270,000^[d]	^[20]
Titanic	1997	James Horner	10,170,000	^[20]
Backstreet Boys	1997	Backstreet Boys	10,120,000^[e]	^[20]
Ten	1991	Pearl Jam	10,000,000	^[22]

Best-selling albums by decade

1991–1999

Best-selling albums in the United States in the 1990s^[23]^{[better source needed]}
Album	Release year	Artist(s)	Sales
Jagged Little Pill	1995	Alanis Morissette	13,542,393
Come On Over	1997	Shania Twain	12,110,660
Metallica	1991	Metallica	11,715,533
The Bodyguard	1992	Whitney Houston	11,605,690
Falling into You	1996	Celine Dion	10,224,282
Cracked Rear View	1994	Hootie & the Blowfish	9,817,666
Titanic	1997	James Horner	9,806,175
Millennium	1999	Backstreet Boys	9,445,732
Ropin' the Wind	1991	Garth Brooks	9,370,863
Backstreet Boys	1997	Backstreet Boys	9,258,265

2000–2009

Best-selling albums in the United States in the 2000s^[24]
Album	Release year	Artist(s)	Sales
1	2000	The Beatles	11,564,000
No Strings Attached	2000	NSYNC	11,113,000
The Marshall Mathers LP	2000	Eminem	11,100,000
The Eminem Show	2002	Eminem	10,900,000
Come Away With Me	2002	Norah Jones	10,579,000
Confessions	2004	Usher	9,730,000
Hybrid Theory	2000	Linkin Park	9,697,000
Human Clay	1999	Creed	9,495,000
Oops!... I Did It Again	2000	Britney Spears	9,184,000
Country Grammar	2000	Nelly	8,464,000

2010–2019

Best-selling albums in the United States in the 2010s^[25]
Album	Release year	Artist(s)	Sales
21	2011	Adele	12,009,000
25	2015	Adele	9,517,000
1989	2014	Taylor Swift	6,215,000
Recovery	2010	Eminem	4,867,000
Speak Now	2010	Taylor Swift	4,694,000
Red	2012	Taylor Swift	4,465,000
Christmas	2011	Michael Bublé	4,379,000
Frozen	2014	Various artists	4,314,000
Need You Now	2010	Lady Antebellum	4,221,000
The 20/20 Experience	2013	Justin Timberlake	3,743,000

Best-selling albums by year

The following list includes the annual best-selling albums since 1991, as reported by MRC Data (formerly Nielsen SoundScan). For albums released after 2015, the best-performing album of the year is determined by album-equivalent units consisted of album sales, digital songs sales, and on-demand streaming, while the best-selling album is determined by album sales only.^[27]

Key
†	Indicates album-equivalent units

Best-selling albums by year in the United States since 1991
Year	Album	Artist(s)	Figures	Ref.
1991	Mariah Carey	Mariah Carey	4,885,000	^[28]
1992	Some Gave All	Billy Ray Cyrus	4,700,000	^[29]
1993	The Bodyguard	Whitney Houston	5,460,000	^[30]^[31]
1994	The Lion King	Various Artists	4,900,000	^[32]
1995	Cracked Rear View	Hootie & the Blowfish	7,000,000	^[33]
1996	Jagged Little Pill	Alanis Morissette	7,400,000	^[34]
1997	Spice	Spice Girls	5,300,000	^[35]
1998	Titanic	James Horner	9,338,061	^[36]
1999	Millennium	Backstreet Boys	9,445,732	^[36]^[37]
2000	No Strings Attached	NSYNC	9,936,104	^[36]^[38]
2001	Hybrid Theory	Linkin Park	4,812,852	^[36]
2002	The Eminem Show	Eminem	7,607,925 Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=Best-selling_album_in_the_United_States_since_Nielsen_SoundScan_tracking_began Text je dostupný za podmienok Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 3.0 Unported; prípadne za ďalších podmienok. Podrobnejšie informácie nájdete na stránke Podmienky použitia. Navigácia: Veda > Analytika Antropológia Aplikované vedy Bibliometria Dejiny vedy Encyklopédie Filozofia vedy Forenzné vedy Humanitné vedy Knižničná veda Kryogenika Kryptológia Kulturológia Literárna veda Medzidisciplinárne oblasti Metódy kvantitatívnej analýzy Metavedy Metodika Metodológia vedy Náboženstvo a veda Náučná literatúra Podvody vo vede Popularizácia vedy Potravinárstvo Prírodné vedy Pseudoveda Scientometria Spoločenské vedy Teórie Teatrológia Technické vedy Technika Terminológia Umenie Výskum Veda Veda a technika podľa štátu Veda a technika podľa kontinentu Veda a technika podľa roka Veda v kozme Vedci Vedecká literatúra Vedecké databázy Vedecké experimenty Vedecké konferencie Vedecké metódy Vedecké ocenenia Vedecké organizácie Vedecké parky Vedeckí spisovatelia Vzdelávanie Záhady Príbuzné výrazy: Text je dostupný za podmienok Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 3.0 Unported; prípadne za ďalších podmienok. Podrobnejšie informácie nájdete na stránke Podmienky použitia. www.astronomia.sk \| www.biologia.sk \| www.botanika.sk \| www.dejiny.sk \| www.economy.sk \| www.elektrotechnika.sk \| www.estetika.sk \| www.farmakologia.sk \| www.filozofia.sk \| Fyzika \| www.futurologia.sk \| www.genetika.sk \| www.chemia.sk \| www.lingvistika.sk \| www.politologia.sk \| www.psychologia.sk \| www.sexuologia.sk \| www.sociologia.sk \| www.veda.sk I www.zoologia.sk

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