METALLICA - Metallica Biggest Selling Album Of The Past 20 Years
January 5, 2012, 12 years ago
Nielsen SoundScan has published its annual list of Top 10 albums of the SoundScan era (1991 until now) and METALLICA's 1991 self-titled monster is still the top seller with sakes of 15,735,000, which is expected to skyrocket as the band performs the album in its entirety at select shows this year.
The current Top 10 albums of all time for the SoundScan era are:
1. Metallica – Metallica (15,735,000)
2. SHANIA TWAIN – Come On Over (15,513,000)
3. ALANIS MORISSETTE – Jagged Little Pill (14,714,000)
4. BACKSTREET BOYS– Millennium (12,168,000)
5. THE BEATLES – 1 – (11,985,000)
6. Soundtrack – The Bodyguard (11,829,000)
7. SANTANA – Supernatural (11,772,000)
8. CREED – Human Clay (11,574,000)
9. N SYNC – No Strings Attached (11,122,000)
10. CELINE DION – Falling Into You (10,790,000)
The biggest selling artists of the SoundScan era are:
1. GARTH BROOKS (68,561,000)
2. The Beatles (63,299,000)
3. MARIAH CAREY (53,612,000)
4. Metallica (53,170,000)
5. Celine Dion (51,492,000)
6. GEORGE STRAIT (43,310,000)
7. EMINEM (41,166,000)
8. TIM MCGRAW (40,169,000)
9. ALAN JACKSON (38,860,000)
10. PINK FLOYD (37,228,000)
