the beatles has the fastest selling album of all time.
the beatles has the fastest selling album of all time.
who has the fastest selling album of all time?
the beatles
on 19 november 2007, "spirit" debuted on the uk albums chart at number one with first-week sales of 375,872 copies, making it the fastest selling debut album in the uk, beating arctic monkeys' "whatever people say i am, that's what i'm not" (2006) by 12,000 copies, until the release of susan boyle's debut album "i dreamed a dream" in november 2009, which sold 410,000 copies in its first week. it was the fourth fastest selling album of all time, behind "be here now" (oasis, 1997), "x&y" (coldplay, 2005) and "life for rent" (dido, 2003). the album remained at number one for seven weeks, and reached one million sales after 29 days, making it the fastest album to sell one million copies by a solo female in the uk. "spirit" was the second biggest selling album of 2007 in the uk, behind "back to black" (amy winehouse, 2006). for each of the first seven weeks it sold over 100,000 copies, a record which was later equalled by "jls" (jls, 2009), and beaten by "21" (adele, 2011), which sold over 100,000 copies for twelve weeks. on 23 november 2008, the album returned to number one for a week, following the release of the deluxe version of the album. in the uk "spirit" was the fourth best-selling album of the 2000s, and is the twentieth best-selling album of all time. the album has been certified ten-times platinum by the british phonographic industry, with sales of 3.1 million by december 2014. it is the 4th best selling album of the millennium in the uk, and as of november 2015 has sold 3,132,668 copies in the uk.
spirit (leona lewis album)
the album topped the charts in sixteen countries. "up all night" became the third best selling album of 2012 globally, selling 4.5 million copies. it entered the uk albums chart at number two on 27 november 2011, selling 138,631 copies, becoming the uk's fastest-selling debut album of 2011 and also the fastest selling album of 2011 to miss out on the top spot. the album was kept off the top spot by the first week sales of rihanna's "talk that talk", which sold 163,819 copies. the album became the sixteenth biggest-selling album in the uk of 2011, with 468,000 copies sold. as of 8 december 2012, the album had sold 777,000 copies in the uk. the record became the fifteenth best-selling album in the uk of 2012, with sales of 372,000 copies. it was certified double platinum by the british phonographic industry (bpi) on 15 february 2013, denoting shipments of 600,000 copies. as of november 2014, the album has sold 1,086,434 copies in the uk. the record held the runner-up position for four non-consecutive weeks on the irish albums chart, and was the tenth biggest selling album in 2011 in ireland. after six months in the irish albums chart top twenty, the album peaked at number one in its twenty-seventh week. the album topped the australian aria chart for five consecutive weeks, and was certified quintuple platinum by the australian recording industry association (aria), denoting shipments of 350,000 units. in new zealand, the album topped new zealand albums chart for three non-consecutive weeks, and was certified triple platinum by recording industry association of new zealand (rianz), denoting shipments of 45,000 units.
up all night (one direction album)