#TOP SELLING JAY Z ALBUMS SERIES#
The Canadian singer emerged as a teen star in her homeland with a series of French-language albums during the 1980s. Celine Dion – The Colour of My Love (1993) 20m Faith won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1989.Ĥ7. The debut solo studio album by George Michael spawned four number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100: “Faith”, “Father Figure”, “One More Try”, and “Monkey”, making Michael the only British male solo artist to have four number one hits from one album. Green Day has sold more than 85 million records worldwide.
The album won the band a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Album in 1995. In 1994, their major label debut Dookie, became a breakout success and eventually shipped over 10 million copies in the US. In 1986, friends Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt, 14 years old at the time, formed a band called Sweet Children and played their debut gig the following year.
The album also won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1985. Five singles were released from Can’t Slow Down, all of which hit the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, including two that reached number-one: “All Night Long (All Night)” and “Hello”. Richie’s second solo studio album has sold over 20 million copies. Lionel Richie – Can’t Slow Down (1983) 20m
The list also flags up no Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Queen, and as yet (but it won’t be long), no Ed Sheeran.ĥ0. Celine Dion has three albums, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Britney Spears, Madonna, Eminem, Adele and Michael Jackson all have two albums each in the list. Only two albums from the sixties made it and British artists make up only 15 places on the list. Some stats: Five out of the top ten best selling albums in the world were all released during the seventies, the most albums in the 50 by decade goes to the nineties with 16 albums, just beating the eighties with 15.