User:FraDany/List of my best-selling albums by year

This is a list of the best-selling albums on the Albums Chart for each year.

Best-selling albums by year

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Key
Studio album
Compilation, greatest hits and EP album
Soundtrack album
Indicates that, this album, is the Christmas
number one album of its year
Year Album Artist Weeks
1963 Please Please Me The Beatles 13
1964 A Hard Day's Night 21
1965 Help! 11
1966 Rubber Soul 19
1967 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 28
1968 The Beatles 22
1969 Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin 17
1970 Led Zeppelin II 19
1971 Untitled (Led Zeppelin IV) 33
1972
1973 Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Elton John 16
1974 Elton John's Greatest Hits 10
1975 Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy 18
1976 The Best of ABBA ABBA 16
1977 Rumours Fleetwood Mac 30
1978 Grease: The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture Various artists 18
1979 Bat Out of Hell Meat Loaf 17
1980 Super Trouper ABBA 17
1981 Greatest Hits Queen 18
1982 Toto IV Toto 13
1983 Thriller Michael Jackson 35
1984 Purple Rain Prince and the Revolution 17
1985 No Jacket Required Phil Collins 14
1986 True Blue Madonna 17
1987 Bad Michael Jackson 20
1988 Faith George Michael 16
1989 Like a Prayer Madonna 11
1990 The Immaculate Collection 15
1991 Love Hurts Cher 18
1992 Gold: Greatest Hits ABBA 13
1993 Happy Nation Ace of Base 13
1994 Music Box Mariah Carey 14
1995 HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I Michael Jackson 14
1996 Falling into You Céline Dion 13
1997 Spice Spice Girls 15
1998 Titanic: Music from the Motion Picture James Horner 21
1999 Believe Cher 15
2000 Come On Over Shania Twain 14
2001 1 The Beatles 18
2002 The Eminem Show Eminem 17
2003 Fallen Evanescence 10
2004 Number Ones Michael Jackson 18
2005 American Idiot Green Day 14
2006 FutureSex/LoveSounds Justin Timberlake 13
2007 Loose Nelly Furtado 17
2008 Mamma Mia! The Movie Soundtrack Mamma Mia! film cast 12
2009 The Fame Lady Gaga 15
2010 Teenage Dream Katy Perry 12
2011 21 Adele 17
2012 The Truth About Love Pink 10
2013 The Heist Macklemore & Ryan Lewis 10
2014 Frozen: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Various artists 19
2015 25 Adele 10
2016 This Is Acting Sia 12
2017 ÷ Ed Sheeran 14
2018 The Greatest Showman: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Various artists 13
2019 Bohemian Rhapsody: The Original Soundtrack Queen 11
2020 After Hours The Weeknd 10
2021 30 Adele 12

Best-selling albums by decade

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Decade Album Artist Weeks
1960s Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band The Beatles 28
1970s Untitled (Led Zeppelin IV) Led Zeppelin 33
1980s Thriller Michael Jackson 35
1990s Titanic: Music from the Motion Picture James Horner 21
2000s 1 The Beatles 18
2010s 21 Adele 17