Top 10 best-selling albums of all time
Daily Tens #21 · Monday, August 3, 2026 · Ranked by estimated worldwide sales
Heads up: the answers are published further down this page.
The answers
- 1 Thriller
- 2 Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975)
- 3 Back in Black
- 4 The Bodyguard
- 5 The Dark Side of the Moon
- 6 Bat Out of Hell
- 7 Hotel California
- 8 Come On Over
- 9 Rumours
- 10 Saturday Night Fever
Ranking method
- Metric
- Estimated worldwide sales
- Data through
- 2025
- Source
- Wikipedia: List of best-selling albums
- Notes
- Claimed sales compiled from certifications and label figures. Streaming equivalents are excluded.
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