Chart Listings: Top 100 Highest Sales Weeks for Albums.
US sales.
^ = Wasn’t the album’s first week.
POSITION | ARTIST | ALBUM | SALES | YEAR |
#1 | ‘N Sync | No Strings Attached | 2,415,859 | 2000 |
#2 | ‘N Sync | Celebrity | 1,879,955 | 2001 |
#3 | Eminem | The Marshall Mathers LP | 1,760,049 | 2000 |
#4 | Backstreet Boys | Black & Blue | 1,591,191 | 2000 |
#5 | Eminem | The Eminem Show | 1,320,000^ | 2002 |
#6 | Britney Spears | Oops…I Did It Again | 1,319,193 | 2000 |
#7 | Taylor Swift | 1989 | 1,286,761 | 2014 |
#8 | The Beatles | 1 | 1,258,667^ | 2000 |
#9 | Taylor Swift | Red | 1,208,291 | 2012 |
#10 | 50 Cent | The Massacre | 1,140,638 | 2005 |
#11 | Backstreet Boys | Millennium | 1,133,505 | 1999 |
#12 | Lady Gaga | Born This Way | 1,108,000 | 2011 |
#13 | Usher | Confessions | 1,096,213 | 2004 |
#14 | Garth Brooks | Double Live | 1,085,373 | 1998 |
#15 | Soundtrack | The Bodyguard | 1,061,000^ | 1993 |
#16 | Limp Bizkit | Chocolate Starfish | 1,054,511 | 2000 |
#17 | Taylor Swift | Speak Now | 1,047,000 | 2010 |
#18 | Norah Jones | Feels Like Home | 1,022,149 | 2004 |
#19 | Lil Wayne | Tha Carter III | 1,005,545 | 2008 |
#20 | Justin Timberlake | The 20/20 Experience | 968,000 | 2012 |
#21 | Lil Wayne | Tha Carter IV | 964,000 | 2011 |
#22 | Kanye West | Graduation | 957,000 | 2007 |
#23 | Pearl Jam | Vs. | 950,377 | 1993 |
#24 | Garth Brooks | The Hits | 907,000^ | 1995 |
#25 | Garth Brooks | Sevens | 896,932 | 1997 |
#26 | Creed | Weathered | 887,229 | 2001 |
#27 | Pearl Jam | Vitalogy | 877,000^ | 1994 |
#28 | Shania Twain | Up! | 874,000 | 2002 |
#29 | 50 Cent | Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ | 872,000 | 2003 |
#30 | Eminem | Encore | 870,730^ | 2004 |
#31 | Creed | Weathered | 865,000^ | 2002 |
#32 | Kanye West | Late Registration | 860,000 | 2005 |
#33 | The Beatles | Anthology 1 | 855,473 | 1995 |
#34 | Soundtrack | Titanic | 847,500^ | 1998 |
#35 | U2 | How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb | 839,696 | 2004 |
#36 | Soundtrack | The Bodyguard | 831,000^ | 1993 |
#37 | The Beatles | 1 | 823,587^ | 2000 |
#38 | 50 Cent | Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ | 822,000^ | 2003 |
#39 | Kenny G | Miracles: The Holiday Album | 819,000^ | 1995 |
#40 | ‘N Sync | No Strings Attached | 811,298^ | 2000 |
#41 | Linkin Park | Meteora | 810,000 | 2003 |
#42 | Eminem | The Eminem Show | 808,700^ | 2002 |
#43 | Snoop Doggy Dogg | Doggy Style | 802,858 | 1993 |
#44 | Eminem | The Marshall Mathers LP | 793,713^ | 2000 |
#45 | Eminem | The Marshall Mathers LP 2 | 792,000 | 2013 |
#46 | AC/DC | Black Ice | 784,000 | 2008 |
#47 | Dixie Chicks | Home | 780,000 | 2002 |
#48 | 50 Cent | The Massacre | 770,887^ | 2005 |
#49 | Guns N’ Roses | Use Your Illusion II | 770,000 | 1991 |
#50 | Tim McGraw | Live Like You Were Dying | 765,739 | 2004 |
#51 | Mariah Carey | Daydream | 760,000^ | 1995 |
#52 | Josh Groban | Noel | 757,000^ | 2007 |
#53 | Britney Spears | Britney | 745,744 | 2001 |
#54 | Alicia Keys | As I Am | 742,000 | 2007 |
#55 | Eminem | Recovery | 741,000 | 2010 |
#56 | Dave Matthews Band | Everyday | 732,720 | 2001 |
#57 | Adele | 21 | 730,000^ | 2012 |
#58 | Mary J. Blige | The Breakthough | 727,000 | 2005 |
#59 | Backstreet Boys | Black & Blue | 724,067^ | 2001 |
#60 | Rascal Flatts | Me and My Gang | 721,747 | 2006 |
#61 | Coldplay | Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends | 720,000 | 2008 |
#62 | Kenny G | Miracles: The Holiday Album | 718,000^ | 1994 |
#63 | Staind | Break the Cycle | 716,003 | 2001 |
#64 | Nelly | Nellyville | 714,114 | 2002 |
#65 | The Eagles | Long Road out of Eden | 711,000 | 2007 |
#66 | Eminem | Encore | 710,880 | 2004 |
#67 | Soundtrack | 8 Mile | 702,226 | 2002 |
#68 | Susan Boyle | I Dreamed A Dream | 701,000 | 2009 |
#69 | Backstreet Boys | Black & Blue | 698,578^ | 2002 |
#70 | DMX | …And Then There was X | 698,400 | 2000 |
#71 | Pearl Jam | Vitalogy | 694,500^ | 1995 |
#72 | 50 Cent | Curtis | 691,000 | 2007 |
#73 | The Notorious B.I.G | Life After Death | 689,535^ | 1997 |
#74 | Various Artists | Now 5 | 688,339^ | 2001 |
#75 | Guns N’ Roses | Use Your Illusion I | 685,000 | 1991 |
#76 | Garth Brooks | Sevens | 684,000^ | 1998 |
#77 | Justin Timberlake | Futuresex / Lovesounds | 684,000 | 2006 |
#78 | Beastie Boys | Hello Nasty | 681,572 | 1998 |
#79 | Metallica | Load | 680,000 | 1996 |
#80 | Jay-Z | Kingdom Come | 680,000 | 2006 |
#81 | Garth Brooks | Sevens | 678,000^ | 1998 |
#82 | The Beatles | 1 | 670,673^ | 2000 |
#83 | DMX | Flesh Of My Flesh Blood Of My Blood | 670,227 | 1999 |
#84 | Soundtrack | Titanic | 664,500^ | 1998 |
#85 | Makaveli | The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory | 664,000 | 1996 |
#86 | Destiny’s Child | Survivor | 663,280 | 2001 |
#87 | The Beatles | 1 | 662,077^ | 2000 |
#88 | Susan Boyle | I Dreamed A Dream | 661,000 | 2009 |
#89 | Ricky Martin | Ricky Martin | 660,807 | 1999 |
#90 | Drake | Nothing Was the Same | 658,000 | 2013 |
#91 | ‘N Sync | No Strings Attached | 654,600^ | 2000 |
#92 | Garth Brooks | Double Live | 649,496^ | 1998 |
#93 | Celine Dion | All the Way – A Decade of Song | 640,000^ | 2000 |
#94 | Limp Bizkit | Significant Other | 634,877 | 1999 |
#95 | Drake | Take Care | 631,000 | 2011 |
#96 | Mary J. Blige | Growing Pain | 629,000 | 2007 |
#97 | Shania Twain | Up! | 626,000^ | 2002 |
#98 | Linkin Park | Minutes to Midnight | 625,000 | 2007 |
#99 | Celine Dion | Let’s Talk About Love | 624,000^ | 1998 |
#100 | Dave Matthews Band | Busted Stuff | 622,000 | 2002 |