Thanks Box! The list presented was compiled based on votes from current and past NME journalists. Wrong. YOU HATE TO SEE IT. Yeah also there are a bunch of good albums on the list, even if the ranking methodology is incomprehensible.

Groupings are based on different sales benchmarks, the highest being for claims of at least 40 million copies, and the lowest being for claims of 20–29 million copies. In 2003, Rolling Stone asked a panel of 271 artists, producers, industry executives and journalists to pick the greatest albums of all time. ", "Vaughn Meader, Star as Kennedy Mimicker, Dies at 68", "Beatles Record-Busting LP May Be All-Time Biggest", "Al Coury Is the Frankenstein of the Record Business: at R.s.o., He Makes Monsters", "Jet Vol. Meh. 463 – Sony Music: Serrat-Sabina, Michel Teló, Adele y Bersuit", "Danish album certifications – Adele – 21", "Adele sells over 250,000 albums in Ireland", "Adele alcanzó coble platino en Chile por su disco '21, "Adele alcanza "Disco de Oro" en Venezuela", "Adele says she battled depression, before and after son's birth", "ARIA Catalogue Albums Chart – 06/08/2012", "Danish album certifications – Madonna – The Immaculate Collection", "Danish album certifications – Beatles – One", "Artistas & Espectáculos: Top Oficial AFP", "Beatles' catalog will be reissued September 9 in remastered versions", "Золотой и платиновый альбом в России – International 2008", "Abba's Björn Ulvaeus – The Billboard Interview", "Abba announce first new songs for 35 years", "Back in the Day: Abbey Road hits the shelves", "Bruce Springsteen still shows who's boss", "List of the albums certified "Million" by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (1989–2011)", "Leona Lewis follows in Celine Dion's 'Titanic' shadow for 'Avatar, "Billboard Bits: Nirvana's 'Nevermind' To Be Re-Released, No More Guest Stars on 'Glee, "How The Wall gets built in the first place", "Column - Still hungry? I learn more from all the opinionated people here on the blue. 17: Michael Jackson Dominated Headlines with His Music", "Digital Music Report / Recording Industry in Numbers", "Debunking Norah Jones' word-of-mouth success", "Walt Disney Records' High School Musical Audio Franchise Makes Global Chart History for Second Consecutive Year", "Viva La Vida top selling global album of 2008", "IFPI publishes Recording Industry in Numbers 2010", "Ten million and counting for the unstoppable Adele", "ARASHI Awarded Global Album of 2019 for Their 20th Anniversary Compilation 5x20 All the BEST ...", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_best-selling_albums&oldid=979590931, Articles with dead external links from August 2019, Articles with permanently dead external links, Short description is different from Wikidata, Wikipedia indefinitely semi-protected pages, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. 2. This is a list of the world's best-selling albums of recorded music. All posts copyright their original authors. Fiona Apple gets 3 entries in this list, she didn't get any in the 2012 version but all of those three albums did exist back in 2012, did they suddenly get better in the last 8 years? Wild Honey and zero Alice Cooper albums?

[5] Jackson also currently has the highest number of albums on the list with five, Celine Dion has four, while Whitney Houston, The Beatles and Madonna each have three.

(That is 1.33% for each additional year after 1975.