20 Best-Selling Albums Of All Time (Updated List)

What are the best-selling albums of all time? Having albums has been one of the most important things in human life most especially if you are the type that can’t do without music, you see music in a different dimension and this helps to go with day-to-day jobs without getting tired.

Music is also a way of relaxing yourself, entertainment and also used for celebrations. This has been on from generation to generation and has become part and parcel of our lives. From when human has taken civilization to the next level where music is being recorded on disks and now made cheaper and easy to access through a digitalized form and streams where you have the freedom to choose the music genre of your choice.

People also enjoy all that music can offer through other means like live performances, radio broadcasts and many others all for convenience’s sake.

Music itself is made by people and based on how pleasant it sounds people tend to prefer some musicians to others, the hard works of such musicians can’t be left unnoticed and this leads us to compile the list of the top best-selling albums of all time.

We have listed the best selling albums of all time based on the total certified units being sold and this is very much on point as there have been measures put in place to monitor the rate of sales of musical albums so that the sold figures won’t be inflated just as some record companies do for promotional purpose.

Below is the updated list of the top 20 best-selling albums in the world.

Best-Selling Albums Of All Time

Rank	Album title	Artist	Certified units
#1.	Eagles/Their Greatest Hits 1971 – 1975	Eagles	38 million
#2.	Thriller	Michael Jackson	33 million
#3.	Hotel California	Eagles	26 million
#4.	Back in Black	AC/DC	25 million
#5.	The Beatles	The Beatles	24 million
#6.	Greatest Hits Volume I & Volume II	Billy Joel	23 million
#7.	Led Zeppelin IV	Led Zeppelin	23 million
#8.	The Wall	Pink Floyd	23 million
#9.	Double Live	Garth Brooks	21 million
#10.	Cracked Rear View	Hootie & The Blowfish	21 million
#11.	Rumours	Fleetwood Mac	21 million
#12.	Come on Over	Shania Twain	20 million
#13.	No Fences	Garth Brooks	18 million
#14.	Appetite for Destruction	Guns N’ Roses	18 million
#15.	The Bodyguard (Soundtrack)	Whitney Houston	18 million
#16.	Boston	Boston	17 million
#17.	Greatest Hits	Elton John	17 million
#18.	The Beatles 1967 – 1970	The Beatles	17 million
#19.	Jagged Little Pill	Alanis Morissette	16 million
#20.	Saturday Night Fever (Soundtrack)	Bee Gees	16 million