Top Ten Selling CDs of Soundscan Era:

[NORTHCOAST]

Just saw this on Google News. I was surprised at this list. Do you think it is just US sales? I just saw another best selling list that included MB20's first CD at 12 mil.

TOP TEN SELLING ALBUMS OF SOUNDSCAN ERA
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(1991 - 12/28/2003)

Title / Artist Units Sold
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1. Come on Over / Shania Twain 14,896,911
2. Jagged Little Pill / Alanis Morisette 14,200,822
3. Metallica / Metallica 13,803,308
4. Millennium / Backstreet Boys 12,056,675
5. Bodyguard / Soundtrack 11,741,779
6. Supernatural / Santana 11,333,627
7. Human Clay / Creed 11,291,067
8. No Strings Attached / N Sync 11,069,789
9. Falling Into You / Celine Dion 10,614,005
10. Baby One More Time / Britney Spears 10,472,878

[jimmy74747]

These sales are just fromthe US retail outlets that use soundscan (which is about 95 percent of all stores that sell CD's)

MB20 may have 12 million when factoring in record clubs, and stores such as Eckerd, which I'm sure doesn't scan the 12 CD's they carry.

[j]

Which of those 10 can't be found in the record clubs?

[NORTHCOAST]

Thanks. I guess the sales outside of US would be several million, since MB20 is so big in Australia. I'm assuming these aren't included in Soundscan numbers.

[mst3k]

NORTHCOAST said:

Thanks. I guess the sales outside of US would be several million, since MB20 is so big in Australia. I'm assuming these aren't included in Soundscan numbers.

Correct. Soundscan numbers are for the US only. Australia may have their own POS tracking company, though.