美國最暢銷專輯(Best-selling Albums of US)

美國是目前世界最大的流行音樂市場，而目前最暢銷的流行音樂專輯主要也是匯聚了英語系的英美流行音樂藝人或團體的創作專輯與原聲帶以及精選集為主，僅有少數暢銷專輯是來自英美以外世界其他國家的藝人。

超過兩千萬張

Year	Artist	Album	Label	Shipments (Sales)	Certification
1982	Michael Jackson	Thriller	Epic	(27,300,000‡)	29× Platinum
1971	Led Zeppelin	Led Zeppelin IV	Atlantic	23,000,000	23× Platinum
1973	Pink Floyd	The Dark Side of the Moon	Capitol	(20,502,000‡)	15× Platinum (as of 1998)

超過一千五百萬張

Year	Artist	Album	Label	Shipments (Sales)	Certification
1977	Fleetwood Mac	Rumours	Warner Bros.	19,000,000	19× Platinum
1976	Eagles	Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975)	Asylum	(18,593,000‡)	29× Platinum
1980	AC/DC	Back in Black	Atlantic	(18,430,000‡)	22× Platinum
1987	Guns N' Roses	Appetite for Destruction	Geffen	18,000,000	18× Platinum
1997	Shania Twain	Come On Over	Mercury Nashville	(17,560,000)	20× Platinum
1976	Boston	Boston	Epic Records	17,000,000	17× Platinum
1991	Metallica	Metallica	Elektra	(16,002,000)	16× Platinum
1976	Eagles	Hotel California	Asylum	16,000,000	16× Platinum
1974	Elton John	Greatest Hits	Polydor	16,000,000	16× Platinum
1995	Alanis Morissette	Jagged Little Pill	Maverick	(15,277,000)	16× Platinum
1977	Soundtrack /Bee Gees	Saturday Night Fever	RSO	15,000,000	15× Platinum
1984	Bruce Springsteen	Born in the U.S.A.	Columbia	15,000,000	15× Platinum

超過一千萬張

Year	Artist	Album	Label	Shipments (Sales)	Certification
1969	The Beatles	Abbey Road	Apple	(14,000,000‡)	12× Platinum (as of 2001)
1978	John Travolta / Olivia Newton-John / Various artists	Grease	RSO	(14,000,000‡)	8× Platinum (as of 1984)
1972	Simon & Garfunkel	Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits	Columbia	14,000,000	14× Platinum
1999	Backstreet Boys	Millennium	Jive	(13,831,000)	13× Platinum
1984	Bob Marley & The Wailers	Legend	Island	(13,470,000‡)	15× Platinum
1992	Soundtrack / Whitney Houston	The Bodyguard	Arista	(13,426,000)	17× Platinum
1979	Pink Floyd	The Wall	Columbia/Capitol	(13,381,000‡)	23× Platinum
1987	Soundtrack	Dirty Dancing	RCA	(13,232,000‡)	11× Platinum (as of 1994)
1999	Santana	Supernatural	Arista	(13,052,000)	15× Platinum
2000	'N Sync	No Strings Attached	Jive	(12,672,000)	11× Platinum (as of 2001)
1984	Prince and the Revolution	Purple Rain	Warner Bros.	(12,548,000‡)	13× Platinum
2000	Eminem	The Marshall Mathers LP	Aftermath	(12,340,000)	10x Platinum (as of 2011)
2000	The Beatles	1	Capitol	(12,281,000)	11× Platinum (as of 2010)
1999	Britney Spears	...Baby One More Time	Jive	(12,155,000)	14× Platinum
1990	Garth Brooks	No Fences	Capitol Nashville	(12,000,000‡)	17× Platinum
1986	Bon Jovi	Slippery When Wet	Mercury Records	12,000,000	12× Platinum
1987	Def Leppard	Hysteria	Mercury Records	12,000,000	12× Platinum
1992	Kenny G	Breathless	Arista	12,000,000	12× Platinum
1980	Kenny Rogers	Greatest Hits	Liberty	12,000,000	12× Platinum
1969	Led Zeppelin	Led Zeppelin II	Atlantic	12,000,000	12× Platinum
1985	Phil Collins	No Jacket Required	Atlantic	12,000,000	12× Platinum
1997	Backstreet Boys	Backstreet Boys	Jive	(11,850,000)	14× Platinum
1996	Celine Dion	Falling into You	Epic Records	(11,799,000)	11× Platinum
1999	Creed	Human Clay	Wind-up Records	(11,674,000)	11× Platinum
1994	Hootie & the Blowfish	Cracked Rear View	Atlantic	(11,565,000)	16× Platinum
1967	The Beatles	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	Capitol	(11,500,000‡)	11× Platinum
1985	Billy Joel	Greatest Hits Volume I & Volume II	Columbia	11,500,000	23× Platinum
1997	Soundtrack	Titanic	Epic Records	(11,146,000)	11× Platinum
2000	Linkin Park	Hybrid Theory	Warner Bros.	(11,026,000)	10× Platinum
2002	Norah Jones	Come Away with Me	Blue Note	(11,000,000)	10× Platinum
1982	Eagles	Eagles Greatest Hits, Vol. 2	Asylum	11,000,000	11× Platinum
1973	Led Zeppelin	Houses of the Holy	Atlantic	11,000,000	11× Platinum
1976	James Taylor	Greatest Hits	Warner Bros.	11,000,000	11× Platinum
2011	Adele	21	Columbia/XL	(10,940,000)	10× Platinum
1988	Journey	Greatest Hits	Columbia	(10,925,000‡)	15× Platinum
1997	Celine Dion	Let's Talk About Love	Epic Records	(10,711,000)	10× Platinum
1998	Kid Rock	Devil Without a Cause	Atlantic Records	(10,527,000)	11× Platinum
1977	Meat Loaf	Bat Out of Hell	Epic Records	(10,500,000‡)	14× Platinum
2000	Britney Spears	Oops!... I Did It Again	Jive	(10,409,000)	10× Platinum
1980	Aerosmith	Greatest Hits	Columbia	(10,331,000‡)	11× Platinum
2002	Eminem	The Eminem Show	Aftermath	(10,300,000)	10× Platinum
1998	'N Sync	*NSYNC	RCA	(10,300,000)	10× Platinum
1991	Nirvana	Nevermind	DGC Records	(10,284,000)	10× Platinum
1998	Dixie Chicks	Wide Open Spaces	Monument	(10,121,000)	12× Platinum
1985	Whitney Houston	Whitney Houston	Arista	(10,038,000‡)	13× Platinum
2004	Usher	Confessions	Arista	(10,017,000)	10× Platinum
1991	Pearl Jam	Ten	Epic Records	(10,001,000)[	13× Platinum
1968	The Beatles	The Beatles	Capitol	(10,000,000‡)	19× Platinum
1977	Billy Joel	The Stranger	Columbia	10,000,000	10× Platinum
1971	Carole King	Tapestry	ODE	10,000,000	10× Platinum
1983	Def Leppard	Pyromania	Mercury Records	10,000,000	10× Platinum
1976	Doobie Brothers	Best of The Doobies	Warner Bros.	10,000,000	10× Platinum
1985	The Doors	The Best of The Doors	Elektra	10,000,000	10× Platinum
1970	Elvis Presley	Elvis' Christmas Album (budget reissue of 1957 LP with altered track listing)	RCA Camden/Pickwick	10,000,000	10× Platinum
1992	Eric Clapton	Unplugged	Reprise Records	10,000,000	10× Platinum
1989	Garth Brooks	Garth Brooks	Capitol	10,000,000	10× Platinum
1997	Garth Brooks	Sevens	Capitol Records	10,000,000	10× Platinum
1987	George Michael	Faith	Columbia	10,000,000	10× Platinum
1983	Lionel Richie	Can't Slow Down	Motown	10,000,000	10× Platinum
1984	Madonna	Like a Virgin	Sire	10,000,000	10× Platinum
1990	MC Hammer	Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em	Capitol	10,000,000	10× Platinum
1967	Patsy Cline	Patsy Cline's Greatest Hits	Decca	10,000,000	10× Platinum
1976	Stevie Wonder	Songs in the Key of Life	Motown	10,000,000	10× Platinum
1984	Van Halen	1984 (MCMLXXXIV)	Warner Bros.	10,000,000	10× Platinum
1978	Van Halen	Van Halen	Warner Bros.	10,000,000	10× Platinum
1983	ZZ Top	Eliminator	Warner Bros.	10,000,000	10× Platinum

小於一千萬張

Year	Artist	Album	Label	Shipments (Sales)	Certification
1994	Boyz II Men	II	Motown	(9,790,000)	12× Platinum
1991	Garth Brooks	Ropin' the Wind	Capitol Nashville	(9,600,000)	14× Platinum
1995	No Doubt	Tragic Kingdom	Trauma/Interscope Records	(9,520,000)	10× Platinum
1996	Matchbox Twenty	Yourself or Someone Like You	Atlantic	(9,358,000)	12× Platinum
1994	Green Day	Dookie	Reprise Records	(9,342,000)	10× Platinum
1990	Madonna	The Immaculate Collection	Sire	(9,277,000‡)	10× Platinum
1987	U2	The Joshua Tree	Island	(8,979,000‡)	10× Platinum
1995	Shania Twain	The Woman in Me	Mercury Nashville	(8,894,000)	12× Platinum
1995	Jewel	Pieces of You	Atlantic	(8,800,000)	12× Platinum
1994	TLC	CrazySexyCool	LaFace	(8,765,000)	11× Platinum
1973	The Beatles	1967-1970	Capitol	8,500,000	17× Platinum
1995	Mariah Carey	Daydream	Columbia	(8,453,000)	10× Platinum
1978	Steve Miller Band	Greatest Hits 1974–78	Capitol	(8,443,000‡)	13× Platinum
1999	Dixie Chicks	Fly	Monument Records	(8,396,000)	10× Platinum
1993	Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers	Greatest Hits	MCA	(8,200,000)	10× Platinum
1993	Mariah Carey	Music Box	Columbia	(8,006,000)	10× Platinum
1994	Soundtrack	The Lion King	Walt Disney Records	(7,879,000)	10× Platinum
1994	Garth Brooks	The Hits	Liberty Records	(7,821,000)	10× Platinum
1973	The Beatles	1962–1966	Capitol	7,500,000	15× Platinum
1998	Garth Brooks	Double Live	Capitol Nashville	(6,017,000)	21× Platinum
1972	The Rolling Stones	Hot Rocks 1964–1971	London	6,000,000	12× Platinum
2003	Outkast	Speakerboxxx/The Love Below	LaFace, Arista	(5,600,000)	11× Platinum
2002	Shania Twain	Up!	Mercury Nashville	(5,403,000)	11× Platinum
1998	2Pac	Greatest Hits	Interscope	(5,000,000)	10x Platinum
1997	The Notorious B.I.G.	Life After Death	Bad Boy Records/Arista	5,000,000	10× Platinum
1995	The Smashing Pumpkins	Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness	Virgin	(4,900,000)	10× Platinum
1994	Soundtrack	Forrest Gump	Epic Records	(4,400,000)	12× Platinum
1986	Bruce Springsteen	Live/1975–85	Columbia	4,333,333	13× Platinum