Best Selling Rock Albums Overall?

Title says it all, so if ne one knows can they post the top 5 best selling rock albums? ty!

 

The top Five selling albums are:
1-Eagles Gr Hits Vol. 1 (28 Million)
2-Micheal Jackson Thriller (26 million)
3-Pink Floyd The Wall (23 million)
4-Led Zeppelin IV (22 Million)
5-Billy Joel Gr Hits Volume 1+2 (21 Million)

 

weird, i thought Dark Side of the Moon would be up there?... didnt it sell over 25million in the first 25 yrs.

 

i thought so too? more people have darkside than the wall surely?

 

That list isn't right, I mean it is, but only for American sales, worldwide goes something like.

1.Thriller-Michael Jackson
2. Dark Side of the Moon-Floyd
3. Led Zeppelin IV
4. Back in Black-Ac/DC
5. Rumours-Fleetwood Mac

Not sure how the rest goes, but I remember Elton John being on it.

 

no, the reason why the wall is higher selling because it is a DOUBLE LP, so indeed it sold more. as far as individual albums is concerned, dark side of the moon sold more, but with the wall being a double album, and it costing twice as much, it is HIGHER GROSSING than DSOTM

 

of course that list that was posted is American sales only.

there is no way in hell that you can get an official list over who had the most sales worldwide, it is impossible!

the albums which claim to have sold more than 40 million units worldwide are

ACDC's back in black
Michael Jackson's Thriller
Saturday Night Fever soundtrack
Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon
The Eagles Greatest hits vol 1

but who knows if that is even accurate.......

 

and to add, Dark Side of the Moon sold 15 million units in the US, the wall sold about 11.5 million units, but because its a double lp, it was considered twice for each album sold, so 23 million units is counted.

 

Hm... I think someone has some wrong numbers: as much as I hate to admit it, IV is deffinitely up there... overrated, but up there...

 

wrong numbers?? go to wikipedia........ they dont post wrong numbers.

 

You are correct madcrappie, the wall counts as two because its a double album, also, my list is for American sales, there is no way to track world wide sales

 

Did anyone mention the back in black album by ACDC.

 

It counts as one though when sold, while the Use Your Illusion albums by Guns N Roses for example count as 2 seperate ones because they're sold as 2 seperate albums.

 

These are the best selling albums says: http://www.everyhit.com/recordalb.html

Global All-Time Top 20 Albums
The Top 20 Best-Selling albums of all time in the whole wide world are:

"Thriller" - Michael Jackson (60 million)
"Black In Black" - AC/DC (42m)
"Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975" - The Eagles (41m)
"Saturday Night Fever" - (Soundtrack) (40m)
"Dark Side Of The Moon" - Pink Floyd (40m)
"Come On Over" - Shania Twain (39m)
"The Bodyguard" - (Soundtrack) (37m)
"Bat Out Of Hell" - Meat Loaf (37m)
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" - The Beatles (32m)
"Led Zeppelin IV" - Led Zeppelin (32m)
"Dirty Dancing" - (Soundtrack) (32m)
"Falling Into You" - Celine Dion (32m)
"Let's Talk About Love" - Celine Dion (31m)
"Rumours" - Fleetwood Mac (30m)
"Jagged Little Pill" - Alanis Morissette (30m)
"Titanic" - (Soundtrack) (30m)
"Millenium" - Backstreet Boys (30m)
"1" - The Beatles (30m)
"Abbey Road" - The Beatles (30m)
"Bad" - Michael Jackson (29m)

and a link to Wikipedia best selling albums worldwide: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_albums_worldwide

 

Michael Jackson rock?What the fuck?Saturday night fever soundtrack rock?What the fuck?

 

Its sad but true....No pun intended....

 

Green Day-DOOKIE.....10 million...lol

 

the first list is right and whoever said it isent is a dbag

 

well acutally you have to distinguish between best selling in the US, europe, or the world

 

Ugh. There's too many soundtracks in that list for it to have any use to me. I'm sure it's correct and all, but seeing "Titanic" on there makes it hard for me to take any of that seriously.