List of best-selling albums in the United States of the Nielsen SoundScan era

's Come On Over (released in 1997) has sold over 15.7 million copies. 's Jagged Little Pill (released in 1995) has sold over 15.3 million copies. ' 1 (released in 2000) has sold over 13 million copies. ==Best-selling albums by decade==

1991–1999 2000–2009 2010–2019 ==Best-selling albums by year==

is the first artist to have the annual best seller nine times (2009, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025). has the annual best seller five times (2011, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2021). has the best-selling album of a calendar year twice (2002 and 2010). has the year's top-consumed album (based on album-equivalent units) twice (2016 and 2018). The following list includes the annual best-selling albums since 1991, as reported by MRC Data (formerly Nielsen SoundScan). For albums released after 2015, the best-performing album of the year is determined by album-equivalent units consisted of album sales, digital songs sales, and on-demand streaming, while the best-selling album is determined by album sales only. ==Single week best-sellers==

The first album in the SoundScan era to sell a million copies or more in a week is the soundtrack of The Bodyguard by Whitney Houston in 1992; the most recent album to do so is The Life of a Showgirl by Taylor Swift in 2025. The following is a list of all of the albums that sold at least one million copies in a single week: ==See also==