List of best-selling albums of the 2000s (century)

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This is a list of the best-selling albums of the 2000s, based on IFPI certification and Nielsen SoundScan sales tracking. The criteria are that the album must have been published (including self-publishing by the artist), and the album must have shipped at least 10 million units starting from January 1, 2000, achieving a diamond certification.

Units sold include physical copies and digital downloads.

Legend

Colors
Studio albums
Greatest hits and compilations
Soundtracks

30 million copies or more

Year Album Artist/s Nationality Worldwide sales
(in millions)		 Ref(s)
2000 The Marshall Mathers LP Eminem  United States 32.0 [1]
2000 1 The Beatles  United Kingdom 31.0 [2]
2011 21 Adele  United Kingdom 31.0 [3]
2002 The Eminem Show Eminem  United States 30.0 [1]

20–29 million copies

Year Album Artist/s Nationality Worldwide sales
(in millions)		 Ref(s)
2000 Hybrid Theory Linkin Park  United States 27.0 [4]
2000 Oops!... I Did It Again Britney Spears  United States 25.0
2002 Come Away with Me Norah Jones  United States 25.0 [5]
2000 Black & Blue Backstreet Boys  United States 24.0
2004 Encore Eminem  United States 21.0 [1]
2000 No Strings Attached NSYNC  United States 20.0
2006 Back to Black Amy Winehouse  United Kingdom 20.0 [6]
2015 25 Adele  United Kingdom 20.0 [7]
2002 Let Go Avril Lavigne  Canada 20.0 [8]
2004 Meteora Linkin Park  United States 20.0 [9]
2001 Missundaztood Pink  United States 20.0 [10]
2004 Confessions Usher  United States 20.0 [11]

10–19 million copies

Year Album Artist/s Nationality Worldwide sales
(in millions)		 Ref(s)
2000 Music Madonna  United States 15.0 [12]
2005 Confessions on a Dance Floor Madonna  United States 15.0 [13]
2001 Laundry Service Shakira  Colombia 15.0 [14]
2002 A Rush of Blood to the Head Coldplay  United Kingdom 15.0 [15]
2004 American Idiot Green Day  United States 15.0 [16]
2004 Breakaway Kelly Clarkson  United States 15.0 [17]
2008 The Fame Lady Gaga  United States 15.0 [18]
2001 Britney Britney Spears  United States 15.0 [19]
2010 Recovery Eminem  United States 15.0
2002 Stripped Christina Aguilera  United States 13.0 [7]
2005 X&Y Coldplay  United Kingdom 13.0 [20]
2001 Invincible Michael Jackson  United States 13.0 [21]
2003 Number Ones Michael Jackson  United States 13.0
2003 Life for Rent Dido  United Kingdom 13.0 [22]
2001 Escape Enrique Iglesias  United States 12.0
2003 Dangerously in Love Beyoncé United States 12.0 [23]
2002 A New Day Has Come Celine Dion  Canada 12.0 [24]
2004 Under My Skin Avril Lavigne  Canada 12.0 [25]
2005 The Emancipation of Mimi Mariah Carey  United States 12.0 [25]
2003 Get Rich or Die Tryin' 50 Cent  United States 12.0 [26]
2003 In The Zone Britney Spears  United States 10.0 [27]
2013 Frozen Various Artists — 10.0 [28]
2009 I Dreamed a Dream Susan Boyle  United Kingdom 10.0 [29]
2009 Relapse Eminem  United States 10.0 [1]
2000 Enrique Enrique Iglesias  United States 10.0
2008 Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends Coldplay  United Kingdom 10.0 [30]
2013 Prism Katy Perry  United States 10.0 [31]

Best-selling album by year

The charts of the best-selling albums by year in the world are compiled by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry annually since 2001. These charts are published in their two annual reports, the Digital Music Report and the Recording Industry in Numbers.

Year Album Artist/s Nationality Sales
(in millions)		 Source
2001 Hybrid Theory Linkin Park  United States 8.5 [32]
2002 The Eminem Show Eminem  United States 13.9 [33]
2003 Come Away with Me Norah Jones  United States 18.0 [34]
2004 Confessions Usher  United States 12.0 [35]
2005 X&Y Coldplay  United Kingdom 8.3 [36]
2006 High School Musical Various Artists — 7.0 [37]
2007 High School Musical 2 Various Artists — 6.0 [38]
2008 Viva la Vida Coldplay  United Kingdom 6.8 [39]
2009 I Dreamed a Dream Susan Boyle  United Kingdom 8.3 [40]
2010 Recovery Eminem  United States 5.7 [41]
2011 21 Adele  United Kingdom 18.1 [33]
2012 8.3 [42]
2013 Midnight Memories One Direction United Kingdom UK /  Ireland 4.0 [43]
2014 Frozen Various Artists — 10.0 [44]
2015 25 Adele United Kingdom 17.4

See also

References

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