The top 10 best selling albums of the SoundScan era did not change last year. Shania Twain still has the biggest selling album of the SoundScan era.
The SoundScan era accounts for sales from 1991 until now.Last year, Shania Twain's 'Come On Over' sold an additional 41,000 units bringing total sales to 15,449,000.
Metallica's 'Metallica' sold 258,000 units in 2007 to bring total sales to 15,077,000 and closing the gap to Shania by 372,000 units. If these percentages keep up, 'Metallica' will overtake 'Come On Over' during 2009. It looks like Shania is safe for '08.
While the top 10 albums stayed in the same 10 positions, sales for the albums varied dramatically.
The biggest seller of the Top 10 was The Beatles '1'. It sold 276,000 units last year.
The slowly mover of the 10 was N Sync's 'No Strings Attached'. It sold just 5,000 units in 2007. Backstreet Boys 'Millennium' and the 'Bodyguard' soundtrack also registered less than 10,000 sales with 8,000 and 9,000 respectively.
The Top 10 albums of the SoundScan era as of close of business 2007 are:
1 Come On Over/ Shania Twain (15,449,000)
2 Metallica/ Metallica (15,077,000)
3 Jagged Little Pill/ Alanis Morissette (14,557,000)
4 Millennium/ Backstreet Boys (12,099,000)
5 Soundtrack/ Bodyguard (11,798,000)
6 Supernatural/ Santana (11,643,000)
7 Human Clay/ Creed (11,504,000)
8 No Strings Attached/ N Sync (11,104,000)
9 Beatles 1/ Beatles (11,097,000)
10. Falling Into You/ Celine Dion (10,768,000)
