Top Album Sales

[1] Sales figures for the chart are tabulated by Billboard with electronically monitored piece count information from Nielsen SoundScan, now Luminate.

[2] On May 25, 1991, Billboard began tabulating top-selling albums in the United States with electronically monitored piece count information from Nielsen Soundscan, now known as Luminate.

[7] As streaming became a major metric in music, the disparity between the Top Album Sales and the Billboard 200 grew larger.

[11][12] Adele's 25 holds the record for biggest single-week performance on the Top Album Sales chart, selling 3.38 million on the week of December 12, 2015.

[15][16] Chart achievements listed below cover the Top Album Sales since its launch in December 2014, as well as the Billboard 200 data between May 1991 and December 2014, which Billboard retrospectively recognizes as part of the Top Album Sales statistics.