List of best-selling soundtrack albums
The following is a list of Best-selling soundtrack (film songs) albums of all time. The soundtrack of The Bodyguard (1993) is the best selling Soundtrack album of all time, with an estimated sale of up to 65 million copies and certified 28.4 million copies worldwide. While Indian film Aashiqui (1990) is the best selling soundtrack album outside United States, with 20 million copies sold.
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20 million copies or more[edit]
*All sales figures are shown in millions
Artist | Album | Country | Released | Total certified copies (from available markets)* |
Claimed sales* | Ref(s) |
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Whitney Houston/Various Artists | The Bodyguard | United States | 1993 | 28.2 [1] | 65 | |
Bee Gees | Saturday Night Fever | United States | 1977 | 20.6 | 40 [1] | |
Nadeem-Shravan, Kumar Sanu, Anuradha Paudwal, Udit Narayan | Aashiqui | India | 1990 | 20 | 20 | |
Donna Summer, Kim Carnes, Irene Cara and others | Flashdance | United States | 1982 | 20 |
15-20 million copies[edit]
*All sales figures are shown in millions
Artist | Album | Country | Released | Total certified copies (from available markets)* |
Claimed sales* | Ref(s) |
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Celine Dion and others | Titanic | United States | 1997 | 18.1 | 30 | |
Various Artists | Dirty Dancing | United States | 1987 | 17.9 | 32 |
10-15 millions[edit]
*All sales figures are shown in millions
5-10 millions[edit]
*All sales figures are shown in millions
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "RIAA: Searchable Database". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
- ↑ "Audio tape producers ride crest of Bollywoods music boom, composers become stars". India Today. 30 November 1993.
- ↑ "Bringing melody back, Nadeem-Shravan churn out hit after hit". India Today. 15 April 1992.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Making Music Like Ne'er Before". Outlook. 13 March 1996.
- ↑ "Outlook". Outlook. Hathway Investments Pvt Limited. 3: 78. 1997.
It is also emboldened by its two monster soundtrack hits, Hum Aapke Hain Koun and Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge— the two albums sold more than one crore tapes each.
- ↑ "Tuning in to better times?". The Hindu. 9 July 2003.
- ↑ "Film producers float their own music firms". The Times of India. 11 November 2011.
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