Biggest-Selling Albums at SoundScan

SoundScan is the point-of-purchase counting mechanism for record sales. Thousands of retailers across the US and Canada are equipped with software that counts a record as sold when its bar code is scanned at check-out. Here are the best-selling records since the US started using this system. 


 1.   Metallica / Metallica ~ 15,735,000 
 2.   Come on Over / Shania Twain ~ 15,513,000 
 3.   Jagged Little Pill / Alanis Morissette ~ 14,714,000 
 4.   Millennium / Backstreet Boys ~ 12,168,000 
 5.   1 / The Beatles ~ 11,985,000 
 6.   The Bodyguard (Whitney Houston) ~ 11,829,000 
 7.   Supernatural / Santana ~ 11,772,000 
 8.   Human Clay / Creed ~ 11,574,000 
 9.   No Strings Attached / 'N Sync ~ 11,122,000 
10.  Falling into You / Celine Dion ~ 10,790,000