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TOP 10 SELLING ALBUMS
2001

Rank

Title

Artist

Label

Total Sales

1 [Hybrid Theory] Linkin Park Warner Bros.

4,810,000

2 Hotshot Shaggy MCA

4,510,000

3 Celebrity 'N Sync Jive

4,420,000

4 Day Without Rain Enya Reprise

4,410,000

5 Break the Cycle Staind Elektra

4,240,000

6 Songs in A Minor Alicia Keys J Records

4,100,000

7 Survivor Destiny's Child Columbia

3,720,000

8 Weathered Creed Wind-up/BMG

3,581,000

9 O Brother, Where Art Thou? Soundtrack Mercury Nashville

3,460,000

10 NOW That's What I Call Music Vol. 6 Various Virgin

3,130,000

2001 Total Sales: 762.8 million
The top 3 sellers of 2000 were 'N Sync's "No Strings Attached" (9.9 million copies), Eminem's "The Marshall Mathers LP" (7.9 million) and Britney Spears' "Oops... I Did It Again" (7.9 million).

TOP 10 SELLING ALBUMS
THE SOUNDSCAN ERA (1991-2001)

Rank

Title

Artist

Total Sales

1 Come on Over Shania Twain

14,000,000

2 Jagged Little Pill Alanis Morissette

13,800,000

3 Metallica Metallica

12,900,000

4 Millenium Backstreet Boys

11,900,000

5 The Bodyguard Soundtrack

11,600,000

6 Supernatural Santana

10,900,000

7 No Strings Attached 'N Sync

10,800,000

8 Human Clay Creed

10,490,000

9 Falling Into You Celine Dion

10,400,000

10 Baby One More Time Britney Spears

10,200,000

Source: SoundScan

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