... and counting!
EMI press release regarding worldwide album sales in last 4 years:
2000-2001
1)
1 - The Beatles = 21.6m 2) Greatest Hits - Lenny Kravitz = 6.7 M
3) Sing When You're Winning - Robbie Williams = 4.3m
4) Distance - Utada Hikaru = 3.6m
5) Parachutes - Coldplay = 3.2m
6) Kid A - Radiohead = 2.6m
7) Forever - Spice Girls = 2.2m
The Last Meal - Snoop Dogg = 2.1m
2001-2002
1) Swing When You're Winning - Robbie Williams = 5.4m
2) Echoes - Pink Floyd = 5.1m
3) All For You - Janet Jackson = 5.1m
4)
1 - The Beatles = 4.0m 5) Gorillaz - Gorillaz = 3.9m
6) Fever - Kylie Minogue = 3.6m
7) Scarecrow - Garth Brooks = 3.6m
Aallyah - Aallyah = 3.2m
9) Lenny - Lenny Kravitz = 2.3m
10) Proxima Estacion: Esperanza - Manu Chao = 2.2m
11) Amnesiac - Radiohead = 2.1m
12) Distance - Utada Hikaru = 1.6m
13) All Rise - Blue = 1.5m
2002-2003
1) Come Away With Me - Norah Jones = 11.8m
2) Escapology - Robbie Williams = 5.8m
3) A Rush Of Blood To The Head - Coldplay = 5.6m
4) Forty Licks - Rolling Stones = 5.5m
5) Deep River - Utada Hikaru = 4.2m
6) Mensch - Herbert Gronemeyer = 3.0m
7) One Love - Blue = 2.5m
Boucan D'enfer - Renaud = 1.8m
9) Platinum Collection - Queen = 1.7m
10) Fever - Kylie Minogue = 1.6m (Total 2001-2003 = 5.2m)
11) Feels So Good - Atomic Kitten = 1.6m
12)
Back In The U.S. - Paul Mccartney = 1.4m 13) Paid Tha Cost To Be Da Boss - Snoop Dogg = 1.3m
14) Best Of Bowie = 1.3m
15)
1 - The Beatles = 1.2m 16) 100th Window - Massive Attack = 1.0m
17) 18 - Moby = 1.0m
18)
Brainwashed - George Harrison = 1.0m 19) Parachutes - Coldplay = 1.0m
20) Highly Evolved - The Vines = 0.9m
2003-2004
1) Feels Like Home - Norah Jones = 7.6m
2) Come Away With Me - Norah Jones = 5.7m (Total 2002-2004 = 17.5m)
3) A Rush Of Blood To The Head - Coldplay = 3.5m (Total 2002-2004 = 9.1m)
4) Jackpot - Chingy = 3.2m
5)
Let It Be...Naked - The Beatles = 3.1m 6) Live At Knebworth - Robbie Williams = 2.7m
7) Singles Collection Vol.1 - Utada Hikaru = 2.6m
Damita Jo - Janet Jackson = 2.4m
9) Hail To The Thief - Radiohead = 2.3m
10) Starrie Orrico - Starrie Orrico = 1.8m
11) .....
12) Body Language - Kylie Minogue = 1.6m
13) Guilty - Blue = 1.4m
14) Jewels (Japan) - Queen = 1.2m
15) Live 2003 - Coldplay = 1.2m
16)
1 - The Beatles = 1.2m 17) The Sounds Of Summer - Beach Boys = 1.1m