List of best-selling albums in China
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This is a list of the best-selling albums in China.
As of 2021, China was the world's 6th largest music market, an increase from being 14th in 2015 and 27th in 2005.[1][2]
Best-selling albums in China[edit]
This is a list of Top 10 Best Selling Albums in China.
pink | Physical album |
purple | Digital album |
Rank no. | Year of release | Album | Artist | Number of copies sold | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2019 | Honey[a] | Lay | 4,809,882 | [4] |
2 | 2019 | Going To Powerfully Burst | R1SE | 3,074,989 | [5] |
3 | 2021 | Mi 迷 | Cai Xukun | 2,900,791 | [6] |
4 | 2020 | Lit | Lay | 2,710,952 | [7] |
5 | 2004 | Common Jasmin Orange | Jay Chou | 2,600,000 | [8] |
6 | 1984 | Wandering | Cheng Fangyuan | 2,000,000 | [9] |
1985 | Childhood | ||||
8 | 2016 | Jay Chou's Bedtime Stories | Jay Chou | 1,989,173 | [10] |
9 | 2019 | Lover | Taylor Swift | 1,870,454 | [11] |
10 | 2019 | Wow | Li Yuchun | 1,857,521 | [12] |
Best-selling physical albums[edit]
The following is a list of the best-selling physical albums in China, with album sales of over 500,000 units.
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Rank no. | Year of release | Album | Artist | Number of copies sold | Ref. |
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1 | 2004 | Common Jasmin Orange | Jay Chou | 2,600,000 | [8] |
2 | 1984 | Wandering | Cheng Fangyuan | 2,000,000 | [9] |
3 | 1985 | Childhood | Cheng Fangyuan | 2,000,000 | [9] |
4 | 1993 | I Can Never Understand Your Love | Chen Lin | 1,500,000 | [citation needed] |
5 | 1994 | The Lion King | Various artists | 1,000,000 | [13] |
6 | 1997 | Titanic | James Horner/Celine Dion | 1,000,000 | [14] |
7 | 1986 | A Voice on the Ocean | Fei Xiang | 1,000,000 | [15] |
8 | 2001 | Meteor Rain | F4 | 500,000 | [16] |
9 | 2007 | Against the Light | Stefanie Sun | 500,000 | [17] |
10 | 2004 | It's Raining | Rain | 500,000 | [18] |
11 | 1999 | Next to Happiness | The Flowers | 500,000 | [19] |
List of best-selling digital albums (5 tracks or more)[edit]
2 million or more units[edit]
Artist | Album | Year | Sales | Ref. |
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Cai Xukun | Mi 迷 | 2021 | 3,379,558 | [20] |
R1SE | Going to Powerfully Burst | 2019 | 3,079,385 | [21] |
Lay | Lit | 2020 | 2,740,988 | [22] |
1 million or more units[edit]
Artist | Album | Year | Sales | Ref. |
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Jay Chou | Jay Chou's Bedtime Stories | 2016 | 1,991,820 | [23] |
Taylor Swift | Lover | 2019 | 1,872,460 | [24] |
Li Yuchun | Wow | 2019 | 1,858,275 | [25] |
Hua Chenyu | New World | 2020 | 1,820,863 | [26] |
Taylor Swift | 1989 | 2014 | 1,780,189 | [27] |
Taylor Swift | Reputation | 2017 | 1,741,208 | [28] |
G-Dragon | Kwon Ji Yong | 2017 | 1,503,369 | [29] |
BLACKPINK | The Album | 2020 | 1,426,516 | [30] |
Nine Percent | To the Nines | 2018 | 1,360,686 | [31] |
Li Yuchun | Liu Xing | 2017 | 1,242,811 | [32] |
Taylor Swift | Folklore | 2020 | 1,206,486 | [33] |
Lay | Namanana | 2018 | 1,180,208 | [34] |
JJ Lin | Message in a Bottle | 2017 | 1,117,694 | [35] |
Lay | Lay 02 Sheep | 2017 | 1,008,065 | [36] |
List of best-selling digital singles/EPs (4 tracks or less)[edit]
20 million or more units[edit]
Artist | Single/EP | Year | Sales | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Xiao Zhan | Light | 2020 | 54,124,364 | [37] |
Hua Chenyu | I Really Want to Love This World | 2019 | 22,831,964 | [38] |
10 million or more units[edit]
Artist | Single/EP | Year | Sales | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Wang Yibo | No Feelings | 2019 | 17,585,158 | [39] |
Wang Yibo | The Rules of My World | 2020 | 15,391,777 | [40] |
Cai Xukun | Young | 2019 | 14,461,445 | [3] |
Jay Chou | Won't Cry | 2019 | 10,894,690 | [41] |
5 million or more units[edit]
Artist | Single/EP | Year | Sales | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Jay Chou | Mojito | 2020 | 8,745,585 | [42] |
Eason Chan | Keep Me By Your Side | 2016 | 5,771,018 | [43] |
Liu Yuxin | Epsilon | 2021 | 5,874,069 | [44] |
JJ Lin | No Turning Back | 2020 | 5,545,403 | [45] |
3 million or more units[edit]
Artist | Single/EP | Year | Sales | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
JJ Lin | The Story Of Us | 2019 | 4,936,237 | [46] |
Lay | Honey | 2019 | 4,836,960 | [4] |
Zhang Zhehan | Surround | 2021 | 3,873,937 | [47] |
Lu Han | Xplore | 2016 | 3,663,213 | [48] |
Lu Han | Π-volume.1 | 2019 | 3,477,798 | [49] |
Li Yuchun | Ye (first EP of Growing Wild) | 2016 | 3,418,838 | [50] |
Roy Wang | Song For You | 2018 | 3,263,963 | [51] |
Lu Han | Reloaded | 2015 | 3,358,873 | [52] |
Kris Wu | 6 | 2017 | 3,215,357 | [53] |
Zhu Zhengting | The Winter Light | 2019 | 3,078,866 | [54] |
Blackpink | How You Like That | 2020 | 3,072,151 | [55] |
See also[edit]
Notes[edit]
- ^ The best-selling non-single release in China is Cai Xukun's Young (2019), which has sold more than 14 million copies.[3] However, Young only consist of two tracks. The next best-selling non-single EP in China is Lay Zhang's Honey (2019), which has sold more than 4.7 million copies,[4] and consist of four tracks, which is a standard size for modern EPs in North America and Europe.
References[edit]
- ^ "Global Music Report 2019: Annual State of the Industry" (PDF). International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
- ^ "RIAJ: Yearbook 2007, IFPI 2005 Report (Page 24)" (PDF). Recording Industry Association of Japan. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 15, 2007. Retrieved March 19, 2017.
- ^ a b ""Young"- Cai Xukun sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ^ a b c ""Honey"- Lay sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ^ ""Going to Powerfully Burst"-R1SE sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved June 9, 2021.
- ^ ""迷"-Cai Xukun sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved June 9, 2021.
- ^ ""Lit"-Lay Zhang sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved June 9, 2021.
- ^ a b Fung, Anthony (2008). "Western style, Chinese Pop: Jay Chou's Rap and Hip-Hop in China". Asian Music. 39: 69–80. doi:10.1353/amu.2007.0047. S2CID 191532050. Retrieved March 19, 2017.
In China the official figure reached 2.6 million units, a stunning figure that no other Chinese artist has attained.
- ^ a b c Reference for sales:
- Patrick, Al (April 28, 1985). "East Meets Wham!, And Another Great Wall Comes Down". Chicago Tribune. p. 2. Retrieved May 2, 2018.
China's top female singer, Sing Fong Yuen, (sic.) who sells about 2 million copies of each cassette she puts out, earn (sic.) $15 a week.
- "成方圆 Cheng Fang Yuan" (in Chinese). Global Culture Development Co. Ltd. Retrieved May 2, 2018.
- Patrick, Al (April 28, 1985). "East Meets Wham!, And Another Great Wall Comes Down". Chicago Tribune. p. 2. Retrieved May 2, 2018.
- ^ ""Jay Chou's Bedtime Stories"-Jay Chou sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved June 9, 2021.
- ^ ""Lover"- Taylor Swift sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved June 9, 2021.
- ^ ""Wow"- Li Yuchun sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved June 9, 2021.
- ^ "A History Of Rock Records". Billboard. 22 January 2000. p. R-8. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
- ^ White, Adam (June 20, 1998). "Billboard Vol. 110, No. 25". Billboard. Retrieved March 19, 2017.
The Sony Classical soundtrack album to the movie is now reported to have sold more than 1 million legitimate copies in the People's Republic of China
- ^ "中国唱片销量最高的十大歌手, 张学友只排第二,她第一销量".
- ^ Pomfret, John (June 10, 2002). "Band Hits Sour Note in China". The Washington Post. Retrieved March 19, 2017.
Within five months, meanwhile, Sony had sold 500,000 copies of the "Meteor Rain" album and estimated that another 5 million pirated versions had flooded the market.
- ^ Tan, Kevin (2012). Suryadinata, Leo (ed.). Southeast Asian Personalities of Chinese Descent: A Biographical Dictionary, Volume I & II. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. p. 1020. ISBN 9789814345217. Retrieved March 19, 2017.
over 500,000 copies in China in the first week
- ^ "Korean Culture No. 2: K-pop Beyond Asia". Korean Culture and Information Service. 2015. p. 42. Retrieved 2017-07-23.
Total sales of Rain's new album throughout Asia reached over one million: 100,000 in Japan, 500,000 in China, 70,000 in Taiwan, 150,000 in Thailand, 50,000 in Indonesia, and 154,000 in Korea…
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- ^ ""迷"-Cai Xukun sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ^ ""Going to Powerfully Burst"-R1SE sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ^ ""Lit"-Lay Zhang sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ^ ""Jay Chou's Bedtime Stories"-Jay Chou sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ^ ""Lover"- Taylor Swift sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ^ ""Wow"- Li Yuchun sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ^ ""New World"- Hua Chenyu sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ^ ""1989"- Taylor Swift sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ^ ""Reputation"- Taylor Swift sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ^ ""Kwon Ji Yong"- G-Dragon sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ^ ""The Album"- BLACKPINK sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ^ ""To the Nines"- Nine Percent sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ^ ""Liu Xing"- Li Yuchun sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ^ ""folklore"- Taylor Swift sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ^ ""Namanana"- Lay sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ^ ""Message in a Bottle"- JJ Lin sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ^ ""Sheep"- Lay sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ^ ""Light"- Xiao Zhan sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ^ ""I Really Want Love This World"- Hua Chenyu sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ^ ""No Feelings"- Wang Yibo sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ^ ""The Rules of My World"- Wang Yibo sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ^ ""Won't Cry"- Jay Chou sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ^ ""Mojito"- Jay Chou sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ^ ""Keep Me By Your Side"- Eason Chan sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ^ ""EPSILON"- Liu Yuxin sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ^ ""No Turning Back"- JJ Lin sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ^ ""The Story Of Us"- JJ Lin sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ^ ""Surround"- Zhang Zhehan sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ^ ""Xplore"- Lu Han sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ^ ""Π-volume.1"- Lu Han sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ^ ""Ye"- Li Yuchun sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ^ ""Song For You"- Roy Wang sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ^ ""Reloaded"- Lu Han sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ^ ""6"- Kris Wu sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ^ ""The Winter Light"- Zhu Zhengting sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ^ ""How You Like That"- BLACKPINK sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.