[Will88]

Here is a Wikipedia list of all time top selling albums. No albums selling more than 20,00,000 since 2004, and only five with 20,000,000+ sales this entire decade.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_albums_worldwide

Just listening to music in various media outlets probably doesn’t hurt sales that much. Listening on radio was once far bigger than it is now. It’s copying the music rather than buying that will really put the squeeze on the industry.

[heights]

The wikipedia list of top selling albums is mixing albums and records sold, two very different animals. An album counts as six records. Michele Jackson's Thiller sold 100 million records not albums. The Eagles 'Greatest Hits' has sold over twenty-five million albums or 125 million records. That list is useless.