List of best-selling albums in China

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This is a list of the best-selling albums in China.

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As of 2023, China was the world's 5th largest music market, an increase from being 14th in 2015 and 27th in 2005. [1] [2]

Best-selling albums in China

This is a list of the top 10 best-selling albums in China.

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Year of releaseAlbumArtistNumber of copies soldRef.
2022 Greatest Works of Art [a] Jay Chou 7,219,772 [4]
2021Epsilon Liu Yuxin 5,878,671[ citation needed ]
2019 Honey Lay 4,858,957 [5]
1993 The Goodbye Kiss Jacky Cheung 4,000,000 [6]
2019Going to Powerfully Burst R1SE 3,082,155 [7]
2020Lit Lay 2,741,096 [8]
2004 Common Jasmin Orange Jay Chou 2,600,000 [9]
1984WanderingCheng Fangyuan2,000,000 [10]
1985ChildhoodCheng Fangyuan2,000,000 [10]
1991Red SunVarious (honoring Mao Zedong)2,000,000 [11]
2016 Jay Chou's Bedtime Stories Jay Chou1,989,173 [12]

Best-selling physical albums

The following is a list of the best-selling physical albums in China, with album sales of over 500,000 units.

Year of releaseAlbumArtistNumber of copies soldRef.
1993Kiss And Goodbye Jacky Cheung 4,000,000 [6]
2004 Common Jasmin Orange Jay Chou 2,600,000 [9]
1984WanderingCheng Fangyuan2,000,000 [10]
1985ChildhoodCheng Fangyuan2,000,000 [10]
1983 Su Rui Su Rui 1,500,000 [13]
By A Wrong BusSu Rui1,500,000 [13]
Wolf Qi Qin 1,300,000 [13]
1994Nothing Will Stop Me From Loving You Wakin Chau 1,200,000 [14]
1994 The Lion King Various artists1,000,000 [15]
1997 Titanic James Horner/Celine Dion 1,000,000 [16]
1986A Voice on the Ocean Fei Xiang 1,000,000 [17]
1996 Too Softhearted Richie Jen 1,000,000 [A] [18]
2002 Start Stefanie Sun 1,000,000 [19]
2003 To Be Continued... Stefanie Sun 1,000,000 [19]
1997The Third Eye Zheng Jun 800,000 [20]
1994Chi Luo Zheng Jun 600,000 [21]
1987 Bad Michael Jackson 500,000 [22]
2001 Meteor Rain F4 500,000 [23]
2007 Against the Light Stefanie Sun 500,000 [24]
2004 It's Raining Rain 500,000 [25]
1999Next to Happiness The Flowers 500,000 [26]
Qingchun ShijieHang Hong500,000 [27]

List of best-selling digital albums (5 tracks or more)

2 million or more units

ArtistAlbumYearSalesRef.
Jay Chou Greatest Works of Art 20227,219,772 [28]
Cai Xukun Mi20213,473,680 [29]
Beyonce I am... Sasha Fierce20093,082,155 [30]
Big Bang Made 20162,841,614 [31]
Lay Lit20202,741,096 [32]
Beyonce BEYONCE 20132,000,890 [33]

1 million or more units

ArtistAlbumYearSalesRef.
Taylor Swift Lover 20191,872,460 [34]
Li Yuchun Wow20191,858,647 [35]
Hua Chenyu New World20201,835,069 [36]
Taylor Swift 1989 20141,780,189 [37]
Taylor Swift Reputation 20171,741,210 [38]
G-Dragon Kwon Ji Yong 20171,507,570 [39]
Blackpink The Album 20201,432,666 [40]
Nine Percent To the Nines20181,396,966 [41]
Li YuchunLiu Xing20171,243,109 [42]
Taylor Swift Folklore 20201,206,487 [43]
Lay Namanana 20181,180,208 [44]
JJ Lin Message in a Bottle 20171,173,263 [45]
Lay Lay 02 Sheep 20171,008,065 [46]

List of best-selling digital singles/EPs (4 tracks or less)

20 million or more units

ArtistSingle/EPYearSalesRef.
Beyonce Halo200954,255,539 [47]
Hua Chenyu I Really Want to Love This World201922,931,648 [48]
Jay Chou Greatest Works of Art202221,819,000 [a] [49]

10 million or more units

ArtistSingle/EPYearSalesRef.
Wang Yibo No Feelings201917,585,162 [50]
Wang Yibo The Rules of My World202015,451,449 [51]
Cai Xukun Young201914,505,045 [3]
Jay Chou Won't Cry201910,917,586 [52]

5 million or more units

ArtistSingle/EPYearSalesRef.
Jay Chou Mojito20209,170,315 [53]
JJ Lin No Turning Back20206,855,776 [54]
Liu Yuxin Epsilon20215,874,069 [55]
Eason Chan Keep Me By Your Side20165,771,018 [56]
JJ Lin The Story Of Us20195,637,031 [57]
Jay Chou Cold Hearted20225,478,000 [a] [58]
Jay Chou Still Wandering20225,216,000 [a] [59]

3 million or more units

ArtistSingle/EPYearSalesRef.
Lay Honey 20194,858,957 [5]
JJ Lin Dust and Ashes20234,595,000 [a] [60]
Jay Chou Pink Ocean20224,414,000 [a] [61]
Jay Chou Reflection20223,995,000 [a] [62]
Zhang Zhehan Surround20213,873,937 [63]
Jay Chou You Are the Firework I Missed20223,838,000 [a] [64]
Lu Han Xplore20163,664,318 [65]
LBI Summer in a Small Town20223,638,000 [a] [66]
1KJust Forget It20223,598,000 [a] [67]
Lu HanΠ-volume.120193,477,798 [68]
Li Yuchun Ye (first EP of Growing Wild)20163,418,553 [69]
A Li YueWhen the Spring Breeze Blows20223,386,000 [a] [70]
Lu HanReloaded20153,358,873 [71]
JJ Lin Light of Sanctuary20203,282,802 [72]
Roy Wang Song For You20183,263,963 [73]
Kris Wu 620173,215,357 [74]
Blackpink How You Like That 20203,088,581 [75]
Zhu Zhengting The Winter Light20193,078,866 [76]
Cheng HuanI Will Wait20233,030,000 [a] [77]
Lu Han π-volume.320203,009,225 [78]
KekekeaThe Girl Is Far Away20233,008,000 [a] [79]

See also

Notes

  1. 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 consists of two tracks.
  1. It is claimed that the album sold 26 million copies including pirated copies, however, Jen himself stated in an interview that legitimate sales of the album were 1,000,000 copies in mainland China. [18]

References

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  2. "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.
  3. 1 2 ""Young"- Cai Xukun sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
  4. ""Greatest Works Of Art" sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 19, 2022.
  5. 1 2 ""Honey"- Lay sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
  6. 1 2 Liu, Hsiuwen (December 21, 2022). "A Wave of Nostalgia Is Sweeping Taiwanese Artists Back Into the Chinese Limelight". Billboard . Archived from the original on September 25, 2023. Retrieved September 25, 2023.
  7. ""Going to Powerfully Burst"-R1SE sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved June 9, 2021.
  8. ""Lit"-Lay Zhang sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved June 9, 2021.
  9. 1 2 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.
  10. 1 2 3 4 Reference for sales: Reference for album titles and release dates:
  11. Cheng, Chu-yuan (2014). China's Economic Development, 1950-2014: Fundamental Changes and Long-Term Prospects. Lexington Books. p. 95. ISBN   978-0739186565 . Retrieved November 2, 2022 via Google Books.
  12. ""Jay Chou's Bedtime Stories"-Jay Chou sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved June 9, 2021.
  13. 1 2 3 "Pop goes China's taste in music". The Straits Times . December 27, 1988. p. 8. Retrieved November 1, 2022.
  14. White, Adam (August 6, 1994). "Asia Falling Under the Influence Of Taiwan's Rock Records" (PDF). Billboard . p. 38. ISSN   0006-2510 . Retrieved November 2, 2022.
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  16. 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
  17. "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".
  18. 1 2 "音乐流浪季任贤齐和他的"销量神话"专辑《心太软》_歌曲_小虫_齐哥" [Music wanderer Richie Jen and his "sales myth" album "Too Softhearted"]. Sohu (in Chinese). July 1, 2022. Retrieved April 25, 2024.
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  22. Becker, Jasper (December 10, 1995). "The last rock star in China" . South China Morning Post . Retrieved June 9, 2024. The best-selling album in China was Michael Jackson's Bad and that only sold 500,000 copies in a country of 1.2 billion
  23. 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.
  24. 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
  25. "Korean Culture No. 2: K-pop Beyond Asia". Korean Culture and Information Service. 2015. p. 42. Retrieved July 23, 2017. 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…{{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
  26. Far Eastern Economic Review (May 23, 2003). "Chinese aim to build a great wall of sound". The Guardian . Retrieved March 19, 2017.
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  30. ""Going to Powerfully Burst"-R1SE sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
  31. "MADE". y.saoju.net. Retrieved August 24, 2022.
  32. ""Lit"-Lay Zhang sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
  33. ""Jay Chou's Bedtime Stories"-Jay Chou sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
  34. ""Lover"- Taylor Swift sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
  35. ""Wow"- Li Yuchun sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 19, 2022.
  36. ""New World"- Hua Chenyu sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 19, 2022.
  37. ""1989"- Taylor Swift sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
  38. ""Reputation"- Taylor Swift sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 19, 2022.
  39. ""Kwon Ji Yong"- G-Dragon sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
  40. ""The Album"- BLACKPINK sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
  41. ""To the Nines"- Nine Percent sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
  42. ""Liu Xing"- Li Yuchun sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
  43. ""folklore"- Taylor Swift sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 19, 2022.
  44. ""Namanana"- Lay sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
  45. ""Message in a Bottle"- JJ Lin sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 19, 2022.
  46. ""Sheep"- Lay sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
  47. ""Light"- Xiao Zhan sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 19, 2022.
  48. ""I Really Want Love This World"- Hua Chenyu sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 19, 2022.
  49. "周杰伦 - 最伟大的作品". tencentmusic.com (in Chinese). Retrieved April 11, 2024.
  50. ""No Feelings"- Wang Yibo sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 19, 2022.
  51. ""The Rules of My World"- Wang Yibo sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 19, 2022.
  52. ""Won't Cry"- Jay Chou sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
  53. ""Mojito"- Jay Chou sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 19, 2022.
  54. ""No Turning Back"- JJ Lin sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 19, 2022.
  55. ""EPSILON"- Liu Yuxin sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
  56. ""Keep Me By Your Side"- Eason Chan sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
  57. ""The Story Of Us"- JJ Lin sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
  58. "周杰伦 - 红颜如箱". tencentmusic.com (in Chinese). Retrieved April 11, 2024.
  59. "周杰伦 - 还在流浪". tencentmusic.com (in Chinese). Retrieved April 11, 2024.
  60. "林俊杰 - 原与愁". tencentmusic.com (in Chinese). Retrieved April 11, 2024.
  61. "周杰伦 - 粉色海洋". tencentmusic.com (in Chinese). Retrieved April 11, 2024.
  62. "周杰伦 - 倒影". tencentmusic.com (in Chinese). Retrieved April 11, 2024.
  63. ""Surround"- Zhang Zhehan sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 19, 2022.
  64. "周杰伦 - 错过的烟火". tencentmusic.com (in Chinese). Retrieved April 11, 2024.
  65. ""Xplore"- Lu Han sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 19, 2022.
  66. "LBI利比 - 小城夏天". tencentmusic.com (in Chinese). Retrieved April 11, 2024.
  67. "1K - 就忘了吧". tencentmusic.com (in Chinese). Retrieved April 11, 2024.
  68. ""Π-volume.1"- Lu Han sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
  69. ""Ye"- Li Yuchun sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 19, 2022.
  70. "阿梨粤 - 晚风心里吹". tencentmusic.com (in Chinese). Retrieved October 23, 2024.
  71. ""Reloaded"- Lu Han sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
  72. ""Light of Sanctuary"- JJ Lin sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 19, 2022.
  73. ""Song For You"- Roy Wang sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
  74. ""6"- Kris Wu sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
  75. ""How You Like That"- BLACKPINK sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved May 21, 2023.
  76. ""The Winter Light"- Zhu Zhengting sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
  77. "承桓 - 我会等". tencentmusic.com (in Chinese). Retrieved October 23, 2024.
  78. "π-volume.3". y.saoju.net. Retrieved August 24, 2022.
  79. "柯柯柯柯啊 - 姑娘在远方". tencentmusic.com (in Chinese). Retrieved November 2, 2024.