This is a list of the best-selling albums in China.
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]
This is a list of the top 10 best-selling albums in China.
pink | Physical album |
purple | Digital album |
Year of release | Album | Artist | Number of copies sold | Ref. |
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2022 | Greatest Works of Art [lower-alpha 1] | Jay Chou | 7,219,772 | [4] |
2021 | Epsilon | Liu Yuxin | 5,878,671 | [ citation needed ] |
2019 | Honey | Lay | 4,858,957 | [5] |
1993 | The Goodbye Kiss | Jacky Cheung | 4,000,000 | [6] |
2019 | Going to Powerfully Burst | R1SE | 3,082,155 | [7] |
2020 | Lit | Lay | 2,741,096 | [8] |
2004 | Common Jasmin Orange | Jay Chou | 2,600,000 | [9] |
1984 | Wandering | Cheng Fangyuan | 2,000,000 | [10] |
1985 | Childhood | Cheng Fangyuan | 2,000,000 | [10] |
1991 | Red Sun | Various (honoring Mao Zedong) | 2,000,000 | [11] |
2016 | Jay Chou's Bedtime Stories | Jay Chou | 1,989,173 | [12] |
The following is a list of the best-selling physical albums in China, with album sales of over 500,000 units.
Year of release | Album | Artist | Number of copies sold | Ref. |
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1993 | Kiss And Goodbye | Jacky Cheung | 4,000,000 | [6] |
2004 | Common Jasmin Orange | Jay Chou | 2,600,000 | [9] |
1984 | Wandering | Cheng Fangyuan | 2,000,000 | [10] |
1985 | Childhood | Cheng Fangyuan | 2,000,000 | [10] |
1983 | Su Rui | Su Rui | 1,500,000 | [13] |
— | By A Wrong Bus | Su Rui | 1,500,000 | [13] |
— | Wolf | Qi Qin | 1,300,000 | [13] |
1994 | Nothing Will Stop Me From Loving You | Wakin Chau | 1,200,000 | [14] |
1994 | The Lion King | Various artists | 1,000,000 | [15] |
1997 | Titanic | James Horner/Celine Dion | 1,000,000 | [16] |
1986 | A Voice on the Ocean | Fei Xiang | 1,000,000 | [17] |
1996 | Too Softhearted | Richie Jen | 1,000,000 [upper-alpha 1] | [18] |
2002 | Start | Stefanie Sun | 1,000,000 | [19] |
2003 | To Be Continued... | Stefanie Sun | 1,000,000 | [19] |
1997 | The Third Eye | Zheng Jun | 800,000 | [20] |
1994 | Chi 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] |
1999 | Next to Happiness | The Flowers | 500,000 | [26] |
Qingchun Shijie | Hang Hong | 500,000 | [27] |
Artist | Album | Year | Sales | Ref. |
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Jay Chou | Greatest Works of Art | 2022 | 7,219,772 | [28] |
Cai Xukun | Mi迷 | 2021 | 3,473,680 | [29] |
R1SE | Going to Powerfully Burst | 2019 | 3,082,155 | [30] |
Big Bang | Made | 2016 | 2,841,614 | [31] |
Lay | Lit | 2020 | 2,741,096 | [32] |
Jay Chou | Jay Chou's Bedtime Stories | 2016 | 2,000,890 | [33] |
Artist | Album | Year | Sales | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Taylor Swift | Lover | 2019 | 1,872,460 | [34] |
Li Yuchun | Wow | 2019 | 1,858,647 | [35] |
Hua Chenyu | New World | 2020 | 1,835,069 | [36] |
Taylor Swift | 1989 | 2014 | 1,780,189 | [37] |
Taylor Swift | Reputation | 2017 | 1,741,210 | [38] |
G-Dragon | Kwon Ji Yong | 2017 | 1,507,570 | [39] |
Blackpink | The Album | 2020 | 1,432,666 | [40] |
Nine Percent | To the Nines | 2018 | 1,396,966 | [41] |
Li Yuchun | Liu Xing | 2017 | 1,243,109 | [42] |
Taylor Swift | Folklore | 2020 | 1,206,487 | [43] |
Lay | Namanana | 2018 | 1,180,208 | [44] |
JJ Lin | Message in a Bottle | 2017 | 1,173,263 | [45] |
Lay | Lay 02 Sheep | 2017 | 1,008,065 | [46] |
Artist | Single/EP | Year | Sales | Ref. |
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Xiao Zhan | Light | 2020 | 54,255,539 | [47] |
Hua Chenyu | I Really Want to Love This World | 2019 | 22,931,648 | [48] |
Jay Chou | Greatest Works of Art | 2022 | 21,819,000 [a] | [49] |
Artist | Single/EP | Year | Sales | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Wang Yibo | No Feelings | 2019 | 17,585,162 | [50] |
Wang Yibo | The Rules of My World | 2020 | 15,451,449 | [51] |
Cai Xukun | Young | 2019 | 14,505,045 | [3] |
Jay Chou | Won't Cry | 2019 | 10,917,586 | [52] |
Artist | Single/EP | Year | Sales | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Jay Chou | Mojito | 2020 | 9,170,315 | [53] |
JJ Lin | No Turning Back | 2020 | 6,855,776 | [54] |
Liu Yuxin | Epsilon | 2021 | 5,874,069 | [55] |
Eason Chan | Keep Me By Your Side | 2016 | 5,771,018 | [56] |
JJ Lin | The Story Of Us | 2019 | 5,637,031 | [57] |
Jay Chou | Cold Hearted | 2022 | 5,478,000 [a] | [58] |
Jay Chou | Still Wandering | 2022 | 5,216,000 [a] | [59] |
Artist | Single/EP | Year | Sales | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Lay | Honey | 2019 | 4,858,957 | [5] |
JJ Lin | Dust and Ashes | 2023 | 4,595,000 [a] | [60] |
Jay Chou | Pink Ocean | 2022 | 4,414,000 [a] | [61] |
Jay Chou | Reflection | 2022 | 3,995,000 [a] | [62] |
Zhang Zhehan | Surround | 2021 | 3,873,937 | [63] |
Jay Chou | You Are the Firework I Missed | 2022 | 3,838,000 [a] | [64] |
Lu Han | Xplore | 2016 | 3,664,318 | [65] |
LBI | Summer in a Small Town | 2022 | 3,638,000 [a] | [66] |
1K | Just Forget It | 2022 | 3,598,000 [a] | [67] |
Lu Han | Π-volume.1 | 2019 | 3,477,798 | [68] |
Li Yuchun | Ye (first EP of Growing Wild) | 2016 | 3,418,553 | [69] |
A Li Yue | When the Spring Breeze Blows | 2022 | 3,386,000 [a] | [70] |
Lu Han | Reloaded | 2015 | 3,358,873 | [71] |
JJ Lin | Light of Sanctuary | 2020 | 3,282,802 | [72] |
Roy Wang | Song For You | 2018 | 3,263,963 | [73] |
Kris Wu | 6 | 2017 | 3,215,357 | [74] |
Blackpink | How You Like That | 2020 | 3,088,581 | [75] |
Zhu Zhengting | The Winter Light | 2019 | 3,078,866 | [76] |
Cheng Huan | I Will Wait | 2023 | 3,030,000 [a] | [77] |
Lu Han | π-volume.3 | 2020 | 3,009,225 | [78] |
Kekekea | The Girl Is Far Away | 2023 | 3,008,000 [a] | [79] |
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