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
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. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2022 | Greatest Works of Art[lower-alpha 1] | Jay Chou | 7,219,772 | [4] |
2021 | Epsilon | Liu Yuxin | 5,878,671 | |
2019 | Honey | Lay | 4,858,957 | [5] |
1993 | Kiss and Goodbye | 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] |
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 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] |
2002 | Start | Stefanie Sun | 1,000,000 | [18] |
2003 | To Be Continued... | Stefanie Sun | 1,000,000 | [18] |
1997 | The Third Eye | Zheng Jun | 800,000 | [19] |
1994 | Chi Luo | Zheng Jun | 600,000 | [20] |
2001 | Meteor Rain | F4 | 500,000 | [21] |
2007 | Against the Light | Stefanie Sun | 500,000 | [22] |
2004 | It's Raining | Rain | 500,000 | [23] |
1999 | Next to Happiness | The Flowers | 500,000 | [24] |
Qingchun Shijie | Hang Hong | 500,000 | [25] |
List of best-selling digital albums (5 tracks or more)
2 million or more units
Artist | Album | Year | Sales | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Jay Chou | Greatest Works of Art | 2022 | 7,219,772 | [26] |
Cai Xukun | Mi 迷 | 2021 | 3,473,680 | [27] |
R1SE | Going to Powerfully Burst | 2019 | 3,082,155 | [28] |
Big Bang | Made | 2016 | 2,841,614 | [29] |
Lay | Lit | 2020 | 2,741,096 | [30] |
Jay Chou | Jay Chou's Bedtime Stories | 2016 | 2,000,890 | [31] |
1 million or more units
Artist | Album | Year | Sales | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Taylor Swift | Lover | 2019 | 1,872,460 | [32] |
Li Yuchun | Wow | 2019 | 1,858,647 | [33] |
Hua Chenyu | New World | 2020 | 1,835,069 | [34] |
Taylor Swift | 1989 | 2014 | 1,780,189 | [35] |
Taylor Swift | Reputation | 2017 | 1,741,210 | [36] |
G-Dragon | Kwon Ji Yong | 2017 | 1,507,570 | [37] |
BLACKPINK | The Album | 2020 | 1,432,666 | [38] |
Nine Percent | To the Nines | 2018 | 1,396,966 | [39] |
Li Yuchun | Liu Xing | 2017 | 1,243,109 | [40] |
Taylor Swift | Folklore | 2020 | 1,206,487 | [41] |
Lay | Namanana | 2018 | 1,180,208 | [42] |
JJ Lin | Message in a Bottle | 2017 | 1,173,263 | [43] |
Lay | Lay 02 Sheep | 2017 | 1,008,065 | [44] |
List of best-selling digital singles/EPs (4 tracks or less)
20 million or more units
Artist | Single/EP | Year | Sales | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Xiao Zhan | Light | 2020 | 54,255,539 | [45] |
Hua Chenyu | I Really Want to Love This World | 2019 | 22,931,648 | [46] |
10 million or more units
Artist | Single/EP | Year | Sales | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Wang Yibo | No Feelings | 2019 | 17,585,162 | [47] |
Wang Yibo | The Rules of My World | 2020 | 15,451,449 | [48] |
Cai Xukun | Young | 2019 | 14,505,045 | [3] |
Jay Chou | Won't Cry | 2019 | 10,917,586 | [49] |
5 million or more units
Artist | Single/EP | Year | Sales | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Jay Chou | Mojito | 2020 | 9,170,315 | [50] |
JJ Lin | No Turning Back | 2020 | 6,855,776 | [51] |
Liu Yuxin | Epsilon | 2021 | 5,874,069 | [52] |
Eason Chan | Keep Me By Your Side | 2016 | 5,771,018 | [53] |
JJ Lin | The Story Of Us | 2019 | 5,637,031 | [54] |
3 million or more units
Artist | Single/EP | Year | Sales | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Lay | Honey | 2019 | 4,858,957 | [5] |
Zhang Zhehan | Surround | 2021 | 3,873,937 | [55] |
Lu Han | Xplore | 2016 | 3,664,318 | [56] |
Lu Han | Π-volume.1 | 2019 | 3,477,798 | [57] |
Li Yuchun | Ye (first EP of Growing Wild) | 2016 | 3,418,553 | [58] |
Roy Wang | Song For You | 2018 | 3,263,963 | [59] |
Lu Han | Reloaded | 2015 | 3,358,873 | [60] |
JJ Lin | Light of Sanctuary | 2020 | 3,282,802 | [61] |
Kris Wu | 6 | 2017 | 3,215,357 | [62] |
Blackpink | How You Like That | 2020 | 3,088,581 | [63] |
Zhu Zhengting | The Winter Light | 2019 | 3,078,866 | [64] |
Lu Han | π-volume.3 | 2020 | 3,009,225 | [65] |
See also
Notes
References
- ↑ "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.
- 1 2 ""Young"- Cai Xukun sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ↑ ""Greatest Works Of Art" sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 19, 2022.
- 1 2 ""Honey"- Lay sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- 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.
- ↑ ""Going to Powerfully Burst"-R1SE sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved June 9, 2021.
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- 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.
- 1 2 3 4 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ ""Jay Chou's Bedtime Stories"-Jay Chou sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved June 9, 2021.
- 1 2 3 "Pop goes China's taste in music". The Straits Times. December 27, 1988. p. 8. Retrieved November 1, 2022.
- ↑ White, Adam (6 August 1994). "Asia Falling Under the Influence Of Taiwan's Rock Records" (PDF). Billboard. p. 38. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
- ↑ "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".
- 1 2 Suryadinata, Leo (2012). "Southeast Asian Personalities of Chinese Descent: Biographical dictionary". Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. p. 1019. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
- ↑ Burpee, Geoff (23 August 1997). "Everyone Gets Involved". Billboard. p. APQ-6. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
- ↑ "Fat Sales, Slim Profit". Billboard. 1 March 1997. p. APQ-4. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
- ↑ 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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- ↑ ""Going to Powerfully Burst"-R1SE sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ↑ "MADE". y.saoju.net. Retrieved 2022-08-24.
- ↑ ""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 July 19, 2022.
- ↑ ""New World"- Hua Chenyu sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 19, 2022.
- ↑ ""1989"- Taylor Swift sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ↑ ""Reputation"- Taylor Swift sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 19, 2022.
- ↑ ""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 July 19, 2022.
- ↑ ""Namanana"- Lay sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ↑ ""Message in a Bottle"- JJ Lin sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 19, 2022.
- ↑ ""Sheep"- Lay sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ↑ ""Light"- Xiao Zhan sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 19, 2022.
- ↑ ""I Really Want Love This World"- Hua Chenyu sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 19, 2022.
- ↑ ""No Feelings"- Wang Yibo sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 19, 2022.
- ↑ ""The Rules of My World"- Wang Yibo sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 19, 2022.
- ↑ ""Won't Cry"- Jay Chou sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ↑ ""Mojito"- Jay Chou sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 19, 2022.
- ↑ ""No Turning Back"- JJ Lin sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 19, 2022.
- ↑ ""EPSILON"- Liu Yuxin 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.
- ↑ ""The Story Of Us"- JJ Lin sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ↑ ""Surround"- Zhang Zhehan sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 19, 2022.
- ↑ ""Xplore"- Lu Han sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 19, 2022.
- ↑ ""Π-volume.1"- Lu Han sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ↑ ""Ye"- Li Yuchun sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 19, 2022.
- ↑ ""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.
- ↑ ""Light of Sanctuary"- JJ Lin sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 19, 2022.
- ↑ ""6"- Kris Wu sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ↑ ""How You Like That"- BLACKPINK sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved May 21, 2023.
- ↑ ""The Winter Light"- Zhu Zhengting sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ↑ "π-volume.3". y.saoju.net. Retrieved 2022-08-24.
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