the best of 1980-1990 is the fastest selling album of all time in canada.
what is the fastest selling album of all time in canada?
the best of 1980-1990
the album is the 9th best-selling album of all time in brazil amongst national artists, and the third best-selling album of the 1990s. the album broke several records previously unseen before in the country, and it remains to this day as the best-selling debut album ever in brazil, as well as the fastest-selling album in a single day in the country, seeling 25,000 copies in just 12 hours. at one point, it sold 50,000 copies per day, 100,000 copies every two days, which granted a gold certification at the time, and it went on to sell more than 350,000 copies in a week. in less than 100 days the album had sold 1 million copies, doubling that number by december 1995. with 2 million copies sold in just six months, it became the fastest selling album of all time in brazil. the band dominated brazilian radio stations and received overall acclaim, making them legends in history of brazilian music.
mamonas assassinas (album)
on 19 november 2007, "spirit" debuted on the uk albums chart at number one with first-week sales of 375,872 copies, making it the fastest selling debut album in the uk, beating arctic monkeys' "whatever people say i am, that's what i'm not" (2006) by 12,000 copies, until the release of susan boyle's debut album "i dreamed a dream" in november 2009, which sold 410,000 copies in its first week. it was the fourth fastest selling album of all time, behind "be here now" (oasis, 1997), "x&y" (coldplay, 2005) and "life for rent" (dido, 2003). the album remained at number one for seven weeks, and reached one million sales after 29 days, making it the fastest album to sell one million copies by a solo female in the uk. "spirit" was the second biggest selling album of 2007 in the uk, behind "back to black" (amy winehouse, 2006). for each of the first seven weeks it sold over 100,000 copies, a record which was later equalled by "jls" (jls, 2009), and beaten by "21" (adele, 2011), which sold over 100,000 copies for twelve weeks. on 23 november 2008, the album returned to number one for a week, following the release of the deluxe version of the album. in the uk "spirit" was the fourth best-selling album of the 2000s, and is the twentieth best-selling album of all time. the album has been certified ten-times platinum by the british phonographic industry, with sales of 3.1 million by december 2014. it is the 4th best selling album of the millennium in the uk, and as of november 2015 has sold 3,132,668 copies in the uk.
spirit (leona lewis album)