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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 Top 10 Best Selling Albums in China.
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Physical album
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Digital album
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.
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
6,197,507
[25]
Cai Xukun
Mi 迷
2021
3,455,209
[26]
R1SE
Going to Powerfully Burst
2019
3,082,155
[27]
Big Bang
Made
2016
2,841,614
[28]
Lay
Lit
2020
2,741,096
[29]
Jay Chou
Jay Chou's Bedtime Stories
2016
2,000,890
[30]
1 million or more units
Artist
Album
Year
Sales
Ref.
Taylor Swift
Lover
2019
1,872,460
[31]
Li Yuchun
Wow
2019
1,858,647
[32]
Hua Chenyu
New World
2020
1,835,069
[33]
Taylor Swift
1989
2014
1,780,189
[34]
Taylor Swift
Reputation
2017
1,741,210
[35]
G-Dragon
Kwon Ji Yong
2017
1,507,570
[36]
BLACKPINK
The Album
2020
1,432,666
[37]
Nine Percent
To the Nines
2018
1,396,966
[38]
Li Yuchun
Liu Xing
2017
1,243,109
[39]
Taylor Swift
Folklore
2020
1,206,487
[40]
Lay
Namanana
2018
1,180,208
[41]
JJ Lin
Message in a Bottle
2017
1,173,263
[42]
Lay
Lay 02 Sheep
2017
1,008,065
[43]
List of best-selling digital singles/EPs (4 tracks or less)
20 million or more units
10 million or more units
5 million or more units
Artist
Single/EP
Year
Sales
Ref.
Jay Chou
Mojito
2020
9,170,315
[49]
JJ Lin
No Turning Back
2020
6,855,776
[50]
Liu Yuxin
Epsilon
2021
5,874,069
[51]
Eason Chan
Keep Me By Your Side
2016
5,771,018
[52]
JJ Lin
The Story Of Us
2019
5,637,031
[53]
3 million or more units
Artist
Single/EP
Year
Sales
Ref.
Lay
Honey
2019
4,858,957
[6]
Zhang Zhehan
Surround
2021
3,873,937
[54]
Lu Han
Xplore
2016
3,664,318
[55]
Lu Han
Π-volume.1
2019
3,477,798
[56]
Li Yuchun
Ye (first EP of Growing Wild )
2016
3,418,553
[57]
Roy Wang
Song For You
2018
3,263,963
[58]
Lu Han
Reloaded
2015
3,358,873
[59]
JJ Lin
Light of Sanctuary
2020
3,282,802
[60]
Kris Wu
6
2017
3,215,357
[61]
Zhu Zhengting
The Winter Light
2019
3,078,866
[62]
Blackpink
How You Like That
2020
3,077,928
[63]
Lu Han
π-volume.3
2020
3,009,225
[64]
See also
Notes
^ 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.
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 .
^ a b " "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 .
^ "Best-selling albums of 2021" . bestsellingalbums.org . Retrieved February 7, 2022 .
^ a b " "Honey"- Lay sales" . saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021 .
^ " "Going to Powerfully Burst"-R1SE sales" . saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved June 9, 2021 .
^ " "Lit"-Lay Zhang sales" . saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved June 9, 2021 .
^ a b 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.
^ a b White, Adam (10 June 1998). "Billboard Vol. 110, No. 25" . Billboard . p. 99. Retrieved 2 November 2022 .
^ a b c d Reference for sales:
Reference for album titles and release dates:
^ 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 .
^ a b c "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" .
^ 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…
^ Far Eastern Economic Review (May 23, 2003). "Chinese aim to build a great wall of sound" . The Guardian . Retrieved March 19, 2017 .
^ " "Greatest Works Of Art" sales" . saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 19, 2022 .
^ " "迷"-Cai Xukun sales" . saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021 .
^ " "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 .
^ " "The Winter Light"- Zhu Zhengting sales" . saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021 .
^ " "How You Like That"- BLACKPINK sales" . saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 23, 2021 .
^ "π-volume.3" . y.saoju.net . Retrieved 2022-08-24 .
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