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revives this topic since i wonder about it too.

 

let's start with Wikipedia, tell me what to fix:

 

Hybrid Theory - 24,000,000

Meteora - 16,000,000

Minutes To Midnight - 8,000,000

A Thousand Suns - 2,000,000

Living Things - 1,700,000

 

Reanimation - 2,000,000

Collision Course - 5,000,000

 

Live In Texas - ?

Road To Revolution: Live At Milton Keynes - ?

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Going solely off of RIAA certifications, here are the U.S. numbers as of their most recent update (keep in mind, artists have to pay a fee to the RIAA to have their catalog re-certified, which probably why some of these albums haven't been re-certified in a long time - Meteora certainly didn't sell 4 million copies in its first year and then not break a million in the 9 years since, for example).

 

Albums:

Hybrid Theory - 10,000,000 (as of 1/7/2005)

Reanimation - 1,000,000 (as of 9/6/2002)

Meteora - 4,000,000 (as of 2/26/2004)

Live in Texas - 1,000,000 (as of 11/29/2007)

Collision Course - 1,000,000 (as of 7/19/2005)

Minutes to Midnight - 2,000,000 (as of 11/15/2007)

A Thousand Suns - 500,000 (as of 1/11/2011)

Living Things - 500,000 (as of 4/3/2013)

 

Singles (these only reflect digital sales):

In the End - 500,000 (as of 8/18/2008)

Numb - 1,000,000 (as of 10/1/2009)

What I've Done - 2,000,000 (as of 11/13/2008)

Bleed it Out - 1,000,000 (as of 8/25/2009)

Shadow of the Day - 1,000,000 (as of 6/11/2008)

Leave Out All the Rest - 500,000 (as of 10/5/2009)

New Divide - 2,000,000 (as of 2/14/2011)

The Catalyst - 500,000 (as of 8/3/2010)

Waiting For the End - 500,000 (as of 4/7/2011)

Burn it Down - 1,000,000 (as of 2/13/2013)

 

Other:

Frat Party at the Pankake Festival - 1,000,000 (as of 3/6/2002)

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Holy shit this takes me back.

 

Anyways rhose RIAA numbers for albums are just shipped and not the number sold, for example Hybrid Theory went diamond in 2005 but didn't actually sell 10 million copies until recently.

I know, but short of being an industry insider who actually has access to Nielsen SoundScan numbers, the RIAA certifications are probably the best numbers we have to go on. The shipped vs. sold numbers are a lot closer these days than they used to be too, a lot of stores don't stock a ton of copies of one CD at any given time, except if it's a new release that's selling like crazy.

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