List of BMG Music Club's top selling albums in the United States

Launched in the mid-1950s, BMG was part of RCA until it was acquired by Bertelsmann in 1987. BMG's Music Club is one of the biggest direct-to-customer distributors of music and has a large number of members across its various genre-based music clubs. In 2002 the club announced their all-time best sellers, honoring the top 100 selling albums with a special plaque.

BMG Music Club top 100 selling albums

Rank	Artist	Album	Club Sales
1	Shania Twain	Come on Over	1.99 million
2	Backstreet Boys	Backstreet Boys	1.72 million
3	Britney Spears	...Baby One More Time	1.60 million
4	Backstreet Boys	Millennium	1.59 million
5	Eminem	The Marshall Mathers LP	1.54 million
6	'N Sync	No Strings Attached	1.52 million
7	Eagles	Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975	1.52 million
8	'N Sync	*NSYNC	1.50 million
9	Janet Jackson	Design of a Decade 1986/1996	1.48 million
10	Madonna	The Immaculate Collection	1.46 million
11	Jewel	Pieces of You	1.40 million
12	AC/DC	Back in Black	1.33 million
13	No Doubt	Tragic Kingdom	1.32 million
14	Fleetwood Mac	Rumours	1.31 million
15	Kid Rock	Devil Without a Cause	1.31 million
16	Various Artists	The Bodyguard (OST)	1.31 million
17	Hootie and The Blowfish	Cracked Rear View	1.30 million
18	Boyz II Men	II	1.29 million
19	Kenny G	Breathless	1.29 million
20	Will Smith	Big Willie Style	1.29 million
21	Dixie Chicks	Wide Open Spaces	1.28 million
22	TLC	Crazysexycool	1.27 million
23	Green Day	Dookie	1.26 million
24	Santana	Supernatural	1.26 million
25	Shania Twain	The Woman in Me	1.24 million
26	Nirvana	Nevermind	1.24 million
27	Britney Spears	Oops!...I Did It Again	1.21 million
28	matchbox twenty	yourself or someone like you	1.18 million
29	Eminem	The Slim Shady LP	1.16 million
30	Beastie Boys	Licensed to Ill	1.13 million
31	Boyz II Men	Cooleyhighharmony	1.13 million
32	The Notorious B.I.G.	Life After Death	1.12 million
33	Celine Dion	Let's Talk About Love	1.11 million
34	Celine Dion	All the Way...A Decade of Song	1.10 million
35	Janet Jackson	Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814	1.10 million
36	Ace of Base	The Sign	1.08 million
37	Billy Ray Cyrus	Some Gave All	1.08 million
38	Natalie Cole	Unforgettable	1.03 million
39	Mariah Carey	#1's	1.00 million
40	Alicia Keys	Songs in a Minor	995,000
41	Backstreet Boys	Black & Blue	992,000
42	Ricky Martin	Ricky Martin	987,000
43	Celine Dion	Falling Into You	987,000
44	Sarah McLachlan	Surfacing	985,000
45	Puff Daddy and the Family	No Way Out	978,000
46	Toni Braxton	Toni Braxton	972,000
47	Various Artists	Titanic (OST)	971,000
48	Christina Aguilera	Christina Aguilera	935,000
49	Toni Braxton	Secrets	927,000
50	Michael Jackson	Thriller	923,000
51	En Vogue	Funky Divas	916,000
52	Meat Loaf	Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell	909,000
53	Various Artists	Dirty Dancing (OST)	904,000
54	Various Artists	Grease (OST)	899,000
55	Guns N' Roses	Appetite for Destruction	890,000
56	Various Artists	Waiting to Exhale (OST)	886,000
57	ABBA	ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits	884,000
58	Janet Jackson	Control	883,000
59	Madonna	Like a Virgin	882,000
60	Lauryn Hill	The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill	880,000
61	Michael Jackson	Bad	879,000
62	TLC	Fanmail	877,000
63	Janet Jackson	Janet.	860,000
64	DMX	It's Dark and Hell Is Hot	857,000
65	Mariah Carey	Daydream	848,000
66	Third Eye Blind	Third Eye Blind	842,000
67	Sheryl Crow	Tuesday Night Music Club	833,000
68	'N Sync	Celebrity	826,000
69	Linkin' Park	Hybrid Theory	826,000
70	Fugees	The Score	822,000
71	Whitney Houston	Whitney	806,000
72	Usher	My Way	796,000
73	U2	The Joshua Tree	779,000
74	Aaliyah	One in a Million	756,000
75	Selena	Dreaming of You	745,000
76	Mariah Carey	Music Box	735,000
77	BLACKstreet	Another Level	733,000
78	Michael Jackson	HIStory	730,000
79	Destiny's Child	The Writing's on the Wall	703,000
80	Nickelback	Silver Side Up	692,000
81	Brandy	Never Say Never	665,000
82	Various Artists	Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (OST)	642,000
83	Celine Dion	Celine Dion	624,000
84	Britney Spears	Britney	588,000
85	Mary J. Blige	Share My World	559,000
86	Jewel	Spirit	521,000
87	Kenny G	Faith/A Holiday Album	503,000
88	Prince	The Hits 1	501,000
89	Sheryl Crow	Sheryl Crow	500,000
90	Shania Twain	Up!	477,000
91	Madonna	Ray of Light	459,000
92	LFO	LFO	456,000
93	Mariah Carey	Rainbow	443,000
94	Destiny's Child	Survivor	439,000
95	Janet Jackson	The Velvet Rope	420,000
96	Shania Twain	Shania Twain	390,000
97	Aaliyah	Aaliyah	350,000
98	Alanis Morissette	Jagged Little Pill	350,000
99	Madonna	True Blue	301,000
100	Michael Jackson	Dangerous	298,000

External links

BMG Music Club press release on their top 100 selling albums