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Query: What was the best selling album of 2017?
"Reputation" received generally positive reviews from music critics and reached number one in 13 countries including the United Kingdom, and United States. In the US, the album sold 1.216 million copies in its first week of release, making it the country's best-selling album of 2017, while with global sales of 4.5 million copies, it was the second best-selling album of 2017 worldwide.
"Carry Fire" received positive reviews from critics. On Metacritic, the album holds a score of 84/100 based on 15 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".
The album was selected as the 37th best album of 2017 by Rolling Stone magazine.
The album was honoured as the best selling UK Americana album at the 2018 UK Americana Awards.
The album was the 6th best-selling album of August 2018, with 41,583 physical copies sold. On September, the EP sold 5,903 additional copies for a total of 47,486 copies sold. On October 15, it was reported that the album was the best-selling album by a girl group that debuted in 2018, after surpassing the 50,000 copies sold. The album sold 52,823 physical copies in 2018, being the second best-selling album by a girl group that debuted in 2018 after IZ*ONE's Color*Iz, 15th best-selling album by a girl group and 80th best-selling album overall in 2018.
The Very Best of TLC: Crazy Sexy Hits (or The Best of TLC for digital release), is the second greatest hits album from American group TLC. It was released exclusively in the United Kingdom by Sony BMG on August 20, 2007. This is the trio's third compilation to be released in the country after the moderately successful "" back in 2003. Having a similar tracklist to the first compilation, the album contains TLC's most successful singles from four of their studio albums, which have been credited to many of the group's producers like Dallas Austin and Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds.
On 1 March 2017, Phoenix again updated social media, teasing new music with a 30-second clip, and announcing multiple tour dates. By 24 April 2017, the band had announced that their sixth album, "Ti Amo", would be released on 9 June 2017. Three days later, on 27 April 2017, the band released the album's first single, "J-Boy" (an acronym for "Just Because of You"). This was followed by the release of the title track, "Ti Amo", on 18 May 2017 and the single "Goodbye Soleil" on 2 June 2017, a week before the album's release. Phoenix is currently touring to promote the release of "Ti Amo" and toured until 27 March 2018.
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In the United States, the album debuted at number 19 on the "Billboard" 200 for the week ending November 27, 2004 for amassing sales of 61,000 copies prior to a whole tracking week. In its first official week of sales, "Destiny Fulfilled" sold over 497,000 copies, with an increase of 713% compared to its early sales; the album's chart position rocketed to number two on the "Billboard" 200 for the week ending December 4, 2004. In the same week, it debuted at number one on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart becoming the group's second chart topper following "Survivor" in 2001. After being removed from the top position for three consecutive weeks, "Destiny Fulfilled" returned to number one for the week ending January 1, 2005. On January 14, 2005 it was certified triple Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipment of 3,000,000 copies. It emerged as the seventh best-selling album and third best-selling R&B album in 2005. As of October 2009, the album has sold 3.1 million copies in the US according to Nielsen SoundScan. It was ranked at number 133 on the decade-end chart of the best-selling albums in that country for the period between 2000 and 2009. The album peaked at number 3 on the Canadian Albums Chart and was awarded Platinum certification by Music Canada selling 100,000 copies.
In the United Kingdom, "1" became the Beatles' 15th number 1 album with sales of 319,126 copies (achieving record sales for only one week in 2000). On 18 December 2000, Ananova.com reported that the album has "become 2000's biggest-selling album—in only five weeks." "1" was the first album to stay at the top spot for nine weeks in almost ten years (the last being the Eurythmics's "Greatest Hits"), the best-selling album of 2000, and the fourth best-selling album of the 2000s so far in the UK. In its eleventh week, "1" sold a total of two million copies in the UK. It spent a total of 46 weeks inside the Top 75. In July 2013 it was certified 10× platinum by the BPI, for over 3 million copies sold in the UK. It is the 21st best-selling album in the UK—according to an assessment by the Official Charts Company and the British Phonographic Industry that counted album sales in the UK from 28 July 1956 to the present day—, and the second best-selling Beatles album in that country (only beaten by "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", which is the UK's third best-selling album). As of July 2016, the album has sold over 3,230,000 copies in the UK.
After its release, "Rock Band" won dozens of awards covering game releases from 2007. The game won seven awards from IGN's "Best of 2007," receiving honors for "Best Music Game" for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, "Best Local Multiplayer Game" for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, "Best Downloadable Content" for the PlayStation 3, and "Best Console Peripheral," as well as overall awards for "Best Music Game," "Best Licensed Soundtrack," and "Best Local Multiplayer Game." GameSpot awarded "Rock Band" five awards in its "Best of 2007," recognizing the game for "Best Rhythm/Music Game," "Best New Gaming Hardware," "Best Downloadable Content," "Best Sound Design," and "Best Multiplayer Game." "Wired", "Official Xbox Magazine", and Ars Technica all named "Rock Band" the "Game of the Year," while "Next Generation Magazine" named it the second-best game of 2007. GamePro honored "Rock Band" with the "Innovation Award" for four-person cooperative play, as well as the selection of "Best Party Game" of 2007. GameSpy also recognized the game as the "Music Game of the Year" on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Additionally, "Rock Band" was awarded "Best Multiplayer Experience (console)" by 1UP.com. The game won two awards at the 2007 Spike Video Game Awards, receiving honors for "Best Rhythm Game" and "Best Soundtrack," while the game's developer, Harmonix, won "Studio of the Year." The game also won an award for "Best Multiplayer Game" in the "X-Play" Best of 2007 Awards. The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences awarded "Rock Band" with honors for three of the eight categories in which it was nominated; the game won awards for "Family Game of the Year", "Outstanding Achievement in Soundtrack", and "Outstanding Innovation in Gaming". "Rock Band" was named "Best Party Game" of the year from "Game Informer Magazine". The game has also been called the best rhythm game of all time by GameTap.
In 2008, the album was re-issued in an exclusive two disc edition, entitled "Unbreakable: The Greatest Hits - 2008 NZ Tour Edition". The package featured the album, with the same track listing, plus the "Live at Wembley" 2006 concert DVD. It peaked at No. 1 on the albums chart there, and achieved 2x Platinum status, with more than 30,000 copies sold. The album finished at No. 19 on the 2008 New Zealand Year-end charts.A DVD containing the music videos of the group's greatest hits was one of the five best-selling music DVDs of 2002 and BMG's fourth biggest-selling concert music DVDs the same year.
Two days after Richardson's departure announcement, the Backstreet Boys entered the studio to record their sixth album. The album, titled "Unbreakable", was released on October 30, 2007. It received positive reviews, and opened at number seven on the "Billboard" 200, selling 81,000 copies in its first week of release. It performed well in Japan, debuting at No. 1 on the Japanese Oricon weekly album charts and staying there for another week. They released two singles from the album, "Inconsolable" and "Helpless When She Smiles".
Jay-Z is one of the world's best-selling music artists. He has received 21 Grammy Awards, tied with Kanye West for the most by a rapper. He also holds the record for the most number-one albums by a solo artist on the "Billboard" 200, and has recorded four number-one singles on the "Billboard" Hot 100. The same publication ranked him as the biggest artist of the 2000s, while "Rolling Stone" named him one of the 100 greatest artists of all time. He is the first rapper to be honored at the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2017 and to receive the ""Salute to Industry Icons Award"" at the 60th Grammy Awards.
"Unbreakable" debuted atop the "Billboard" 200 albums chart in the week ending October 8, 2015. The album sold 116,000 album-equivalent units in its first week, which included streaming and individual digital song sales. Of that sum, the album sold 109,000 in pure sales. "Unbreakable" became Jackson's seventh number one album on that chart and also made her the third act to amass a number one album in each of the last four decades. The album also opened atop the US Independent Albums Chart. In its second week, "Unbreakable" dropped to number eight on the "Billboard" 200 with 30,000 equivalent album units sold, which represented a drop of 74 percent in album sales. Out of that figure, 27,911 were pure album sales. As of 28 April 2016, "Unbreakable" has sold 253,000 copies domestically. In Canada the album also debuted at number one, with sales of 4,300 units, which represented the lowest sales for an album debuting at number-one in 2015. It became Jackson's second chart-topping album in Canada in the Soundscan era since "All for You" debuted atop the charts in 2001.
The album was predicted to sell 65,000 units in its first week and debut in the top five of the US "Billboard" 200. The album debuted at number two on the "Billboard" 200, with 75,000 units.
"Lemonade" also peaked atop the charts in Brazil, Croatia, Czech Republic, Flanders, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Scotland, South Korea, and Sweden. By the end of 2016, the album sold 2.5 million copies worldwide according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), being the best-selling album of 2016 worldwide and the third best-selling album of the year in the United States . As of late 2018 Lemonade has sold over 1.9 million copies in pure sales in the United States and over 3.5 million copies worldwide.
The first volume was published by Fantagraphics on February 14, 2017. The graphic novel won the 2017 Ignatz Award for "Outstanding Graphic Novel" and three 2018 Eisner Awards, and was nominated for a Hugo Award. "My Favorite Thing Is Monsters" has received critical acclaim and is considered by many critics to be one of the best graphic novels of 2017.
The chart is based mostly on sales (both at retail and digital) of albums in the United States. The weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but since July 2015, tracking week begins on Friday (to coincide with the Global Release Date of the music industry) and ends on Thursday. A new chart is published the following Tuesday with an issue post-dated to the Saturday of that week, four days later. The chart's streaming schedule is also tracked from Friday to Thursday.
"Destiny 2" received "generally favorable" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic. Some reviewers labeled the game as "Destiny 1.5" due to its many similarities to the original "Destiny", but praise was given to improvements made over its predecessor. "Destiny 2" sold 50,263 copies on PlayStation 4 within its first week on sale in Japan, which placed it at number one on the weekly sales charts. The weekend consisting of September 23, "Destiny 2" took the number 1 spot on the UK sales chart. "Destiny 2" was also the second highest-grossing console game of 2017 in North America (behind ""), and was also Activision's biggest PC release based on units sold. Digital downloads for "Destiny 2" account for more than half of the total sales of the game.
Originally, "Billboard" had separate charts for different measures of popularity, including disc jockey playings, juke box song selection, and best selling records in retail stores. A composite standing chart that combined these gradually grew to become a top 100, the predecessor to the current Hot 100 chart. The juke box chart ceased publication after the June 17, 1957 issue, the disk jockey chart, after the July 28, 1958 issue, and the best seller chart, after the October 13, 1958 issue. The July 28, 1958 issue was also the last issue that called the composite chart the "Top 100"; the following week began the "Hot 100". "Billboard" publishes many different charts, with the Hot 100 and Billboard 200 being the most famous. "Billboard" also has charts for the following music styles: rock, country, dance, bluegrass, jazz, classical, R&B, rap, electronic, pop, Latin, Christian music, comedy albums, catalog albums, and even ringtones for mobile (cell) phones. In 2009 "Billboard" partnered with MetroLyrics to offer top 10 lyrics for each of the charts.
Retrospective commentary on the album has been highly positive. In November 2010, "Kerrang!" published a tenth-anniversary commemorative issue dedicated to "Holy Wood" titled "Screaming For Vengeance", calling it "Manson's finest hour". In 2014, "Metal Hammer" identified the album as a modern classic, calling it the band's "creative zenith". Manson said in a June 2015 Reddit AMA that he considered the record to be his best work, and, that same month, "NME" referred to it as the band's best album. A 2016 feature in "Houston Press" called "Holy Wood" "the album that really cemented the band as more than just shock-rockers, but true musical mavericks with an intelligent perspective on social issues." "Metal Hammer" referred to the record as "perfect", saying: "Manson has yet to better "Holy Wood" and that's fine—nobody's really bettered it. The flow of the record, the delivery of its concept, the clarity with which it strikes its opponents. A gargantuan artistic feat that will go down in history as Manson's defining statement."
They have had four number one hit singles in the United States: "Creep", "Waterfalls", "No Scrubs" and "Unpretty". The group have certified shipping of 23 million albums and 6.5 million singles in the United States. In 2008, the group was inducted into the All Time Hot 100 Artist Hall of Fame by "Billboard" magazine at 56th place.
Escape the Fate is the third studio album by American post-hardcore band Escape the Fate. It was released worldwide on November 2, 2010. It is the band's first and only album released on DGC/Interscope following their departure from Epitaph Records. The album charted No. 25 on the "Billboard" 200, No. 1 at Hard Rock Albums", "No. 14 in a Rock Albums, No. 13 in Alternative and Independent charts and No. 118 in Digital Albums Chart". "Upon release, the album has received generally positive reviews, and is Escape the Fate's most successful album to date.
The only albums by foreign artists to top the Italian year-end chart were "1" by The Beatles in 2000, and "÷" by Ed Sheeran in 2017. Vasco Rossi achieved five annual best-selling albums in Italy with the records "Stupido hotel" in 2001, "Tracks" in 2002, "Buoni o cattivi" in 2004, "Vivere o niente" in 2011 and "Sono innocente" in 2014. Other multiple toppers of the year-end chart were Eros Ramazzotti, whose albums "9" and "e²" were the best-selling records of 2003 and 2007, respectively, and Tiziano Ferro, which achieved the first position on the annual chart in 2009 with "Alla mia età" and in 2012 with "L'amore è una cosa semplice". More recently, Luciano Ligabue had two annual best-selling albums in Italy, with "Arrivederci, mostro!" and "Mondovisione" being the best-selling album in 2010 and 2013, respectively, and Jovanotti achieved the same result with "Safari" (2008) and "Lorenzo 2015 CC." (2015).
The album was certified Gold by the RIAA on November 8, 2017. It was fifth best-selling country album of 2017, with 297,800 copies (503,000 album-equivalent units) sold. it has sold 496,900 copies in the United States as of January 2019.
The album was ranked number 22 on the list of the top 40 biggest albums of 2017 on the UK Album Chart. It was the fourth best selling album by a British artist worldwide in 2017. According to IFPI, it was the ninth best selling album of 2017, with 1 million copies shipped globally. The album was Sony Music's biggest global seller in the second quarter of 2017. It was the sixth best selling album of 2017 in Mexico.
On 3 January 2018, "Shape of You" was named the best selling single of 2017 in the UK, and the best selling single of 2017 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 in the US. The same day, "÷" was named the best selling album of 2017 in the UK, and the US. At the 2018 Brit Awards held at the O Arena in London on 21 February, Sheeran performed "Supermarket Flowers", and received the Global Success Award from Elton John and Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood. In April 2018, the IFPI named "÷" the best-selling album worldwide of 2017. At the 2018 "Billboard" Music Awards on 20 May, Sheeran performed "Galway Girl" from Phoenix Park in Dublin, Ireland, and picked up six awards, including Top Artist and Top Hot 100 Artist.