Three editions of the album were available: a 2-CD+DVD version, a CD+DVD version, and a CD only version. Best Selection 2010 was the group's first album to reach number one on the Oricon Albums Chart, and is the first album by a foreign band to have first-week sales of 400,000 copies in Japan. Best Selection 2010 was certified 2× Platinum by the RIAJ and is the best-selling album of Tohoshinki's career.[1] It is also the best-selling greatest hits album by a foreign artist in Japan.
Best Selection 2010 debuted at number-one on the Oricon Daily Album Chart, selling 228,542 copies on the first day.[2][3][unreliable source?] The album maintained its position atop the Daily Chart for seven consecutive days and ranked at number one on the Oricon Weekly Album Chart with an accumulated 412,861 copies sold by the end of its first week, overtaking the Backstreet Boys and Bon Jovi, who held the number one and number two positions on the chart respectively prior to Best Selection 2010's release.[4] With this, Best Selection 2010 became the group's first number one album in Japan. They broke a 14-year record for the highest first-week sales by a foreign group in the country, formerly set by American rock band Bon Jovi's sixth studio album These Days with 379,000 copies sold.[4] Tohoshinki's record was broken 10 years later, in 2020, by fellow South Korean group BTS, who sold over 564,000 copies of their third Japanese studio album Map of the Soul: 7 - The Journey in its first week.[5]
The album also entered the Global United Charts[unreliable source?] at number one, making it the highest selling album in the world for that week, surpassing releases by other artists like Sade, Lady Gaga, and The Black Eyed Peas.[citation needed]
On March 11, 2010, Best Selection 2010 was certified Double Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) for shipping over 500,000 copies.[6][7] On December 20, 2010, Oricon reported the Yearly Album Chart for 2010 and Best Selection 2010 ranked seventh on the list with a total sales of 569,530 copies, making it the highest selling album by a foreign group at the time.[8]
After only two days of release in the Philippine market, Best Selection 2010 landed on the number one spot in Astrovision and Astroplus’s Overall & International Album Chart. It outsold albums by Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift & the Glee soundtrack. This was Tohoshinki’s first number one album in the country.
^BTS、海外男性アーティストのアルバム初週売上歴代1位に 今年度最高初週&累積売上も【オリコンランキング】 [BTS ranks No. 1 in sales for the first week of albums by overseas male artists.]. Oricon News (in Japanese). July 21, 2020. Archived from the original on July 20, 2020. Retrieved July 20, 2020.
