List of best-selling albums in China

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This is a list of the best-selling albums in China.

As of 2018, China was the world's 7th 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.

Legend
pink Physical album
purple Digital album
Rank no. Year of release Album Artist Number of copies sold Ref.
1 2019 Honey[a] Lay 4,809,882 [4]
2 2019 Going To Powerfully Burst R1SE 3,074,989 [5]
3 2021 Mi 迷 Cai Xukun 2,900,791 [6]
4 2020 Lit Lay 2,710,952 [7]
5 2004 Common Jasmin Orange Jay Chou 2,600,000 [8]
6 1984 Wandering Cheng Fangyuan 2,000,000 [9]
1985 Childhood
8 2016 Jay Chou's Bedtime Stories Jay Chou 1,989,173 [10]
9 2019 Lover Taylor Swift 1,870,454 [11]
10 2019 Wow Li Yuchun 1,857,521 [12]

Best-selling physical albums[]

This is a following list of the Top 10 Best-selling physical albums in China.

Rank no. Year of release Album Artist Number of copies sold Ref.
1 2004 Common Jasmin Orange Jay Chou 2,600,000 [8]
2 1984 Wandering Cheng Fangyuan 2,000,000 [9]
3 1985 Childhood Cheng Fangyuan 2,000,000 [9]
4 1993 I Can Never Understand Your Love Chen Lin 1,500,000 [citation needed]
5 1997 Titanic James Horner/Celine Dion 1,000,000 [13]
6 1986 A Voice on the Ocean Fei Xiang 1,000,000 [14]
7 2001 Meteor Rain F4 500,000 [15]
8 2007 Against the Light Stefanie Sun 500,000 [16]
9 2004 It's Raining Rain 500,000 [17]
10 1999 Next to Happiness The Flowers 500,000 [18]

List of best-selling digital albums (5 tracks or more)[]

2 million or more units[]

Artist Album Year Sales Ref.
R1SE Going to Powerfully Burst 2019 3,074,989 [19]
Cai Xukun Mi 迷 2021 2,900,791 [20]
Lay Lit 2020 2,710,952 [21]

1 million or more units[]

Artist Album Year Sales Ref.
Jay Chou Jay Chou's Bedtime Stories 2016 1,989,173 [22]
Taylor Swift Lover 2019 1,870,454 [23]
Li Yuchun Wow 2019 1,857,521 [24]
Hua Chenyu New World 2020 1,804,986 [25]
Taylor Swift 1989 2014 1,780,189 [26]
Taylor Swift Reputation 2017 1,741,201 [27]
G-Dragon Kwon Ji Yong 2017 1,501,853 [28]
BLACKPINK The Album 2020 1,418,203 [29]
Nine Percent To the Nines 2018 1,332,414 [30]
Li Yuchun Liu Xing 2017 1,242,472 [31]
Lay Namanana 2018 1,176,882 [32]
Taylor Swift Folklore 2020 1,122,985 [33]
JJ Lin Message in a Bottle 2017 1,084,090 [34]
Lay Lay 02 Sheep 2017 1,006,078 [35]

List of best-selling digital singles/EPs (4 tracks or less)[]

20 million or more units[]

Artist Single/EP Year Sales Ref.
Xiao Zhan Light 2020 53,582,939 [36]
Hua Chenyu I Really Want to Love This World 2019 22,540,941 [37]

10 million or more units[]

Artist Single/EP Year Sales Ref.
Wang Yibo No Feelings 2019 17,156,683 [38]
Wang Yibo The Rules of My World 2020 15,018,533 [39]
Cai Xukun Young 2019 14,052,821 [3]
Jay Chou Won't Cry 2019 10,870,050 [40]

5 million or more units[]

Artist Single/EP Year Sales Ref.
Jay Chou Mojito 2020 7,963,402 [41]
Eason Chan Keep Me By Your Side 2016 5,675,426 [42]
Liu Yuxin Epsilon 2021 5,665,217 [43]

3 million or more units[]

Artist Single/EP Year Sales Ref.
Lay Honey 2019 4,809,882 [4]
JJ Lin No Turning Back 2020 4,730,075 [44]
JJ Lin The Story Of Us 2019 4,068,777 [45]
Zhang Zhehan Surround 2021 3,740,640 [46]
Lu Han Xplore 2016 3,663,199 [47]
Lu Han Π-volume.1 2019 3,477,798 [48]
Li Yuchun Ye (first EP of Growing Wild) 2016 3,417,849 [49]
Roy Wang Song For You 2018 3,263,963 [50]
Lu Han Reloaded 2015 3,358,873 [51]
Kris Wu 6 2017 3,212,024 [52]
Zhu Zhengting The Winter Light 2019 3,076,536 [53]
BLACKPINK How You Like That 2020 3,040,638 [54]

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ 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 consist of two tracks. The next best-selling non-single EP in China is Lay Zhang's Honey (2019), which has sold more than 4.7 million copies,[4] and consist of four tracks, which is a standard size for modern EPs in North America and Europe.

References[]

  1. ^ "Global Music Report 2019: Annual State of the Industry" (PDF). International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b ""Young"- Cai Xukun sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c ""Honey"- Lay sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
  5. ^ ""Going to Powerfully Burst"-R1SE sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved June 9, 2021.
  6. ^ ""迷"-Cai Xukun sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved June 9, 2021.
  7. ^ ""Lit"-Lay Zhang sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved June 9, 2021.
  8. ^ Jump up to: a b Fung, Anthony (2008). Western style, Chinese Pop: Jay Chou's Rap and Hip-Hop in China. pp. 69–80. Retrieved March 19, 2017. In China the official figure reached 2.6 million units, a stunning figure that no other Chinese artist has attained.
  9. ^ Jump up to: a b c Reference for sales: Reference for album titles and release dates:
  10. ^ ""Jay Chou's Bedtime Stories"-Jay Chou sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved June 9, 2021.
  11. ^ ""Lover"- Taylor Swift sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved June 9, 2021.
  12. ^ ""Wow"- Li Yuchun sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved June 9, 2021.
  13. ^ 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
  14. ^ "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".
  15. ^ 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.
  16. ^ 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. Retrieved March 19, 2017. over 500,000 copies in China in the first week
  17. ^ "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… Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
  18. ^ Far Eastern Economic Review (May 23, 2003). "Chinese aim to build a great wall of sound". The Guardian. Retrieved March 19, 2017.
  19. ^ ""Going to Powerfully Burst"-R1SE sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved June 9, 2021.
  20. ^ ""迷"-Cai Xukun sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved June 9, 2021.
  21. ^ ""Lit"-Lay Zhang sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved June 9, 2021.
  22. ^ ""Jay Chou's Bedtime Stories"-Jay Chou sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved June 9, 2021.
  23. ^ ""Lover"- Taylor Swift sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved June 9, 2021.
  24. ^ ""Wow"- Li Yuchun sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved June 9, 2021.
  25. ^ ""New World"- Hua Chenyu sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved June 9, 2021.
  26. ^ ""1989"- Taylor Swift sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved June 9, 2021.
  27. ^ ""Reputation"- Taylor Swift sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved June 9, 2021.
  28. ^ ""Kwon Ji Yong"- G-Dragon sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved June 9, 2021.
  29. ^ ""The Album"- BLACKPINK sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 7, 2021.
  30. ^ ""To the Nines"- Nine Percent sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved June 9, 2021.
  31. ^ ""Liu Xing"- Li Yuchun sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved June 9, 2021.
  32. ^ ""Namanana"- Lay sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved June 9, 2021.
  33. ^ ""folklore"- Taylor Swift sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved June 9, 2021.
  34. ^ ""Message in a Bottle"- JJ Lin sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved June 9, 2021.
  35. ^ ""Sheep"- Lay sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved June 9, 2021.
  36. ^ ""Light"- Xiao Zhan sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
  37. ^ ""I Really Want Love This World"- Hua Chenyu sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
  38. ^ ""No Feelings"- Wang Yibo sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
  39. ^ ""The Rules of My World"- Wang Yibo sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved June 16, 2021.
  40. ^ ""Won't Cry"- Jay Chou sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
  41. ^ ""Mojito"- Jay Chou sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
  42. ^ ""Keep Me By Your Side"- Eason Chan sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
  43. ^ ""EPSILON"- Liu Yuxin sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved June 16, 2021.
  44. ^ ""No Turning Back"- JJ Lin sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved June 16, 2021.
  45. ^ ""The Story Of Us"- JJ Lin sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
  46. ^ ""Surround"- Zhang Zhehan sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved June 16, 2021.
  47. ^ ""Xplore"- Lu Han sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
  48. ^ ""Π-volume.1"- Lu Han sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
  49. ^ ""Ye"- Li Yuchun sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
  50. ^ ""Song For You"- Roy Wang sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
  51. ^ ""Reloaded"- Lu Han sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
  52. ^ ""6"- Kris Wu sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
  53. ^ ""The Winter Light"- Zhu Zhengting sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
  54. ^ ""How You Like That"- BLACKPINK sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
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