Top 20 Album Sales (Extracted from wikipedia.org)

Over 100 million copies

Artist	Album	Released	Genre	Sales (millions)	Source
Michael Jackson	Thriller	1982	Pop / R&B	110	[1][2]

40–49 million copies

Artist	Album	Released	Genre	Sales (millions)	Source
AC/DC	Back in Black	1980	Hard rock / Heavy metal	49	[3]
Pink Floyd	The Dark Side of the Moon	1973	Progressive rock	45	[4]
Whitney Houston / Various artists	The Bodyguard	1992	Soundtrack	44	[5]
Meat Loaf	Bat Out of Hell	1977	Rock	43	[6]
Eagles	Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975)	1976	Rock	42	[1]
Various artists	Dirty Dancing	1987	Dance / Pop	42	[7]
Backstreet Boys	Millennium	1999	Pop	40	[8]
Bee Gees / Various artists	Saturday Night Fever	1977	Disco	40	[9]
Fleetwood Mac	Rumours	1977	Rock	40	[10]

30–39 million copies

Artist	Album	Released	Genre	Sales (millions)	Source
Shania Twain	Come On Over	1997	Country / Pop	39	[11]
Led Zeppelin	Led Zeppelin IV	1971	Hard rock / Heavy metal	37	[12]
Alanis Morissette	Jagged Little Pill	1995	Rock	33	[13]
The Beatles	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	1967	Rock	32	[14]
Celine Dion	Falling into You	1996	Pop	32	[15]
Mariah Carey	Music Box	1993	Pop / R&B	32	[16]
Michael Jackson	Dangerous	1991	Pop / R&B / New jack swing	32	[17]
The Beatles	1	2000	Rock	31	[18]
Celine Dion	Let's Talk About Love	1997	Pop	31	[19]
Elton John	Goodbye Yellow Brick Road	1973	Glam rock / Piano rock	31	[20]

As you can see above 10 of the artist match the same genre of music. 10 artists who have released rock albums have been in the top 20 most sales, so i can tell that my genre of music is a very popular and extremely successful genre. This extremely valuable information because it tell me that my genre has a wide range of fans throughout the world.


1)ACDC : Back In Black    
2)Pink Floyd : The Dark Side of The Moon
3)Meatloaf : Bats Out Of Hell

These are three of the albums covers who are in the top 20 most sales list. From these designs especially with ACDC and Pink Floyd there is a lot of black used to illustrate the front cover. The Meatloaf album cover is different but it still has a lot of dark colours are used in the illustrations. This shows me that to appeal to fans of the rock genre i should include either a simple picture with a black background for example just the band logo or have a detailed illustrations on the front cover in order to reflect upon the band and the artist.


Alix