Here are the best selling albums released after January 1, 2000 on a worldwide basis. It is July 2002, so this time frame represents the first 1/4 decade of the 21st century. I only counted albums that had reached 10 million copies or more in global sales. My info comes from the RIAA, the IFPI, and various year end articles from Billboard magazine on Global sales for the year.
Beatles : 1 : 23,000,000
Eminem : The Marshall Mathers LP : 16,000,000
Britney Spears : OOPS! I Did It Again : 15,000,000
Linkin Park : Hybrid Theory : 13,000,000
N'Sync : No Strings Attached : 13,000,000
Madonna : Music : 12,500,000
Limp Bizkit : Chocolate Starfish...... : 11,000,000
Dido : No Angel : 11,000,000
U2 : ALL THAT YOU CAN'T LEAVE BEHIND : 11,000,000
Enya : A Day Without Rain : 10,500,000
Shaggy : Hotshot : 10,500,000
If anyone has questions about albums that did not make the list(meaning they did not sell 10 million copies, having been released in the time frame mentioned above) let me know and I should be able to tell you what it has sold with the info from the sources above.
Beatles : 1 : 23,000,000
Eminem : The Marshall Mathers LP : 16,000,000
Britney Spears : OOPS! I Did It Again : 15,000,000
Linkin Park : Hybrid Theory : 13,000,000
N'Sync : No Strings Attached : 13,000,000
Madonna : Music : 12,500,000
Limp Bizkit : Chocolate Starfish...... : 11,000,000
Dido : No Angel : 11,000,000
U2 : ALL THAT YOU CAN'T LEAVE BEHIND : 11,000,000
Enya : A Day Without Rain : 10,500,000
Shaggy : Hotshot : 10,500,000
If anyone has questions about albums that did not make the list(meaning they did not sell 10 million copies, having been released in the time frame mentioned above) let me know and I should be able to tell you what it has sold with the info from the sources above.