Top Selling Albums of 2001 (01/01/2001-12/30/2001)
Title / Artist	Units Sold
1. Hybrid Theory / Linkin Park	4,812,852
2. Hotshot / Shaggy	4,507,568
3. Celebrity / N Sync	4,421,231
4. Day Without Rain / Enya	4,410,053
5. Break the Cycle / Staind	4,242,507
6. Songs In A Minor / Alicia Keys	4,102,482
7. Survivor / Destiny’s Child	3,718,446
8. Weathered / Creed	3,581,344
9. Soundtrack / O Brother Where Art Thou?	3,460,852
10. Vol.6-Now That’s What I Call / Va-Now	3,133,462

Top Selling Albums of SoundScan Era (1991 – 12/30/2001)
Title / Artist	Units Sold
1. Come on Over / Shania Twain	14,147,017
2. Jagged Little Pill / Alanis Morisette	13,890,054
3. Metallica / Metallica	12,981,888
4. Millennium / Backstreet Boys	11,971,132
5. Bodyguard / Soundtrack	11,689,093
6. Supernatural / Santana	10,961,112
7. No Strings Attached / N Sync	10,891,514
8. Human Clay / Creed	10,490,972
9. Falling Into You / Celine Dion	10,438,190
10. Baby One More Time / Britney Spears	10,269,049

Quick Facts:

• Retail Internet sales for 2001 totaled 16,684,665 units.

• Total album sales for 2001 were 23 million less than total album sales for 2000. The top 10 selling albums of 2001 accounted for 20 million units less than the top 10 selling albums of 2000. Sales of all albums outside the top 10 accounted for the remaining 3,000,000 unit difference.

• Christian/Gospel music accounted for a 13.5% increase in album unit sales in 2001 over the previous year.

• Soundtrack album sales in 2001 were up 16.7% over 2000.

• New Age album sales in 2001 were up 83.2% over 2000.

• Catalog album sales in 2001 were up 2.6% over 2000.

• Year 2001 total music sales were down 5% over 2000.

• Year 2001 total album sales were down 2.8% over 2000.

• The 2001 holiday season (Thanksgiving through New Year’s Eve) album sales were down 5.1% from 2000.

• In the year 2001, 100 albums sold 1,000,000 units or more, and 187 albums sold 500,000 units or more. In year 2000, 88 albums sold 1,000,000 units or more, and 202 albums sold 500,000 units or more.

Source: Soundscan, Scoop Marketing