UK Sales
US Sales
100
1980 - Best Selling Album in UK
Abba - Super Trouper
Super Trouper is the seventh studio album by the Swedish pop group ABBA, first released in 1980. It features the No.1 singles "The Winner Takes It All" and "Super Trouper". The album became the biggest-selling album of 1980 in the UK.
100
1980-Best Selling Album in the US
Pink Floyd - The Wall
200
1981 Best Selling Album in UK
Adam & The Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier
The British new wave band topped the Official Albums Chart for 12 weeks with their second album, which spawned the Top 10 singles Dog Eat Dog and Antmusic.
200
1981-Best Selling Album in the US
REO Speedwagon - Hi Infidelity
300
1982 - Best Selling Album in UK
Barbra Streisand - Love Songs
Originally called Memories for its US release, Love Songs was the biggest seller of 1982 and marked the first time a solo female had topped the year-end list.
300
1982-Best Selling Album in the US
Asia-Asia
400
1983 - Best Selling Album in UK
Michael Jackson - Thriller
It's one of the biggest selling albums worldwide of all time, so it's no surprise that Thriller was the UK's biggest album of 1983 (despite being released in November 1982).
400
1983-Best Selling Album in the US
MJ-Thriller
500
1984 - Best Selling Album in UK
Lionel Richie - Can't Slow Down
The singer's second album features his iconic hits All Night Long and Hello.
500
1984-Best Selling Album in the US
MJ-Thriller
600
1985 - Best Selling Album in UK
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
The British rock band's Grammy Award-winning fifth album was 1985's biggest selling record, and remains the eighth biggest in the UK of all-time.
600
1985-Best Selling Album in the US
Bruce Springsteen-Born in the USA
700
1986-Best Selling Album in UK
Madonna - True Blue
Featuring some of her most iconic hits including Papa Don't Preach, La Isla Bonita and Open Your Heart, True Blue entered the Official Albums Chart at Number 1 - the first US artist ever to do so - and spent six weeks at the top, shifting just shy of two million by the end of the year.
700
1986-Best Selling Album in the US
Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston
800
1987-Best Selling Album in UK
Michael Jackson - Bad
Released five years after Thriller, anticipation was high for Michael Jackson's third album Bad. Topping the Official Album Chart in September, Bad went on to be the year's biggest seller over the likes of U2's The Joshua Tree and Whitney Houston's Whitney.
800
1987-Best Selling Album in the US
Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet
900
1988-Best Selling Album in UK
Kylie Minogue - Kylie
Kylie went from the star of Neighbours to the top of the charts with her debut album in 1988, which included the hit singles The Loco-Motion and I Should Be So Lucky.
900
1988-Best Selling Album in the US
George Michael- Faith
1000
1989-Best Selling Album in UK
Jason Donovan - Ten Good Reasons
Featuring three Number 1 singles Too Many Broken Hearts, Sealed With A Kiss and Kylie duet Especially For You, Jason Donovan's debut album found its way to the top of the 1989 best sellers list in the UK.
1000
1989-Best Selling Album in the US
Bobby Brown-Don't Be Cruel
1100
1980's -Best Selling Album in UK for the Decade
The biggest-selling album of the 1980s in the UK was Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits, which had sold more than 3.2 million copies by the end of 1989.[3] Michael Jackson had the second and third best-selling albums of the 1980s, with Bad just overtaking Thriller by the end of the decade. In fourth place was Greatest Hits by Queen, which had sold over 1.9 million copies by 1989[3] and would go on to become the UK's biggest-selling album of all time.
1100
1980's-Best Selling Album in the US for the DECADE
Michael Jackson-Thriller
Michael Jackson
Thriller (1982)
29 million
Peak: 1
Weeks at no.1: 37
It's 78 week run in the top 10 isnt a record, being matched by HYSTERIA (78 weeks), and surpassed by BORN IN THE USA (84 weeks) SOUND OF MUSIC (109 weeks) and 21 (81 weeks)