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By Bill Lamb, About.com Guide to Top 40 / Pop since 2005

Top 10 Best Selling Albums of 2006

Thursday January 4, 2007

The final numbers are in. These are the 10 best selling albums of the year. Click on the title to read a review.

  1. Soundtrack - High School Musical - 3,719,071
  2. Rascal Flatts - Me and My Gang - 3,479,994
  3. Carrie Underwood - Some Hearts - 3,015,950
  4. Nickelback - All the Right Reasons - 2,688,166
  5. Justin Timberlake - FutureSex / LoveSounds - 2,377,127
  6. James Blunt - Back to Bedlam - 2,137,142
  7. Beyonce - B'Day - 2,010,311
  8. Soundtrack - Hannah Montana - 1,987,681
  9. Dixie Chicks - Taking the Long Way - 1,856,284
  10. Hinder - Extreme Behavior - 1,817,350

Data © Nielsen Soundscan

Comments

August 9, 2007 at 6:03 am
(1) JB says:

When you say “top ten selling albums of 2006″ is that for the USA or Afghanistan or Africa or what?

December 30, 2008 at 9:56 pm
(2) MB says:

JB, you can assume he means USA.

May 13, 2009 at 11:15 am
(3) D.W. says:

i can’t believe that high school musical actually sold more copies than anybody else….

May 20, 2009 at 11:09 am
(4) bob says:

lol

May 20, 2009 at 11:14 am
(5) bob says:

lol i know right a hole

July 20, 2009 at 7:35 pm
(6) Orange says:

Its not right though. im pretty sure Stadium Arcadium sold allot of coppies too. more than 2 milion

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