List of best-selling albums in China

This is a list of the best-selling albums in China.

As of 2018, China was the world's 7th largest music market, an increase from being 14th in 2015 and 27th in 2005.[1][2]

Best-selling albums in China

This is a list of Top 10 Best Selling Albums in China.

Legend

pink	Physical album
purple	Digital album

Rank no.	Year of release	Album	Artist	Number of copies sold	Ref.
1	2019	Honey[lower-alpha 1]	Lay	4,778,517	[4]
2	2019	Going To Powerfully Burst	R1SE	3,060,000	[5]
3	2020	Lit	Lay	2,630,000	[6]
4	2004	Common Jasmin Orange	Jay Chou	2,600,000	[7]
5	1984	Wandering	Cheng Fangyuan	2,000,000	[8]
	1985	Childhood
7	2016	Jay Chou's Bedtime Stories	Jay Chou	1,985,000	[9]
8	2019	Wow	Li Yuchun	1,856,260	[10]
9	2019	Lover	Taylor Swift	1,825,647	[11]
10	2014	1989	Taylor Swift	1,733,539	[12]

Best-selling physical albums

This is a following list of the Top 10 Best-selling physical albums in China.

Rank no.	Year of release	Album	Artist	Number of copies sold	Ref.
1	2004	Common Jasmin Orange	Jay Chou	2,600,000	[7]
2	1984	Wandering	Cheng Fangyuan	2,000,000	[8]
3	1985	Childhood	Cheng Fangyuan	2,000,000	[8]
4	1993	I Can Never Understand Your Love	Chen Lin	1,500,000
5	1997	Titanic	James Horner/Celine Dion	1,000,000	[13]
6	1986	A Voice on the Ocean	Fei Xiang	1,000,000	[14]
7	2001	Meteor Rain	F4	500,000	[15]
8	2007	Against the Light	Stefanie Sun	500,000	[16]
9	2004	It's Raining	Rain	500,000	[17]
10	1999	Next to Happiness	The Flowers	500,000	[18]

List of best-selling digital albums (5 tracks or more)

2 million or more units

Artist	Album	Year	Sales	Ref.
R1SE	Going to Powerfully Burst	2019	3,060,139	[19]
Lay	Lit	2020	2,621,758	[20]

1 million or more units

Artist	Album	Year	Sales	Ref.
Jay Chou	Jay Chou's Bedtime Stories	2016	1,985,751	[21]
Li Yuchun	Wow	2019	1,856,260	[22]
Taylor Swift	Lover	2019	1,825,647	[23]
Hua Chenyu	New World	2020	1,749,556	[24]
Taylor Swift	1989	2014	1,733,539	[25]
Taylor Swift	Reputation	2017	1,715,580	[26]
G-Dragon	Kwon Ji Yong	2017	1,498,734	[27]
Nicki Minaj	Queen	2018	1,314,292	[28]
Nine Percent	To the Nines	2018	1,288,093	[29]
BLACKPINK	The Album	2020	1,274,277	[30]
Li Yuchun	Liu Xing	2017	1,241,885	[31]
Lay	Namanana	2018	1,168,508	[32]
JJ Lin	Message in a Bottle	2017	1,051,009	[33]
Lay	Lay 02 Sheep	2017	1,001,198	[34]

List of best-selling digital singles/EPs (4 tracks or less)

20 million or more units

Artist	Single/EP	Year	Sales	Ref.
Xiao Zhan	Light	2020	45,247,396	[35]
Hua Chenyu	I Really Want to Love This World	2019	22,196,892	[36]

10 million or more units

Artist	Single/EP	Year	Sales	Ref.
Wang Yibo	No Feelings	2019	17,156,683	[37]
Cai Xukun	Young	2019	14,052,821	[3]
Jay Chou	Won't Cry	2019	10,870,050	[38]

5 million or more units

Artist	Single/EP	Year	Sales	Ref.
Jay Chou	Mojito	2020	7,963,402	[39]
Eason Chan	Keep Me By Your Side	2016	5,675,426	[40]

3 million or more units

Artist	Single/EP	Year	Sales	Ref.
Lay	Honey	2019	4,778,517	[4]
JJ Lin	The Story Of Us	2019	4,068,777	[41]
Lu Han	Xplore	2016	3,663,199	[42]
Lu Han	Π-volume.1	2019	3,477,798	[43]
Li Yuchun	Ye (first EP of Growing Wild)	2016	3,417,849	[44]
Roy Wang	Song For You	2018	3,263,963	[45]
Lu Han	Reloaded	2015	3,358,873	[46]
Kris Wu	6	2017	3,212,024	[47]
Zhu Zhengting	The Winter Light	2019	3,076,536	[48]
BLACKPINK	How You Like That	2020	3,040,638	[49]

See also

• Music of China
• Mandopop
• List of best-selling albums
• List of best-selling albums by country

Notes

1. The best-selling non-single release in China is Cai Xukun's Young (2019), which has sold more than 14 million copies.[3] However, Young only consist of two tracks. The next best-selling non-single EP in China is Lay Zhang's Honey (2019), which has sold more than 4.7 million copies,[4] and consist of four tracks, which is a standard size for modern EPs in North America and Europe.

References

1. "Global Music Report 2019: Annual State of the Industry" (PDF). International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
2. "RIAJ: Yearbook 2007, IFPI 2005 Report (Page 24)" (PDF). Recording Industry Association of Japan. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 15, 2007. Retrieved March 19, 2017.
3. ""Young"- Cai Xukun sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
4. ""Honey"- Lay sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
5. ""Going to Powerfully Burst"-R1SE sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved December 15, 2020.
6. ""Lit"-Lay Zhang sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved December 15, 2020.
7. Fung, Anthony (2008). Western style, Chinese Pop: Jay Chou's Rap and Hip-Hop in China. pp. 69–80. Retrieved March 19, 2017. In China the official figure reached 2.6 million units, a stunning figure that no other Chinese artist has attained.
8. Reference for sales:
   • Patrick, Al (April 28, 1985). "East Meets Wham!, And Another Great Wall Comes Down". Chicago Tribune. p. 2. Retrieved May 2, 2018. China's top female singer, Sing Fong Yuen, (sic.) who sells about 2 million copies of each cassette she puts out, earn (sic.) $15 a week.
   Reference for album titles and release dates:
   • "成方圆 Cheng Fang Yuan" (in Chinese). Global Culture Development Co. Ltd. Retrieved May 2, 2018.
9. ""Jay Chou's Bedtime Stories"-Jay Chou sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved December 15, 2020.
10. ""Wow"- Li Yuchun sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved December 15, 2020.
11. ""Lover"- Taylor Swift sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved December 15, 2020.
12. ""1989"- Taylor Swift sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved December 15, 2020.
13. White, Adam (June 20, 1998). "Billboard Vol. 110, No. 25". Billboard. Retrieved March 19, 2017. The Sony Classical soundtrack album to the movie is now reported to have sold more than 1 million legitimate copies in the People's Republic of China
14. "中国唱片销量最高的十大歌手， 张学友只排第二，她第一销量".
15. Pomfret, John (June 10, 2002). "Band Hits Sour Note in China". The Washington Post. Retrieved March 19, 2017. Within five months, meanwhile, Sony had sold 500,000 copies of the "Meteor Rain" album and estimated that another 5 million pirated versions had flooded the market.
16. Tan, Kevin (2012). Suryadinata, Leo (ed.). Southeast Asian Personalities of Chinese Descent: A Biographical Dictionary, Volume I & II. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. p. 1020. Retrieved March 19, 2017. over 500,000 copies in China in the first week
17. "Korean Culture No. 2: K-pop Beyond Asia". Korean Culture and Information Service. 2015. p. 42. Retrieved 2017-07-23. Total sales of Rain's new album throughout Asia reached over one million: 100,000 in Japan, 500,000 in China, 70,000 in Taiwan, 150,000 in Thailand, 50,000 in Indonesia, and 154,000 in Korea… Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
18. Far Eastern Economic Review (May 23, 2003). "Chinese aim to build a great wall of sound". The Guardian. Retrieved March 19, 2017.
19. ""Going to Powerfully Burst"-R1SE sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
20. ""Lit"-Lay Zhang sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
21. ""Jay Chou's Bedtime Stories"-Jay Chou sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
22. ""Wow"- Li Yuchun sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
23. ""Lover"- Taylor Swift sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
24. ""New World"- Hua Chenyu sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
25. ""1989"- Taylor Swift sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
26. ""Reputation"- Taylor Swift sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
27. ""Kwon Ji Yong"- G-Dragon sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
28. Cumulative digital sales of Queen from China's three major music platforms:
    • "Queen". QQ音乐. Retrieved January 7, 2021.
    • "Queen". KuGou. Retrieved January 7, 2021.
    • "Queen". NetEase. Retrieved January 7, 2021.
29. ""To the Nines"- Nine Percent sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
30. ""The Album"- BLACKPINK sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
31. ""Liu Xing"- Li Yuchun sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
32. ""Namanana"- Lay sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
33. ""Message in a Bottle"- JJ Lin sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
34. ""Sheep"- Lay sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
35. ""Light"- Xiao Zhan sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
36. ""I Really Want Love This World"- Hua Chenyu sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
37. ""No Feelings"- Wang Yibo sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
38. ""Won't Cry"- Jay Chou sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
39. ""Mojito"- Jay Chou sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
40. ""Keep Me By Your Side"- Eason Chan sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
41. ""The Story Of Us"- JJ Lin sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
42. ""Xplore"- Lu Han sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
43. ""Π-volume.1"- Lu Han sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
44. ""Ye"- Li Yuchun sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
45. ""Song For You"- Roy Wang sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
46. ""Reloaded"- Lu Han sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
47. ""6"- Kris Wu sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
48. ""The Winter Light"- Zhu Zhengting sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.
49. ""How You Like That"- BLACKPINK sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved November 22, 2020.