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

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Legend

pink	Physical album
purple	Digital album

Rank no.	Year of release	Album	Artist	Number of copies sold	Ref.
1	2019	Going To Powerfully Burst	R1SE	3,027,202	[3]
2	2004	Common Jasmin Orange	Jay Chou	2,600,000	[4]
3	2020	Lit	Lay	2,424,668	[5]
4	1984	Wandering	Cheng Fangyuan	2,000,000	[6]
	1985	Childhood
6	2016	Jay Chou's Bedtime Stories	Jay Chou	1,983,773	[7]
7	2019	Wow	Li Yuchun	1,845,104	[8]
8	2019	Lover	Taylor Swift	1,741,792	[9]
9	2017	Reputation	Taylor Swift	1,671,079	[10]
10	2014	1989	Taylor Swift	1,664,065	[11]
11	2020	New World	Hua Chenyu	1,640,610	[12]

Best-selling physical albums

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Rank no.	Year of release	Album	Artist	Number of copies sold	Ref.
1	2004	Common Jasmin Orange	Jay Chou	2,600,000	[4]
2	1984	Wandering	Cheng Fangyuan	2,000,000	[6]
2	1985	Childhood	Cheng Fangyuan	2,000,000	[6]
4	1993	I Can Never Understand Your Love	Chen Lin	1,500,000	[13]
5	1997	Titanic	James Horner/Celine Dion	1,000,000	[14]
6	1986	A Voice on the Ocean	Fei Xiang	1,000,000	[15]
7	2001	Meteor Rain	F4	500,000	[16]
7	2007	Against the Light	Stefanie Sun	500,000	[17]
7	2004	It's Raining	Rain	500,000	[18]
7	1999	Next to Happiness	The Flowers	500,000	[19]

Best-selling digital albums

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• Some foreign artist released their LP as EP in China.

Digital Album (5 tracks or more)

Rank no.	Year of release	Album	Artist	Number of copies sold	Ref.
1	2019	Going to Powerfully Burst	R1SE	3,029,702	[3]
2	2020	Lit	Lay	2,441,046	[20]
3	2016	Jay Chou's Bedtime Stories	Jay Chou	1,983,912	[7]
4	2019	Wow	Li Yuchun	1,845,424	[8]
5	2019	Lover	Taylor Swift	1,749,786	[9]
6	2017	Reputation	Taylor Swift	1,674,995	[10]
7	2014	1989	Taylor Swift	1,669,906	[11]
8	2020	New World	Hua Chenyu	1,644,411	[12]
9	2017	Kwon Ji Yong	G-Dragon	1,496,009	[21]
10	2016	Lose Control	Lay	1,253,390	[22]
11	2018	To the Nines	Nine Percent	1,246,861	[23]
12	2017	Liu Xing	Li Yuchun	1,241,287	[24]
13	2018	Namanana	Lay	1,162,464	[25]
14	2017	Message in a Bottle	JJ Lin	1,027,058	[26][27]
15	2017	Lay 02 Sheep	Lay	993,083	[28]
16	2018	Don't Mess Up My Tempo	Exo	938,666	[29]
17	2017	No. 13 - A Dancing Van Gogh	Stefanie Sun	928,693	[30]
18	2017	Winter Special Gift	Lay	889,092	[31]
19	2017	The War	Exo	869,241	[32]
20	2019	Mirrors	Jackson Wang	814,915	[33]
21	2020	Folklore	Taylor Swift	760,000	[34]
22	2020	Changes	Justin Bieber	758,392	[35]
23	2019	More Than Forever	Nine Percent	750,124	[36][27]
24	2019	The Wind	Rocket Girls 101	726,934	[37]
25	2019	Kill This Love	BLACKPINK	692,901	[38]
26	2018	L.O.V.E.	Eason Chan	615,693	[39][27]
27	2018	Antares	Kris Wu	607,046	[40][27]
28	2020	Ge Ge Bu Ru	Chen Linong	588,796	[41]
29	2018	Ugly Beauty	Jolin Tsai	562,376	[42][27]
30	2019	Map of the Soul: Persona	BTS	528,274	[43]

Digital Single/EP (4 tracks or less)

Rank no.	Year of release	Single/EP	Artist	Number of copies sold	Ref.
1	2020	Light	Xiao Zhan	38,648,997	[44]
2	2019	I Really Want to Love This World	Hua Chenyu	21,827,703	[45]
3	2019	No Feelings	Wang Yibo	16,568,720	[46][27]
4	2019	Young	Cai Xukun	13,687,874	[47][27]
5	2019	Won't Cry	Jay Chou	10,861,952	[48]
6	2020	Mojito	Jay Chou	7,348,606	[49]
7	2016	Keep Me By Your Side	Eason Chan	5,602,979	[50]
8	2019	Honey	Lay	4,753,235	[51]
9	2019	The Story Of Us	JJ Lin	3,898,217	[52][27]
10	2016	Xplore	Lu Han	3,663,193	[53]
11	2019	Π-volume.1	Lu Han	3,477,798	[54]
12	2016	Ye (first EP of Growing Wild)	Li Yuchun	3,417,437	[55]
13	2015	Reloaded	Lu Han	3,358,873	[56]
14	2018	Song For You	Roy Wang	3,263,956	[57]
15	2017	6	Kris Wu	3,210,732	[58][27]
16	2019	The Winter Light	Zhu Zhengting	3,074,507	[59]
17	2019	A Half is Me	Chen Linong	2,847,834	[60]
18	2020	Π-volume.3	Lu Han	2,831,946	[61]
19	2016	MADE	Big Bang	2,816,689	[62]
20	2018	Hard Road	Justin	2,779,107	[63][27]
21	2018	I'm Here	Fan Chengcheng	2,779,059	[64][27]
22	2017	Venture	Lu Han	2,607,446	[65]
23	2018	Flower Road	Big Bang	2,573,508	[66]
24	2020	How You Like That	BLACKPINK	2,539,292	[67]
25	2017	I	Lu Han	2,433,709	[68]
26	2019	Jiang	Meng Meiqi	2,422,318	[69]
27	2019	Yu Zhen	Zhang Yunlei	2,369,878	[70]
28	2019	Imperfect Love	Lin Yanjun	2,339,453	[71][27]
29	2018	Collide	Rocket Girls 101	2,235,016	[72]
30	2018	I'm Yours	Chen Linong	2,119,311	[73][27]
31	2019	Chapter Z	Zhu Zhengting	1,973,106	[74][27]
32	2019	Competitor	Lin Yanjun	1,938,745	[75][27]
33	2017	Imagination	Lu Han	1,848,529	[76]
34	2020	Testing	Kris Wu	1,699,066	[77]
35	2016	I Don't Wanna Live Forever	Zayn & Taylor Swift	1,571,006	[78]

See also

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

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. ""Going To Powerfully Burst"-R1SE sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved May 1, 2020.
4. 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.
5. ""LIT"-Lay sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved June 5, 2020.
6. 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.
7. ""Jay Chou's Bedtime Stories"-Jay Chou sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved May 1, 2020.
8. ""Wow"-Li Yuchun sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved May 1, 2020.
9. ""Lover"-Taylor Swift sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved May 1, 2020.
10. Reputation-Taylor Swift sales on China's different music platforms:
    • "Reputation - saoju.net" (in Chinese). Retrieved May 1, 2020.
    • "Reputation - Xiami" (in Chinese).
11. 1989-Taylor Swift sales on China's different music platforms:
    • "1989 - saoju.net" (in Chinese). Retrieved May 1, 2020.
    • "1989 - Xiami" (in Chinese).
12. ""New World"-Hua Chenyu sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved May 1, 2020.
13. Jie, Yang, ed. (November 1, 2009). "Pop Singer Chen Lin falls to death". China Radio International. China Central Television. Retrieved March 19, 2017. It reached the top of the album charts and sold over 1.5 million copies.
14. 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
15. "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".
16. 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.
17. 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
18. "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)
19. Far Eastern Economic Review (May 23, 2003). "Chinese aim to build a great wall of sound". The Guardian. Retrieved March 19, 2017.
20. ""LIT"-Lay sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
21. ""Kwon Ji Yong"-G-Dragon sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
22. Lose Control-Lay sales on China's different music platforms:
    • "Lose Control - saoju.net" (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
    • "Lose Control - Xiami" (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
23. ""To the Nines"-Nine Percent". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
24. ""Liu Xing"-Li Yuchun sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
25. ""Namanana"-Lay sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
26. Message in a Bottle-JJ Lin sales on China's different music platforms:
    • "Message in a Bottle - saoju.net" (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
    • "Message in a Bottle - Xiami" (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
27. "Album sales on Migu" (in Chinese). April 16, 2020.
28. ""Lay 02 Sheep"-Lay sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
29. Don't Mess Up My Tempo-Exo sales of all versions on China's different music platforms:
    • "Don't Mess Up My Tempo - Xiami" (in Chinese).
    • "Don't Mess Up My Tempo - NetEase" (in Chinese).
    • "Don't Mess Up My Tempo - QQ Music" (in Chinese).
    • "Don't Mess Up My Tempo - Kugou" (in Chinese).
    • "Don't Mess Up My Tempo - Kuwo" (in Chinese).
    • "Love Shot - saoju.net" (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
    • "Love Shot - Xiami" (in Chinese).
30. No. 13 - A Dancing Van Gogh-Stefanie Sun sales on China's different music platforms:
    • "No. 13 - A Dancing Van Gogh - saoju.net" (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
    • "No. 13 - A Dancing Van Gogh - Xiami" (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
31. ""Winter Special Gift"-Lay sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
32. The War-Exo sales of all versions on Xiami:
    • "The War (Korean Version)" (in Chinese).
    • "The War (Chinese Version)" (in Chinese).
    • "The War: The Power of Music (Korean Version)" (in Chinese).
    • "The War: The Power of Music (Chinese Version)" (in Chinese).
33. ""Mirrors"-Jackson Wang sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
34. ""folklore"-Taylor Swift sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
35. ""Changes"-Justin Bieber sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
36. ""More Than Forever"-Nine Percent sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
37. ""The Wind"-Rocket Girls 101 sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
38. ""Kill This Love"-BLACKPINK sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
39. L.O.V.E.-Eason Chan sales on China's different music platforms:
    • "L.O.V.E. - saoju.net" (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
    • "L.O.V.E. - Xiami" (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
40. Antares-Kris Wu sales on China's different music platforms:
    • "Antares - saoju.net" (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
    • "Antares - Xiami" (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
41. ""Ge Ge Ru Bu"-Chen Linong sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
42. ""Ugly Beauty"-Jolin Tsai sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
43. ""Map of the Soul: Persona"-BTS sales". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
44. ""Light"-Xiao Zhan". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
45. ""I Really Want to Love This World"-Hua Chenyu". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
46. ""No Feelings"-Wang Yibo". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
47. ""Young"-Cai Xukun". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
48. ""Won't Cry"-Jay Chou". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
49. ""Mojito"-Jay Chou". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
50. Keep Me By Your Side-Eason Chan sales on China's different music platforms:
    • "Keep Me By Your Side - saoju.net" (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
    • "Keep Me By Your Side - Xiami" (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
51. ""Honey"-Lay". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
52. ""The Story Of Us"-JJ Lin". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
53. ""Xplore"-Lu Han". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
54. ""Π-volume.1"-Lu Han". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
55. ""Ye"-Li Yuchun". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
56. ""Reloaded"-Lu Han". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
57. ""Song For You"-Roy Wang". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
58. ""6"-Kris Wu". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
59. ""The Winter Light"-Zhu Zhengting". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
60. ""A Half is Me"-Chen Linong". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
61. ""Π-volume.3"-Lu Han". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
62. ""MADE"-Big Bang". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
63. ""Hard Road"-Justin". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
64. ""I'm Here"-Fan Chengcheng". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
65. ""Venture"-Lu Han". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
66. ""Flower Road"-Big Bang". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
67. ""How You Like That"-BLACKPINK". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
68. ""I"-Lu Han". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
69. ""Jiang"-Meng Meiqi". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
70. ""Yu Zhen"-Zhang Yunlei". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
71. ""Imperfect Love"-Lin Yanjun". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
72. ""Collide"-Rocket Girls 101". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
73. ""I'm Yours"-Chen Linong". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
74. ""Chapter Z"-Zhu Zhengting". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
75. ""Competitor"-Lin Yanjun". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
76. ""Imagination"-Lu Han". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 16, 2020.
77. ""TESTING"-Kris Wu". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.
78. ""I Don't Wanna Live Forever (Fifty Shades Darker)"-ZAYN/Taylor Swift". saoju.net (in Chinese). Retrieved July 30, 2020.