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Thriller is generally listed as the best-selling album of all time

Estimates put sales at around 70 million copies

Michael Jackson's Thriller, released in November 1982, is usually cited as the best-selling album ever, with estimates of around 70 million copies sold worldwide. Seven of its nine tracks reached the US top ten as singles.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Estimates put sales at around 70 million copies. The figure is taken from Guinness World Records, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a music fact?: Yes. It sits on the Music shelf, one of 1,090 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.