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Is Thriller the best-selling album in history?

Michael Jackson’s album Thriller (1982) is the best-selling album of all time in global sales, with an estimated 67 million copies sold. In the United States it held the record for best-selling album until 2018, when the Recording Industry Association of America, which certifies record sales, reported that it had been overtaken by the Eagles’ Their Greatest Hits 1971–1975 (1976), with 38 million copies sold. As of 2021 Jackson’s tour-de-force album had sold 34 million copies domestically.