Thriller is the first one I thought of. Then I’d have tried Eagles’s Greatest Hits, AC/DC’s Back In Black and Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. In the discussions over many years of the best selling albums of all time, I don’t think I’ve ever heard a Beatles album enter the equation.
In the United States, its debated which is the best selling album. But world wide, the Eagles Greatest Hits hasn't sold as well. Thriller is the world wide best selling album.
"Greatest Hits" aren't considered Album's proper. They are a combination of favourites from several Album's so its cheating really. In the UK, Queen's Greatest Hits could be considered as the best selling album but Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles is the best selling proper album.
Oh wait, looking back at that comment, I think 2018 was the year that the Eagles Greatest Hits became the best-selling album in the United States specifically, which is why I got confused. My bad :P
I thought the airline one was Delta. When I saw the results which said it was American Airlines, I instantly thought of home alone. Anyone else think of that?
With current estimates being around 50M for Thriller v 41M for Eagles for the main markets, possibly as high as 70M worldwide for Thriller it is still easily the highest selling. The US sales for these are 34M (Thriller) and 38M (Eagles') as of Aug 2022 but it doesn't say it is limited to US sales.
I was certain Avengers:Endgame was correct, but after taking the quiz I read that some kind of re-release in China actually gave Avatar back the title.
Looking at that list it would also be interesting to know whether the Poirot books alone outsell the Harry Potter series (it seems very likely), and if they should be considered a book series.
I didn't even think of Poirot when doing the quiz, and I can't find a source for just Poirot sales, but it's difficult to see how they could be behind Harry Potter if the Wiki list is roughly accurate. It has Christie selling about four times as many books as Rowling, and something like 40% of her books are Poirot books (they say 85 books total - there are 33 Poirot novels and some short story collections). Admittedly, her single best-selling book is not Poirot, but that one only accounts for about 5% of her total sales.
I typed "grape" for the fruit question and "Tomato" popped in. Is that a mistake? Or are we talking grape tomatoes? Or are grapes and tomatoes neck-n-neck in the sales arena?
Isn't the film that has sold the most tickets at the box office Gone with the Wind? Obviously due to inflation, cinema ticket prices were much higher for Avatar than Gone with the Wind.
please take out the patronising 'musical act (girl group)' unless you're going to specify 'boy group' too. And yes I know that Beatles are the all time best sellers, not just boys, but really the thinking behind the question is still sexist.
NBA was founded in 1946. WNBA was founded by the NBA itself in the late 90s. There's nothing sexist about it. Did you expect a 50 year old league to change their name to the "MNBA"?
Tomatoes may be a fruit, botanologically speaking, but they are used a a vegetable. (So are several other fruit, like, say, aubergines). So please replace with a plant that is actually used as a fruit.
The tomato is a fruit in botany, not in commerce or cooking.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/643188/vegetables-that-are-actually-fruits
Here's the real top ten:
1. Gone with the Wind
2. Star Wars
3. The Sound of Music
4. E.T
5. Titanic
6. Ten Commandments
7. Jaws
8. Dr. Zhivago
9. The Exorcist
10. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Titanic is the only movie in the last 30 years to even break into the top 10.
The same way saying NBA and WBNA is sexist.
It implies that the standard is male, and the secondary category is female.
lol