Global albums sales archive. Menu and widgets. AMERICAN IDIOT by GREEN DAY has sold 12,459,000 copies in 37 countries. The album sold best in United States (6,649,000 copies), United Kingdom (2,400,000 copies) and Germany (700,000 copies). SALES RANKINGS. RANK IN 2004. 2 The album represented a different approach for the band, with a short running time of less than 30 minutes and songs that tended more toward glam, soul, and anthemic rock than Green Day's usual punk. The album debuted at number four on the Billboard Top 200 charts despite mixed critical reviews. Later that year, Armstrong released the covers With Reprise, Green Day would record and release their third album Dookie (1994), which would become a landmark album of the 1990s with over 10 million units sold in the U.S. alone. The album officially includes only 12 tracks, but the versions released on CD and cassette also include the 4 tracks from the Sweet Children EP. Of course, we already saw that assuming 250,000 sales on average for each - mid-way to Gold - is not an accurate method. Luckily, we have much more data about each of them. A huge frustration for people interested into Presley 's US album sales is the lack of Soundscan data. As a reminder, Soundscan is the process which scans every sale Queen sold 90.23 million studio albums over 15 releases, a solid average of 6 million per effort. The most surprising fact for an act that registered out-of-this-world smashes, as well as hard core bombs, is to see that every album sold at least half of their average while none of them managed to double it. For many 20-somethings, Green Day was possibly one of the first rock bands to really matter. Between 2004 and 2005, the five mighty singles from American Idiot were in heavy rotation on FM radio Instead, it includes weighted sales of the song's physical single, download, ringtone and streaming as well as its share among sales of all albums on which it is featured. 1. 1980 - Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train [Blizzard of Ozz] - 10,040,000. 2. 1983 - Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the Moon [Bark at the Moon] - 4,580,000. Listed below are the worldwide sales + streaming (album equivalent units) figures for Green Day's albums along with the pure album sales (for releases prior to 2015) and any RIAA certifications they have been awarded for US sales. The sales + streaming overall total and the individual studio albums totals are updated on the first and 15th of The discography of Weezer, an American rock band, consists of 15 studio albums, two compilation albums, one video album, nine extended plays, 37 singles and 40 music videos.Weezer's self-titled debut studio album, often referred to as The Blue Album, was released in May 1994 through DGC Records.The album was a commercial success, peaking at number 16 on the US Billboard 200 and spawning the Green Day has also been credited with reviving mainstream interest in punk rock, and were ranked number 1 in a list of the "100 Greatest Pop Punk Bands of All Time" by Alternative Press in 2009. In 1993, around 50,000 copies of Green Day albums were sold on record, and in 1995, nearly a million copies were sold. According to Lookout N84rE6b.