List of best-selling albums in China

This is a list of the best-selling albums in China.

As of 2023, China was the world's 5th largest music market, an increase from being 14th in 2015 and 27th in 2005.^[1][2]

Best-selling albums in China

This is a list of the top 10 best-selling albums in China.

Legend

pink	Physical album
purple	Digital album

Year of release	Album	Artist	Number of copies sold	Ref.
2022	Greatest Works of Art[a]	Jay Chou	7,219,772	[4]
2021	Epsilon	Liu Yuxin	5,878,671	[citation needed]
2019	Honey	Lay	4,858,957	[5]
1993	The Goodbye Kiss	Jacky Cheung	4,000,000	[6]
2019	Going to Powerfully Burst	R1SE	3,082,155	[7]
2020	Lit	Lay	2,741,096	[8]
2004	Common Jasmin Orange	Jay Chou	2,600,000	[9]
1984	Wandering	Cheng Fangyuan	2,000,000	[10]
1985	Childhood	Cheng Fangyuan	2,000,000	[10]
1991	Red Sun	Various (honoring Mao Zedong)	2,000,000	[11]
2016	Jay Chou's Bedtime Stories	Jay Chou	1,989,173	[12]

Best-selling physical albums

The following is a list of the best-selling physical albums in China, with album sales of over 500,000 units.

Year of release	Album	Artist	Number of copies sold	Ref.
1993	Kiss And Goodbye	Jacky Cheung	4,000,000	[6]
2004	Common Jasmin Orange	Jay Chou	2,600,000	[9]
1984	Wandering	Cheng Fangyuan	2,000,000	[10]
1985	Childhood	Cheng Fangyuan	2,000,000	[10]
1983	Su Rui	Su Rui	1,500,000	[13]
—	By A Wrong Bus	Su Rui	1,500,000	[13]
—	Wolf	Qi Qin	1,300,000	[13]
1994	Nothing Will Stop Me From Loving You	Wakin Chau	1,200,000	[14]
1994	The Lion King	Various artists	1,000,000	[15]
1997	Titanic	James Horner/Celine Dion	1,000,000	[16]
1986	A Voice on the Ocean	Fei Xiang	1,000,000	[17]
1996	Too Softhearted	Richie Jen	1,000,000[A]	[18]
2002	Start	Stefanie Sun	1,000,000	[19]
2003	To Be Continued...	Stefanie Sun	1,000,000	[19]
1997	The Third Eye	Zheng Jun	800,000	[20]
1994	Chi Luo	Zheng Jun	600,000	[21]
1987	Bad	Michael Jackson	500,000	[22]
2001	Meteor Rain	F4	500,000	[23]
2007	Against the Light	Stefanie Sun	500,000	[24]
2004	It's Raining	Rain	500,000	[25]
1999	Next to Happiness	The Flowers	500,000	[26]
	Qingchun Shijie	Hang Hong	500,000	[27]

List of best-selling digital albums (5 tracks or more)

2 million or more units

Artist	Album	Year	Sales	Ref.
Jay Chou	Greatest Works of Art	2022	7,219,772	[28]
Cai Xukun	Mi 迷	2021	3,473,680	[29]
Beyonce	I am... Sasha Fierce	2009	3,082,155	[30]
Big Bang	Made	2016	2,841,614	[31]
Lay	Lit	2020	2,741,096	[32]
Beyonce	BEYONCE	2013	2,000,890	[33]

1 million or more units

Artist	Album	Year	Sales	Ref.
Taylor Swift	Lover	2019	1,872,460	[34]
Li Yuchun	Wow	2019	1,858,647	[35]
Hua Chenyu	New World	2020	1,835,069	[36]
Taylor Swift	1989	2014	1,780,189	[37]
Taylor Swift	Reputation	2017	1,741,210	[38]
G-Dragon	Kwon Ji Yong	2017	1,507,570	[39]
Blackpink	The Album	2020	1,432,666	[40]
Nine Percent	To the Nines	2018	1,396,966	[41]
Li Yuchun	Liu Xing	2017	1,243,109	[42]
Taylor Swift	Folklore	2020	1,206,487	[43]
Lay	Namanana	2018	1,180,208	[44]
JJ Lin	Message in a Bottle	2017	1,173,263	[45]
Lay	Lay 02 Sheep	2017	1,008,065	[46]

List of best-selling digital singles/EPs (4 tracks or less)

20 million or more units

Artist	Single/EP	Year	Sales	Ref.
Beyonce	Halo	2009	54,255,539	[47]
Hua Chenyu	I Really Want to Love This World	2019	22,931,648	[48]
Jay Chou	Greatest Works of Art	2022	21,819,000[a]	[49]

10 million or more units

Artist	Single/EP	Year	Sales	Ref.
Wang Yibo	No Feelings	2019	17,585,162	[50]
Wang Yibo	The Rules of My World	2020	15,451,449	[51]
Cai Xukun	Young	2019	14,505,045	[3]
Jay Chou	Won't Cry	2019	10,917,586	[52]

5 million or more units

Artist	Single/EP	Year	Sales	Ref.
Jay Chou	Mojito	2020	9,170,315	[53]
JJ Lin	No Turning Back	2020	6,855,776	[54]
Liu Yuxin	Epsilon	2021	5,874,069	[55]
Eason Chan	Keep Me By Your Side	2016	5,771,018	[56]
JJ Lin	The Story Of Us	2019	5,637,031	[57]
Jay Chou	Cold Hearted	2022	5,478,000[a]	[58]
Jay Chou	Still Wandering	2022	5,216,000[a]	[59]

3 million or more units

Artist	Single/EP	Year	Sales	Ref.
Lay	Honey	2019	4,858,957	[5]
JJ Lin	Dust and Ashes	2023	4,595,000[a]	[60]
Jay Chou	Pink Ocean	2022	4,414,000[a]	[61]
Jay Chou	Reflection	2022	3,995,000[a]	[62]
Zhang Zhehan	Surround	2021	3,873,937	[63]
Jay Chou	You Are the Firework I Missed	2022	3,838,000[a]	[64]
Lu Han	Xplore	2016	3,664,318	[65]
LBI	Summer in a Small Town	2022	3,638,000[a]	[66]
1K	Just Forget It	2022	3,598,000[a]	[67]
Lu Han	Π-volume.1	2019	3,477,798	[68]
Li Yuchun	Ye (first EP of Growing Wild)	2016	3,418,553	[69]
A Li Yue	When the Spring Breeze Blows	2022	3,386,000[a]	[70]
Lu Han	Reloaded	2015	3,358,873	[71]
JJ Lin	Light of Sanctuary	2020	3,282,802	[72]
Roy Wang	Song For You	2018	3,263,963	[73]
Kris Wu	6	2017	3,215,357	[74]
Blackpink	How You Like That	2020	3,088,581	[75]
Zhu Zhengting	The Winter Light	2019	3,078,866	[76]
Cheng Huan	I Will Wait	2023	3,030,000[a]	[77]
Lu Han	π-volume.3	2020	3,009,225	[78]
Kekekea	The Girl Is Far Away	2023	3,008,000[a]	[79]

• a.^ Sales figure includes 'equivalent track streams'.

See also

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

Notes

1. The best-selling non-single release in China is Cai Xukun's Young (2019), which has sold more than 14 million copies.^[3] However, Young only consists of two tracks.

1. It is claimed that the album sold 26 million copies including pirated copies, however, Jen himself stated in an interview that legitimate sales of the album were 1,000,000 copies in mainland China.^[18]