Debut album
A debut album is the first released music album by an artist or a band.
The 29 best-selling debut albums (as of the end of 2003):
| Position | Artist | Album | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boston | Boston | 17 million |
| 2 | Hootie & the Blowfish | Cracked Rear View | 16 million |
| Alanis Morissette | Jagged Little Pill | 16 million | |
| 4 | Guns N' Roses | Appetite for Destruction | 15 million |
| 5 | Backstreet Boys | Backstreet Boys | 14 million |
| Meat Loaf | Bat Out of Hell | 14 million | |
| 7 | Britney Spears | ...Baby One More Time | 13 million |
| Whitney Houston | Whitney Houston | 13 million | |
| 9 | Pearl Jam | Ten | 12 million |
| matchbox twenty | yourself or someone like you | 12 million | |
| 11 | Jewel | Pieces of You | 11 million |
| Led Zeppelin | Led Zeppelin | 11 million | |
| 13 | 'N Sync | *NSYNC | 10 million |
| Van Halen | Van Halen | 10 million | |
| George Michael | Faith | 10 million | |
| 16 | Will Smith | Big Willie Style | 9 million |
| Boyz II Men | Cooleyhighharmony | 9 million | |
| Garth Brooks | Garth Brooks | 9 million | |
| Beastie Boys | Licensed To Ill | 9 million | |
| Mariah Carey | Mariah Carey | 9 million | |
| Billy Ray Cyrus | Some Gave All | 9 million | |
| Ace of Base | The Sign | 9 million | |
| 23 | Norah Jones | Come Away with Me | 8 million |
| Lauryn Hill | The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill | 8 million | |
| Christina Aguilera | Christina Aguilera | 8 million | |
| Stone Temple Pilots | Core | 8 million | |
| Nelly | Country Grammar | 8 million | |
| Linkin Park | Hybrid Theory | 8 million | |
| Toni Braxton | Toni Braxton | 8 million |