List of the biggest selling R&B/Hip Hop albums of all time in the United States
This is a list of best-selling R&B/Hip Hop albums in the United States according to the Recording Industry Association of America.
- Michael Jackson - Thriller (Epic Records, 1982) - 28 times platinum
- Whitney Houston - The Bodyguard (Arista Records, 1992) - 17 times platinum
- Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston (Arista Records, 1985) - 13 times platinum
- Prince - Purple Rain (Warner Bros., 1984) - 13 times platinum
- Boyz II Men - II (Motown Records, 1994) - 12 times platinum
- Kid Rock - Devil Without A Cause Atlantic Records, 1998)- 11 times platinum
- TLC - CrazySexyCool (LaFace Records, 1994) - 11 times platinum
- OutKast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (LaFace Records, 2003) - 11 times platinum
- Mariah Carey - Music Box (Columbia Records, 1993) - 10 times platinum
- MC Hammer - Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em (Capitol Records, 1990) - 10 times platinum
- Mariah Carey - Daydream (Columbia Records, 1995) - 10 times platinum
- Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life (Motown Records, 1976) - 10 times platinum
- Eminem - The Eminem Show (Aftermath Records, 2002) - 10 times platinum
- The Notorious B.I.G. - Life After Death - (Bad Boy Records, 1997) - 10 times platinum
- Usher - Confessions (LaFace Records, 2004) - 10 times platinum
- Mariah Carey - Mariah Carey (Columbia Records, 1990) - 9 times platinum
- Boyz II Men - Cooleyhighharmony (Motown Records, 1991) - 9 times platinum
- Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP (Aftermath Records\Interscope Records, 2000)- 9 times platinum
- Whitney Houston - Whitney (Arista Records, 1987) - 9 times platinum
- Tupac Shakur - All Eyez On Me (Death Row Records, 1996) - 9 times platinum
- Will Smith - Big Willie Style (Columbia Records, 1997) - 9 times platinum
- Tupac Shakur - Greatest Hits (Death Row Records, 1998) - 9 times platinum
- R. Kelly - R. (Jive Records, 1998) - 8 times platinum
- Toni Braxton - Secrets (LaFace Records, 1996) - 8 times platinum
- Toni Braxton - Toni Braxton (LaFace Records, 1993) - 8 times platinum
- Destiny's Child - The Writing's on the Wall (Columbia Records, 1999) - 8 times platinum
- Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (Ruffhouse Records, 1998) - 8 times platinum
- Michael Jackson - Bad (Epic Records, 1987) - 8 times platinum
- Nelly - Country Grammar (Universal Records, 2000) - 8 times platinum
- Michael Jackson - Dangerous (Epic Records, 1991) - 7 times platinum
- Michael Jackson - HIStory (Epic Records, 1995) - 7 times platinum
- Michael Jackson - Off the Wall (Epic Records, 1979) - 7 times platinum