List of best-selling albums in Japan
List of best-selling albums by foreign acts
Aside from the Japanese-language materials recorded by either domestic or East Asian acts, at least forty out of all of the charting albums by foreign acts have sold more than one million copies in Japan.

List of best-selling albums in Japan

Section Title: List of best-selling albums by foreign acts
Table Section Text: Aside from the Japanese-language materials recorded by either domestic or East Asian acts, at least forty out of all of the charting albums by foreign acts have sold more than one million copies in Japan.

No.	Album	Artist	Released	Chart	Sales

1	#1's	Mariah Carey	18 November 1998	1	3,700,000

2	青春の輝き～Best of Carpenters	The Carpenters	10 November 1995	3	3,000,000

3	The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album	Various Artists	17 December 1992	1	2,950,000

4	Thriller	Michael Jackson	1 December 1982	1	2,800,000

5	Merry Christmas	Mariah Carey	29 October 1994	1	2,750,000

6	1	The Beatles	13 November 2000	1	2,700,000

7	Daydream	Mariah Carey	3 September 1995	1	2,600,000

8	Music Box	Mariah Carey	11 September 1993	1	2,400,000

9	Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits	Simon & Garfunkel	1 June 1971	3	2,000,000

10	Abbey Road	The Beatles	21 October 1969	3	1,920,000

10	1962–1966	The Beatles	19 April 1973	1	1,920,000

12	Let Go	Avril Lavigne	4 June 2002	6	1,800,000

13	1967–1970	The Beatles	19 April 1973	2	1,760,000

14	Cross Road	Bon Jovi	7 October 1994	1	1,700,000

14	Titanic	James Horner	18 November 1997	5	1,700,000

16	Let It Be	The Beatles	5 June 1970	2	1,600,000

17	Scatman's World	Scatman John	10 July 1995	2	1,561,000

18	Flashdance	Various Artists	25 June 1983	1	1,550,000

19	Jewels	Queen	28 January 2004	1	1,500,000

20	Let's Talk About Love	Celine Dion	15 November 1997	5	1,400,000

21	Hotel California	Eagles	21 December 1976	2	1,300,000

21	Butterfly	Mariah Carey	10 September 1997	1	1,300,000

23	Greatest Hits	Queen	1981	1	1,275,000

24	Bridge over Troubled Water	Simon & Garfunkel	21 April 1970	6	1,250,000

24	Saturday Night Fever	Bee Gees & various artists	1 February 1978	1	1,250,000

24	Like a Virgin	Madonna	28 November 1984	5	1,250,000

24	Bad	Michael Jackson	31 August 1987	1	1,250,000

28	All the Way... A Decade of Song	Celine Dion	13 November 1999	1	1,246,000

29	200 km/h in the Wrong Lane	t.A.T.u.	5 March 2003	1	1,226,000

30	Frozen	Various Artists	12 March 2014	1	1,225,000

31	Millenium	Backstreet Boys	28 April 1999	6	1,200,000

32	The Fame/The Fame Monster	Lady Gaga	20 May 2009	6	1,150,000

33	The Immaculate Collection	Madonna	17 November 1990	5	1,135,000

34	Grease	Various Artists	21 July 1978	5	1,100,000

34	Make It Big	Wham!	21 November 1984	1	1,100,000

34	These Days	Bon Jovi	12 June 1995	1	1,100,000

34	The Colour of My Love	Celine Dion	21 October 1995	7	1,100,000

38	Paint the Sky with Stars	Enya	3 November 1997	4	1,063,000

39	True Blue	Madonna	25 July 1986	1	1,050,000

40	Under My Skin	Avril Lavigne	12 May 2004	1	1,029,000

41	Emotions	Mariah Carey	4 October 1991	3	1,025,000

42	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	The Beatles	5 July 1967	3	1,022,000

43	Whitney Houston	Whitney Houston	1 April 1985	2	1,000,000

Sentence(s)

#1's by Mariah Carey is the best-selling album of all time in Japan.

final_sentence: #1's by Mariah Carey is the best-selling album of all time in Japan.