List of best-selling albums in the United States
15–19 million copies
Table:
Year

Artist

Album

Label

Shipments (Sales)

Certification[2]

1987

Guns N' Roses

Appetite for Destruction

Geffen

18,000,000

18× Platinum

1997

Shania Twain

Come On Over

Mercury Nashville

(17,690,000)[4][5]

20× Platinum

1974

Elton John

Greatest Hits

Polydor

17,000,000

17× Platinum‡

1976

Boston

Boston

Epic Records

17,000,000

17× Platinum

1990

Garth Brooks

No Fences

Capitol Nashville

17,000,000

17× Platinum

1991

Metallica

Metallica

Elektra

(16,830,000)[6]

16× Platinum

1977

Soundtrack / Bee Gees

Saturday Night Fever

RSO

16,000,000

16× Platinum‡

1995

Alanis Morissette

Jagged Little Pill

Maverick

(15,350,000)[4][7]

16× Platinum

1973

Pink Floyd

The Dark Side of the Moon

Harvest/Capitol

15,000,000

15× Platinum

1984

Bob Marley & The Wailers

Legend

Island

15,000,000

15× Platinum

1984

Bruce Springsteen

Born in the U.S.A.

Columbia

15,000,000

15× Platinum

1988

Journey

Greatest Hits

Columbia

15,000,000

15× Platinum

With reference to the table called List of best-selling albums in the United States in the "15–19 million copies" section, answer the following question with a short sentence: How did the Boston album perform in terms of sales? Provide just your answer in a JSON object {"answer": "YOUR ANSWER"}.

answer: The Boston album is the best-selling album in the United States, selling 17,000,000 shipments.