List of best-selling albums in the United States
More than or equal to 20 million copies
Table:
Year

Artist

Album

Label

Shipments (Sales)

Certification[2][3]

1976

Eagles

Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975)

Asylum

38,000,000

38× Platinum‡

1982

Michael Jackson

Thriller

Epic

33,000,000

33× Platinum‡

1976

Eagles

Hotel California

Asylum

26,000,000

26× Platinum‡

1971

Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin IV

Atlantic

23,000,000

23× Platinum

1980

AC/DC

Back in Black

Atlantic

22,000,000

22× Platinum

1977

Fleetwood Mac

Rumours

Warner Bros.

20,000,000

20× Platinum

Considering the table titled section "More than or equal to 20 million copies" within List of best-selling albums in the United States, give a short sentence answer to: What was the best-selling album in the U.S. before Michael Jackson's Thriller, and for how long did it hold this record? Output only the correct answer as {"answer": "YOUR ANSWER"}.

answer: Their Greatest Hits was the best-selling album in the United States, and it stayed the best-selling album in the U.S. for some years (1971–1975), until it was surpassed by Michael Jackson's Thriller.