Remix album (Redirected from List of best-selling remix albums)
A remix album is an album consisting of remixes or rerecorded versions of an artist's earlier released material. The first act who employed the format was American singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson (Aerial Pandemonium Ballet, 1971). As of 2007, the best-selling remix album of all time is Michael Jackson's Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix (1997).
History and concept
Aerial Pandemonium Ballet (1971) by Harry Nilsson is credited as the first remix album. It was released after the successes of "Everybody's Talkin'" and The Point!, when he decided that his older material had started to sound dated.[citation needed] Neu!'s Neu! 2 (1973) has also been described as "in effect the first remix album", as many tracks see the duo "speed up, slow down, cut, doctor, and mutilate the material, sometimes beyond recognition".
In the 1980s, record companies would combine several kinds of electronic dance music, such as dance-pop, house, techno, trance, drum and bass, dubstep, hardstyle, and trap into full-length albums, creating a relatively low-overhead addition to the catalogs and balance sheets. Soft Cell's Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing (1982) and The Human League's Love and Dancing (1982) are credited for inventing the modern remix album. Since this time, this kind of release is not only seen as an easy cash-in for an artist and their label, but also as an opportunity to provide a second lease of life for a record. In the world of reggae music, it is not uncommon for a whole album to be remixed in a dub style.
Jennifer Lopez's album J to tha L–O! The Remixes is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the first remix album to debut at No.1 on the Billboard 200 chart.
List of best-selling remix albums
No. | Album | Artist | Record label | Released | Total certified units (from available markets) |
Claimed sales (At least 500,000 sold) |
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1 | Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix | Michael Jackson | Epic Records | 1997 |
2,575,000
|
6,000,000 |
2 | You Can Dance | Madonna | Sire Records | 1987 |
2,305,000
|
5,000,000 |
3 | Love | The Beatles | Apple Records | 2006 | 4,132,500
|
5,000,000 |
4 | Reanimation | Linkin Park | Warner Bros. Records | 2002 | 1,597,500
|
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5 | J to tha L–O! The Remixes | Jennifer Lopez | Epic Records | 2002 | 1,582,500
|
3,000,000 |
6 | Shut Up and Dance: Mixes | Paula Abdul | Virgin Records | 1990 | 1,107,500
|
1,000,000 |
7 | Super Eurobeat Presents Ayu-ro Mix | Ayumi Hamasaki | Avex Trax | 2000 | 1,200,000
|
|
8 | We Invented the Remix | P. Diddy | Bad Boy Records | 2002 | 1,100,000
|
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9 | Never Say Never: The Remixes | Justin Bieber | Island Records | 2011 | 1,040,000
|
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10 | Dance!...Ya Know It! | Bobby Brown | MCA Records | 1989 |
1,007,500
| |
11 | No More Games/The Remix Album | New Kids on the Block | Columbia Records | 1990 |
1,000,000
|
|
12 | Misia Remix 2000 Little Tokyo | Misia | Arista Records | 2000 | 800,000
|
831,000 |
13 | Further Down the Spiral | Nine Inch Nails | Nothing Records | 1995 |
600,000
|
|
14 | Ayu-mi-x II Version Non-Stop Mega Mix | Ayumi Hamasaki | Avex Trax | 2000 |
400,000
|
505,000 |
15 | Disco | Pet Shop Boys | Parlophone | 1986 |
550,000
| |
16 | New Old Songs | Limp Bizkit | Interscope Records | 2001 |
500,000
|
|
17 | Eu e Memê, Memê e Eu | Lulu Santos | BMG Brasil | 2000 |
500,000
|
|
18 | The Remix | Lady Gaga | Interscope Records | 2010 |
405,000
|
500,000 |
19 | The Remixes | Shakira | Sony Music | 1997 |
200,000
|
500,000 |
20 | Todas as Estações - Remixes | Sandy & Junior | Universal Music Group | 2000 |
250,000
|
500,000 |