Best Selling Metal, Hard Rock Albums of All Time
The list below is based on RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) data
and reflects sales figures in the United States.
and reflects sales figures in the United States.
| Cover art | Artist name / Album title | Format | Certified Units | Certification |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | December 6, 2005 Alternative Metal, Nu Metal | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | November 19, 1982 Hard Rock, Blues Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | Early Days: Best of Led Zeppelin Volume 1 [Compilation] November 23, 1999 Hard Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | November 19, 2002 Hard Rock, Blues Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | How the West Was Won [Live] May 27, 2003 Hard Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | September 23, 2003 Nu Metal, Rap Rock, Alternative Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | Live in Texas [Live] November 18, 2003 Nu Metal, Rap Rock, Rap Metal | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | September 14, 2010 Pop Rock, Art Rock, Electronic, Hip Hop | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | June 26, 2012 Alternative Rock, Pop Rock, Electronic, Rap Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | June 17, 2014 Alternative Rock, Rap Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | February 2, 1988 Hard Rock, Glam Metal | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | March 1975 Southern Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | Skynyrd's First and... Last [Compilation] September 5, 1978 Southern Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | What's Your Name [Compilation] 1987 Southern Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | The Essential Lynyrd Skynyrd [Compilation] August 25, 1998 Southern Rock, Hard Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | All Time Greatest Hits [Compilation] March 14, 2000 Southern Rock, Hard Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | Thyrty: 30th Anniversary Collection [Compilation] August 12, 2003 Southern Rock, Hard Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | Smells Like Children [EP] October 24, 1995 Industrial Rock, Industrial Metal, Alternative Metal | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | October 8, 1996 Industrial Rock, Industrial Metal | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | September 14, 1998 Industrial Rock, Glam Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | July 20, 1986 Thrash Metal | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | January 19, 1988 Thrash Metal | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | August 21, 1990 Thrash Metal | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | October 24, 1994 Heavy Metal, Thrash Metal | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | August 21, 1987 Thrash Metal | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | November 18, 2016 Heavy Metal, Thrash Metal | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
![ΚΕΦΑΛΗΞΘ [Psalm 69]](/thumb/album2/2006/11/2/4822.jpg) | July 14, 1992 Industrial Metal | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | September 1, 1978 Southern Rock, Hard Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | September 1980 Southern Rock, Hard Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | October 17, 1973 Hard Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | December 15, 1981 Heavy Metal, Glam Metal, Hard Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | Red, White & Crue [Compilation] July 12, 2005 Glam Metal | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | Carnival of Sins Live [Live] May 8, 2006 Glam Metal, Hard Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | Greatest Hits [Compilation] November 17, 2009 Glam Metal, Heavy Metal, Hard Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | March 26, 1991 Hard Rock, Glam Metal | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | April 1975 Hard Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | November 1983 AOR, Hard Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | 1985 Melodic Metal | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | Speak of the Devil [Live] November 27, 1982 Heavy Metal | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | Live & Loud [Live] June 15, 1993 Heavy Metal | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | October 16, 2001 Heavy Metal, Hard Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | The Essential Ozzy Osbourne [Compilation] February 11, 2003 Heavy Metal, Hard Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | August 24, 1999 Nu Metal, Rap Metal | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | January 25, 1990 Thrash Metal, Groove Metal | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | March 18, 1994 Groove Metal | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | May 3, 1996 Thrash Metal | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | September 23, 2003 Thrash Metal | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | August 31, 2004 Alternative Rock, Hard Rock, Alternative Metal | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | September 18, 1978 Hard Rock, Glam Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | September 18, 1978 Pop Rock, Glam Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | July 20, 1999 Industrial Metal, Nu Metal | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | May 14, 1991 Alternative Metal, Funk Metal, Experimental Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | April 20, 1993 Funk Metal, Avant-garde Metal | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | December 18, 1976 Hard Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | November 14, 1978 Hard Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | Live at Wembley '86 [Live] May 26, 1992 Hard Rock, Pop Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | May 3, 1988 Heavy Metal, Progressive Metal | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | October 18, 1994 Heavy Metal, Progressive Metal | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | July 27, 1984 Hard Rock, Glam Metal, Heavy Metal | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | December 5, 2000 Rap Metal, Alternative Metal | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | August 25, 1997 Industrial Metal, Neue Deutsche Härte | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | August 9, 1986 Glam Metal, Hard Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | November 3, 1988 Glam Metal, Hard Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | January 1974 Hard Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | 1977 Hard Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | A Decade of Rock and Roll 1970 to 1980 [Compilation] 1980 AOR, Pop Rock, Hard Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | 2001 Industrial Metal, Heavy Metal, Groove Metal, Alternative Metal | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | Past, Present & Future [Compilation] 2003 Industrial Metal, Heavy Metal, Groove Metal, Alternative Metal | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | February 15, 1975 Progressive Rock, Hard Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | All the World's a Stage [Live] September 1976 Progressive Rock, Hard Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | September 1, 1977 Progressive Rock, Hard Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | Archives [Boxed set] April 1978 Progressive Rock, Hard Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | October 29, 1978 Progressive Rock, Hard Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | January 14, 1980 Progressive Rock, Hard Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | Exit...Stage Left [Live] October 6, 1981 Progressive Rock, Hard Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | September 25, 1982 Progressive Rock, Hard Rock, New Wave | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | April 12, 1984 Progressive Rock, New Wave | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | October 26, 1985 Progressive Rock, Pop Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | August 30, 1991 Progressive Rock, Hard Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | March 27, 2001 Nu Metal, Hard Rock, Alternative Metal | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | December 31, 1981 Hard Rock, Heavy Metal | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | July 23, 1984 Hard Rock, AOR | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | March 31, 1980 Hard Rock, Heavy Metal | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | March 29, 1982 Heavy Metal, Hard Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | World Wide Live [Live] June 20, 1985 Hard Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | April 22, 1988 Heavy Metal, Hard Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | Best of Rockers N' Ballads [Compilation] November 1989 Heavy Metal, Melodic Metal, Hard Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | August 28, 2001 Nu Metal, Alternative Metal | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | May 25, 2004 Nu Metal, Alternative Metal | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | August 26, 2008 Alternative Metal | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | May 21, 1996 Heavy Metal, Grunge | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | Telephantasm [Compilation] September 28, 2010 Heavy Metal, Grunge | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | May 20, 2003 Post-grunge, Alternative Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | August 9, 2005 Post-grunge, Alternative Rock, Hard Rock, Alternative Metal | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | March 23, 1999 Industrial Metal, Nu Metal | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | August 1, 2006 Alternative Metal, Post-Grunge, Hard Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | October 24, 1986 Glam Metal, Heavy Metal | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | February 1983 Hard Rock | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | September 1, 2001 Pop Punk Rock, Skate Punk | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
 | 1982 AOR | Album | 1,000,000 | Platinum |
