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This is a list of the fastest-selling product superlatives. The definition of "fastest-selling" typically refers to sales results in the first week of a product's release, (i.e., which product had the biggest launch). Sometimes, rather than comparing sales figures relative to time, the target to be reached is fixed (e.g. sales at 5 million units), and the comparison is based upon how many weeks it takes to reach it (e.g. 52 weeks vs. 56 weeks).

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Video games

  • Video game – 2013 PS3/Xbox 360 game Grand Theft Auto V sold 12 million units in its first day making $800 million in sales (including pre-orders) and 16.5 million units in three days ($1 billion in sales).
  • PC Game – 2012 game Diablo III selling 6.3 million units in its first week.
  • Nintendo 3DS game – 2013 game Pokémon X and Y selling 4 million units in two days.
  • Wii game – 2008 game Super Smash Bros. Brawl selling 2.7 million units in its first week.
  • PlayStation 2 game – 2004 game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas selling 2.06 million units in its first week.
  • PlayStation 4 game - 2016 game Final Fantasy XV shipped 5 million units on its first day.
  • Nintendo DS game – 2007 game Pokémon Diamond and Pearl selling 1.757 million units in its first week.
  • Game Boy Color game – 2000 game Pokémon Gold and Silver selling 1.4 million units in its first week.
  • Mobile game – The game Angry Birds Space has been downloaded 50 million times in 35 days, making it the fast selling mobile game of all time.
  • Xbox Live game – Minecraft selling 100,000 units within its first day.
  • PlayStation Network game/PlayStation download – Journey.
  • Steam game – The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim with PC steam sales figures unavailable at source. While not quite relevant, it sold 10 million units for the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 platforms in about a month with 7 million in the first week.
  • IP (UK) – L.A. Noire
  • Smartphones

  • Samsung sold 11 million Galaxy S5 phones during the first month of availability.
  • Pre-order of 2012 – iPhone 5, of which the pre-orders exceeded two million in 24 hours of its launch.
  • iPhone 6 selling over 4 million units in 24 hours.
  • Consumer electronics

  • Game console (Japan) – Nintendo Switch selling 1.3 million units in 1 week.
  • Consumer Electronics Device/gaming peripheral – 2010 device Kinect selling 8 million units in its first 60 days on sale.
  • Operating system – Windows 7 selling over 90 million licenses in around 4 months.
  • Barnes & Noble product – Nook
  • Albums

  • Album (worldwide) – 2015 album 25 by Adele selling 3,378,000 units in its first week.
  • Album (UK) – 2015 album 25 by Adele selling 800,307 units in its first week.
  • Album (US) – 1964 album John Fitzgerald Kennedy—A Memorial Album, recorded on the day of John F. Kennedy's assassination, sold 4 million copies at 99 cents each within six days of its release.
  • Album (US) – 2015 album 25 by Adele selling 3,378,000 units in its first week.
  • Album (Japan) – 2001 album Distance by Hikaru Utada selling 3,002,720 units in its first week.
  • Debut album (UK) – 2006 album Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not by indie rock band Arctic Monkeys selling over 360,000 copies in its first week.
  • Hip hop album – 1990 album To the Extreme by Vanilla Ice peaking at #1, staying on the charts for 16 weeks, and selling eleven million copies.
  • Single (UK) – 1997 single "Candle in the Wind 1997" by Elton John selling 1.5 million copies in its first week.
  • Debut single (UK) – 2002 single Anything is Possible/Evergreen by Will Young selling 1.11 million copies in its first week.
  • Single (US) – 1997 single "Candle in the Wind 1997" by Elton John selling 3.5 million copies in its first week.
  • Single (US) – 1964 single "Can't Buy Me Love" by The Beatles selling 940,225 copies in its first day.
  • 2016 Album (Korea) 3rd full album Ex'act by EXO selling 660,000 pre-selling before album's release and selling 580,000 copies in 1st week after release.
  • 2012 Album (UK) – Unorthodox Jukebox by Bruno Mars, selling 136,000 copies in 1 week.
  • 2012 single – Impossible by James Arthur, selling 490,000 copies on 1 week.
  • Pre-order record – One Direction's 'Live While We're Young', reaching #1 in 40 countries immediately after pre-order release on iTunes.
  • Concerts

  • Concert (UK) – Stone Roses at Manchester’s Heaton Park, sold out (220,000 tickets) in 68 minutes.
  • Monty Python (UK) – The return of Monty Python's Flying Circus at London's O2 Arena, sold out (14,500 tickets) in 43,5 seconds.
  • TVXQ Live Tour 2012 'TONE' – South Korean boy group TVXQ at Tokyo Dome sold out (165,000 tickets) within 30 seconds.
  • [[BTS LIVE 'The Most Beautiful Moment in Life on stage: Epilogue' Asia Tour - South Korean boy groupBTS in China on June 2 2016 sold out within 10 seconds.
  • TVXQ 3rd Live Tour ~T~ – South Korean boy group TVXQ at Saitama Super Arena sold out (40,000 tickets) in 1 second.
  • EXO from EXOPLANET: The Lost Planet – South Korean boy group, EXO, started off their first tour at the Olympic Gymnastics Arena, the concert sold out (42,000 tickets) in 1.47 seconds.
  • Exo Planet #2 - The Exo'luxion - South Korean boy group, EXO, started off their second tour at the Olympic Gymnastics Arena, the concert sold out in 0.4 seconds.
  • Books

  • Book – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling selling approximately 15 million copies worldwide in its first day.
  • Children's book – The English Roses by Madonna
  • Book of 2012 – 2011 erotica novel Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James selling more than 100,000 copies in its first week.
  • Cars

  • Tesla Motors – Model 3 reservations for over 180,000 units, the record for the highest single-day commitment of cars. 276,000 units pre-sold in the first 3 days, equivalent to US$11.5 billion.
  • Tesla Motors – Model X having advanced sales of over $40 million without any advertising.
  • Car (US) – Toyota Prius c
  • Hybrid Vehicle – Ford C-Max Hybrid
  • Miscellaneous

  • Jetliner family – Boeing 737 MAX orders for 900 aircraft during launch.
  • Jetliner family – Airbus A320; 250 A320neo sold in one order. List price $26.6 billion minus discounts.
  • 2012 perfume – Fame by Lady Gaga
  • References

    List of fastest-selling products Wikipedia


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