List of fastest-selling products

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).

Video games

• Video game – 2013 PS3/Xbox 360 game Grand Theft Auto V selling 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).^[1]
• PC Game – 2012 game Diablo III selling 6.3 million units in its first week.^[2]
• Nintendo 3DS game – 2013 game Pokémon X and Y selling 4 million units in two days.^[3]
• 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.
• 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.^[4]
• Xbox Live game – Minecraft selling 100,000 units within its first day.^[5]
• PlayStation Network game/PlayStation download – Journey.^[6][7]
• 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.^[8]
• IP (UK) – L.A. Noire^[9]

Consumer electronics

• Game console (Japan) – Nintendo 3DS selling five million units in 52 weeks.^[10]
• Consumer Electronics Device/gaming peripheral – 2010 device Kinect selling 8 million units in its first 60 days on sale.^[11]
• Operating system – Windows 7 selling over 90 million licenses in around 4 months.^[12]
• Barnes & Noble product – Nook^[13]

Music

• Album (worldwide) – 2015 album 25 by Adele selling 3,378,000 units in its first week.^[14]
• Album (UK) – 2015 album 25 by Adele selling 800,307 units in its first week.^[15]
• 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.^[16]
• Album (US) – 2015 album 25 by Adele selling 3,378,000 units in its first week.^[14]
• Album (Japan) – 2001 album Distance by Hikaru Utada selling 3,002,720 units in its first week.^[17]
• 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.^[18]
• 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.^[19]
• 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.^[19]
• Single (US) – 1964 single "Can't Buy Me Love" by The Beatles selling 940,225 copies in its first day.^[20]
• 2012 Album (UK) – Unorthodox Jukebox by Bruno Mars, selling 136,000 copies in 1 week.^[21]
• 2012 single – Impossible by James Arthur, selling 490,000 copies on 1 week.^[22]
• Pre-order record – One Direction's 'Live While We're Young', reaching #1 in 40 countries immediately after pre-order release on iTunes.^[23]

Books

• Book – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling selling approximately 15 million copies worldwide in its first day.^[24]
• Children's book – The English Roses by Madonna^[25]
• Book of 2012 – 2011 erotica novel Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James selling more than 100,000 copies in its first week.^[26]

Cars

• Tesla Motors – Model 3 having advanced sales (reservations) for over 180,000 units, the record for the highest single-day sales of any product.
• Tesla Motors – Model 3 having advanced sales of over $10 Billion USD on 276,000 units pre-sold in the first 3 days. ^[27]
• Tesla Motors – Model X having advanced sales of over $40 million without any advertising.^[28]
• Car (US) – Toyota Prius c^[29]
• Hybrid Vehicle – Ford C-Max Hybrid^[30]

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.^[31]
• iPhone 6 selling over 4 million units in 24 hours.^[32]

Miscellaneous

• Jetliner family – Airbus A320^[33]
• 2012 perfume – Fame by Lady Gaga^[34]
• Concert (UK) – Stone Roses at Manchester’s Heaton Park, sold out (220,000 tickets) in 68 minutes.^[35]
• 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.^[36]
• TVXQ Live Tour 2012 'TONE' – South Korean boy group TVXQ at Tokyo Dome sold out (165,000 tickets) within 30 seconds.^[37]
• TVXQ 3rd Live Tour ~T~ – South Korean boy group TVXQ at Saitama Super Arena sold out (40,000 tickets) in 1 second.^[38]
• 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.^[39]

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