List of the biggest selling R&B/Hip Hop albums of all time in the United States

This is a list of best-selling R&B/Hip Hop albums in the United States according to the Recording Industry Association of America.

#Michael Jackson - "Thriller" (Epic Records, 1982) - 27 times platinum
#Whitney Houston - "The Bodyguard" (Arista Records, 1992) - 17 times platinum
#Whitney Houston - "Whitney Houston" (Arista Records, 1985) - 13 times platinum
#Prince - "Purple Rain" (Warner Bros., 1984) - 13 times platinum
#Boyz II Men - "II" (Motown Records, 1994) - 12 times platinum
#TLC - "CrazySexyCool" (LaFace Records, 1994) - 11 times platinum
#OutKast - "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below" (LaFace Records, 2003) - 11 times platinum
#Mariah Carey - "Music Box" (Columbia Records, 1993) - 10 times platinum
#MC Hammer - "Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em" (Capitol Records, 1990) - 10 times platinum
#Mariah Carey - "Daydream" (Columbia Records, 1995) - 10 times platinum
#Norah Jones - "Come Away with Me" - 10 times platinum
#Stevie Wonder - "Songs in the Key of Life" (Motown Records, 1976) - 10 times platinum
#Eminem - "The Eminem Show" (Aftermath Records, 2002) - 10 times platinum
#The Notorious B.I.G. - "Life After Death" - (Bad Boy Records, 1997) - 10 times platinum
#50 Cent - "The Massacre" (Shady Records, Aftermath Records, G-Unit Records, Interscope Records, 2005) - 9 times platinum
#Mariah Carey - "Mariah Carey" (Columbia Records, 1990) - 9 times platinum
#Boyz II Men - "Cooleyhighharmony" (Motown Records, 1991) - 9 times platinum
#Eminem - "The Marshall Mathers LP" (Aftermath RecordsInterscope Records, 2000)- 9 times platinum
#Whitney Houston - "Whitney" (Arista Records, 1987) - 9 times platinum
#Tupac Shakur - "All Eyez On Me" (Death Row Records, 1996) - 9 times platinum
#Will Smith - "Big Willie Style" (Columbia Records, 1997) - 9 times platinum
#Tupac Shakur - "Greatest Hits" (Death Row Records, 1998) - 9 times platinum
#Usher - "Confessions" (LaFace Records, 2004) - 9 times platinum
#Toni Braxton - "Secrets" (LaFace Records, 1996) - 8 times platinum
#Toni Braxton - "Toni Braxton" (LaFace Records, 1993) - 8 times platinum
#Destiny's Child - "The Writing's on the Wall" (Columbia Records, 1999) - 8 times platinum
#Lauryn Hill - "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill" (Ruffhouse Records, 1998) - 8 times platinum
#Michael Jackson - "Bad" (Epic Records, 1987) - 8 times platinum
#Nelly - "Country Grammar" (Universal Records, 2000) - 8 times platinum
#Michael Jackson - "Dangerous" (Epic Records, 1991) - 7x times platinum