"Born and Raised" sold 219,000 copies, becoming Mr. Mayer's third No. 1 album.
"Kirk Franklin and the Family" sold a million copies, becoming the first gospel début to go platinum.
It went on to shift 3.5 million copies, becoming the best-selling solo piano album ever, in any genre.
In its two weeks out, Mr. Timberlake's album has sold almost 1.3 million copies, becoming the first this year to cross the one million mark, Billboard reported.
But Raising Sand has sold upwards of two million copies, becoming the most successful non-Zeppelin album Plant has ever made, as well as Krauss's bestseller.
It is based on the three-year-old line of Sims games that have sold nine million copies, becoming one of the best-selling games ever.
Patti Page's 1950 recording of the song for the Mercury label sold some three million copies, becoming one of the best-selling singles of its time.
His 1955 book, "An Elementary Textbook of Psychoanalysis," became a standard reference in training programs and sold more than a million copies, becoming the best-selling text on psychoanalysis by someone other than its inventor.
Since its debut in February, the novel ("Feuchtgebiete," in German) has sold more than 680,000 copies, becoming the only German book to top Amazon.com's global best-seller list.
However, publishers believe that the risks of a similar situation developing with books will be avoided by allowing people to pass on 14-day downloads of their books via email to a single person per title, with their own copies becoming inaccessible until the loan has expired.
