By the end of 1991, Braithwaite's Rise album had become Australia's biggest selling CD of the year, and Edge had become the best-selling album ever released by Sony Music Australia to that time.

His last CD "Boogie Woogie Triology" won several awards and was top selling CD on CDBaby for more than 1 year.

The album has also been platinum by the RIAA with an excess of 1 million copies sold, making it Trick Daddy's best selling CD.

According to Dave Rossi, a former program director of WRAX 107.7 The X, this made the X Lounge the fastest selling CD in Birmingham history, raising just over $135,000.

In hindsight, the song might almost have been custom-designed to appeal to the baby-boom, compact-disk-buying, older segment of the pop audience; it is currently the No. 1 selling CD.

Fanzine's Roundabout is the fastest selling CD ever in Texas and Okahoma in 2005.

In 1995, 311 released what was to be their biggest selling CD, the self-titled 311 (also known as The Blue Album).

Arecebo was the top selling CD at online music distribution company Ampcast for over two years.

The album "Joaquin Rodrigo - guitar music" becomes one of the best selling CD in classical guitar music, highly praised by critics around the world.

Outselling 3/4 of the German Top 100's singles sales combined, the song also emerged as the fastest selling CD single of 2006 and the biggest downloaded song since 2004.