Here is the best 5 selling products of all the time in history.
#1 Rubik's Cube
Category: Toy
Units sold/sales: 350 million units
Parent Company: Seven Towns
The ‘Magic Cube’ is the top best-selling product in the world as of the list. Rubik’s Cube is almost a must have toy in every households having kids, though it is toy that puzzles even adults. It is a three dimensional mechanical puzzle that got invented in 1974 by the Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Erno Rubik. The puzzle was licensed by Rubik to be sold by Ideal Toy in 1980. The puzzle won the German Game of the Year special award for Best Puzzle of that year. As of January 2009, 350 million Magic Cubes had been sold worldwide making it the world's top-selling puzzle game. In the classic version of the Rubik's Cube, each of the six faces is covered by nine stickers, each of one of six solid colours (traditionally white, red, blue, orange, green, and yellow) and a specific mechanism enables each face to turn independently, thus mixing up the colours. For the puzzle to be solved, each face must be made having all the 9 stickers in one colour. Similar puzzles were produced later with various numbers of stickers, not all of them by Rubik.
#2 iPhone
Category: Smartphone
Units sold/sales: 250 million units
Parent Company: Apple
The much hailed smartphone from Apple, iPhone is no wonder at the top in the market leaving the contemporary brands far behind. The iPhone, designed and marketed by Apple, runs iOS mobile operating system, originally named as iPhone OS. The Late CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone in January 2007 and it got released on June 29, 2007. The sixth generation in the iPhone series has been announced already this year. The iPhone can work as a camera phone, a portable media player, a video camera and an internet client with email and web browsing capabilities; it can also send texts and receive visual as well as voice mails and has both Wi-Fi and cellular data connectivity. The users can have a multi-touch screen in iPhone which includes a virtual keyboard rather than a physical one. It can access to App Store which has more than 500,000 apps as of 2012.
#3 Harry Potter
Category: Book series
Units sold/sales: 450 million units
Parent Company: Scholastic (US publisher)
Harry porter snatching the third rank in the list is a series of fantasy novels written by the British writer J K Rowling. The books tell the stories of the adventures of a wizard, Harry Potter and his friends Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger, who are the students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Since the release of the first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in June 1997, the books have gained massive popularity among people of all ages and it also had critical acclaim and commercial success worldwide. The series got some share of criticism too, especially for having concern for the dark tone. As of June 2011, the book series has sold about 450 million copies, which made it the best-selling books series in the history and they were the fastest-selling books also. So far this series has been translated into 67 languages. The series has also made movies that could trigger similar success in the box-office.
#4 Michael Jackson's ‘Thriller’
Category: Album
Units sold/sales: 110 million units
Parent Company: Epic Records
The American pop star, Michael Jackson’s Thriller is the sixth studio album is the fourth on the list. It was released in 1982 as a follow-up of Jackson’s commercially successful 1979 album ’Off the Wall’ by Epic Records. Thriller too explored the similar genres used in ‘Off the Wall’ including pop, R&B, rock, post-disco and adult contemporary music. Recording sessions of the album took place at Westearn Recording Studios in Los Angeles, California, with a production budget of $750,000. Jackson himself wrote four among the nine tracks on the album. Seven singles were released from the album, all of which reached the top 10 on theBillboard Hot 100. "Baby Be Mine" and "The Lady in My Life" were the only tracks that were not released as singles. In just few years of its release, thriller became the best-selling albums of all time and still continues to be one with sales estimated between 65 and 110 million copies worldwide till date. The album won eight Grammy Awards at the 1984 Grammys.
#5 Mario Franchise
Category: Video game franchise
Units sold/sales: 262 million units
Parent Company: Nintendo
The Mario Franchise, which could grab the fifth position in the list of evergreen best-selling products, is a media franchise consisting of video games published and produced by Nintendo starring the fictional super hero, Mario. The franchise is active in other media including television series and films. The master brain behind Mario was originally Shigeru Miyamoto which was introduced with the video game, Donkey Kong in July 1981. Then the games were developed by a variety of developers including Nintendo, Hudson Soft and AlphaDream. The major series of the franchise is the Super Mario platform series that follows Mario’s adventures in the fictional world of the Mushroom Kingdom and these games chiefly rely on Mario’s jumping ability to allow him to progress through various levels of the game. The franchise was featured in more than 200 games of various genres, being the best-selling video game franchise of all time.
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