Blur's best sellers

I was browsing the Internet, as you do, looking for some information about Blur. Specifically I was looking to see if Under The Westway (No 34) was their lowest charting UK single - it wasn't by the way, She's So High only reached number 48.

So I stumbled upon some figures for Blur album sales and it was a bit of surprise. When you think Blur, you think Parklife don't you? I think most people do. Yet Parklife is not their biggest selling album worldwide, it's not even second!  So what are the sales?

	UK	USA	Worldwide
Blur	599,000	500,000	3,000,000
The Great Escape	1,050,000	122,000	2,540,000
Parklife	1,250,000	150,000	2,500,000
13	499,000	233,000	1,550,000
Think Tank	240,000	100,000	1,500,000
Leisure	150,000	100,000	950,000
Modern Life Is Rubbish	150,000	55,000	750,000

In one way of course it doesn't really matter, sales are only numbers (and the source behind these is hardly scientific) and the albums stand on their own merits. Having said that, it does make me want to go back and re-listen to them again. I don't think that the sales ranking would reflect my personal ordering but maybe after a fresh listen I'll update my opinion!

Photo from musicinsanity.wordpress.com 

Update:
Several people have quite correctly pointed out that sales of Blur would have been significantly boosted by the success of 'that woohoo song' in the States.  So I thought I'd update the table to show the UK and USA sales figures to demonstrate.