Chart Performance
#1's debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts of November 12, 2005, and sold 113,000 copies that week. The compilation has sold 1.1 million copies in the U.S. by the spring of 2006 according to Nielsen SoundScan and over 1.3 million as of 2011. It has been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.
In Japan, #1's debuted at number one, selling 154,000 copies in its first week and was eventually certified double platinum, selling over 750,000 copies. Worldwide the album has sold 3.5 million copies and became the best-selling greatest-hits album by an all female group.
In the week of Beyoncé Knowles' 4th studio album 4 reaching No. 1 in the UK in July 2011, #1's climbed from No. 111 back to No. 54 in the album's 42nd charting week.
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