10 Best-Selling Products Of All Time

#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.