American record album sales statistics from RIAA as of August 5, 1999.
G for gold (500,000), P for platinum (1,000,000), M for multi-platinum (2,000,000 plus)
(1962) Bob Dylan G (no further data)
(1963) The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan G – P (12-18-70) (5-5-99)
(1964) The Times They Are A-Changin' G (11-14-94)
(1964) Another Side Of Bob Dylan G (5-21-99)
(1965) Bringing It All Back Home G (8-25-67)
(1965) Highway 61 Revisited G - P (8-25-67) (8-19-97)
(1966) Blonde On Blonde G – P (8-25-67) (5-5-99)
(1967) Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits G - P - M (1-5-68) (11-21-86) (11-21-86)
(1967) John Wesley Harding G (3-19-68)
(1969) Nashville Skyline G - P (5-7-69) (11-21-86)
(1970) Self Portrait G (6-22-70)
(1970) New Morning G (12-11-70)
(1971) Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 G - P - M (1-3-72) (11-21-86) (11-14-94-2M) (9-8-97-5M)
(1973) Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid G (8-19-87)
(1973) Dylan G (12-21-73)
(1974) Planet Waves G (1-22-74)
(1974) Before The Flood G - P (7-8-74) (9-8-97)
(1975) Blood On The Tracks G - P - M (2-12-75) (8-9-89) (11-14-94)
(1976) Desire G - P – M (1-14-76) (3-4-76) (5-5-99)
(1976) Hard Rain G (9-22-76)
(1978) Street Legal G (6-27-78)
(1978) Bob Dylan at Budokan G (4-20-99)
(1979) Slow Train Coming G - P (12-26-79) (5-9-80)
(1983) Infidels G (1-23-84)
(1985) Biograph G - P (3-29-89) (7-8-92)
(1989) Dylan And The Dead G (8-3-89)
(1991) The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 G (8-19-97)
(1997) Time Out Of Mind G - P (10-27-97) (6-2-98)
1963 (nomination)
DOCUMENTARY, SPOKEN WORD OR DRAMA RECORDING
We Shall Overcome (The March on Washington, August 28, 1963 -
Dr Martin Luther King, Jr with Joan Baez, Marian Anderson,
Odetta, Rabbie Joachim Prinz, BOB DYLAN, Whitney M Young, Jr,
John Lewis, Roy Wilkins, Walter Reuther, Peter, Paul and Mary,
Bayard Rustin, A Philip Randolph)
1965
ALBUM COVER - PHOTOGRAPHY (nomination)
Bringing It All Back Home -
Bob Dylan (D Kramer)
1966
ALBUM COVER - PHOTOGRAPHY (nomination)
Blonde on Blonde -
Bob Dylan (G Schatsberg)
1967
ALBUM COVER - PHOTOGRAPHY
Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits -
Bob Dylan (R Sherman)
1968
FOLK PERFORMANCE (nomination)
John Wesley Harding -
Bob Dylan
1969
ALBUM NOTES
Nashville Skyline (J Cash) -
Bob Dylan
1969
COUNTRY INSTRUMENTAL (nomination)
Nashville Skyline Rag -
Bob Dylan
1972
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
The Concert for Bangla Desh - George Harrison & Friends
(Ravi Shankar, BOB DYLAN, Leon Russell, Ringo Starr,
Billy Preston, Eric Clapton, Klaus Voormann, others)
1973
ORIGINAL SCORE - MOTION PICTURE OR A TELEVISION SPECIAL (nomination)
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid -
Bob Dylan
1975
BEST ALBUM NOTES
Blood on the Tracks (P Hamill) -
Bob Dylan
1979
BEST ROCK MALE VOCAL PERFORMANCE
Gotta Serve Somebody -
Bob Dylan
1980
INSPIRATIONAL PERFORMANCE (nomination)
Saved -
Bob Dylan
1988
BEST TRADITIONAL FOLK RECORDING (nomination)
Folkways: A Vision Shared--A Tribute to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly
(Sweet Honey in the Rock, BOB DYLAN, J Mellencamp, B Springsteen, U2, L
Richard W/ Fishbone, A Guthrie, W Nelson, EM Harris, T Mahal, B Wilson, P
Seeger, D Watson, The Little Red School House Chorus)
1988
BEST TRADITIONAL FOLK RECORDING (nomination)
"Pretty Boy Floyd" track from Folkways: A Vision Shared--A Tribute to
Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly
Bob Dylan
1991 LIFETIME
ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Bob Dylan (& the late John Lennon)
1991
BEST ALBUM NOTES
The Bootleg Series, Volumes 1-3 (J Bauldie) -
Bob Dylan
1992
BEST CONTEMPORY FOLK ALBUM (nomination)
Good As I Been To You -
Bob Dylan
1992
BEST ROCK GROUP VOCAL PERFORMANCE (nomination)
"My Back Pages" from Bob Dylan, The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration
(BOB DYLAN, N Young, R McGuinn, T Petty, G Harrison, E Clapton)
1993
BEST TRADITIONAL FOLK ALBUM
World Gone Wrong -
Bob Dylan
1995
MALE ROCK VOCAL PERFORMANCE (nomination)
Knockin' On Heaven's Door (MTV Unplugged) -
Bob Dylan
1995
ROCK SONG-SONGWRITER AWARD (nomination)
Dignity (MTV Unplugged) -
Bob Dylan
1995
CONTEMPORARY FOLK ALBUM (nomination)
MTV Unplugged -
Bob Dylan
Much thanks to Mark Gonnerman for his own tireless research.