Amazon Best Sellers Rank (BSR) Charts for the US, UK, Canada & Europe

In this article, we will explain what the Amazon Best Sellers Rank (BSR) is and how it’s calculated.

We also have free Amazon sales rank charts to download for the USA, UK, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain.

We will show you how to use our BSR charts effectively. They can work as an Amazon BSR calculator and help you make better buying and selling decisions.

Using our Amazon Best Sellers Rank charts is a great way to identify which products to buy for Retail Arbitrage or which to sell with Amazon Private Label.

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What Is Sales Rank on Amazon?

So what is sales rank on Amazon and why is it important for Amazon sellers? The Amazon sales rank, which is officially referred to as the Amazon Best Seller Rank (BSR), measures the sales volume and popularity of each Amazon product.

The BSR changes hourly, as Amazon is constantly recalculating it.

The lower the BSR, the better, as it indicates the product is selling more and is more popular.

It is important to note that the Best Sellers Rank of a product is only in comparison to other products in the same category or subcategory. So a product with a BSR of #1 in ‘Toys & Games’ is the best-selling product in that category.

You can use sourcing software like Helium 10 or Jungle Scout to show the rank or BSR for each product in the search results. Use this data in conjunction with the sales rank charts to make a more informed decision.

How to Find the Amazon Sales Rank for a Product

The first step is to go to the Amazon product listing page. If you then scroll down the page, after the description, you will see a box titled ‘Product details‘

This box contains important data Amazon has for the product, such as weight, ASIN, and the number of reviews. You will also find the Best Sellers Rank or BSR, as in the example above.

How is Amazon Best Sellers Rank Calculated?

The Amazon sales rank calculator uses several different factors to work out the Best Sellers Rank:

• Current and historical sales volume
• Recent price changes or promotions
• Competitors’ products and recent sales

Amazon will put more weighting on recent sales volume but still has to take into account historical sales.

For example, a product that has sold well all year, but not sold at all in the last 24hrs, wouldn’t just suddenly drop off the rankings. However, if the product continues not to sell, its rank will gradually slip over the next few weeks.

Amazon will recalculate the Amazon sales rank for more popular products hourly. For products with a BSR over 10,000 Amazon may only recalculate sales rank weekly or even monthly.

Download Our Latest Best Seller Rank Charts

Amazon US Best Sellers Rank (BSR) Chart PDF

Amazon UK Best Sellers Rank (BSR) Chart PDF

Amazon Canada Best Sellers Rank (BSR) Chart PDF

Amazon Germany Best Sellers Rank (BSR) Chart PDF

Amazon France Best Sellers Rank (BSR) Chart PDF

Amazon Spain Best Sellers Rank (BSR) Chart PDF

Amazon Italy Best Sellers Rank (BSR) Chart PDF

We recommend you print out or save the Amazon BSR charts relevant to your marketplace for reference when sourcing products.

How to Use Amazon BSR Charts to Make Better Buying Decisions

Once downloaded, the Amazon BSR charts will show in which percentage of the total products your products Best Sellers Rank falls.

“…use BSR charts for quick reference when making buying decisions.”

It will be different for each category, as each Amazon category contains a different number of total products. The lower the percentage of the total, the more popular the product.

In the example above, a product that has an Amazon sales rank of 150,000 in the ‘Baby’ category would be in the top 3%.

Amazon sellers will use BSR charts for quick reference when making buying decisions. For example, they might only source products in the top 1% or 3% or even 10% of the category, depending on their overall strategy.

Now we have the charts, we need to know how to put the Best Sellers Rank to good use.

First, we need to find the BSR for the product we are interested in. Let’s use ASIN B00UREAGU8 – ‘MAJESTIC PURE Dead Sea Mud Mask’ as our example.

This product has a rank of 5,015 in the main Amazon category of ‘Beauty & Personal Care’. If you cross-reference this to the USA Best Sellers Ranking chart, you can see that this is within the top 1% as shown below. This means it is very popular.

What Is a Good Amazon Sales Rank?

So, what is a good sales rank on Amazon? The better (smaller BSR number) the Best Sellers Rank, the more the product will sell. However, it is also likely to be more competitive, so there is often a careful balance to be struck.

A lower rank (larger BSR number) means a less popular product and fewer sales each month, so you will need to be making a higher margin per sale to make it viable.

Generally, if you had a product ranked under 2,000 in most categories, this would result in a lot of sales each day and therefore you could accept a smaller margin.

A sales rank under 10,000 in most categories would still represent a solid product opportunity.

Example of monthly sales volume by sales rank:

As you can see, the actual volume of sales varies massively depending on category or marketplace. For example, an office product ranked 1,000 in the US would sell about 6,300 units per month compared with only 330 for the same product in Canada.

A product ranked 10,000 in Home & Kitchen in the US might sell about 3,500 units per month compared with just 180 units if it was in the Video Games category.

What Is a Good Amazon Sales Rank for Books?

A good Amazon BSR for books depends on whether you are publishing your own book or reselling books. If you are publishing your own book, you would ideally want it to have an Amazon BSR of under 10,000, which would equal about 10 copies sold per day.

If you are an Amazon book reseller and tend to have just one copy of a book to sell, then, as you can see from the chart below, anything under 1 million BSR should mean the book sells within a month if your price is sensible.

If you download our Amazon sales rank chart for the US, you can see that even a book with a BSR of 1 million is still in the top 1% of books.

As a general rule, any book under 1,000,000 BSR is probably worth purchasing if there is more than $1 profit to be made after all fees.

If you are trying to decide whether to buy a book you have scanned, remember that you ideally need to look at the average 90 or 180 day sales rank as for slow selling books, the BSR can fluctuate massively. You can view the average BSR with Keepa or another Amazon book sales rank calculator.

You also need to consider the profit you can make on the book. Some rare books might only sell once or twice a year, but you might make $500 profit.

Does the Amazon Category Make a Difference When Looking at Amazon Best Sellers Rank?

It is important to note that products in different categories will sell in different quantities even if they have the same rank. For example, a product ranked 200 in ‘Books’ might sell 5 times more units per month than a product ranked 200 in Stationary.

PRO TIP: Remember, you are only interested in the main category rank and not subcategories. In our example above, the ‘Majestic Pure Dead Sea Mud Mask‘ has a subcategory rank of 83 in ‘Facial Masks’, which seems great, but the actual main BSR is 5,015. This is the figure you should use when comparing products and using the Amazon BSR Chart.

Also, be wary of the BSR percentage as it is dependent on the total number of products in the category.

A product might be in the top 3% sales rank in the ‘Clothing’ category. If you were to add 5 million more products to the Clothing category, the same product would only be in the top 20%. The product still sells the same and is still a viable option.

How to Use Best Sellers Rank to Estimate Monthly Sales Volume

The monthly sales volume is the ‘Holy Grail’ of Amazon product research for both Arbitrage and Private Label. Calculating monthly sales is probably the most important use for Amazon Best Sellers Rank.

Once you have the BSR, you can cross-reference it with a number of free Amazon tools. These tools will automatically calculate how many units of this product sell each month – this is the data you really want.

Free Tools to Find the Best Selling Products on Amazon

Sourcing software like Jungle Scout and Helium 10 will give you the estimated sales per month using each product’s Amazon sales rank. With this data, you can find the best-selling products on Amazon.

So how does this work in practice? Let’s go back to our example product – ASIN B00UREAGU8 – ‘MAJESTIC PURE Dead Sea Mud Mask’

We know the BSR is 5,015 in the ‘Beauty & Personal Care’ category. If we use the Jungle Scout Estimator, we can see this product sells around 2,640 units per month.

This is pretty impressive and could result in profits of approximately $10,000 a month.

If we use Helium 10’s free chrome extension, we get even more valuable information for our example product. You just need to sign up for Helium 10 and it is then free to use their Xray tool.

Using Helium 10’s Xray we see estimated sales of this product are 2,212 per month. This is pretty close to Jungle Scouts’ estimate and we would recommend using the average of the two to get a more reliable estimate.

PRO TIP: These sales estimator tools are normally accurate enough to help make decisions. However, remember that products can change rank significantly in a short period of time. This may be due to a recent promotion or the product may have recently been out of stock. It is best to also check Keepa or CamelCamelCamel to see the sales rank history, so you can make sure the current rank is not an anomaly.

Using an Amazon BSR Extension

You can also use an Amazon BSR chrome extension to help find popular products. A BSR extension will provide live sales rank data in the product listing pages as you browse the Amazon website.

Most of the Amazon best seller rank extensions will use color coding, so you can quickly see how popular the products are.

SellerAmp BSR Extension

SellerAmp is a recommend tool for Amazon product sourcing. It includes a BSR calculator with BSR percentage, Buy Box price, sales per month, and Keepa data. Seller Amp also includes many other tools, including a profits calculator, eligibility to sell, IP warnings, competitor data, fee calculator and historical data.

You get a mobile app, chrome extension, and web app included.

Website: Seller Amp BSR Extension

Amazon KDP Extension

This is a popular Amazon BSR extension focused on people selling or publishing books. The Amazon KDP extension provides BSR, estimated monthly sales and profits, and royalties per book sold. Pricing starts at about $2.99 per month for this chrome extension.

Website: Amazon KDP Extension

DS Amazon Quick View Extension

DS Amazon Quick View is a free BSR extension that works in the US. It is quite useful and adds the sales rank or seller data to the Amazon search results pages. This means you can easily see how popular products are without having to click on each one.

DS Amazon Quick View also offer a paid version which works on all Amazon marketplaces and there is a version for Firefox. The extra features included are Buy Box info, Keepa data, and lowest FBA price.

The DS Amazon Quick View Extension can be useful but nowhere near as sophisticated or feature packed as other Amazon best seller rank extensions, such as Seller Amp.

The license key for DS Amazon QuickView Extended extension is $25 one-time.

Website: DS Amazon Quick View Download

Amazon Sales Rank Charts Summary

We hope you find our free Amazon Best Sellers Rank charts help you find winning products. Remember to use with the Jungle Scout and Helium 10 free sales estimator tools to get the monthly sales volume.

Feel free to print the Amazon BSR list for your country and use them when you are doing your product research. We are constantly updating our FBA sales rank charts to give you more accurate data.

You are also very welcome to join our Amazon Facebook Groups, where you can get help and support from fellow Amazon sellers:

Amazon Selling for Beginners – for people starting out on their Amazon selling journey.

Amazon FBA Masters – for more experienced sellers.

Useful Resources

We have a full rundown of Amazon FBA and Private Label research and sourcing tools here: The 5 Best Amazon Product Sourcing And Selling Tools

A list of all the software and tools we use to run our Amazon business here: 15 Best Amazon Seller Tools & Services We Use

Jungle Scout free Sales Estimator tool – check it out here>> 😍

Helium 10 – lots of awesome free tools for Amazon sellers – take a look here>> 😍

Keepa – see stock, price, and sales data for every product – get started today>> 😍

If you have any questions about Amazon sales rank charts, simply drop them in the comments below.

Good Luck & Happy Selling

James 👨

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Article By James Percival

Founder and Lead Editor of The Selling Guys

James is an experienced ecommerce entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience selling online. He has a wealth of knowledge in selling on Amazon, eBay, and building ecommerce websites.
Despite running a successful business, James has decided to share his expertise with others by offering guidance through his website, “The Selling Guys,” and his “Amazon Selling for Beginners” Facebook group.
James now has three children, two dogs, and a cat.