Ticket sales are estimated to have made $238m (£159.7m) - the previous record was held by Jurassic World, which took $208.8m in June.
The Force Awakens has taken an estimated $517m (£347m) globally in three days.
That is just behind Jurassic World, which broke the record with $525m.
Jurassic World had the advantage of opening in China on the same weekend it opened everywhere else, whereas The Force Awakens won't debut in the world's second biggest cinema-going territory until 9 January.Advertisement
The new Star Wars film also set a new opening night record in the US and Canada.
The Force Awakens made $57m (£38m) on Thursday night - beating the previous record of $43.5m held by Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 in 2011.
"Our sole focus has been creating a film that delivers that one-of-a-kind Star Wars experience, and director JJ Abrams, Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy, and the Lucasfilm team have outdone themselves," Walt Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn said in a statement.
The film also set a new opening day box office record in the UK and Ireland.
The £9.64m tally beat the previous best of £9.48m set by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2. Midnight screenings on Thursday morning accounted for £2.4m of ticket sales.
Analysts say the space saga could become the biggest selling movie of all time.
The latest film returns to "a galaxy far, far away" some 30 years on from the action of 1983's Return of the Jedi.
It sees original trilogy stars Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher reprise their Han Solo and Princess Leia roles alongside younger franchise newcomers.
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