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Post by areyoureadytojump on Dec 19, 2014 15:35:29 GMT -5
Thanks to oldbloke for compiling these sales estimates!
ALBUMS WEEK 50
albums selling over 2,000,000 - this year - 2 / last year - 1 albums selling over 1,000,000 - this year - 3 / last year - 10 albums selling over 500,000 - this year - 26 / last year - 41 albums selling over 250,000 - this year - 68 / last year - 100 total albums sales - this year - 237.4m (-12%)/ last year - 269.4m
Rank - Estimated 2014 Sales - TITLE - Artist ( Estimated Total Sales )
01 - 3,422,000 - FROZEN - Soundtrack ( 3,759,000 ) 02 - 3,004,000 - 1989 - Taylor Swift ( 3,004,000 ) 03 - 1,049,000 - IN THE LONELY HOUR - Sam Smith ( 1,049,000 ) 04 - 845,000 - BEYONCÉ - Beyoncé ( 2,147,000 ) 05 - 823,000 - THAT'S CHRISTMAS TO ME - Pentatonix ( 823,000 ) 06 - 817,000 - PURE HEROINE - Lorde ( 1,504,000 ) 07 - 789,000 - THE OUTSIDERS - Eric Church ( 789,000 ) 08 - 775,000 - GHOST STORIES - Coldplay ( 775,000 ) 09 - 754,000 - CRASH MY PARTY - Luke Bryan ( 2,275,000 ) 10 - 752,000 - PARTNERS - Barbra Streisand ( 752,000 ) 11 - 749,000 - GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: AWESOME MIX VOL.1 - Soundtrack ( 749,000 ) 12 - 685,000 - X - Ed Sheeran ( 685,000 ) 13 - 683,000 - JUST AS I AM - Brantley Gilbert ( 683,000 ) 14 - 679,000 - NOW 50 - Various ( 679,000 ) 15 - 651,000 - OLD BOOTS NEW DIRT - Jason Aldean ( 651,000 ) 16 - 625,000 - FOUR - One Direction ( 625,000 ) 17 - 601,000 - 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER - 5 Seconds Of Summer ( 601,000 ) 18 - 584,000 - HERE'S TO THE GOOD TIMES - Florida Georgia Line ( 2,115,000 ) 19 - 572,000 - PRISM - Katy Perry ( 1,540,000 ) 20 - 571,000 - PLATINUM - Miranda Lambert ( 571,000 ) 21 - 569,000 - G I R L - Pharrell Williams ( 569,000 ) 22 - 567,000 - NIGHT VISIONS - Imagine Dragons ( 2,386,000 ) 23 - 541,000 - V - Maroon 5 ( 541,000 ) 24 - 531,000 - NOW 49 - Various ( 531,000 ) 25 - 525,000 - THE MARSHALL MATHERS LP 2 - Eminem ( 2,252,000 )
26 - 502,000 - NATIVE - OneRepublic ( 927,000 ) 27 - 459,000 - UNORTHODOX JUKEBOX - Bruno Mars ( 2,338,000 ) 28 - 451,000 - XSCAPE - Michael Jackson ( 451,000 ) 29 - 446,000 - MY EVERYTHING - Ariana Grande ( 446,000 ) 30 - 444,000 - TURN BLUE - Black Keys ( 444,000 ) 31 - 436,000 - THE NEW CLASSIC - Iggy Azalea ( 436,000 ) 32 - 434,000 - CHEEK TO CHEEK - Tony Bennett & Lady GaGa ( 434,000 ) 33 - 432,000 - ANYTHING GOES - Florida Georgia Line ( 432,000 ) 34 - 428,000 - ULTRAVIOLENCE - Lana Del Rey ( 428,000 ) 35 - 417,000 - LOVE IN THE FUTURE - John Legend ( 671,000 ) 36 - 397,000 - AM - Arctic Monkeys ( 570,000 ) 37 - 395,000 - MASTERMIND - Rick Ross ( 395,000 ) 38 - 385,000 - BAD BLOOD - Bastille ( 548,000 ) 39 - 373,000 - MAN AGAINST MACHINE - Garth Brooks ( 373,000 ) 40 - 369,000 - NOW 51 - Various ( 369,000 ) 41 - 354,000 - 2014 FOREST HILLS DRIVE - J Cole ( 354,000 ) 42 - 353,000 - MIDNIGHT MEMORIES - One Direction ( 1,449,000 ) 43 - 349,000 - NOW 52 - Various ( 349,000 ) 44 - 346,000 - OXYMORON - ScHoolboy Q ( 346,000 ) 45 - 335,000 - KIDZ BOP 25 - Kidz Bop Kids ( 335,000 ) 46 - 331,000 - SONIC HIGHWAYS - Foo Fighters ( 331,000 ) 47 - 328,000 - SHE LOOKS SO PERFECT (EP) - 5 Seconds Of Summer ( 328,000 ) 48 - 324,000 - 2014 GRAMMY NOMINEES - Various ( 324,000 ) 49 - 323,000 - BANGERZ - Miley Cyrus ( 1,079,000 ) 50 - 317,000 - NOTHING WAS THE SAME - Drake ( 1,662,000 )
51 - 316,000 - BASED ON A TRUE STORY - Blake Shelton ( 1,425,000 ) 52 - 315,000 - LAZARETTO - Jack White ( 315,000 ) 53 - 313,000 - THRIVE - Casting Crowns ( 313,000 ) 54 - 310,000 - X - Chris Brown ( 310,000 ) 55 - 304,000 - TRIGGA - Trey Songz ( 304,000 ) 56 - 293,000 - COLE SWINDELL - Cole Swindell ( 293,000 ) 57 - 293,000 - THE ENDLESS RIVER - Pink Floyd ( 293,000 ) 58 - 287,000 - MORNING PHASE - Beck ( 287,000 ) 59 - 284,000 - THE BIG REVIVAL - Kenny Chesney ( 284,000 ) 60 - 281,000 - HOLIDAY WISHES - Idina Menzel ( 281,000 ) 61 - 272,000 - RISER - Dierks Bentley ( 272,000 ) 62 - 267,000 - THE 20/20 EXPERIENCE (2 OF 2) - Justin Timberlake ( 1,049,000 ) 63 - 266,000 - THE HUNTING PARTY - Linkin Park ( 266,000 ) 64 - 266,000 - ROCK OR BUST - AC/DC ( 266,000 ) 65 - 261,000 - SEEN IT ALL: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY - Jeezy ( 261,000 ) 66 - 256,000 - HYPNOTIC EYE - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers ( 256,000 ) 67 - 255,000 - BORN TO DIE - Lana Del Rey ( 1,178,000 ) 68 - 254,000 - SHAKIRA - Shakira ( 254,000 ) 69 - 247,000 - BRINGING BACK THE SUNSHINE - Blake Shelton ( 247,000 ) 70 - 241,000 - FORMULA VOL.2 - Romeo Santos ( 241,000 ) 71 - 239,000 - TESTIMONY - August Alsina ( 239,000 ) 72 - 237,000 - .5: THE GRAY CHAPTER - Slipknot ( 237,000 ) 73 - 237,000 - LEGEND - Bob Marley & the Wailers ( 11,696,000 ) 74 - 237,000 - THE FAULT IN OUR STARS - Soundtrack ( 237,000 ) 75 - 236,000 - CHRISTMAS - Michael Bublé ( 3,624,000 )
76 - 235,000 - DISNEY KARAOKE SERIES: FROZEN (EP) - Various ( 235,000 ) 77 - 230,000 - THE COWBOY RIDES AWAY: LIVE FROM AT&T STADIUM - George Strait ( 230,000 ) 78 - 230,000 - HOZIER - Hozier ( 230,000 ) 79 - 230,000 - LOVE MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE - Toni Braxton & Babyface ( 230,000 ) 80 - 225,000 - SAIL OUT (EP) - Jhene Aiko ( 306,000 ) 81 - 223,000 - BECAUSE THE INTERNET - Childish Gambino ( 380,000 ) 82 - 222,000 - ANOMALY - Lecrae ( 222,000 ) 83 - 221,000 - MY KRAZY LIFE - YG ( 221,000 ) 84 - 219,000 - NOW 48 - Various ( 689,000 ) 85 - 218,000 - BLACC HOLLYWOOD - Wiz Khalifa ( 218,000 ) 86 - 218,000 - TALK DIRTY - Jason Derűlo ( 218,000 ) 87 - 218,000 - THE HEIST - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ( 1,450,000 ) 88 - 218,000 - MANDATORY FUN - Weird Al Yankovic ( 218,000 ) 89 - 216,000 - GOOD KID M.A.A.D CITY - Kendrick Lamar ( 1,342,000 ) 90 - 214,000 - KIDZ BOP 26 - Kidz Bop Kids ( 214,000 ) 91 - 213,000 - FROZEN: THE SONGS - Soundtrack ( 213,000 ) 92 - 209,000 - HIGH HOPES - Bruce Springsteen ( 209,000 ) 93 - 206,000 - THE LEGEND OF - Johnny Cash ( 3,295,000 ) 94 - 205,000 - DOO-WOPS AND HOOLIGANS - Bruno Mars ( 2,346,000 ) 95 - 202,000 - REWIND - Rascal Flatts ( 202,000 ) 96 - 202,000 - BLACK PANTIES - R.Kelly ( 440,000 ) 97 - 202,000 - SHATTER ME - Lindsey Stirling ( 202,000 ) 98 - 197,000 - 21 - Adele ( 11,043,000 ) 99 - 196,000 - 747 - Lady Antebellum ( 196,000 ) 100 - 194,000 - SAME TRAILER DIFFERENT PARK - Kacey Musgraves ( 487,000 )
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Post by Gary on Dec 19, 2014 16:11:59 GMT -5
Taylor Swift, 'Frozen,' and the Battle for the Year's #1 Album
Taylor Swift's 1989 and the Frozen soundtrack are locked in a close race to wind up as the best-selling album of 2014. With two weeks to go, Frozen has sold 3.4 million copies in this calendar year, compared to 3.0 million for 1989. But 1989 may be able to overcome Frozen's 410K lead. This week it sold 238K copies more than Frozen did.
(All figures in this story are actual album sales, not based on Billboard's new hybrid formula which also factors in on-demand streaming and digital track sales.)
This is the closest race for the year-end crown since 2009, when Swift’s Fearless ended up with a slim, 131K lead over that year’s runner-up, Susan Boyle's I Dreamed a Dream. (This year’s race is a reversal of 2009. That year, Fearless had been the year’s top-seller all year long, but it was nearly eclipsed by Boyle’s album, which was released on Nov. 23. This year, Frozen has been the year’s top-seller all year, but is in danger of being eclipsed by Swift’s album, which was released on Oct. 27.)
If Frozen hangs on to the title, this will be the first time that the soundtrack to a theatrically-released movie has come out on top since 1998, the year of Titanic. (A TV soundtrack, High School Musical, was #1 for 2006.)
If 1989 comes out on top, this will be the second time that Swift has had the year’s top-selling album. Swift would be the third act to have the year’s best-selling album twice since 1991, when Nielsen SoundScan began tracking music sales. She would follow Adele (whose 21 finished first in both 2011 and 2012) and Eminem (whose The Eminem Show was #1 for 2002 and whose Recovery was on top for 2010).
Whichever album comes out on top, this will be the fifth time that Swift has put an album in the year’s top three. She’s only the second artist to do that in the Nielsen SoundScan era, following Eminem.
This will be the fourth time that Swift has had the year’s top-selling album by a female artist. No other female artist in the Nielsen SoundScan has achieved that feat. Mariah Carey had the top-selling album by a female artist three times.
Sam Smith's In The Lonely Hour is #3 for the year-to-date (1 million). It’s the year’s top-selling album by a male artist and the year’s top-seller by a foreign-born artist.
It is, of course, pathetic that an album that has sold just a little more than 1 million copies is #3 for the year-to-date. Worse, only one other album (see Pentatonix at #5) has a good shot at reaching 1 million before the year is over. This projected tally of four million-selling albums would be the lowest in decades. The old low mark for the Nielsen SoundScan era was 10 million-selling albums in 2012.
Beyoncé's Beyoncé is #4 for the year-to-date (845K). This will be the seventh year that Beyoncé has placed an album in the year-end top 10. (That tally counts her work with Destiny’s Child). No other artist has achieved this feat in the Nielsen SoundScan era. (This will be the sixth year that Swift has placed an album in the year-end top 10, which puts her in a tie for second place with Garth Brooks, Eminem and Mariah Carey.)
This will be the seventh time that Beyoncé has had the year’s top R&B album (again, counting her work with Destiny’s Child).
Pentatonix’s That’s Christmas To Me is #5 for the year-to-date (819K). It’s the year’s top-selling album by a group or duo. It will be the fifth holiday album to rank among the top five best-sellers for an entire year. All have come in the past eight years—a sign that holiday albums are holding up better than the album market overall. The first four were Josh Groban's Noel (#1 for 2007), Andrea Bocelli's My Christmas (#5 for 2009), Susan Boyle's The Gift (#5 for 2010) and Michael Buble's Christmas (#2 for 2011).
Lorde's Pure Heroine is #6 for the year-to-date (817K).
Eric Church's The Outsiders is #7 for the year-to-date (788K). It’s best-selling country album so far this year.
Coldplay's Ghost Stories is #8 for the year-to-date (774K). If it is still in the top 10 when the chart becomes final, this will be the fourth year the band has appeared in the year-end top 10.
Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix is #9 for the year-to-date (755K). If it stays on track, this will be the first time that two soundtracks from theatrically-released movies have appeared in the year-end top 10 since 2002, when 8 Mile ranked #5 and O Brother, Where Art Thou? ranked #10.
Luke Bryan's Crash My Party is #10 for the year-to-date (754K). It will probably lose its place in the top 10 to one of these current hot-sellers: Barbra Streisand's Partners (#11, 748K), Ed Sheeran's X (#12, 686K) or One Direction's FOUR (#16, 625K).
J. Cole's 2014 Forest Hills Drive sold 354K copies in its first week. It has a shot at becoming the year’s top-selling rap album. That title is currently held by Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP 2 (545K copies in 2014). Eminem has had the year’s top rap album six times in the past.
Weird Al Yankovic's Mandatory Fun is #82 for the year-to-date. If it stays on track, it will be the first comedy album to rank in the year-end top 100 since Yankovic’s Bad Hair Day, which ranked #37 for 1996.
Frozen is #1 on Billboard's already-published list of the top albums of 2014 (which recaps the charts in the issues dated Dec. 7, 2013 through Nov. 29, 2014.) Frozen is the sixth soundtrack to a theatrically-released movie to top this chart since 1956. It follows West Side Story (which was #1 for both 1962 and 1963), Mary Poppins (1965), the Bee Gees-paced Saturday Night Fever (1978), the Whitney Houston-dominated The Bodyguard (1993) and Titanic (1998).
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Post by Gary on Dec 19, 2014 16:15:15 GMT -5
Pharrell Is 'Happy' to Be #1 for the Year
No wonder he’s so darn “Happy.” Pharrell Williams, who was featured on the best-selling song of 2013, Robin Thicke's “Blurred Lines,” will have the best-selling song of 2014 all to himself. With just two weeks to go in Nielsen SoundScan's tracking year,”Happy” has an insurmountable lead. The feel-good tune has sold 6.4 million copies so far this year, putting it far ahead of its two closest challengers, John Legend's “All of Me” (4.6 million) and “Dark Horse” by Katy Perry featuring Juicy J (4.4 million).
This is the third year in a row that the year’s top-seller has surpassed 6 million in sales during the year. “Somebody That I Used To Know” by Gotye featuring Kimbra, the top-selling song of 2012, sold 6.8 million copies during that year. “Blurred Lines” sold 6.5 million copies in 2013.
This will be the fifth time in the past seven years that Perry has had a song in the year-end top 10. She’s the only artist who can make that claim. (Rihanna is in second place. Shehas finished in the year-end top 10 in three of the last seven years.)
In addition, Perry has the highest-ranking song by a female lead artist for the year-to-date—though Meghan Trainor's “All about That Bass” isn't far behind in sales and may overtake Perry's smash. “All About That Bass” ranks #4 overall (4 million). If Perry retains her lead, this will be the second time that she has had the year's top hit by a female lead artist. She earned that distinction in 2010 with “California Gurls” (featuring Snoop Dogg), which was also the year’s #1 hit overall.
The top R&B song for the year-to-date is “Talk Dirty” by Jason Derulo featuring 2 Chainz, which is #5 overall (3.9 million). (“Happy” and “All Of Me” are really more pop than R&B.) This will be the second time that Derulo has put a song in the year-end top 10. His breakthrough smash, “Whatcha Say,” was the #10 hit of 2009.
Iggy Azalea is the only artist with two songs in the top 10 for the year-to-date. “Fancy” (featuring Charli XCX) is #6 (3.9 million). Ariana Grande's “Problem,” on which Azalea is featured, is #9 (3.3 million). If “Problem” is still in the top 10 when the chart becomes final in two weeks, Azalea will become the third female solo artist in the past seven years to have two songs in the top 10. The first two were Lady Gaga (2009) and Adele (2011).
"Happy," which Williams wrote for the animated movie Despicable Me 2, isn’t the only song from an animated blockbuster to appear in the top 10 for the year-to-date. Idina Menzel's “Let It Go” from Frozen is #8 (3.3 million).
Two other songs are listed in the top 10 for the year-to-date. “Turn Down for What” by DJ Snake & Lil Jon is #7 (3.4 million). Sam Smith’s “Stay with Me” is #10 (3.2 million).
Five collaborations are listed in the top 10 for the year-to-date. There were six in the top 10 for 2013.
Taylor Swift's “Shake It Off” is #11 for the year-to-date (3.2 million). It is still selling well, so it will doubtless move into the top 10.
The top hit by a group or duo is MAGIC!'s “Rude,” which is #12 for the year-to-date (2.9 million). Unless something changes in the next two weeks, this will be the first time since before 2008 that no songs by groups or duos appear in Nielsen SoundScan's year-end top 10.
The top rock hit for the year-to-date is Bastille's “Pompeii,” which is #13 for the year-to-date (2.6 million).
The top country hit for the year-to-date is “This Is How We Roll” by Florida Georgia Line featuring Luke Bryan, which is #20 for the year-to-date (2 million).
"Happy" is also #1 on Billboard's already-published recap of the top songs of 2014. There are two key differences between Billboard's recap and Nielsen SoundScan's above-referenced list. First, Billboard's recap is based on the weekly Hot 100 chart, which incorporates airplay and streaming data, in addition to sales. Second, Billboard's list closes about six weeks earlier than Nielsen SoundScan's. It recaps the charts in the issues dated Dec. 7, 2013 through Nov. 29, 2014. The Nov. 29 issue corresponds with Nielsen SoundScan's chart for the week ending Nov. 16.
Even so, the Billboard recaps have a rich history and a wide readership, and are important for those reasons. So let’s dig into them.
At 41, Williams is the oldest lead artist to rank #1 on Billboard's recap since 1999, when Cher, then 53, finished first with “Believe.”
"Happy" is the first song from a movie to rank #1 for the year on Billboard's recap since “Gangsta's Paradise” by Coolio featuring L.V. in 1995. That song, from Dangerous Minds, was based on a 1976 Stevie Wonder song. “Happy” is the first newly-written song from a movie to rank #1 for the year since Boyz II Men's “End of the Road” (from Boomerang) in 1992.
Iggy Azalea is the only artist with two songs in the top 10 on Billboard's recap. Her own “Fancy” is #4. Ariana Grande's “Problem,” on which she is featured, is #9. This is only the third time that an artist has made the top 10 on Billboard's recap both as the lead artist and as a featured artist in the same year. In 2007, Akon was featured on Gwen Stefani's “The Great Escape” (#3) and was in the lead on “I Wanna Love You” (#8). In 2000, Rob Thomas was featured on Santana's “Smooth” (#2) and was in the lead on matchbox twenty's “Bent” (#9).
The Fine Print: On the 2009 recap, Chris Brown had three songs in the top 10, including “No Air,” which was billed “Jordin Sparks Duet with Chris Brown.” But that billing is considered co-equal, so it wasn’t a featured credit.
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Post by kanimal on Dec 19, 2014 16:23:32 GMT -5
Rank - Estimated 2014 Sales - TITLE - Artist ( Estimated Total Sales ) 01 - 3,422,000 - FROZEN - Soundtrack ( 3,759,000 ) 02 - 3,004,000 - 1989 - Taylor Swift ( 3,004,000 ) Question regarding Frozen. Frozen sold 165K during the tracking week ending January 5. At that point, its cume was 503,000, and we know its total is 3.759 million. I assume the way people are calculating the estimated 2014 sales figure is 3.759-(.503-.165)=3.42. However, some of those 165,000 copies would have actually been sold in December 2013. Is that fact ignored when calculating year-end (and thus, anything Taylor sells after 12/28 this year would count for 2015), or should the estimate be adjusted?
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Post by Gary on Dec 19, 2014 16:28:06 GMT -5
The Soundscan year is not January 1 - December 31
The 52 week tracking period starts on the week that contains January 1, that may contain a few days from the prior year.
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Dec 29, 2014 9:06:24 GMT -5
Thanks to oldbloke for compiling these sales estimates!
ALBUMS WEEK 51
albums selling over 2,000,000 - this year - 2 / last year - 1 albums selling over 1,000,000 - this year - 4 / last year - 10 albums selling over 500,000 - this year - 26 / last year - 45 albums selling over 250,000 - this year - 74 / last year - 104
Rank - Estimated 2014 Sales - TITLE - Artist ( Estimated Total Sales ) 01 - 3,463,000 - FROZEN - Soundtrack ( 3,800,000 ) 02 - 3,335,000 - 1989 - Taylor Swift ( 3,335,000 ) 03 - 1,128,000 - IN THE LONELY HOUR - Sam Smith ( 1,128,000 ) 04 - 1,022,000 - THAT'S CHRISTMAS TO ME - Pentatonix ( 1,022,000 ) 05 - 860,000 - BEYONCÉ - Beyoncé ( 2,162,000 ) 06 - 828,000 - PURE HEROINE - Lorde ( 1,514,000 ) 07 - 818,000 - GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: AWESOME MIX VOL.1 - Soundtrack ( 818,000 ) 08 - 812,000 - PARTNERS - Barbra Streisand ( 812,000 ) 09 - 800,000 - THE OUTSIDERS - Eric Church ( 800,000 ) 10 - 784,000 - GHOST STORIES - Coldplay ( 784,000 ) 11 - 777,000 - CRASH MY PARTY - Luke Bryan ( 2,298,000 ) 12 - 747,000 - X - Ed Sheeran ( 747,000 ) 13 - 713,000 - FOUR - One Direction ( 713,000 ) 14 - 703,000 - OLD BOOTS NEW DIRT - Jason Aldean ( 703,000 ) 15 - 694,000 - JUST AS I AM - Brantley Gilbert ( 694,000 ) 16 - 688,000 - NOW 50 - Various ( 688,000 ) 17 - 619,000 - 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER - 5 Seconds Of Summer ( 619,000 ) 18 - 595,000 - HERE'S TO THE GOOD TIMES - Florida Georgia Line ( 2,126,000 ) 19 - 586,000 - PLATINUM - Miranda Lambert ( 586,000 ) 20 - 580,000 - PRISM - Katy Perry ( 1,548,000 ) 21 - 579,000 - NIGHT VISIONS - Imagine Dragons ( 2,398,000 ) 22 - 575,000 - G I R L - Pharrell Williams ( 575,000 ) 23 - 571,000 - V - Maroon 5 ( 571,000 ) 24 - 533,000 - NOW 49 - Various ( 533,000 ) 25 - 530,000 - THE MARSHALL MATHERS LP 2 - Eminem ( 2,257,000 )
26 - 512,000 - NATIVE - OneRepublic ( 938,000 ) 27 - 475,000 - CHEEK TO CHEEK - Tony Bennett & Lady GaGa ( 475,000 ) 28 - 473,000 - MY EVERYTHING - Ariana Grande ( 473,000 ) 29 - 473,000 - 2014 FOREST HILLS DRIVE - J Cole ( 473,000 ) 30 - 468,000 - UNORTHODOX JUKEBOX - Bruno Mars ( 2,347,000 ) 31 - 467,000 - ANYTHING GOES - Florida Georgia Line ( 467,000 ) 32 - 456,000 - XSCAPE - Michael Jackson ( 456,000 ) 33 - 454,000 - MAN AGAINST MACHINE - Garth Brooks ( 454,000 ) 34 - 452,000 - TURN BLUE - Black Keys ( 452,000 ) 35 - 444,000 - THE NEW CLASSIC - Iggy Azalea ( 444,000 ) 36 - 437,000 - ULTRAVIOLENCE - Lana Del Rey ( 437,000 ) 37 - 423,000 - LOVE IN THE FUTURE - John Legend ( 677,000 ) 38 - 411,000 - AM - Arctic Monkeys ( 584,000 ) 39 - 398,000 - MASTERMIND - Rick Ross ( 398,000 ) 40 - 394,000 - NOW 52 - Various ( 394,000 ) 41 - 391,000 - BAD BLOOD - Bastille ( 554,000 ) 42 - 382,000 - NOW 51 - Various ( 382,000 ) 43 - 362,000 - SONIC HIGHWAYS - Foo Fighters ( 362,000 ) 44 - 360,000 - MIDNIGHT MEMORIES - One Direction ( 1,456,000 ) 45 - 349,000 - OXYMORON - ScHoolboy Q ( 349,000 ) 46 - 342,000 - ROCK OR BUST - AC/DC ( 342,000 ) 47 - 339,000 - KIDZ BOP 25 - Kidz Bop Kids ( 339,000 ) 48 - 338,000 - HOLIDAY WISHES - Idina Menzel ( 338,000 ) 49 - 331,000 - SHE LOOKS SO PERFECT (EP) - 5 Seconds Of Summer ( 331,000 ) 50 - 329,000 - THRIVE - Casting Crowns ( 329,000 )
51 - 326,000 - THE ENDLESS RIVER - Pink Floyd ( 326,000 ) 52 - 325,000 - 2014 GRAMMY NOMINEES - Various ( 325,000 ) 53 - 325,000 - BANGERZ - Miley Cyrus ( 1,082,000 ) 54 - 324,000 - BASED ON A TRUE STORY - Blake Shelton ( 1,433,000 ) 55 - 320,000 - NOTHING WAS THE SAME - Drake ( 1,665,000 ) 56 - 319,000 - X - Chris Brown ( 319,000 ) 57 - 319,000 - LAZARETTO - Jack White ( 319,000 ) 58 - 310,000 - TRIGGA - Trey Songz ( 310,000 ) 59 - 301,000 - CHRISTMAS - Michael Bublé ( 3,689,000 ) 60 - 300,000 - THE BIG REVIVAL - Kenny Chesney ( 300,000 ) 61 - 299,000 - COLE SWINDELL - Cole Swindell ( 299,000 ) 62 - 289,000 - MORNING PHASE - Beck ( 289,000 ) 63 - 277,000 - RISER - Dierks Bentley ( 277,000 ) 64 - 271,000 - THE 20/20 EXPERIENCE (2 OF 2) - Justin Timberlake ( 1,052,000 ) 65 - 270,000 - THE HUNTING PARTY - Linkin Park ( 270,000 ) 66 - 266,000 - DISNEY KARAOKE SERIES: FROZEN (EP) - Various ( 266,000 ) 67 - 266,000 - BRINGING BACK THE SUNSHINE - Blake Shelton ( 266,000 ) 68 - 265,000 - SEEN IT ALL: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY - Jeezy ( 265,000 ) 69 - 264,000 - HOZIER - Hozier ( 264,000 ) 70 - 262,000 - BORN TO DIE - Lana Del Rey ( 1,186,000 ) 71 - 259,000 - HYPNOTIC EYE - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers ( 259,000 ) 72 - 256,000 - THE COWBOY RIDES AWAY: LIVE FROM AT&T STADIUM - George Strait ( 256,000 ) 73 - 255,000 - SHAKIRA - Shakira ( 255,000 ) 74 - 252,000 - FROZEN: THE SONGS - Soundtrack ( 252,000 ) 75 - 248,000 - .5: THE GRAY CHAPTER - Slipknot ( 248,000 )
76 - 245,000 - FORMULA VOL.2 - Romeo Santos ( 245,000 ) 77 - 243,000 - LEGEND - Bob Marley & the Wailers ( 11,702,000 ) 78 - 242,000 - TESTIMONY - August Alsina ( 242,000 ) 79 - 240,000 - THE FAULT IN OUR STARS - Soundtrack ( 240,000 ) 80 - 231,000 - ANOMALY - Lecrae ( 231,000 ) 81 - 230,000 - LOVE MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE - Toni Braxton & Babyface ( 230,000 ) 82 - 227,000 - BECAUSE THE INTERNET - Childish Gambino ( 384,000 ) 83 - 227,000 - KIDZ BOP 26 - Kidz Bop Kids ( 227,000 ) 84 - 227,000 - SAIL OUT (EP) - Jhene Aiko ( 308,000 ) 85 - 223,000 - BLACC HOLLYWOOD - Wiz Khalifa ( 223,000 ) 86 - 222,000 - MY KRAZY LIFE - YG ( 222,000 ) 87 - 222,000 - GOOD KID M.A.A.D CITY - Kendrick Lamar ( 1,348,000 ) 88 - 221,000 - TALK DIRTY - Jason Derűlo ( 221,000 ) 89 - 221,000 - MANDATORY FUN - Weird Al Yankovic ( 221,000 ) 90 - 220,000 - THE HEIST - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ( 1,452,000 ) 91 - 220,000 - NOW 48 - Various ( 689,000 ) 92 - 214,000 - THE LEGEND OF - Johnny Cash ( 3,303,000 ) 93 - 210,000 - 747 - Lady Antebellum ( 210,000 ) 94 - 210,000 - HIGH HOPES - Bruce Springsteen ( 210,000 ) 95 - 210,000 - DOO-WOPS AND HOOLIGANS - Bruno Mars ( 2,352,000 ) 96 - 210,000 - NO FIXED ADDRESS - Nickelback ( 210,000 ) 97 - 207,000 - SHATTER ME - Lindsey Stirling ( 207,000 ) 98 - 207,000 - REWIND - Rascal Flatts ( 207,000 ) 99 - 204,000 - 21 - Adele ( 11,050,000 ) 100 - 203,000 - BLACK PANTIES - R.Kelly ( 441,000 )
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Dec 30, 2014 9:10:55 GMT -5
Thanks to oldboke:
2014 RELEASED ALBUMS WEEK 51
Rank - Estimated Sales - TITLE - Artist
01 - 3,335,000 - 1989 - Taylor Swift 02 - 1,128,000 - IN THE LONELY HOUR - Sam Smith 03 - 1,022,000 - THAT'S CHRISTMAS TO ME - Pentatonix 04 - 818,000 - GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: AWESOME MIX VOL.1 - Soundtrack 05 - 812,000 - PARTNERS - Barbra Streisand 06 - 800,000 - THE OUTSIDERS - Eric Church 07 - 784,000 - GHOST STORIES - Coldplay 08 - 747,000 - X - Ed Sheeran 09 - 713,000 - FOUR - One Direction 10 - 703,000 - OLD BOOTS NEW DIRT - Jason Aldean 11 - 694,000 - JUST AS I AM - Brantley Gilbert 12 - 688,000 - NOW 50 - Various 13 - 619,000 - 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER - 5 Seconds Of Summer 14 - 586,000 - PLATINUM - Miranda Lambert 15 - 575,000 - G I R L - Pharrell Williams 16 - 571,000 - V - Maroon 5 17 - 533,000 - NOW 49 - Various 18 - 475,000 - CHEEK TO CHEEK - Tony Bennett & Lady GaGa 19 - 473,000 - MY EVERYTHING - Ariana Grande 20 - 473,000 - 2014 FOREST HILLS DRIVE - J Cole 21 - 467,000 - ANYTHING GOES - Florida Georgia Line 22 - 456,000 - XSCAPE - Michael Jackson 23 - 454,000 - MAN AGAINST MACHINE - Garth Brooks 24 - 452,000 - TURN BLUE - Black Keys 25 - 444,000 - THE NEW CLASSIC - Iggy Azalea
26 - 437,000 - ULTRAVIOLENCE - Lana Del Rey 27 - 398,000 - MASTERMIND - Rick Ross 28 - 394,000 - NOW 52 - Various 29 - 382,000 - NOW 51 - Various 30 - 362,000 - SONIC HIGHWAYS - Foo Fighters 31 - 349,000 - OXYMORON - ScHoolboy Q 32 - 342,000 - ROCK OR BUST - AC/DC 33 - 339,000 - KIDZ BOP 25 - Kidz Bop Kids 34 - 338,000 - HOLIDAY WISHES - Idina Menzel 35 - 331,000 - SHE LOOKS SO PERFECT (EP) - 5 Seconds Of Summer 36 - 329,000 - THRIVE - Casting Crowns 37 - 326,000 - THE ENDLESS RIVER - Pink Floyd 38 - 325,000 - 2014 GRAMMY NOMINEES - Various 39 - 319,000 - X - Chris Brown 40 - 319,000 - LAZARETTO - Jack White 41 - 310,000 - TRIGGA - Trey Songz 42 - 300,000 - THE BIG REVIVAL - Kenny Chesney 43 - 299,000 - COLE SWINDELL - Cole Swindell 44 - 289,000 - MORNING PHASE - Beck 45 - 277,000 - RISER - Dierks Bentley 46 - 270,000 - THE HUNTING PARTY - Linkin Park 47 - 266,000 - DISNEY KARAOKE SERIES: FROZEN (EP) - Various 48 - 266,000 - BRINGING BACK THE SUNSHINE - Blake Shelton 49 - 265,000 - SEEN IT ALL: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY - Jeezy 50 - 264,000 - HOZIER - Hozier
51 - 259,000 - HYPNOTIC EYE - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers 52 - 256,000 - THE COWBOY RIDES AWAY: LIVE FROM AT&T STADIUM - George Strait 53 - 255,000 - SHAKIRA - Shakira 54 - 252,000 - FROZEN: THE SONGS - Soundtrack 55 - 248,000 - .5: THE GRAY CHAPTER - Slipknot 56 - 245,000 - FORMULA VOL.2 - Romeo Santos 57 - 242,000 - TESTIMONY - August Alsina 58 - 240,000 - THE FAULT IN OUR STARS - Soundtrack 59 - 231,000 - ANOMALY - Lecrae 60 - 230,000 - LOVE MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE - Toni Braxton & Babyface 61 - 227,000 - KIDZ BOP 26 - Kidz Bop Kids 62 - 223,000 - BLACC HOLLYWOOD - Wiz Khalifa 63 - 222,000 - MY KRAZY LIFE - YG 64 - 221,000 - TALK DIRTY - Jason Derűlo 65 - 221,000 - MANDATORY FUN - Weird Al Yankovic 66 - 210,000 - 747 - Lady Antebellum 67 - 210,000 - HIGH HOPES - Bruce Springsteen 68 - 210,000 - NO FIXED ADDRESS - Nickelback 69 - 207,000 - SHATTER ME - Lindsey Stirling 70 - 207,000 - REWIND - Rascal Flatts 71 - 201,000 - SHADY XV - Various 72 - 201,000 - NOW COUNTRY: VOLUME 7 - Various 73 - 199,000 - SUNDOWN HEAVEN TOWN - Tim McGraw 74 - 198,000 - THE PINKPRINT - Nicki Minaj 75 - 192,000 - MONTEVALLO - Sam Hunt
76 - 187,000 - THE BREEZE - AN APPRECIATION OF JJ CALE - Eric Clapton & Friends 77 - 187,000 - MELODY ROAD - Neil Diamond 78 - 184,000 - MY OWN LANE - Kid Ink 79 - 184,000 - THAT GIRL - Jennifer Nettles 80 - 182,000 - IT'S THE GIRLS - Bette Midler 81 - 179,000 - PAPERWORK - T.I. 82 - 179,000 - PROMISE TO LOVE: ALBUM IV - Kem 83 - 178,000 - RIDE OUT - Bob Seger 84 - 174,000 - STORYLINE - Hunter Hayes 85 - 172,000 - SEX AND LOVE - Enrique Iglesias 86 - 172,000 - OUT AMONG THE STARS - Johnny Cash 87 - 171,000 - WELCOME TO THE NEW - MercyMe 88 - 164,000 - 1000 FORMS OF FEAR - Sia 89 - 162,000 - 1000HP - Godsmack 90 - 161,000 - LIFT YOUR SPIRIT - Aloe Blacc 91 - 160,000 - YES - Jason Mraz 92 - 160,000 - GREATEST HITS: DECADE #1 - Carrie Underwood 93 - 153,000 - TITLE (EP) - Meghan Trainor 94 - 153,000 - IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE - A Great Big World 95 - 151,000 - HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS - Darius Rucker 96 - 151,000 - SPRING BREAK 6: LIKE WE AIN'T EVER (EP) - Luke Bryan 97 - 150,000 - SOULED OUT - Jhene Aiko 98 - 149,000 - HONEST - Future 99 - 149,000 - THIS IS ALL YOURS - Alt-J 100 - 148,000 - RIVERS IN THE WASTELAND - Needtobreathe
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Post by Gary on Dec 31, 2014 14:17:05 GMT -5
Taylor Swift's '1989' Beats 'Frozen' As Top Selling Album of 2014 News /By Keith Caulfield | December 31, 2014 11:56 AM EST
Leave it to Taylor Swift to spoil Disney's Frozen party.
It came down to the wire, but in the final week of 2014, Swift's 1989 finishes 2014 as the year's top selling album. After only nine weeks on sale, Swift's set stole the title away from Walt Disney Records' Frozen soundtrack in the very last tracking frame of the year.
1989 -- released through Big Machine Records -- sold 3.66 million copies in 2014, according to Nielsen Music, while the Frozen album shifted 3.53 million. (Nielsen's 2014 tracking year ran from Dec. 30, 2013 through Dec. 28, 2014.)
The Frozen soundtrack was the year-to-date top selling album of 2014 in every single tracking week of the year, except for the final frame (ending Dec. 28). In the week previous (Dec. 21), 1989's tally stood at 3.34 million, while Frozen was at 3.46 million. But, with one final week left on the calendar -- the most recent tracking week -- it seemed 1989 would overtake Frozen. And, it did.
In the week ending Dec. 28, 1989 sold 326,000 copies, while Frozen moved 64,000, thus easily securing Swift the year's top seller.
This is the second time Swift has earned the top selling album of a calendar year. She did it previously back in 2009 with her second studio album, Fearless, which moved 3.22 million that year.
Since Nielsen's first full year of music sales data (1992), there has been no other instance where an album was the year's top seller in every week, only to have the rug pulled out from under it in the final frame. The closest comparable is 20 years ago, when Ace of Base's The Sign was the top seller of 1994 from the week ending May 15 up until the very last week of the year. Then, in the final frame of 1994 (which was actually the week ending Jan. 1, 1995), Disney's The Lion King soundtrack overtook The Sign (4.93 million versus 4.92 million).
There have only been two times where the top selling album of the year changed in the final tracking week: this year and in 1994.
1989 and Frozen are the only two albums to sell more than 3 million copies in 2014. (Frozen was released in late 2013, and has sold 3.86 million in total.)
A year ago, no albums sold more than 3 million -- 2013's top seller was Justin Timberlake's The 20/20 Experience with 2.43 million.
However, 2013 tallied 45 albums that sold at least 500,000 copies, with 13 of those selling more than a million. Comparably, in 2014, there were just 31 titles that sold 500,000, with only four of them reaching a million.
Sam Smith's In the Lonely Hour is 2014's No. 3 seller (1.21 million), followed by Pentatonix's That's Christmas To Me (1.14 million).
Disney Music Group has a second album among the year's top 10 sellers, as the Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack (released through Disney's Hollywood Records division) is 2014's No. 5 seller (898,000).
Thus, two soundtracks are among the year's top five -- the first time that's happened in Nielsen history.
Beyonce's self-titled album is 2014's No. 6 best seller (878,000), followed by Barbra Streisand's Partners (856,000), Lorde's Pure Heroine (841,000), One Direction's Four (814,000) and Eric Church's The Outsiders (811,000).
Smith's album is the year's highest-selling full-length debut, while Pentatonix's holiday effort is 2014's best-seller by a group.
With Partners, diva Streisand finishes among the year's top 10 sellers for the first time in Nielsen history. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart in September, becoming her 10th chart-topper. It also made her the first artist with No. 1 albums in each of the past six decades.
Overall album sales continued to erode, as their volume fell by 11 percent in 2014, compared to 2013. In total, there were 257 million albums sold in the past year, versus 289.4 million in 2013.
Digital album sales also fell, for only the second time, by 9 percent (106.5 million compared to 117.6 million in the year previous). Digital album sales declined for the first time in 2013, when they were off by 1 percent.
41 percent of all albums sold in 2014 were downloads, the same as in 2013. The top selling digital album of 2014 is Taylor Swift's 1989, with 1.41 million downloads. Frozen is the No. 2 digital seller, with 1.26 million. It is the first time two albums have sold more than a million downloads in a calendar year.
In total, just 13 albums have sold more than a million downloads, led by Adele's 21, with 3.1 million digital copies. Frozen is the fourth-biggest digital album of all time, with a total of 1.43 million downloads, while 1989 is the No. 5 seller with 1.41 million.
Vinyl album sales were a bright spot in an otherwise generally bleak sales picture, as the configuration grew by 52 percent in 2014 to 9.2 million copies (up from 6.1 million in 2013). For the seventh straight year, more vinyl albums were sold than in any other year since Nielsen started tracking music sales in 1991.
Shifting our attention to digital songs, 2014 was only the second year (following 2013) where sales of the configuration fell. 1.1 billion song downloads were sold in 2014, down 12 percent from the 1.26 billion in 2013. Nielsen began tracking song download sales in the summer of 2003, shortly after Apple's iTunes Music Store bowed in April of that year.
The top selling digital song of 2014 is Pharrell Williams' "Happy" with 6.45 million downloads sold. To compare, in 2013, the top seller was Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" (which featured Williams and T.I.), with 6.5 million (6.498 to be more exact).
"Happy" is the 21st biggest selling download of all time, and one of only 29 songs to sell more than 6 million downloads. (The biggest selling download ever is The Black Eyed Peas' "I Gotta Feeling" with 8.62 million.)
As for the rest of 2014's top selling download songs: John Legend's "All Of Me" is the runner-up with 4.67 million, while Katy Perry's "Dark Horse," featuring Juicy J, is No. 3 with 4.43 million. Meghan Trainor's "All About That Bass" is No. 4 with 4.36 million, Iggy Azalea's "Fancy," featuring Charli XCX, is No. 5 with 3.97 million.
Jason Derulo's "Talk Dirty," featuring 2 Chainz, was the year's sixth-largest seller, with 3.96 million. DJ Snake & Lil Jon's "Turn Down For What" is No. 7 with 3.45 million, Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off" is No. 8 with 3.43 million and Idina Menzel's "Let It Go" is No. 9 with 3.37 million. Rounding out the year's top 10 sellers is Sam Smith's "Stay With Me," with 3.34 million.
In total, 82 songs sold at least a million downloads in 2014 (down from 106 in 2013 and 108 in 2012). 25 shifted at least 2 million in 2014 (down from 38 in 2013 and 41 in 2012).
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Post by Gary on Jan 1, 2015 16:22:01 GMT -5
It's Official: Taylor Swift Has 2014's Best-Selling Album
www.yahoo.com/music/its-official-taylor-swift-has-2014s-106748485871.html
In the very last week of 2014, Taylor Swift's 1989 pulled ahead of the Frozen soundtrack to finish as the year’s best-selling album. 1989 sold 3.66 million copies in the calendar year, compared to 3.53 million for Frozen.
Frozen was #1 for the year-to-date from the first week of January to the next-to-last week of the year. This echoes what happened in 1994, when Ace of Base's The Sign was #1 for the year-to-date in every week from May 15 to the next-to-last week of the year. But in the final week of the year, The Lion King soundtrack overtook it.
Swift’s 130K edge over Frozen represents the closest race for the year-end crown since 2009, when Swift’s Fearless ended up with a 113K lead over that year’s runner-up, Susan Boyle's I Dreamed a Dream.
(All figures in this story are actual album sales, not based on Billboard's new hybrid formula which also factors in on-demand streaming and digital track sales.)
This is the second time that Swift has had the year’s top-selling album. Swift is the third act to have the year’s best-selling album twice since 1991, when Nielsen SoundScan began tracking music sales. She follows Adele (whose 21 finished first in both 2011 and 2012) and Eminem (whose The Eminem Show was #1 for 2002 and whose Recovery was on top for 2010).
Swift released just one album between Fearless and 1989. That was Red, which was the #2 album of 2012.
This is the fourth time that Swift has had the year’s top-selling album by a female artist. No other female artist in the Nielsen SoundScan era has achieved that feat. Mariah Carey had the top-selling album by a female artist three times.
This is the fifth time that Swift has put an album in the year’s top three. She’s only the second artist to do that in the Nielsen SoundScan era, following Eminem.
As for Frozen, this the first time that the soundtrack to a theatrically-released movie has finished in the year’s top two since Titanic was #1 for 1998. (Two TV soundtracks made the top two in the intervening years. High School Musical was the best-selling album of 2006. A sequel was #2 for 2007.)
Sam Smith's In The Lonely Hour is #3 for the year (1.21 million). It’s the year’s top-selling debut album, the year’s top-selling album by a male artist and the year’s top-seller by a foreign-born artist.
Pentatonix’s That’s Christmas To Me is #4 for the year (1.14 million). It’s the year’s top-selling album by a group or duo. It’s the fifth holiday album to rank among the top five best-sellers for an entire year. All have come in the past eight years—a sign that holiday albums are holding up better than the album market overall. The first four were Josh Groban's Noel (#1 for 2007), Andrea Bocelli's My Christmas (#5 for 2009), Susan Boyle's The Gift (#5 for 2010) and Michael Buble's Christmas (#2 for 2011).
This frankly pathetic tally of four million-selling albums for the year is the lowest in decades. The old low mark for the Nielsen SoundScan era was 10 million-selling albums in 2012.
Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix is #5 for the year (898K). This is the first time that two soundtracks from theatrically-released movies have appeared in the year-end top five in the Nielsen SoundScan era. It’s the first time that two have appeared in the year-end top 10 since 2002, when 8 Mile ranked #5 and O Brother, Where Art Thou? ranked #10.
Beyoncé's Beyoncé is #6 for the year (878K). This is the seventh year that Beyoncé has placed an album in the year-end top 10. (That tally counts her work with Destiny’s Child). No other artist has achieved this feat in the Nielsen SoundScan era. This is also the seventh time that Beyoncé has had the year’s top R&B album (again, counting her work with Destiny’s Child). By ranking #6 for the year, Beyoncé equals her previous best year-end ranking. Her solo debut, Dangerously in Love, was #6 for 2003 (albeit with a much healthier sales total—2,527,000.)
Barbra Streisand's Partners is #7 for the year (856K). Streisand, 72, is the oldest solo artist to rank in the year-end top 10 in the Nielsen SoundScan era. The old record was held by Lionel Richie, who was 63 two years ago when Tuskegee was the #9 album of 2012. These two albums are the only two duets albums to rank in the year-end top 10 in the Nielsen SoundScan era. (Note: Richie teams with Streisand to sing her greatest hit, “The Way We Were,” on Partners.) Streisand, of course, pre-dates the Nielsen SoundScan era (by a mere 28 years). On Billboard's annual chart recaps for 1964, she had three of the year's top 10 albums.
Lorde's Pure Heroine is #8 for the year (841K).
One Direction's FOUR is #9 for the year (814K). The boy band had two of the top five albums on the year-end chart for 2012.
Eric Church's The Outsiders is #10 for the year (811K). It’s the year’s best-selling country album. (This is the first time Church has taken that title.)
Thirty-one albums sold 500K or more copies during the year, down from 45 in 2013. This year’s total of 500K-sellers is just half of what it was as recently as 2009.
Overall album sales fell by 11%, from 289.4 million in 2013 to 257 million in 2014.
Digital albums accounted for 41% of all albums sold in 2014, the same percentage as in 2013. 1989 and Frozen were also the year’s top digital albums, with digital sales of 1.41 million and 1.26 million, respectively, during 2014. It’s the first time that two albums have each sold more than 1 million digital copies during a calendar year.
Frozen is #1 on Billboard's already-published chart recap for 2014 (which recaps the charts in the issues dated Dec. 7, 2013 through Nov. 29, 2014.) Frozen is the sixth soundtrack to a theatrically-released movie to top this chart since 1956. It follows West Side Story (which was #1 for both 1962 and 1963), Mary Poppins (1965), the Bee Gees-paced Saturday Night Fever (1978), the Whitney Houston-dominated The Bodyguard (1993) and Titanic (1998).
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Post by The Visionary Vantage™ on Jan 1, 2015 17:28:01 GMT -5
I will not tolerate this unspeakable "Speak Now" shade...
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Post by ctquartzsongbird on Jan 2, 2015 18:03:23 GMT -5
simple typo everybody forgets sometimes
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Post by YourFaveIsAFlop on Jan 5, 2015 15:11:45 GMT -5
Well, people don't buy garbage, and frankly there was far more garbage released in 2014 than in years past. 2013 was absurdly backloaded with Q4 release and virtually no big names dropped anything in 2014. I have confidence that 2015 will see an uptick in the number of release that cross the million mark, even as overall sales continue to slide. Plus, we now have TEA/SEA figures which we didnt have in the beginning of 2014 to reflect the changing market.
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Jan 5, 2015 15:41:21 GMT -5
Thanks to oldbloke for these sales estimates!
ALBUMS WEEK 52
albums selling over 2,000,000 - this year - 2 / last year - 1 albums selling over 1,000,000 - this year - 4 / last year - 13 albums selling over 500,000 - this year - 31 / last year - 45 albums selling over 250,000 - this year - 77 / last year - 107 total albums sales - this year - 257.0m (-11%)/ last year - 289.4m
Rank - Estimated 2014 Sales - TITLE - Artist ( Estimated Total Sales )
01 - 3,661,000 - 1989 - Taylor Swift ( 3,661,000 ) 02 - 3,527,000 - FROZEN - Soundtrack ( 3,864,000 ) 03 - 1,207,000 - IN THE LONELY HOUR - Sam Smith ( 1,207,000 ) 04 - 1,139,000 - THAT'S CHRISTMAS TO ME - Pentatonix ( 1,139,000 ) 05 - 898,000 - GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: AWESOME MIX VOL.1 - Soundtrack ( 898,000 ) 06 - 878,000 - BEYONCÉ - Beyoncé ( 2,180,000 ) 07 - 856,000 - PARTNERS - Barbra Streisand ( 856,000 ) 08 - 841,000 - PURE HEROINE - Lorde ( 1,528,000 ) 09 - 814,000 - FOUR - One Direction ( 814,000 ) 10 - 811,000 - THE OUTSIDERS - Eric Church ( 811,000 ) 11 - 810,000 - X - Ed Sheeran ( 810,000 ) 12 - 799,000 - CRASH MY PARTY - Luke Bryan ( 2,320,000 ) 13 - 794,000 - GHOST STORIES - Coldplay ( 794,000 ) 14 - 753,000 - OLD BOOTS NEW DIRT - Jason Aldean ( 753,000 ) 15 - 707,000 - JUST AS I AM - Brantley Gilbert ( 707,000 ) 16 - 696,000 - NOW 50 - Various ( 696,000 ) 17 - 645,000 - 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER - 5 Seconds Of Summer ( 645,000 ) 18 - 606,000 - HERE'S TO THE GOOD TIMES - Florida Georgia Line ( 2,137,000 ) 19 - 602,000 - PLATINUM - Miranda Lambert ( 602,000 ) 20 - 600,000 - V - Maroon 5 ( 600,000 ) 21 - 595,000 - NIGHT VISIONS - Imagine Dragons ( 2,414,000 ) 22 - 587,000 - PRISM - Katy Perry ( 1,555,000 ) 23 - 581,000 - G I R L - Pharrell Williams ( 581,000 ) 24 - 577,000 - 2014 FOREST HILLS DRIVE - J Cole ( 577,000 ) 25 - 537,000 - THE MARSHALL MATHERS LP 2 - Eminem ( 2,263,000 )
26 - 535,000 - NOW 49 - Various ( 535,000 ) 27 - 525,000 - NATIVE - OneRepublic ( 951,000 ) 28 - 518,000 - MAN AGAINST MACHINE - Garth Brooks ( 518,000 ) 29 - 511,000 - CHEEK TO CHEEK - Tony Bennett & Lady GaGa ( 511,000 ) 30 - 506,000 - MY EVERYTHING - Ariana Grande ( 506,000 ) 31 - 503,000 - ANYTHING GOES - Florida Georgia Line ( 503,000 ) 32 - 476,000 - UNORTHODOX JUKEBOX - Bruno Mars ( 2,356,000 ) 33 - 460,000 - XSCAPE - Michael Jackson ( 460,000 ) 34 - 460,000 - TURN BLUE - Black Keys ( 460,000 ) 35 - 454,000 - THE NEW CLASSIC - Iggy Azalea ( 454,000 ) 36 - 450,000 - ULTRAVIOLENCE - Lana Del Rey ( 450,000 ) 37 - 445,000 - AM - Arctic Monkeys ( 618,000 ) 38 - 436,000 - NOW 52 - Various ( 436,000 ) 39 - 429,000 - LOVE IN THE FUTURE - John Legend ( 683,000 ) 40 - 400,000 - BAD BLOOD - Bastille ( 562,000 ) 41 - 400,000 - MASTERMIND - Rick Ross ( 400,000 ) 42 - 399,000 - ROCK OR BUST - AC/DC ( 399,000 ) 43 - 394,000 - NOW 51 - Various ( 394,000 ) 44 - 394,000 - SONIC HIGHWAYS - Foo Fighters ( 394,000 ) 45 - 370,000 - HOLIDAY WISHES - Idina Menzel ( 370,000 ) 46 - 368,000 - MIDNIGHT MEMORIES - One Direction ( 1,464,000 ) 47 - 354,000 - THE ENDLESS RIVER - Pink Floyd ( 354,000 ) 48 - 353,000 - OXYMORON - ScHoolboy Q ( 353,000 ) 49 - 342,000 - CHRISTMAS - Michael Bublé ( 3,730,000 ) 50 - 341,000 - KIDZ BOP 25 - Kidz Bop Kids ( 341,000 )
51 - 340,000 - THRIVE - Casting Crowns ( 340,000 ) 52 - 334,000 - SHE LOOKS SO PERFECT (EP) - 5 Seconds Of Summer ( 334,000 ) 53 - 333,000 - BASED ON A TRUE STORY - Blake Shelton ( 1,442,000 ) 54 - 330,000 - X - Chris Brown ( 330,000 ) 55 - 328,000 - BANGERZ - Miley Cyrus ( 1,084,000 ) 56 - 327,000 - 2014 GRAMMY NOMINEES - Various ( 327,000 ) 57 - 325,000 - NOTHING WAS THE SAME - Drake ( 1,670,000 ) 58 - 323,000 - LAZARETTO - Jack White ( 323,000 ) 59 - 318,000 - TRIGGA - Trey Songz ( 318,000 ) 60 - 317,000 - THE BIG REVIVAL - Kenny Chesney ( 317,000 ) 61 - 306,000 - COLE SWINDELL - Cole Swindell ( 306,000 ) 62 - 304,000 - THE PINKPRINT - Nicki Minaj ( 304,000 ) 63 - 302,000 - HOZIER - Hozier ( 302,000 ) 64 - 292,000 - MORNING PHASE - Beck ( 292,000 ) 65 - 287,000 - DISNEY KARAOKE SERIES: FROZEN (EP) - Various ( 287,000 ) 66 - 284,000 - BRINGING BACK THE SUNSHINE - Blake Shelton ( 284,000 ) 67 - 282,000 - RISER - Dierks Bentley ( 282,000 ) 68 - 279,000 - FROZEN: THE SONGS - Soundtrack ( 279,000 ) 69 - 277,000 - THE COWBOY RIDES AWAY: LIVE FROM AT&T STADIUM - George Strait ( 277,000 ) 70 - 274,000 - THE HUNTING PARTY - Linkin Park ( 274,000 ) 71 - 274,000 - THE 20/20 EXPERIENCE (2 OF 2) - Justin Timberlake ( 1,055,000 ) 72 - 272,000 - BORN TO DIE - Lana Del Rey ( 1,196,000 ) 73 - 269,000 - SEEN IT ALL: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY - Jeezy ( 269,000 ) 74 - 263,000 - HYPNOTIC EYE - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers ( 263,000 ) 75 - 261,000 - .5: THE GRAY CHAPTER - Slipknot ( 261,000 )
76 - 256,000 - SHAKIRA - Shakira ( 256,000 ) 77 - 255,000 - LEGEND - Bob Marley & the Wailers ( 11,714,000 ) 78 - 249,000 - FORMULA VOL.2 - Romeo Santos ( 249,000 ) 79 - 246,000 - TESTIMONY - August Alsina ( 246,000 ) 80 - 242,000 - THE FAULT IN OUR STARS - Soundtrack ( 242,000 ) 81 - 240,000 - ANOMALY - Lecrae ( 240,000 ) 82 - 239,000 - KIDZ BOP 26 - Kidz Bop Kids ( 239,000 ) 83 - 235,000 - NO FIXED ADDRESS - Nickelback ( 235,000 ) 84 - 234,000 - BECAUSE THE INTERNET - Childish Gambino ( 391,000 ) 85 - 231,000 - BLACC HOLLYWOOD - Wiz Khalifa ( 231,000 ) 86 - 231,000 - LOVE MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE - Toni Braxton & Babyface ( 231,000 ) 87 - 229,000 - GOOD KID M.A.A.D CITY - Kendrick Lamar ( 1,355,000 ) 88 - 228,000 - SAIL OUT (EP) - Jhene Aiko ( 309,000 ) 89 - 227,000 - TALK DIRTY - Jason Derűlo ( 227,000 ) 90 - 225,000 - MY KRAZY LIFE - YG ( 225,000 ) 91 - 223,000 - THE LEGEND OF - Johnny Cash ( 3,312,000 ) 92 - 223,000 - MANDATORY FUN - Weird Al Yankovic ( 223,000 ) 93 - 222,000 - 747 - Lady Antebellum ( 222,000 ) 94 - 222,000 - THE HEIST - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ( 1,454,000 ) 95 - 220,000 - NOW 48 - Various ( 690,000 ) 96 - 220,000 - SHADY XV - Various ( 220,000 ) 97 - 216,000 - DOO-WOPS AND HOOLIGANS - Bruno Mars ( 2,357,000 ) 98 - 215,000 - SUNDOWN HEAVEN TOWN - Tim McGraw ( 215,000 ) 99 - 213,000 - MONTEVALLO - Sam Hunt ( 213,000 ) 100 - 213,000 - SHATTER ME - Lindsey Stirling ( 213,000 )
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Jan 5, 2015 15:43:27 GMT -5
Well, people don't buy garbage, and frankly there was far more garbage released in 2014 than in years past. 2013 was absurdly backloaded with Q4 release and virtually no big names dropped anything in 2014. I have confidence that 2015 will see an uptick in the number of release that cross the million mark, even as overall sales continue to slide. Plus, we now have TEA/SEA figures which we didnt have in the beginning of 2014 to reflect the changing market. Yes, I agree. 2014 had a lack of big releases. Especially in the 4th Quarter. Adele, Lil Wayne, Kendrick Lamar and Kanye west were all pushed to 2015. U2 gave their album away for "free."
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Post by Gary on Jan 5, 2015 18:51:41 GMT -5
7 Surprising Facts About Music Sales Last Year News /Record Labels |Global By Joe Lynch | January 05, 2015 11:50 AM EST
There are few certain things in the music business. While no one thought Taylor Swift's 1989 was going to flop, it wasn't until just days ahead of its release that industry forecasters realized just how massive it was going to be. And who would have predicted that one of the year's best-selling soundtracks -- Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 -- would essentially be a mixtape of '70s radio staples?
But you already know those things. As we begin 2015, we've rounded up a few strange chart facts from last year that may have passed under your radar.
1) For most of last year, Iggy Azalea's The New Classic was the best-selling rap album released in 2014, and Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP 2 was the best-selling rap album of 2014, according to Nielsen Music. Until J. Cole dropped 2014 Forest Hills Drive on Dec. 9. In less than a month, his latest album surpassed The New Classic and MMLP2 to become the best-selling rap album of 2014, period.
2) Of the 10 best-selling albums in 2014, only two of them notched No. 1s on the Billboard Hot 100. Taylor Swift's 1989 earned two No. 1s (so far) with "Shake It Off" and "Blank Space," and Lorde's Pure Heroine lodged a single in the top slot last year with "Royals." Of the remaining 10 best sellers, only three scored recent top 10s on the Hot 100: Beyonce's Beyonce, Sam Smith's In the Lonely Hour and the Frozen soundtrack (the Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack includes several hit singles, but they're all from the '70s). Barbra Streisand's Partners, Pentatonix's That's Christmas To Me, One Direction's Four and Eric Church's The Outsiders complete the top 10 best-selling albums list -- but none of them earned top 10s (although Church scored three top 20 singles on the Hot Country Songs chart).
3) Adele's 21, which came out in 2011, continued to be a blockbuster in 2014. 21 sold more copies than new albums from Mariah Carey, Sia, Future and Skrillex.
The Year in Music: 2014 Charts
4) Eighteen of the year's 25 best-selling albums were actually released in 2014. Five came out in 2013, and two -- Florida Georgia Line's Here's to the Good Times and Imagine Dragons' Night Visions -- dropped in 2012.
5) Barbra Streisand's 34th studio album Partners outsold One Direction's new album Four in 2014. Of course, Streisand's album dropped Sept. 16 and 1D's hit Nov. 17, but it's still funny to think that Babs outsold the world's hottest boy band last year.
The Year in Emerging Artists: Hozier, Bobby Shmurda & More
6) While the Frozen soundtrack was the best-selling album for most of 2014, Taylor Swift's 1989 surpassed its 2014 sales total with just days to go before 2015 arrived. Swift's pop triumph moved ahead of the Disney soundtrack for the week ending Dec. 28.
7) The best-selling 'best of' compilation in 2014? Bob Marley and the Wailers' essential comp Legend, released 30 years ago. The reason is simple enough: A high school education isn't complete without it.
Additional reporting by Keith Caulfield.
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Post by YourFaveIsAFlop on Jan 5, 2015 21:15:26 GMT -5
7) The best-selling 'best of' compilation in 2014? Bob Marley and the Wailers' essential comp Legend, released 30 years ago. The reason is simple enough: A high school education isn't complete without it. Or you know, because it was 99 cents.
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Jan 5, 2015 23:27:55 GMT -5
^For one week.
It's been charting almost every week this year.
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Post by pnobelysk on Jan 6, 2015 1:34:30 GMT -5
Do we have any idea what the last karaoke album to sell as much as the frozen was is ?
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Post by YourFaveIsAFlop on Jan 6, 2015 8:39:13 GMT -5
^For one week. It's been charting almost every week this year. Without that one week though, it likely wouldn't have outsold The Legend of Johnny Cash
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Post by Daniel Collins on Jan 6, 2015 8:51:48 GMT -5
Yes! One more week.
32 - 476,000 - UNORTHODOX JUKEBOX - Bruno Mars ( 2,356,000 ) 97 - 216,000 - DOO-WOPS AND HOOLIGANS - Bruno Mars ( 2,357,000 )
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Jan 6, 2015 9:14:59 GMT -5
^For one week. It's been charting almost every week this year. Without that one week though, it likely wouldn't have outsold The Legend of Johnny Cash Do you think Johnny Cash is mad?? LOL You know I love album sales, but I am so over all these Catalog titles on the Billboard 200. I want current artists on the Billboard 200. Not stale GH albums on sale for $5...
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Post by YourFaveIsAFlop on Jan 6, 2015 9:43:22 GMT -5
Without that one week though, it likely wouldn't have outsold The Legend of Johnny Cash Do you think Johnny Cash is mad?? LOL You know I love album sales, but I am so over all these Catalog titles on the Billboard 200. I want current artists on the Billboard 200. Not stale GH albums on sale for $5... I doubt it. Maybe Bob and Johnny are feuding in the Great Beyond over it, but I think that's probably unlikely. I'm hoping now that the holidays are over, and with the new SEA/TEA inclusion, we'll have a BB200 that is much more current.
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Post by Gary on Jan 6, 2015 10:20:45 GMT -5
Some stats:
Overall On-Demand Streams
2014 - 164 Billion
+54%
Vinyl Albums
2014 - 9.2 million
2013 - 6.1 million
+52%
Overall Albums
2014 - 257 million
2013 - 289.4 million
-11%
Digital Albums
2014 - 106.5 million
2013 - 117.6 million
-9%
Digital Songs
2014 - 1.1 billion
2013 - 1.26 billion
-12%
BILLBOARD'S 2014 TOP SELLING ALBUMS:
Big Machine Records Swift’s album 1989 solde 3.66 million copies... 1 TAYLOR SWIFT 1989 3,661,000
2 VARIOUS ARTISTS FROZEN 3,527,000
3 SAM SMITH IN THE LONELY HOUR 1,207,000
4 PENTATONIX THAT'S CHRISTMAS TO ME 1,139,000
5 SOUNDTRACK GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 898,000
6 BEYONCE BEYONCE 878,000
7 BARBRA STREISAND PARTNERS 856,000
8 LORDE PURE HEROINE 841,000
9 ONE DIRECTION FOUR 814,000
10 ERIC CHURCH OUTSIDERS 811,000
TOP DIGITAL SONGS:
1 PHARRELL WILLIAMS HAPPY 6,455,000
2 JOHN LEGEND ALL OF ME 4,674,000
3 KATY PERRY FEAT. JUICY J DARK HORSE 4,430,000
4 MEGHAN TRAINOR ALL ABOUT THAT BASS 4,357,000
5 IGGY AZALEA FEAT. CHARLI XCX FANCY 3,974,000
6 JASON DERULO FEAT. 2 CHAINZ TALK DIRTY 3,959,000
7 DJ SNAKE & LIL JON TURN DOWN FOR WHAT 3,449,000
8 TAYLOR SWIFT SHAKE IT OFF 3,431,000
9 IDINA MENZEL LET IT GO 3,370,000
10 SAM SMITH STAY WITH ME 3,340.000
TOP DIGITAL ALBUMS:
1 TAYLOR SWIFT 1989 1,409,000
2 VARIOUS ARTISTS FROZEN 1,261,000
3 SAM SMITH IN THE LONELY HOUR 573,000
4 SOUNDTRACK GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 556,000
5 ED SHEERAN X 455,000
6 LORDE PURE HEROINE 437,000
7 COLDPLAY GHOST STORIES 425,000
8 BEYONCE BEYONCE 422,000
9 PENTATONIX THAT'S CHRISTMAS TO ME 403,000
10 J. COLE 2014 FOREST HILLS DRIVE 366,000
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Jan 6, 2015 13:15:08 GMT -5
Top Selling Country Albums 2014 www.billboard.com/files/pdfs/country_update_0105.pdf1. 811,000 Eric Church, The Outsiders 2. 800,000 Luke Bryan, Crash My Party 3. 752,000 Jason Aldean, Old Boots, No Dirts 4. 707,000 Brantley Gilbert, Just As I Am 5. 607,000 Florida Georgia Line, Here's To The Good Times 6. 601,000 Miranda Lambert, Platinum 7. 518,000 Garth Brooks, Man Against Machine 8. 502,000 Florida Georgia Line, Anything Goes 9. 330,000 Blake Shelton, Based On A True Story 10. 317,000 Kenny Chesney, The Big Revival More: 283,000 Blake Shelton, Bringing Back The Sunshine 222,000 Lady Antebellum, 747 212,000 Sam Hunt, Montevallo 204,000 George Strait, The Cowboy Rides Away, Live From AT&T Stadium 202,000 Carrie Underwood, Greatest Hits: Decade #1
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Post by Gary on Jan 7, 2015 16:46:23 GMT -5
Under pure sales 1989 edges out Frozen for #1 for 2014 3.6 million to 3.5 million
Under the current method of incorporating streaming, Frozen wins 4.47 million to 4.40 million
and as published in Chartwatch, Frozen: The Songs watered down the demand for Frozen a bit, without that, who knows.
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Post by Gary on Jan 7, 2015 21:53:05 GMT -5
Soundscan top 10 for 2014 based on volume
1 VARIOUS ARTISTS FROZEN 4,471,000 3,527,000 2 TAYLOR SWIFT 1989 4,399,000 3,661,000 3 SAM SMITH IN THE LONELY HOUR 2,075,000 1,207,000 4 ARIANA GRANDE MY EVERYTHING 1,514,000 509,000 5 KATY PERRY PRISM 1,503,000 584,000 6 LORDE PURE HEROINE 1,481,000 841,000 7 BEYONCE BEYONCE 1,469,000 878,000 8 ED SHEERAN X 1,396,000 810,000 9 PHARRELL WILLIAMS G I R L 1,390,000 581,000 10 LUKE BRYAN CRASH MY PARTY 1,341,000 800,000
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Post by Gary on Jan 7, 2015 21:53:31 GMT -5
2014 TOP ALBUMS (Based on U.S. Sales) Rank Artist Title Sales 1 TAYLOR SWIFT 1989 3,661,000 2 VARIOUS ARTISTS FROZEN 3,527,000 3 SAM SMITH IN THE LONELY HOUR 1,207,000 4 PENTATONIX THAT'S CHRISTMAS TO ME 1,139,000 5 SOUNDTRACK GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 898,000 6 BEYONCE BEYONCE 878,000 7 BARBRA STREISAND PARTNERS 856,000 8 LORDE PURE HEROINE 841,000 9 ONE DIRECTION FOUR 814,000 10 ERIC CHURCH OUTSIDERS 811,000
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Post by Gary on Jan 7, 2015 21:54:04 GMT -5
2014 Top CD Albums Rank Artist Title Sales 1 VARIOUS ARTISTS FROZEN 2,264,000 2 TAYLOR SWIFT 1989 2,228,000 3 PENTATONIX THAT'S CHRISTMAS TO ME 736,000 4 BARBRA STREISAND PARTNERS 723,000 5 SAM SMITH IN THE LONELY HOUR 614,000 6 VARIOUS NOW 50 585,000 7 GARTH BROOKS MAN AGAINST MACHINE 518,000 8 LUKE BRYAN CRASH MY PARTY 516,000 9 JASON ALDEAN OLD BOOTS, NEW DIRT 512,000 10 BRANTLEY GILBERT JUST AS I AM 490,000
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Post by Gary on Jan 7, 2015 21:54:28 GMT -5
2014 Top Digital Albums Rank Artist Title Sales 1 TAYLOR SWIFT 1989 1,409,000 2 VARIOUS ARTISTS FROZEN 1,261,000 3 SAM SMITH IN THE LONELY HOUR 573,000 4 SOUNDTRACK GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 556,000 5 ED SHEERAN X 455,000 6 LORDE PURE HEROINE 437,000 7 COLDPLAY GHOST STORIES 425,000 8 BEYONCE BEYONCE 422,000 9 PENTATONIX THAT'S CHRISTMAS TO ME 403,000 10 J. COLE 2014 FOREST HILLS DRIVE 366,000
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Post by Gary on Jan 7, 2015 21:54:48 GMT -5
2014 Top LP Vinyl Albums Rank Artist Title Sales 1 JACK WHITE LAZARETTO 86,700 2 ARCTIC MONKEYS AM 58,700 3 LANA DEL REY BORN TO DIE 42,100 4 BEATLES ABBEY ROAD 38,200 5 BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS LEGEND 37,800 6 BLACK KEYS TURN BLUE 34,200 7 BEATLES SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CL 33,600 8 LANA DEL REY ULTRAVIOLENCE 31,800 9 MILES DAVIS KIND OF BLUE 31,700 10 AMY WINEHOUSE BACK TO BLACK 27,800
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