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 |  Subject: Adele's '21' is Leading 2012 Album Sales w/ 3.7 Million Copies of '21' Wed 11 Jul 2012, 1:01 am | |
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http://newyork.metromix.com/music/article/adeles-21-is-leading/3115180/content
This year sounds a lot like last year.
Adele's 21, the top-selling album in 2011 with 5.82 million copies, is also leading the 2012 race. The British singer's sophomore album sold an additional 3.7 million copies this year to crush the competition on Billboard's midyear top 10 list.
Her take is more than the combined total of the next four albums and is the only title to exceed sales of 1 million copies. Unless a similar smash moves in, 21 could triumph again as a year-end leader, a first since Nielsen SoundScan began tallying sales in 1991. Adele's 2008 debut, 19, lands at No. 10.
Half the albums in the top 10 are pre-2012 releases, underscoring the lack of a new blockbuster. Recent albums by Lionel Richie, One Direction, Carrie Underwood and Nicki Minaj squeaked in, along with the Now 41 compilation.
Consumers have bought 150.5 million albums so far this year, down 3% compared with the equivalent period last year, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Digital songs fared better, with 698 million downloads sold, up 6%. And Billboard's midyear top 10 boasts a mostly fresh crop, crowned by Gotye's Somebody That I Used to Know. The oldest entry, Kelly Clarkson's Stronger, has been on the chart for 34 weeks.
2012'S TOP 10 ALBUMS (year-to-date sales in millions), according to Nielsen SoundScan:
1. Adele, 21 (3.67)
2. Lionel Richie, Tuskegee (0.91)
3. One Direction, Up All Night (0.90)
4. Whitney Houston, The Greatest Hits (0.82)
5. Various artists, Now 41 (0.71)
6. Carrie Underwood, Blown Away (0.60)
7. Luke Bryan, Tailgates & Tanlines (0.58)
8. Nicki Minaj, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded (0.56)
9. Drake, Take Care (0.55)
10. Adele, 19 (0.54)
2012'S TOP 10 DIGITAL SONGS (year-to-date sales in millions), according to Nielsen SoundScan:
1. Gotye featuring Kimbra, Somebody That I Used to Know (5.50)
2. fun. featuring Janelle Monae, We Are Young (5.09)
3. Carly Rae Jepsen, Call Me Maybe (4.06)
4. Kelly Clarkson, Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You) (3.32)
5. Nicki Minaj, Starships (3.16)
6. Maroon 5 featuring Wiz Khalifa, Payphone (3.08)
7. The Wanted, Glad You Came (2.892)
8. One Direction, What Makes You Beautiful (2.885)
9. Flo Rida featuring Sia, Wild Ones (2.79)
10. Justin Bieber, Boyfriend (2.60)
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http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2012/07/06/adele-close-to-the-unheard-of-10-million-albums-sold/
Adele, the soulful British songstress, has broken all kinds of records with her hugely successful sophomore album ’21′ since it was released in the US in Feb 2011. The album, which picked up 6 Grammys this year, was by far and away the biggest selling album of last year with 5.8 million copies sold. And in 2012, at the halfway mark, despite endless plays in supermarkets, gyms and your dentist’s waiting room, it’s still burning up cash registers, moving another 3.7 million units through the end of June, or more than four times the next best-selling album (Lionel Richie’s Tuskegee in case you wondered).
Combined, “21” has sold 9.5 million copies in 15 months, putting it just 500,000 copies shy of the magical 10 million-mark. That’s unheard of in today’s music business. To put that figure in perspective, consider that the most recent album to cross the 10 million sales threshold was Usher’s “Confession,” which only broke that barrier this year. “Confessions” was released eight years ago, in 2004!
In fact, overall album sales for the first half of 2012 were down 3.2 percent, according to Nielsen Soundscan, as fans buy fewer and fewer albums — probably in favor of streaming and other forms of entertainment away from music.
From our story this week:
U.S. album sales for the first half of 2012 slumped after seeing growth last year, while digital track sales rose, according to music sales figures released by Nielsen SoundScan on Thursday.
At mid-year 2012, album sales were down 3 percent from 2011 at 150.5 million units sold over the last six months. Digital song sales, however, notched a 6 percent rise with 698 million tracks downloaded since January.
Overall music figures for physical and digital album and single sales showed a 4 percent increase, with 853.2 million sold so far in 2012.
That makes what Adele has been able to achieve all the more remarkable. | |
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