If anyone has a Billboard or Nielsen subscription, pretty please share the top 100-200 sellers of the year?Ģ. If anyone can provide the missing data for 1999 sales, please respond! And, I've been asking this every year to no avail, but hey, maybe this is the lucky one. I'm also sharing some historical data from old reports for perspective. Definitely some of those most jealously, and successfully guarded data I've ever heard of!Ģ010 Report came out Thursday. I've been following those reports for a decade, and trying to get more data for about as long. The top selling track of the year is Leona Lewis’ “Bleeding Love,” with 3.37 million.Speaking of which, below is the latest. All told, 1.07 billion were sold, up 26.7% compared to 2007’s 844 million. Meanwhile, digital track sales continue to blow up, as 2008 was the first year to see over 1 billion tracks sold. The top selling vinyl set of 2008 was Radiohead’s “In Rainbows,” with 26,000. It’s the first time the industry has sold 1 million vinyl albums in a calendar year since 2004, when 1.2 million were sold. This year also saw a record number of vinyl albums sold, with nearly 1.9 million - more than any other year since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking data in 1991. In 2007, digital albums sold 50.01 million and represented 10% of the album market.Ĭonversely, physical CD albums made up 360.6 million albums this year (84% of the market), compared to 449.18 million last year (90% of overall album sales). Digital downloads of albums accounted for 65.79 million albums this year, or 15.4% of the overall album market. In 2008, there were 428.4 million albums sold, down 14.4% compared to 2007’s 500.5 million. 9 with 1.5 million, while Beyonce’s new “I Am … Sasha Fierce” (Music World/Columbia) rounds out the top 10 with 1.46 million. Jack Johnson’s “Sleep Through the Static” (Brushfire/Universal) is No. 7 with 1.57 million, followed by T.I.’s “Paper Trail” (Grand Hustle/Atlantic) at No. Metallica’s “Death Magnetic” (Warner Bros.) came in at No. It was also held back from digital retailers.

The Atlantic release was not available on iTunes, fueling sales of the full album.ĪC/DC’s Wal-Mart exclusive release, “Black Ice” (Columbia), sold 1.92 million copies to rank No.

4 with “Rock N Roll Jesus,” which sold more than 2 million. Kid Rock crowns the year-end chart at No.

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