ALBUMS

01 Taylor Swift - Fearless 3,217,000

02 Susan Boyle - I Dreamed A Dream 3,104,000

03 Michael Jackson - Number 1s 2,360,000

04 Lady GaGa - The Fame 2,240,000

05 Andrea Bocelli - My Christmas 2,210,000

06 Hannah Montana: the Movie 1,820,000

07 Black Eyed Peas - The E.N.D. 1,790,000

08 Eminen - Relapse 1,740,000

09 Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3 1,520,000

10 Kings of Leon - Only By the Night 1,400,000

 

12 Michael Jackson - This Is It 1,290,000

14 Michael Jackson - Thriller 1,270,000

20 Michael Jackson - The Essential Michael Jackson 1,150,000

 

Susan Boyle's "I Dreamed a Dream" reigns for a sixth straight week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart with 137,000 (down 73%) according to Nielsen SoundScan, bringing her cumulative sales total up to 3,104,000. However, while that is a huge sales sum -- especially considering it was totaled in just six weeks time -- it's not enough to overtake Taylor Swift's "Fearless" as 2009's top selling album. The latter is at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 this week, selling another 60,000 -- bringing its 2009 total to 3,217,000.

 

For the 52-week period January 5, 2009 through January 3, 2010, there were 373.9 million albums sold in the U.S., down 12.7% compared to the same frame of 2008 where 428.4 million albums were sold. However, digital album sales in the same time frame comparison were up a hearty 16.1% -- to an all-time high of 76.4 million in 2009 versus 65.8 million in 2008.

 

Total music purchases in 2009 -- which include albums, singles, music videos and digital tracks -- reached the 1.5 billion mark, making it the fifth consecutive year music sales have exceeded 1 billion [1.5 billion (2008), 1.4 billion (2007), 1.2 billion (2006), and 1.01 billion (2005)].

SINGLES - DIGITAL

01 Black Eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow 4,760,000

02 Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling 4,430,000

03 Lady GaGa - Poker Face 4,380,000

04 Flo Rida - Right Round 4,130,00

05 Lady GaGa - Just Dance 3,200,000

06 Miley Cyrus - Party in the U.S.A. 3,160,000

07 Jay Sean - Down 3,050,000

08 All-American Rejects - Gives You Hell 2,880,000

09 Owl City - Firelfies 2,750,000

10 Jason DeRulo - Whatcha Say 2,710,000

 

A whopping 1.159 billion digital tracks were sold in 2009, up 8.3% compared to 2008 (1.070 billion). The biggest selling act, in terms of digital song downloads, was Lady Gaga with more than 15 million in track sales.

REF: http://www.billboard.com/news/taylor-swift...004057203.story

 

With over 24.3 million digital tracks sold to date, Taylor Swift is the top-selling digital artist in music history, according to sales figures released yesterday by Nielsen SoundScan. In addition, her FEARLESS album was 2009's top-seller, with sales last year in excess of 3.2 million copies, and Taylor claimed both the #1 and #2 positions atop Nielsen's BDS Top 10 Most Played Songs chart (all genres), with "You Belong With Me" and "Love Story," respectively. She also topped the all format 2009 Top 10 Artist Airplay chart with over 1.29 million song detections, and the Top 10 Artist Internet Streams chart with more than 46 million song plays.

FEARLESS was also the top-selling album of 2008, and Taylor is the youngest solo artist ever to top the year-end sales chart. FEARLESS, now quintuple-platinum, also topped Billboard's 2009 all-genre Top 200 Albums chart and was named Country Album of the Year by the editors of iTunes. Taylor's self-titled debut album, released in 1996, currently holds the record for Billboard's longest charting album this century, and she is tied with the Beatles and Mariah Carey for Billboard's Most Top 20 Debuts.

Taylor finished 2009 not only with the best-selling album, she was named Billboard's Artist of the Year, as well as Entertainer of the Year by the Associated Press.

REF: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ni...y-80965892.html

Edited January 9, 201015 yr by Jamieed

Taylor Swift is the TOP-SELLING Digital Artist in the history of the world with over 24.3 million digital tracks sold to date, according Nielsen SoundScan.

In addition, Fearless was 2009’s top-seller, with sales last year of over 3.2 million copies. Fearless was also the top-selling album of 2008.

 

And Taylor is the youngest solo artist ever to top the year-end sales chart. Taylor’s self-titled debut album, released in 2006, currently holds the record for Billboard’s longest charting album this century, and she is tied with the Beatles and Mariah Carey for Billboard’s Most Top 20 Debuts.

 

The quote above is not from the Billboard site you linked to. Where did you get that quote? Please don't take offense but I find that really hard to believe, especially, "Taylor Swift is the TOP-SELLING Digital Artist in the history of the world with over 24.3 million digital tracks sold to date"

 

Feel free to prove me wrong with a source :)

Taylor Swift is the TOP-SELLING Digital Artist in the history of the world with over 24.3 million digital tracks sold to date, according Nielsen SoundScan.

Half correct - She is the top selling digital artist in the US with 24.3 million digital tracks sold.

 

 

In addition, Fearless was 2009’s top-seller, with sales last year of over 3.2 million copies. Fearless was also the top-selling album of 2008.

Half correct - "Fearless" was the top selling album of 2009 in the US (3.2m), and 3rd best selling album of 2008 in the US (2.1m).

 

 

 

^ I think the source meant She sold more Albums combined last Year with her Self Titled and Fearless, around 4 million.

 

The quote above is not from the Billboard site you linked to. Where did you get that quote? Please don't take offense but I find that really hard to believe, especially, "Taylor Swift is the TOP-SELLING Digital Artist in the history of the world with over 24.3 million digital tracks sold to date"

 

Feel free to prove me wrong with a source :)

Apologies, my source wasn't the most reliable to quote from.

I'll edit with reference to prnewswire.com

 

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ni...y-80965892.html :D

Edited January 9, 201015 yr by Jamieed