I seem to remember mw saying gaga was over 3mil if you include her Wale single credit, so not sure if the cole's will count any heartbreaker dregs, prob just cherrypicks (eg parachute).

Sugababes 467k, think they were half mil last year too despite below par single sales the last couple of years. Their back catalogue obviously is still really popular (can't all be ayn!) Good to see, and gaga has been amazing this year ;-)

Thank you! Do you have the albums list too? :D

Top 50 best-selling Albums artists of 2009

 

This Year (Last Year) Artist - Units

01 (21) MICHAEL JACKSON - 2,797,666

02 (--) SUSAN BOYLE - 1,632,732

03 (23) MICHAEL BUBLE - 1,543,160

04 (03) KINGS OF LEON - 1,536,316

05 (01) TAKE THAT - 1,405,295

06 (--) LADY GAGA - 1,388,847

07 (--) BLACK EYED PEAS - 1,172,646

08 (--) PAOLO NUTINI - 973,328

09 (--) JLS - 969,792

10 (--) ROBBIE WILLIAMS - 918,630

11 (--) LILY ALLEN - 873,549

12 (--) BEYONCE - 869,459

13 (15) SNOW PATROL - 868,721

14 (6) LEONA LEWIS - 841,756

15 (--) MUSE - 739,205

16 (--) THE PRODIGY - 711,852

17 (05) THE KILLERS - 708,536

18 (--) THE BEATLES - 704,450

19 (--) U2 - 694,028

20 (14) PINK - 669,515

21 (--) ROD STEWART - 666,586

22 (47) QUEEN - 661,468

23 (--) KASABIAN - 658,380

24 (--) JAMES MORRISON - 644,363

25 (--) CHERYL COLE - 632,361

26 (--) EMINEM - 586,045

27 (45) WESTLIFE - 578,262

28 (33) WILL YOUNG - 546,225

29 (43) KATHERINE JENKINS - 544,434

30 (--) BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - 538,818

31 (34) ELBOW - 533,906

32 (--) GREEN DAY - 515,944

33 (--) FLORENCE & THE MACHINE - 515,841

34 (--) THE SOLDIERS - 491,691

35 (--) N-DUBZ - 490,924

36 (--) ALEXANDRA BURKE - 489,343

37 (9) RIHANNA - 475,634

38 (--) BOB DYLAN - 466,302

39 (--) VERA LYNN - 459,910

40 (8) GIRLS ALOUD - 446,490

41 (44) FOO FIGHTERS - 445,393

42 (13) ABBA - 422,594

43 (--) FLEETWOOD MAC - 416,520

44 (--) RONAN KEATING - 406,861

45 (29) MADONNA - 405,510

46 (2) DUFFY - 389,860

47 (17) STEREOPHONICS - 385,808

48 (--) WHITNEY HOUSTON - 377,189

49 (--) AKON - 370,571

50 (4) COLDPLAY - 350,158

 

- Based on sales of the Top 10,000 artist albums (91.5% of the total market)

- Artist album sales 2009: 100,538,483 (-0.74% on 2008: 101,289,676)

- Compilation album sales 2009: 25,065,942 (-16.57% on 2008: 30,041,589

- Total album sales 2009 : 128,946,805 (-3.51% on 2008: 133,643,773)

- Remaining 3,342,380 album sales were 'unmatched' (unidentified)

- 153 artist albums sold over 100,000 compared to 167 in 2008, 152 in 2007 & 179 in both 2006 & 2005

 

Source : Music Week (16/01/10)