Posted January 15, 201312 yr The biggest selling Easy Listening albums of the millennium revealed! 15/01/2013 By Brand Barstein It's been a great year for pop, but it's been a tremendous millenium for Easy Listening, with the top albums in the genre selling in the millions. Easy Listening even became a more popular genre than R'n'B in 2012! In a year that saw pop hanging on to the throne as the UK's preferred music genre, Easy Listening albums grew to make up 7.6% of the music market in 2012, edging past R'n'B (7.2%) in popularity. Now OfficialCharts.com can reveal the biggest-selling Easy Listening albums of the 21st Century. Leading the FM-friendly charge is your favourite 21st Century Canadian crooner Michael Bublé, whose 2009 album Crazy Love has racked up a staggering 3m sales and spent 138 weeks on the Official Albums Chart. Additionally, Buble's hugely popular Christmas album - 2012s most popular Easy Listening album - has sold 1.8m copies since it's 2011 release, making Bub the Official king of Easy Listening. Meanwhile, Brit School graduate Katie Melua's two biggest-selling albums, 2003's debut album Call Off The Search and 2005's Piece By Piece have sold 3.2m copies combined, with her debut becoming the UK's third-biggest selling Easy Listening album, just behind Susan Boyle's 2009 debut I Dreamed A Dream. Il Divo's two first albums were both million-sellers, with combined sales of 2.5m, while compilations by Eva Cassidy, Frank Sinatra and The Carpenters have all helped boost the sales of the albums you very secretly love. The Official Biggest-Selling Easy Listening albums of the millennium are as follows: 1 CRAZY LOVE MICHAEL BUBLE 2.9m 2 I DREAMED A DREAM SUSAN BOYLE 1.9m 3 CALL OFF THE SEARCH KATIE MELUA 1.9m 4 CHRISTMAS MICHAEL BUBLE 1.8m 5 SONGBIRD EVA CASSIDY 1.8m 6 IL DIVO IL DIVO 1.5m 7 MY WAY: THE BEST OF FRANK SINATRA 1.3m 8 PIECE BY PIECE KATIE MELUA 1.3m 9 GOLD GREATEST HITS CARPENTERS 1.2m 10 ANCORA IL DIVO 1.0m © 2013 The Official Charts Company. All rights reserved.
January 15, 201312 yr "21" isn't easy listening? Please! Same for the Dido or Coldplay albums. They've rarely ever gone "hard" in their music. Edited January 15, 201312 yr by Ne Plus Ultra
January 15, 201312 yr "21" isn't easy listening? Please! Same for the Dido or Coldplay albums. They've rarely ever gone "hard" in their music. Who said that it was? Nothing in the report suggests it...
January 15, 201312 yr Author "21" isn't easy listening? Please! Same for the Dido or Coldplay albums. They've rarely ever gone "hard" in their music. They're rubbish when it comes to genres - look how loose they use the term "rock"! :P
January 15, 201312 yr Who said that it was? Nothing in the report suggests it... I meant that they exclude a lot of radio friendly adult contemporary music that was huge in the 2000's.
January 15, 201312 yr I meant that they exclude a lot of radio friendly adult contemporary music that was huge in the 2000's. Oh, I think I get you. So you're saying that those artists should be included? :D Because it sounded like you were saying the opposite.
January 15, 201312 yr Eva Cassidy :wub: Incredible sales for someone who never even set foot in the UK and visual recordings of her performing are scarce - Her music really has struck a chord with the UK and each of her albums has at least sold 100,000 with her recent 'Best Of' collection close to Platinum. Not sure how much more music they have of hers in the vaults that she recorded before her death though :-(
January 16, 201312 yr "21" isn't easy listening? Please! Same for the Dido or Coldplay albums. They've rarely ever gone "hard" in their music. Rolling In The Deep and Set Fire To The Rain are in no way related to easy listening, it's pop. Coldplay are rock, they use guitars and are a band, Dido is more along the lines of "world music" though thats open to opinion, I suppose. Then again, they call Gotye rock, and Taylor Swift is "country" when it's so obviously pop, so maybe we need to do away with labels and just call everything "music"....:)
January 16, 201312 yr Eva Cassidy :wub: Incredible sales for someone who never even set foot in the UK and visual recordings of her performing are scarce - Her music really has struck a chord with the UK and each of her albums has at least sold 100,000 with her recent 'Best Of' collection close to Platinum. Not sure how much more music they have of hers in the vaults that she recorded before her death though :-( Yes Eva :wub: They have quite a few songs that they could use still. Her debut album Method Actor hasn't had any of the material officially released yet and there was an unofficial album called No Boundaries also has quite a bit of new material that hasn't been officially released. I think they have at least 20 songs or so left to release.
January 16, 201312 yr Eva Cassidy :wub: Incredible sales for someone who never even set foot in the UK and visual recordings of her performing are scarce - Her music really has struck a chord with the UK and each of her albums has at least sold 100,000 with her recent 'Best Of' collection close to Platinum. Not sure how much more music they have of hers in the vaults that she recorded before her death though :-( Her UK success is largely because of Radio 2 and particularly Terry Wogan playing Over The Rainbow, which catapulted Songbird to No.1 n the album charts. None of her subsequent releases has come close to it's sales. Edited January 16, 201312 yr by Common Sense
January 16, 201312 yr Rolling In The Deep and Set Fire To The Rain are in no way related to easy listening, it's pop. Coldplay are rock, they use guitars and are a band, Dido is more along the lines of "world music" though thats open to opinion, I suppose. Then again, they call Gotye rock, and Taylor Swift is "country" when it's so obviously pop, so maybe we need to do away with labels and just call everything "music"....:) I'd say Dido is pop.
January 16, 201312 yr Ed Sheeran can't be far off this category either, can he? I would say he's definitely POP too.
January 16, 201312 yr Rolling In The Deep and Set Fire To The Rain are in no way related to easy listening, it's pop. Coldplay are rock, they use guitars and are a band, Dido is more along the lines of "world music" though thats open to opinion, I suppose. Then again, they call Gotye rock, and Taylor Swift is "country" when it's so obviously pop, so maybe we need to do away with labels and just call everything "music"....:) Gotye is definitely rock, "Somebody That I Used To Know" is pretty much as mellow as it gets - it's like accusing Green Day of being pop or folk on the back of "Good Riddance".
January 16, 201312 yr Her UK success is largely because of Radio 2 and particularly Terry Wogan playing Over The Rainbow, which catapulted Songbird to No.1 n the album charts. None of her subsequent releases has come close to it's sales. No she has never come close to matching the success of 'Songbird' but the fact that she has managed to have a further 6 hit albums including 2 number 1s and all the releases have been certified at least gold is an incredible achievement for someone who's career started several years after her death.
January 16, 201312 yr It's never easy to categorise music as there will always be arguments. The problem is compounded by the fact that the OCC seem to attach labels to artists rather than albums. That means that Taylor Swift continues to be counted as "country" despite the fact that her latest material is clearly pop.
January 17, 201312 yr It's never easy to categorise music as there will always be arguments. The problem is compounded by the fact that the OCC seem to attach labels to artists rather than albums. That means that Taylor Swift continues to be counted as "country" despite the fact that her latest material is clearly pop. Agreed.
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