The Official Top 10 Biggest Compilation Albums Of 2013 So Far!

02/10/2013

 

By Daniel Lane

 

2013 is shaping up to be a record year for sales of compilation albums in the UK, and the hugely popular Now That’s What I Call Music! series continues to dominate the market.

 

In the year that the much loved compilation series celebrates its 30th birthday, Now That’s What I Call Music! continues to dominate the albums market in the UK.

 

According to Official Charts Company sales data, Now That’s What I Call Music! 85, the latest instalment of the hugely popular franchise, has sold an incredible 815,000 copies to date; it is not only the biggest selling compilation album of 2013 so far, it is also the biggest selling album of the year over all, with a lead of some 224,000 copies on the biggest selling artist album of 2013, Emeli Sande’s Our Version Of Events. Its predecessors Now! 84, Now! 83 and the 30th anniversary release, Now That’s What I Call 30 Years!, are also among the Top 5 biggest selling compilations of 2013 so far.

 

Released in July of this year, Now 85 boasts 44 Official Singles Chart Top 40 hits including Number 1s from Daft Punk (Get Lucky FT Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers), Robin Thicke (Blurred Lines FT TI and Pharrell Williams), Naughty Boy (La La La FT Sam Smith) and Rudimental (Waiting All Night FT Ella Eyre). During its first week on sale, more than 317,000 copies of Now! 85 were purchased in the UK, making it the first summer-released Now! album to sell upwards of 300,000 copies in its opening week since 2008. Now! 85 is currently the fastest selling album of 2013, and outsold the fastest selling artist album, Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories, by nearly two copies to one during its opening week.

 

Now That’s What I Call Music 84 is the second biggest selling compilation album of 2013, and second biggest selling album over-all, with over 720,000 sales under its belt.

 

The Trevor Nelson Collection is the third biggest selling compilation album with 283,000 sales, while Now That’s What I Call 30 Years is at Number 4 with 214,000 sales, and Now That’s What I Call Music 83 (Number 5 with 192,000 sales this year, 1.5 million to date) complete the Top 5.

 

The Official Top 10 Biggest Selling Compilation Albums Of 2013 are as follows:

 

The Official Top 10 Biggest Selling Compilation Albums Of 2013 So Far

 

POS TITLE ARTIST LABEL BUY LINKS

1 NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC 85 VARIOUS ARTISTS SONY MUSIC CG/VIRGIN EMI

2 NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC 84 VARIOUS ARTISTS SONY MUSIC CG/VIRGIN EMI

3 THE TREVOR NELSON COLLECTION VARIOUS ARTISTS SONY MUSIC CG

4 NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL 30 YEARS VARIOUS ARTISTS SONY MUSIC CG/VIRGIN EMI

5 NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC 83 VARIOUS ARTISTS SONY MUSIC CG/VIRGIN EMI

6 VOICES - SIMPLY THE BEST VARIOUS ARTISTS SONY MUSIC CG

7 EDDIE STOBART - TRUCKING SONGS VARIOUS ARTISTS SONY MUSIC CG

8 ANTHEMS - '90S VARIOUS ARTISTS MINISTRY OF SOUND

9 MARBELLA SESSIONS 2013 VARIOUS ARTISTS MINISTRY OF SOUND

10 EUPHORIC CLUBLAND VARIOUS ARTISTS AATW/UMTV

 

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Now That's What I call Music unsurprisingly dominating.

Not appearance for The Great Gatsby OST. :( (Not that I'm aware of how well it's done on the compilation chart though).