Billboard have been posting a series of articles about their mid-year charts recently, for single and album sales, radio, a variety of random formats nobody cares about and so on. Here are the most interesting ones:

 

Mid-Year Album Top 20:

Position Artist Title Sales

1. Various Artists - Frozen: 2,696,000

2. Beyoncé- BEYONCÉ: 702,000

3. Eric Church - The Outsiders: 642,000

4. Lorde - Pure Heroine: 641,000

5. Coldplay - Ghost Stories: 589,000

6. Varoius Artists - Now 49: 482,000

7. Luke Bryan - Crash My Party: 455,000

8. Katy Perry - Prism: 453,000

9. Various Artists - Now 50: 452,000

10. Pharrell Williams - GIRL: 452,000

11. Imagine Dragons - Night Visions: 424,000

12. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP 2: 419,000

13. Brantley Gilbert - Just As I Am: 412,000

14. Florida Georgia Line - Here's To the Good Times: 393,000

15. Bruno Mars - Unorthodox Jukebox: 392,000

16. Rick Ross - Mastermind: 362,000

17. Michael Jackson - Xscape: 339,000

18. The Black Keys - Turn Blue: 328,000

19. Various Artists - 2014 Grammy Nominees: 309,000

20. Miranda Lambert - Platinum: 305,000

 

Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith and maybe Lana should all join these very shortly.

 

Mid-Year Digital Songs Top 20:

Position Artist Title Sales

1. Pharrell Williams - Happy: 5,633,000

2. Katy Perry feat. Juicy J - Dark Horse: 4,004,000

3. John Legend - All Of Me: 3,854,000

4. Jason Derulo feat. 2 Chainz - Talk Dirty: 3,657,000

5. Idina Menzel -Let It Go: 2,854,000

6. DJ Snake & Lil Jon - Turn Down For What: 2,573,000

7. Iggy Azalea feat. Charli XCX - Fancy: 2,533,000

8. Bastille - Pompeii: 2,321,000

9. Aloe Blacc - The Man: 2,263,000

10. Pitbull feat. Ke$ha - Timber: 2,189,000

11. Ariana Grande feat. Iggy Azalea - Problem: 2,163,000

12. A Great Big World & Christina Aguilera - Say Something: 2,110,000

13. OneRepublic - Counting Stars: 1,939,000

14. Passenger - Let Her Go: 1,787,000

15. Lorde - Team: 1,754,000

16. Florida Georgia Line feat. Luke Bryan - This Is How We Roll: 1,514,000

17. American Authors - Best Day Of My Life: 1,491,000

18. Beyonce feat. Jay Z - Drunk In Love: 1,441,000

19. Avicii - Hey Brother: 1,354,000

20. Eminem feat. Rihanna - The Monster: 1,333,000

 

Mid-Year Radio Top 10:

Position Artist Title Spins (Audience)

1. Pharrell Williams - Happy: 571,000 (3,365,676,000)

2. John Legend - All Of Me: 555,000 (3,167,258,000)

3. Katy Perry feat. Juicy J - Dark Horse: 554,000 (3,220,610,000)

4. Lorde - Team: 456,000 (2,401,101,000)

5. OneRepublic - Counting Stars: 420,000 (2,538,228,000)

6. Bastille - Pompeii: 405,000 (2,229,522,000)

7. Jason Derulo feat. 2 Chainz - Talk Dirty: 386,000 (2,041,202,000)

8. American Authors - Best Day Of My Life: 326,000 (1,629,687,000)

9. Pitbull feat. Ke$ha - Timber: 316,000 (1,695,138,000)

10. One Direction - Story Of My Life: 301,000 (1,721,916,000)

 

Mid-Year Streaming Top 20:

Position Artist Title Streams

1. Katy Perry Feat. Juicy J - Dark Horse: 188,236,000

2. John Legend - All Of Me: 144,669,000

3. Jason Derulo Feat. 2 Chainz - Talk Dirty: 142,478,000

4. Pharrell - Happy: 135,197,000

5. Idina Menzel - Let It Go: 129,128,000

6. Iggy Azalea Feat. Charli XCX - Fancy: 111,911,000

7. Pitbull Feat. Ke$ha - Timber: 106,081,000

8. DJ Snake & Lil Jon - Turn Down For What: 102,340,000

9. Beyonce Feat. Jay Z - Drunk In Love: 92,694,000

10. OneRepublic - Counting Stars: 91,494,000

11. A Great Big World & Christina Aguilera - Say Something: 86,581,000

12. Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball: 83,736,000

13. Ariana Grande Feat. Iggy Azalea - Problem: 82,694,000

14. Passenger - Let Her Go: 82,672,000

15. Bastille - Pompeii: 80,755,000

16. Lorde - Royals: 79,720,000

17. Eminem Feat. Rihanna - The Monster: 72,762,000

18. PSY - Gangnam Style: 72,706,000

19. Chris Brown Feat. Lil Wayne & French Montana OR Too $hort - Loyal: 70,537,000

20. YG Feat. Jeezy & Rich Homie Quan - My Hitta: 69,137,000

I am mostly surprised here by how low 'Pompeii' is on streaming - you'd think it'd be right near the top, but at the same time it's probably no big YouTube hit.

 

'Problem' will probably pass everything above it until 'Talk Dirty', with 'Fancy' being the only song below that that'll stay ahead. Very good for a Disney act, I wonder will it outsell both of Miley's singles from last year.

Take 'Frozen' out the equation and the mid-year albums are pitiful looking... Luckily we have Q3 and Q4 to pick things up a bit (hopefully!)

Christ at the lead that 'Frozen' has. I knew it'd be some way ahead but not by nearly 4 to 1... :drama: Brilliant to see 'Pure Heroine' (and 'Ghost Stories') near the top even if it's on pretty poor sales. Lorde should overtake Eric Church on the YTD ~this week as well based on their current weekly positions.

Only 38 songs sold 1 million copies in the first half of the year. Last year the number was 51 :(

 

On the albums, Frozen has already outsold the #1 of last year (The 20/20 Experience), which would be encouraging if it wasn't for the rest of the list :lol:

FROZEN AND LET IT GO :wub: :wub: :wub:

Thanks for these Umi, underlines it's not been a vintage year of releases for albums in particular so far, and singles are about 50/50 good/indifferent...

The scary thing about the albums is I can't see ANYTHING in that top 20 crossing a million. Albums just don't have staying power in the US, everything is so frontloaded.

The scary thing about the albums is I can't see ANYTHING in that top 20 crossing a million.

you're right :(