Posted March 18, 201510 yr Official Biggest Selling Albums of the Millennium so far revealed! 19 March 2015 By Liv Moss Adele’s 21 is the biggest selling artist album of the millennium to date, the Official Charts Company can reveal. The singer-songwriter’s second studio album – which spent an impressive 23 weeks at Number 1 - has sold nearly 4,740,000 copies in the UK to date. Amy Winehouse’s Back To Black earns the Number 2 spot with sales of over 3,560,000 since its 2006 release. The former Official Albums Chart Number 1 spawned five Top 40 singles including Rehab, You Know I’m No Good, Back To Black, Tears Dry On Their Own and Love Is A Losing Game. In at Number 3 is James Blunt’s debut LP Back To Bedlam, which counts 3,310,000 sales this millennium. The album spent 10 weeks at the Official Albums Chart summit, racking up a total of 40 weeks in the Top 40. Rounding out the Top 5 are chart debuts Leona Lewis’ Spirit with 3,130,000 UK sales and Dido’s No Angel with 3,080,000 sales. Robbie Williams and Take That tie for the most entries in the Top 50 with four each. Robbie’s Swing When You’re Winning (21), Greatest Hits (25), Sing When You’re Winning (31) and Escapology (35) feature on the list alongside Take That’s Beautiful World (13), Progress (22), Never Forget – The Ultimate Collection (24) and The Circus (30). Other acts with multiple entries include; Coldplay (3), Adele (2), Dido (2), Ed Sheeran (2), Michael Buble (2) and Rihanna (2). Of the Top 50 Official Biggest Selling Artist Albums of the Millennium, only two were released before the year 2000 - David Gray’s White Ladder and ABBA’s Gold – Greatest Hits, which sit at Numbers 8 and 19, respectively. Only 39 albums have passed the 2 million UK sales mark this millennium, with the latest addition to the list, Ed Sheeran’s X, tipping over just this week. Check out the full Top 50 Official Biggest Selling Artist Albums of the Millennium so far below: NO. TITLE ARTIST LABEL 1 21 ADELE XL RECORDINGS 2 BACK TO BLACK AMY WINEHOUSE ISLAND 3 BACK TO BEDLAM JAMES BLUNT ATLANTIC 4 SPIRIT LEONA LEWIS SYCO MUSIC 5 NO ANGEL DIDO ARISTA 6 1 BEATLES APPLE CORPS 7 CRAZY LOVE MICHAEL BUBLE REPRISE 8 WHITE LADDER DAVID GRAY EAST WEST 9 THE FAME LADY GAGA INTERSCOPE 10 A RUSH OF BLOOD TO THE HEAD COLDPLAY PARLOPHONE 11 LIFE FOR RENT DIDO CHEEKY 12 ONLY BY THE NIGHT KINGS OF LEON HAND ME DOWN 13 BEAUTIFUL WORLD TAKE THAT POLYDOR 14 HOPES AND FEARS KEANE ISLAND 15 SCISSOR SISTERS SCISSOR SISTERS POLYDOR 16 X&Y COLDPLAY PARLOPHONE 17 PARACHUTES COLDPLAY PARLOPHONE 18 COME AWAY WITH ME NORAH JONES VIRGIN 19 GOLD - GREATEST HITS ABBA POLYDOR 20 THE MARSHALL MATHERS LP EMINEM INTERSCOPE 21 SWING WHEN YOU'RE WINNING ROBBIE WILLIAMS ISLAND 22 PROGRESS TAKE THAT POLYDOR 23 EYES OPEN SNOW PATROL FICTION 24 NEVER FORGET - THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION TAKE THAT RCA 25 GREATEST HITS ROBBIE WILLIAMS ISLAND 26 NUMBER ONES MICHAEL JACKSON EPIC 27 19 ADELE XL RECORDINGS 28 CHRISTMAS MICHAEL BUBLE REPRISE 29 ROCKFERRY DUFFY A&M 30 THE CIRCUS TAKE THAT POLYDOR 31 SING WHEN YOU'RE WINNING ROBBIE WILLIAMS ISLAND 32 OUR VERSION OF EVENTS EMELI SANDE VIRGIN 33 HOT FUSS KILLERS VERTIGO 34 AMERICAN IDIOT GREEN DAY REPRISE 35 ESCAPOLOGY ROBBIE WILLIAMS ISLAND 36 EMPLOYMENT KAISER CHIEFS B-UNIQUE/POLYDOR 37 SONGS ABOUT JANE MAROON 5 A&M 38 BY THE WAY RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS WARNER BROS 39 X ED SHEERAN ASYLUM 40 STRIPPED CHRISTINA AGUILERA RCA 41 JUSTIFIED JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE JIVE 42 THE GREATEST HITS TEXAS MERCURY 43 I DREAMED A DREAM SUSAN BOYLE SYCO MUSIC 44 + ED SHEERAN ASYLUM 45 LOUD RIHANNA DEF JAM 46 GOOD GIRL GONE BAD RIHANNA DEF JAM 47 CALL OFF THE SEARCH KATIE MELUA DRAMATICO 48 BORN TO DO IT CRAIG DAVID WEA 49 UNBREAKABLE - THE GREATEST HITS - VOL 1 WESTLIFE S 50 GREATEST HITS GUNS N' ROSES GEFFEN © Official Charts Company. Chart shows the Top 50 biggest selling albums since the Millenium, from week 1 2000 to week 11 2015.
March 19, 201510 yr I have misunderstood and let go just outside this then? I didn't have westlife GH so high :puke:
March 19, 201510 yr Wonder how much Adele's management paid for this article :P ABBA Gold sold a hell of a lot in 2008, Mamma Mia was a huge box-office hit - plus it's probably sold well in every year of the century.
March 19, 201510 yr In at Number 3 is James Blunt’s debut LP Back To Bedlam, which counts 3,310,000 sales this millennium. The album spent 10 weeks at the Official Albums Chart summit, racking up a total of 40 weeks in the Top 40. I suppose that should be top 10, had to check because it didn't seem very impressive a number for the 3rd biggest album of the century. :lol: But then it 'only' had 67 weeks top 40.
March 19, 201510 yr Wonder if any of Back To Bedlam's buyers still actually ever play it!! I don't like it now but loved it at the time it was huge.
March 19, 201510 yr Wonder if any of Back To Bedlam's buyers still actually ever play it!! I don't like it now but loved it at the time it was huge. I'm always wondering this about big hit singles/albums from the past haha. I guess if you go by how big the album tracks are on last.fm, the album still gets about 250-300 listeners a week just on there.
March 19, 201510 yr I wonder how far away from 2m 'Stripped' is? Must be very close - I have it on 1944k back in Jun 2010.
March 19, 201510 yr Ooh thanks for letting me know! I wonder how many albums have sold over 1 million copies this century?
March 19, 201510 yr I can't say there's many albums I LOVE in that list, though I am a fan of Leona. But I guess that's just my taste. ABBA/GaGa though. :wub: Edited March 19, 201510 yr by Joe.
March 19, 201510 yr Author Ooh thanks for letting me know! I wonder how many albums have sold over 1 million copies this century? There had been 204 as of w/e 01/02/14 (185 artists albums, 15 compilations (all from the Now series), 4 soundtracks).
March 19, 201510 yr Author Kylies Fever must have just missed out Probably a way off actually - Guns n' Roses at #50 has sold over 1.855k whereas Kylie has sold over 1.710k.
March 19, 201510 yr 33 HOT FUSS KILLERS VERTIGO 34 AMERICAN IDIOT GREEN DAY REPRISE 36 EMPLOYMENT KAISER CHIEFS B-UNIQUE/POLYDOR THE HOLY TRINITY Seriously though, I had no idea some of those albums had sold that many - particularly GnR, which I still thought was hovering just over a million. And Texas. I'll always think it's a little unfair that '19' has ended up outselling 'Rockferry'.
March 19, 201510 yr There had been 204 as of w/e 01/02/14 (185 artists albums, 15 compilations (all from the Now series), 4 soundtracks). Thanks! I wish they'd done a Top 200. :kink: I'd have loved to know where 'The Sound of Girls Aloud' places with 1.2m.
March 19, 201510 yr I'll always think it's a little unfair that '19' has ended up outselling 'Rockferry'. I'm sure more people play 19 Than Rockferry. I loved Duffy at the time, bought 2 copies of Rockferry on 7", early supporter due to the Bernard Butler link & had all the b-sides. But then Rain on my parade & well well well came out & I couldn't stand her voice anymore. I was very surprised by Employment though, thought it did about 1.5m.
March 19, 201510 yr I own 46 of those on CD. Can anyone beat that? Ones I haven't got are 23, 24, 40 and 41. Edited March 19, 201510 yr by Common Sense
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