Not a lot of data around for week 52, but we do have official figures for 6 out of the Top 10. There's still the Music Week end of year report to come which should give us even more official figures. Hopefully they will give us The Killers, because the estimate above can be plus or minus 15K.

 

As it's the end of year chart, both me and the admin will be correcting the figures as we go along, so don't print it just yet.

 

 

The End of Year Album Chart of 2008

 

1 Rockferry - Duffy * 1,684,944

2 The Circus - Take That * 1,446,135

3 Only by the Night - Kings of Leon * 1,181,641

4 Spirit - Leona Lewis * 1,108,369

5 Viva la Vida or Death and all his Friends - Coldplay 1,089,000

6 Good Girl Gone Bad - Rihanna* 839,524

7 Day & Age - The Killers 693,000

8 Out of Control - Girls Aloud * 591,786

9 Funhouse - Pink * 587,983

10 Scouting for Girls - Scouting for Girls 575,000

11 All the Right Reasons - Nickelback 568,000

12 The Script - The Script 544,028*

13 Decade in the Sun - Best of - Stereophonics 528,000

14 Back to Black (Deluxe Edition) - Amy Winehouse 523,000

15 Dig Out Your Soul - Oasis 500,000

16 19 - Adele 479,328*

17 The Promise - Il Divo 468,000

18 A Hundred Million Suns - Snow Patrol 424,000

19 Gold - Greatest Hits - Abba* 419,806

20 My Love - The Essential Collection - Celine Dion 398,000

21 This is the Life - Amy MacDonald 393,000

22 The Priests - Priests 391,000

23 We Started Nothing - The Ting Tings 378,000

24 Year of the Gentleman - Ne-Yo 371,000

25 Black Ice - AC/DC 370,500

26 Life in Cartoon Motion - Mika 363,000

27 Call me Irresponsible (Special Edition) - Michael Bublé 354,000

28 Home Before Dark - Neil Diamond 349,000

29 Rhydian - Rhydian 347,000

30 Let it Go - Will Young 343,000

31 Greatest Hits - Enrique Iglesias 339,000

32 Exclusive - Chris Brown 335,000

33 Beautiful World - Take That 331,000

34 Raising Sand - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss 328,000

35 The Seldom seen Kid - Elbow 325,000

36 Hard Candy - Madonna 323,113*

37 The Best Bette - Bette Midler 312,000

38 I am Sasha Fierce - Beyoncé * 311,734

39 The Best of - Sash 297,000

40 Soul - Seal 292,500

41 Chinese Democracy - Guns n Roses 293,420*

42 Uncle B - N-Dubz 290,500

43 Jumping all Over the World - Scooter 290,000

44 25 The Greatest Hits - Simply Red 277,000

45 Now You're Gone - The Album - Basshunter 271,000

46 Version - Mark Ronson 265,000

47 One of the Boys - Katy Perry 261,000

48 Dreaming Out Loud - One Republic 259,000

49 Perfect Symmetry - Keane 255,000

50 Hand Built by Robots - Newton Faulkner 250,500

51 Songs for You, Thuths for Me - James Morrison 248,000

52 Never Forget - Take That 246,000

53 Death Magnetic - Metallica 240,000

54 Sacred Arias - Katherine Jenkins 239,000

55 Thriller 25 - Michael Jackson 238,000

56 Konk - The Kooks 235,000

57 Back to Black - Amy Winehouse 234,000

58 Back again .. No Matter What - Boyzone 230,500

59 The Trick to Life - Hoosiers 229,500

60 Frank - Amy Winehouse 228,000

61 Circus - Britney Spears 225,500

62 22 Dreams - Paul Weller 225,300

63 Forth - The Verve 222,500

64 And Winter Came - Enya 222,000

65 Oracular Spectacular - MGMT 221,300

66 Because of the Times - Kings of Leon 221,000

67 The Best of - Neil Diamond 218,000

68 Lessons to be Learned - Gabriella Cilmi 216,500

69 Sleep through the Static - Jack Johnson 215,000

70 The Age of the Understatement - Last Shadow Puppets 208,000

71 (Budget) Tangled Up - Girls Aloud 206,000

72 Pictures - 40 Years of Hits - Status Quo 202,000

73 In Silico - Pendulum 200,000

74 A Guide to Love Loss & Desparation - The Wombats 194,000

75 Join with Us - The Feeling 193,900

76 In Rainbows - Radiohead 192,500

77 Vivere - The Best of - Andrea Bocelli 192,400

78 Safe Trip Home - Dido 192.355*

79 (Budget) Unbreakable - The Greatest Hits - Westlife 191,300

80 Here I Stand - Usher 189,500

81 Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend 189,300

82 All the Lost Souls - James Blunt 187,000

83 Shock Value - Timbaland 186,000

84 Made of Bricks - Kate Nash 183,000

85 Mamma Mia - Origional Cast Recording 182,500

86 Seventh Tree - Goldfrapp 177,000

87 Melody - Sharleen Spiteri 175,000

88 Dark Horse - Nickelback 174,500

89 Some Guys Have all the Luck - Rod Stewart 173,000

90 Voices of the Valley - Home - From Male Voice Choir 171,000

91 Breakout - Miley Cyrus 170,000

92 Only Men Aloud - Only Men Aloud 169,500

93 Perfect Day - Cascada 168,000

94 Echos, Silence, Patience & Grace - Foo Fighters 166,000

95 We'll Live & Die in these Towns - The Enemy 164,000

96 Yours Truly Angry Mob - Kaiser Chiefs 161,500

97 Robyn - Robyn 161,000

98 King of Pop - Michael Jackson 160,500

99 Eyes Open - Snow Patrol 160,000

100 X - Kylie Minogue 159,000

 

Credits

 

Sales Figures - Music Week, Various Fan Sites & Sources

Official Positions - Official UK Charts Company & Charts Plus

Chart Consultants - ManicKangaroo & Martin

Calculations & Processing - Excel

Guesswork - Dave B

Edited January 12, 200916 yr by Mart!n

Is this until December 31st?

Can't be as it's only 30th today!

Is this until December 31st?

 

 

The sales cut is 27 Dec, the remaining 4 days of 2008 belong to the first week of 2009, hopefully someone can correct me.

8th best selling album of the year for Girls Aloud. :o That is incredible, I never thought I would actually see the day.

 

I have all their other albums, I still need to get my copy of this in the new year when I have more money. :P

The sales cut is 27 Dec, the remaining 4 days of 2008 belong to the first week of 2009, hopefully someone can correct me.

 

You're right, Sunday 28th December onwards belongs to 2009 in terms of end of year sales.

Some comments

Not many acts sell over a million 2 years in a row with basically the same album. Well done Leona

Will Young will be disappointed at Rhydian pipping him.

Remarkable lack of Rap/R&B in that top 30.

No Leon, seems the 2007 X factor result was very strange.

Female acts more popular than at any time in the past.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Leona Lewis is the first Solo Female to have the same Album in the Top 5 of

the Year on more than one occasion. 'Spirit' was 2nd in 2007, & it is 4th in 2008.

The only other Females to manage it were the Spice Girls. 'Spice' was 3rd for both

1996 & 1997. Even Madonna has never managed it.

Leona Lewis is the first Solo Female to have the same Album in the Top 5 of

the Year on more than one occasion. 'Spirit' was 2nd in 2007, & it is 4th in 2008.

The only other Females to manage it were the Spice Girls. 'Spice' was 3rd for both

1996 & 1997. Even Madonna has never managed it.

 

Interesting about 'Spice'. Achieved 3rd very quickly in 1996 and of course in slow time over 1997. If memory serves me correctly, 'Spiceworld' ranked 5th in 1997, so having two albums in an end of year Top 5 must have been a rare feat too. Especially debut and second.

How many did Leon sell just out of interest?

*Prays Declinehouse won't be in the year end chart in 2009*

 

Amazing for P!nk though. That's 3 of her albums that have finished in the year end top 10 now! :D

Great sales for the top 5 also, especially as it looked like Duffy would be the only million seller for months on end.

You're right, Sunday 28th December onwards belongs to 2009 in terms of end of year sales.

 

Take That are still selling really well so I should imagine their sales for 28th thru 31st December will be a nice little cushion for their placing in the 2009 year-end chart - probably top 5 like BW was before it. Yes ... jumping the gun a bit I suppose but it'll probably be true.

 

Norma

Take That are still selling really well so I should imagine their sales for 28th thru 31st December will be a nice little cushion for their placing in the 2009 year-end chart - probably top 5 like BW was before it. Yes ... jumping the gun a bit I suppose but it'll probably be true.

 

Norma

I reckon it will be. Knowing the music industry at the moment it'll probably be re-issued with a dvd for Mother's day and then again with bonus material and new single for Christmas! -_-

I reckon it will be. Knowing the music industry at the moment it'll probably be re-issued with a dvd for Mother's day and then again with bonus material and new single for Christmas! -_-

 

Well they all do it don't they? Its a pity Take That had that stupid cut-off date (which they stuck to) for their BW Deluxe! Otherwise Beautiful World would still probably be in the top 20 2008 year-end chart too!

 

Norma

yes very weird x factor last year but proves the public got it wrong when leon won,they got a karoake singer when we all know rhydian should have won.leon as sold up to date 24th dec 110,000.

110k inst too bad, especially as the first single was mediocre and the second didnt have any promotion

yes very weird x factor last year but proves the public got it wrong when leon won,they got a karoake singer when we all know rhydian should have won.leon as sold up to date 24th dec 110,000.

 

Like Michelle McManus before him he just got the scottish vote. I'm sure a scottish person will claim there is no such thing but there is, and that's why he won :wacko:

Like Michelle McManus before him he just got the scottish vote. I'm sure a scottish person will claim there is no such thing but there is, and that's why he won :wacko:

 

Totally agree with you damm shame but simon cowell pulled out all the stops for alexandra this year should have done it last year but who is laughing now rhydian.

Wow at The Script. :o

good top ten really, I only don't own Coldplay and Scouting For Girls and I would only never consider the latter

 

if I see Viva La Vida cheap one day I'll probably pick it up...