Chart Listings: T50 Selling Albums of 2015 (US)

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Presenting the Top 50 albums of 2015, the gifts that keep on giving to their respective labels. As for us? Here's hoping we're the only lump of coal in your stockings.

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RANK	ARTIST	TITLE	LABEL	YEAR TO DATE
1	ADELE	25	XL/COLUMBIA	5,190,000
2	TAYLOR SWIFT	1989	BIG MACHINE	1,870,000
3	DRAKE	IF YOU'RE READING THIS, IT'S TOO LATE	YMCMB/REPUBLIC	1,120,000
4	ED SHEERAN	X	ASYLUM UK	1,110,000
5	SAM SMITH	IN THE LONELY HOUR	CAPITOL	990,000
6	MEGHAN TRAINOR	TITLE	EPIC	950,000
7	JUSTIN BIEBER	PURPOSE	DEF JAM	920,000
8	FIFTY SHADES OF GREY	SOUNDTRACK	REPUBLIC	850,000
9	THE WEEKND	BEAUTY BEHIND THE MADNESS	XO/REPUBLIC	770,000
10	LUKE BRYAN	KILL THE LIGHTS	CAPITOL NASHVILLE	770,000
11	KENDRICK LAMAR	TO PIMP A BUTTERFLY	TDE/INTERSCOPE	750,000
12	SAM HUNT	MONTEVALLO	MCA NASHVILLE	690,000
13	FALL OUT BOY	AMERICAN BEAUTY/AMERICAN PSYCHO	DCD2/ISLAND	610,000
14	ZAC BROWN BAND	JEKYLL + HYDE	SOUTHERN GROUND/ VARVATOS/BMLG/REPUBLIC	590,000
15	ONE DIRECTION	MADE IN THE A.M.	SYCO/COLUMBIA	590,000
16	JOSH GROBAN	STAGES	REPRISE	570,000
17	SOUNDTRACK	GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: AWESOME MIX, VOL. 1	HOLLYWOOD	560,000
18	CHRIS STAPLETON	TRAVELLER	MERCURY NASHVILLE	520,000
19	MUMFORD & SONS	WILDER MIND	GLASSNOTE	510,000
20	VARIOUS	NOW 53	NOW	500,000
21	IMAGINE DRAGONS	SMOKE + MIRRORS	KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE	500,000
22	J. COLE	2014 FOREST HILLS DRIVE	ROC NATION/COLUMBIA	490,000
23	DRAKE AND FUTURE	WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE	YMCMB/REPUBLIC/EPIC	490,000
24	DR. DRE	COMPTON	AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE	490,000
25	TWENTY ONE PILOTS	BLURRYFACE	FUELED BY RAMEN	480,000
26	HOZIER	HOZIER	COLUMBIA	480,000
27	MAROON 5	V	222/INTERSCOPE	470,000
28	EMPIRE CAST	EMPIRE SOUNDTRACK: SEASON 1	TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX/COLUMBIA	470,000
29	NICKI MINAJ	PINKPRINT	YMCMB/REPUBLIC	380,000
30	CARRIE UNDERWOOD	STORYTELLER	ARISTA NASHVILLE	380,000
31	PENTATONIX	THAT'S CHRISTMAS TO ME	RCA	360,000
32	KID ROCK	FIRST KISS	WARNER BROS.	350,000
33	MEEK MILL	DREAMS WORTH MORE THAN MONEY	WMG	350,000
34	PITCH PERFECT 2	SOUNDTRACK	UME/REPUBLIC	350,000
35	BIG SEAN	DARK SKY PARADISE	DEF JAM	350,000
36	KIDZ BOP KIDS	KIDZ BOP 27	RAZOR & TIE	330,000
37	JASON ALDEAN	OLD BOOTS, NEW DIRT	BROKEN BOW	330,000
38	ERIC CHURCH	OUTSIDERS	EMI NASHVILLE	330,000
39	ALABAMA SHAKES	SOUND & COLOR	ATO	320,000
40	VARIOUS ARTISTS	2015 GRAMMY NOMINEES	RCA	310,000
41	FUTURE	DS2	EPIC	310,000
42	VARIOUS ARTISTS	NOW 55	NOW	310,000
43	FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE	ANYTHING GOES	REPUBLIC NASHVILLE	300,000
44	VARIOUS	NOW 54	NOW	300,000
45	SHAWN MENDES	HANDWRITTEN	ISLAND	300,000
46	BREAKING BENJAMIN	DARK BEFORE DAWN	HOLLYWOOD	300,000
47	LITTLE BIG TOWN	PAIN KILLER	CAPITOL NASHVILLE	290,000
48	FLORENCE + THE MACHINE	HOW BIG HOW BLUE HOW BEAUTIFUL	REPUBLIC	290,000
49	JAMES TAYLOR	BEFORE THIS WORLD	CONCORD	280,000
50	LUKE BRYAN	SPRING BREAK...CHECKIN' OUT	CAPITOL NASHVILLE	280,000

Still 3 weeks left. Previous five years in comparison.

2014

1. Taylor Swift — 1989: 3,661,000
2. Soundtrack — Frozen: 3,527,000
3. Sam Smith — In the Lonely Hour: 1,207,000
4. Pentatonix — That's Christmas To Me: 1,139,000
5. Soundtrack — Guardians Of the Galaxy: 898,000
6. Beyonce — Beyonce: 878,000
7. Barbra Streisand — Partners: 856,000
8. Lorde — Pure Heroine: 841,000
9. One Direction — FOUR: 814,000
10. Eric Church — The Outsiders: 811,000
11. Ed Sheeran — X: 810,000
12. Luke Bryan — Crash My Party: 800,000
13. Coldplay — Ghost Stories: 794,000
14. Jason Aldean — Old Boots New Dirt: 752,000
15. Brantley Gilbert — Just As I Am: 707,000
16. Various Artists — NOW 50: 696,000
17. 5 Seconds of Summer — 5 Seconds of Summer: 645,000
18. Florida Georgia Line — Here's To The Good Times: 607,000
19. Miranda Lambert — Platinum: 601,000
20. Maroon 5 — V: 600,000
21. Imagine Dragons — Night Visions: 594,000
22. Katy Perry — PRISM: 584,000
23. Pharrell Williams — G I R L: 581,000
24. J. Cole — 2014 Forest Hills Drive: 577,000
25. Eminem — The Marshall Mathers LP 2: 537,000

26. Various Artists — NOW 49: 535,000
27. OneRepublic — Native: 525,000
28. Garth Brooks — Man Against Machine: 518,000
29. Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga — Cheek to Cheek: 510,000
30. Ariana Grande — My Everything: 509,000
31. Florida Georgia Line — Anything Goes: 502,000
32. Bruno Mars — Unorthodox Jukebox: 476,000
33. Michael Jackson — Xscape: 459,000
34. The Black Keys — Turn Blue: 457,000
35. Iggy Azalea — The New Classic: 454,000
36. Lana Del Rey — Ultraviolence: 450,000
37. Arctic Monkeys — AM: 445,000
38. Various Artists — NOW 52: 436,000
39. John Legend — Love In the Future: 430,000
40. Bastille — Bad Blood: 400,000
41. AC/DC — Rock or Bust: 399,000
42. Rick Ross — Mastermind: 397,000
43. Various Artists — NOW 51: 394,000
44. Foo Fighters — Sonic Higheays: 394,000
45. Idina Menzel — Holiday Wishes: 370,000
46. One Direction — Midnight Memories: 368,000
47. Pink Floyd — The Endless River: 355,000
48. Schoolboy Q — Oxymoron: 353,000
49. Michael Buble — Christmas: 342,000
50. Kidz Bop Kids — Kidz Bop 25: 341,000

2013

1. Justin Timberlake — The 20/20 Experience: 2,427,000
2. Eminem — The Marshall Mathers LP 2: 1,727,000
3. Luke Bryan — Crash My Party: 1,521,000
4. Imagine Dragons — Night Visions: 1,402,000
5. Bruno Mars — Unorthodox Jukebox: 1,399,000
6. Florida Georgia Line — Here's To The Good Times: 1,350,000
7. Drake — Nothing Was the Same: 1,344,000
8. Beyonce — BEYONCE: 1,301,000
9. Blake Shelton — Based On a True Story: 1,109,000
10. Jay-Z — Magna Carta...Holy Grail: 1,099,000
11. Mumford & Sons — Babel: 1,096,000
12. One Direction — Midnight Memories: 1,096,000
13. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis — The Heist: 1,018,000
14. Katy Perry — PRISM: 968,000
15. P!nk — The Truth About Love: 934,000
16. Daft Punk — Random Access Memories: 870,000
17. Taylor Swift — Red: 856,000
18. The Lumineers — The Lumineers: 843,000
19. Soundtrack — Pitch Perfect: 793,000
20. Justin Timberlake — The 20/20 Experience (2 Of 2): 781,000
21. Garth Brooks — Blame It All On My Roots: 771,000
22. Kelly Clarkson — Wrapped In Red: 763,000
23. Miley Cyrus — Bangerz: 757,000
24. Robertsons — Duck the Halls: 745,000
25. Michael Buble — To Be Loved: 724,000

26. Lorde — Pure Heroine: 686,000
27. Robin Thicke — Blurred Lines: 661,000
28. J. Cole — Born Sinner: 656,000
29. Kanye West — Yeezus: 626,000
30. Fun. — Some Nigts: 609,000
31. Adele — 21: 608,000
32. Rihanna — Unapologetic: 591,000
33. Lady Gaga — ARTPOP: 589,000
34. Lil Wayne — I Am Not a Human Being II: 587,000
35. Hunter Hayes — Hunter Hayes: 556,000
36. One Direction — Take Me Home: 555,000
37. Maroon 5 — Overexposed: 552,000
38. Lady Antebellum — Golden: 549,000
39. Luke Bryan — Spring Break: Here to Party: 543,000
40. Kendrick Lamar — Good Kid M.A.A.D. City: 542,000
41. Soundtrack — The Great Gatsby: 538,000
42. Philip Philips — The World From the Side of the Moon: 531,000
43. Jason Aldean — Night Train: 523,000
44. Band Perry — Pioneer: 514,000
45. Soundtrack — Les Miserables: 512,000
46. Fall Out Boy — Save Rock and Roll: 499,000
47. Josh Groban — All That Echoes: 494,000
48. Various Artists — NOW 45: 492,000
49. Luke Bryan — Tailgates and Tanlines: 476,000
50. Various Artists — NOW 48: 471,000

2012

1. Adele — 21: 4,414,000
2. Taylor Swift — Red: 3,107,000
3. One Direction — Up All Night: 1,616,000
4. Mumford & Sons — Babel: 1,463,000
5. One Direction — Take Me Home: 1,340,000
6. Justin Bieber — Believe: 1,324,000
7. Carrie Underwood — Blown Away: 1,203,000
8. Luke Bryan — Tailgates and Tanlines: 1,105,000
9. Lionel Richie — Tuskegee: 1,071,000
10. Jason Aldean — Night Train: 1,024,000
11. Maroon 5 — Overexposed: 988,000
12. P!nk — The Truth About Love: 945,000
13. Fun. — Some Nights: 903,000
14. Whitney Houston — The Greatest Hits: 886,000
15. Rod Stewart — Merry Christmas Baby: 858,000
16. Nicki Minaj — Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded: 785,000
17. Eric Chruch — Chief: 764,000
18. Various Artists — NOW 41: 763,400
19. Zac Brown Band — Uncaged: 718,000
20. Adele — 19: 718,000
21. Gotye — Making Mirrors: 700,000
22. Drake — Take Care: 698,000
23. The Lumineers — The Lumineers: 693,000
24. The Black Keys — El Camino: 655,000
25. Mumford & Sons — Sigh No More: 645,000

26. Katy Perry — Teenage Dream: 642,000
27. Michael Buble — Christmas: 622,000
28. Little Big Town — Tornado: 605,000
29. Jason Aldean — My Kinda Party: 594,000
30. Kenny Chesney — Welcome to the Fishbowl: 592,000
31. Lady Antebellum — Own the Night: 584,000
32. Kendrick Lamar — Good Kid M.A.A.D. City: 584,000
33. Of Monsters & Men — My Head Is An Animal: 569,000
34. Linkin Park — Living Things: 563,000
35. Kelly Clarkson — Stronger: 555,000
36. Rihanna — Unapologetic: 553,000
37. Rihanna — Talk That Talk: 546,000
38. Philip Philips — The World From the Side of the Moon: 533,000
39. John Mayer — Born and Raised: 530,000
40. Madonna — MDNA: 527,000
41. Various Artists — NOW 43: 524,000
42. Various Artists — NOW 44: 524,000
43. Coldplay — Mylo Xyloto: 512,000
44. Dave Matthews Band — Away from the World: 496,000
45. Rick Ross — God Forgives I Don't: 493,000
46. Bruce Springsteen — Wrecking Ball: 490,000
47. Bruno Mars — Unorthodox Jukebox: 480,000
48. Various Artists — NOW 42: 479,000
49. Lana Del Rey — Born to Die: 479,000
50. 2 Chainz — Based On a T.R.U. Story: 478,000

2011

1. Adele — 21: 5,824,000
2. Michael Buble — Christmas: 2,452,000
3. Lady Gaga — Born this Way: 2,101,000
4. Lil Wayne — Tha Carter IV: 1,917,000
5. Jason Aldean — My Kinda Party: 1,576,000
6. Mumford & Sons — Sigh No More: 1,420,000
7. Drake — Take Care: 1,247,000
8. Justin Bieber — Under the Mistletoe: 1,245,000
9. Jay-Z & Kanye West — Watch the Throne: 1,232,000
10. Lady Antebellum — Own the Night: 1,204,000
11. Beyonce — 4: 1,058,000
12. Katy Perry — Teenage Dream: 1,006,000
13. Coldplay — Mylo Xyloto: 1,006,000
14. Bruno Mars — Doo-Wops & Hooligans: 978,000
15. Taylor Swift — Speak Now: 967,000
16. Nicki Minaj — Pink Friday: 876,000
17. Adele — 19: 857,000
18. Scotty McCreery — Clear As Day: 856,000
19. Rihanna — Loud: 833,000
20. Justin Bieber — Never Say Never: 824,000
21. Chris Brown — F.A.M.E.: 811,000
22. Zac Brown Band — You Get What You Give: 764,000
23. Eminem — Recovery: 741,000
24. Justin Bieber — My World 2.0: 739,000
25. Britney Spears — Femme Fatale: 736,000

26. Band Perry — The Band Perry: 731,000
27. Tony Bennett — Duets II: 720,000
28. Various Artists — NOW 37: 705,000
29. Lady Antebellum — Need You Now: 700,000
30. Bad Meets Evil — Hell: The Sequel: 666,000
31. Foo Fighters — Wasting Light: 663,000
32. Various Artists — NOW 38: 662,000
33. Foster the People — Torches: 656,000
34. P!nk — Greatest Hits...So Far: 653,000
35. Luke Bryan — Tailgates and Tanlines: 651,000
36. Wiz Khalifa — Rolling Papers: 650,000
37. Jackie Evancho — Dream With Me: 636,000
38. Brad Paisley — This Is Country Music: 613,000
39. Nickelback — Here and Now: 586,000
40. Various Artists — NOW 40: 550,000
41. Various Artists — NOW 39: 545,000
42. Eric Church — Chief: 544,000
43. Selena Gomez & the Scene — When the Sun Goes Down: 536,000
44. Maroon 5 — Hands All Over: 529,000
45. LMFAO — Sorry for Party Rocking: 524,000
46. Florence + The Machine — Lungs: 522,000
47. Rihanna — Talk That Talk: 514,000
48. Blake Shelton — Red River Blue: 508,000
49. J. Cole — Cole World: The Sideline Story: 498,000
50. Rascal Flatts — Nothing Like This: 498,000

2010

1. Eminem — Recovery: 3,415,000
2. Lady Antebellum — Need You Now: 3,089,000
3. Taylor Swift — Speak Now: 2,960,000
4. Justin Bieber — My World 2.0: 2,319,000
5. Susan Boyle — The Gift: 1,852,000
6. Lady Gaga — The Fame: 1,591,000
7. Sade — Soldier of Love: 1,300,000
8. Drake — Thank Me Later: 1,269,000
9. Usher — Raymond v Raymond: 1,183,000
10. Ke$ha — Animal: 1,143,000
11. The Black Eyed Peas — The E.N.D.: 1,133,000
12. Zac Brown Band — The Foundation: 1,015,000
13. Jackie Evancho — O Holy Night: 1,010,000
14. Katy Perry — Teenage Dream: 997,000
15. Justin Bieber — My World: 980,000
16. Glee Cast — Glee: The Music: 917,000
17. Taylor Swift — Fearless: 888,000
18. Kanye West — My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy: 882,000
19. Susan Boyle — I Dreamed a Dream: 859,000
20. Nicki Minaj — Pink Friday: 852,000
21. Lady Gaga — The Fame Monster: 826,000
22. Sugarland — The Incredible Machine: 782,000
23. Miranda Lambert — Revolution: 778,000
24. Michael Buble — Crazy Love: 766,000
25. Rihanna — Loud: 752,000

26. Carrie Underwood — Play On: 741,000
27. Jack Johnson — To the Sea: 723,000
28. Lil Wayne — Rebirth: 710,000
29. Various Artists — NOW 33: 699,000
30. Alicia Keys — The Element of Freedom: 690,000
31. Jason Aldean — My Kinda Party: 687,000
32. Lil Wayne — I Am Not a Human Being: 664,000
33. Josh Groban — Illuminations: 643,000
34. Kid Rock — Born Free: 640,000
35. Trey Songz — Passion Pain & Pleasure: 631,000
36. Mumford & Sons — Sigh No More: 626,000
37. Linkin Park — A Thousand Suns 619,000
38. Kenny Chesney — Hemingway's Whiskey: 617,000
39. Glee Cast — Glee: The Music Vol. 3: 608,000
40. Zac Brown Bad — You Get What You Give: 597,000
41. Ludacris — Battle of the Sexes: 561,000
42. Carole King & James Taylor — Live At the Troubadour: 557,000
43. Rascal Flatts — Nothing Like This: 545,000
44. Monica — Still Standing: 540,000
45. Rick Ross — Teflon Don: 536,000
46. Train — Save Me San Francisco: 527,000
47. Rihanna — Rated R: 525,000
48. Soundtrack — Twilight Saga: 517,000
49. Kings of Leon — Come Around Sundown: 498,000
50. B.O.B. — B.O.B. Presents the Adventures of Bobby Ray: 490,000

Bey_Rihstan

Are these pure sales

Kots

Adele's lead with the album being released in November

Kings.

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9 THE WEEKND BEAUTY BEHIND THE MADNESS - 770,000
19 MUMFORD & SONS WILDER MIND - 510,000
29 NICKI MINAJ PINKPRINT - 380,000

geddymonster

Meghan truly slayed this year. Only Platinum female album released this year besides Adele.

Romantica

Wow, Adele, Tay, Meghan, yas

Callum

Drake

Praying Ed doesn't snatch him last minute.

Donquizote

The gap between Adele and Taylor

Delilah.

woah, this shows how terrible sales are

florence making the list

Blue Jeans

And this is only US

chilicheese01

How is a meh album like Purpose selling so well?

J a y

Tragic.

Ivan_brit

Only 4 albums cross 1 million

The Weeknd & Bieber comming for 1 million!

Cockney Cupcake

25 's sales look even more unreal when you look at the rest

monsterLd

Adele, Ed and Sam representing the UK. Slay.

Sam being top 5 two years in a row.

Memphis

Purpose will be top 5 by the end of the month

gagacasanova

25, 1989, Storyteller

monsterLd

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Originally posted by chilicheese01

How is a meh album like Purpose selling so well?

It's actually quite good. Hate though.

alexanderao

GRMusic

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