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Chart Listings: The Nielsen Company & Billboard’s 2011 Music Industry Report
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The Nielsen Company & Billboard’s 2011 Music Industry Report
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2011 TOP TEN SELLING ARTISTS
(Based on Album sales from 1/3/2011-1/1/2012)
1 Adele 6,744,000
2 Justin Bieber 3,393,000
3 Michael Buble 2,985,000
4 Lady Gaga 2,828,000
5 Lil’ Wayne 2,651,000
6 Lady Antebellum 2,180,000
7 Glee Cast 2,104,000
8 Jason Aldean 1,884,000
9 Taylor Swift 1,847,000
10. Drake 1,591,000
2011 TOP TEN SELLING DIGITAL ARTISTS
(Based on digital track sales from 1/3/2011 – 1/1/2012)
1 Katy Perry 15,187,000
2 Adele 14,247,000
3 Rihanna 13,918,000
4 Glee Cast 13,580,000
5 Lady Gaga 12,768,000
6 Lil Wayne 12,335,000
7 LMFAO 10,507,000
8 Bruno Mars 10,443,000
9 Eminem 9,264,000
10. Chris Brown 8,770,000
Top 10 Most Played Songs (spins)
1 Rolling In The Deep/ Adele 658,000
2 Give Me Everything/ Pitbull feat Ne-yo,Afrojack 620,000
3 Party Rock Anthem/ LMFAO feat. Lauren Bennett & G 571,000
4 E.T./ Katy Perry 526,000
5 Firework/ Katy Perry 509,000
6 F**kin’ Perfect/ P!nk 501,000
7 Grenade/ Bruno Mars 483,000
8 Moves Like Jagger/ Maroon 5 feat Christina Aguilera 465,000
9 Just Can’t Get Enough/ Black Eyed Peas 457,000
10. Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)/ Katy Perry 450,000
Top 10 Artist Airplay (spins)
1 Katy Perry 1,457,000
2 Bruno Mars 1,440,000
3 Lady Gaga 1,261,000
4 P!nk 1,182,000
5 Rihanna 1,127,000
6 Adele 1,118,000
7 Taylor Swift 1,094,000
8 Black Eyed Peas 955,000
9 Lady Antebellum 916,000
10. Britney Spears 900,000
2011 TOP TEN SELLING DIGITAL ALBUMS
(1/3/2011-1/1/2012)
1 21/ Adele 1,801,000
2 Born This Way/ Lady Gaga 877,000
3 Sigh No More/ Mumford & Sons 761,000
4 Watch The Throne/ Jay Z & Kanye West 608,000
5 Tha Carter IV/ Lil’ Wayne 603,000
6 Mylo Xyloto/ Coldplay 573,000
7 Take Care/ Drake 467,000
8 Christmas/ Michael Buble 348,000
9 Teenage Dream/ Katy Perry 299,000
10. Torches/ Foster The People 294,000
2011 TOP TEN VINYL ALBUMS
(1/3/2011-1/1/2012)
1 Abbey Road/ Beatles 41,000
2 Helplessness Blues/ Fleet Foxes 29,700
3 Bon Iver/ Bon Iver 27,200
4 Sigh No More/ Mumford & Sons 26,800
5 King Of Limbs/ Radiohead 20,800
6 21/ Adele 16,500
7 For Emma Forever Ago/ Bon Iver 16,200
8 Whole Love/ Wilco 14,900
9 Brothers/ Black Keys 14,200
10. El Camino/ Black Keys 13,800
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do they classify pop under rock?
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Best Seller Album Factoids:
Adele’s 21 finishes the year as the biggest selling album with just more than 5.8 million sales. This is the first time since 2004 that an album sold more than 5 million copies in a year. Usher’s album Confessions sold 8 million copies in 2004.
Adele held top honors in many sales categories this year and became the first artist to claim the top spot for Best Selling Artist, Album and Digital Song in the same year.
Below is a listing of Adele’s top honors for 2011: 
Best Selling Artist based on Album sales – 6.7 million
Best Selling Album (21) – 5.8 million
Best Selling Physical Album (21) – 4.0 million
Best Selling Digital Album (21) – 1.8 million
Best Selling Digital Album of All Time (21) – 1.8 million
Best Selling Internet Album (21) – 321,000
Best Selling Digital Song (“Rolling In The Deep”) – 5.8 million
Best Selling Digital Track (“Rolling In The Deep”) – 5.7 million
Most Played Song on the Radio (“Rolling In The Deep”) – 658,000 detections
For the second straight year, Lady Antebellum finishes the year as the biggest selling group of 2011 with more than 2.1 million album sales.
Metallica’s self titled album remains on top as the best selling album in the Nielsen SoundScan era with more than 15.7 million album sales; more than 200,000 ahead of Shania Twain’s Come On Over.
Garth Brooks continues to be comfortably the best selling artist in the Nielsen SoundScan era with more than 68.5 million album sales; 5 million sales ahead of the Beatles.
Rihanna takes over the top spot as the biggest selling digital artist of all time with digital track sales totaling more than 47.5 million.
The Columbia label group ends the year with the largest album market share among all label groups with a 9.34 share.
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Rolling In The Deep/ Adele 5,921,000
79k copies away from 6m
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Quote:
Top 10 Artists - Streams:
4 Adele 123,642,000
Top 10 Artist Airplay :
6 Adele 1,118,000
2011 TOP TEN SELLING DIGITAL ARTISTS :
Adele 14,247,000
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With 2 and a half singles 
RITD sold 5,813,000
SLY sold 3,750,000
SFTTR sold ~1.4M
RHI ~600k
TT ~450k
That leaves us with ~2.23M for other tracks 
2011 TOP TEN VINYL ALBUMS:
6 21/ Adele 16,500
Top 10 Streamed Songs:
3 Rolling In The Deep/ Adele 53,173,000
5 Someone Like You/ Adele 40,853,000
Top 10 Music Video Streams
4 Someone Like You/ Adele 31,196,000
5 Rolling In The Deep/ Adele 30,064,000
SLY above RITD
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Adele really shat on everyone last year. I need more slayage this year 
Artist Units Sold
1 Metallica/ Metallica 15,735,000
2 Come On Over/ Shania Twain 15,513,000
3 Jagged Little Pill/ Alanis Morissette 14,714,000
4 Millennium/ Backstreet Boys 12,168,000
5 Beatles 1/ Beatles 11,985,000
6 Soundtrack/ Bodyguard 11,829,000
7 Supernatural/ Santana 11,772,000
8 Human Clay/ Creed 11,574,000
9 No Strings Attached/ N Sync 11,122,000
10. Falling Into You/ Celine Dion 10,790,000
Can 21 make it through the top 10 someday?
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2011 TOP TEN PHYSICAL ALBUMS
(Based on CD, Cassette and LP album sales from 1/3/2011-1/1/2012)
Title/Artist Units Sold
1 21/ Adele 4,023,000
2 Christmas/ Michael Buble 2,104,000
3 My Kinda Party/ Jason Aldean 1.326,000
4 Tha Carter IV/ Lil’ Wayne 1.314,000
5 Born This Way/ Lady Gaga 1,223,000
6 Under The Mistletoe/ Justin Bieber 1,094,000
7 Own The Night/ Lady Antebellum 966,000
8 4/ Beyonce 845,000
9 Take Care/ Drake 780,000
10. Speak Now/ Taylor Swift 774,000
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Album Sales Up for the First Time Since 2004
Digital Track & Digital Album Sales Reach New Highs
Overall Music Sales Break 1.6 Billion Mark for First Time
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Wow
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10. Chris Brown 8,770,000
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Great work to all the artists in the music industry for working real hard to rack up those sales.
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2011 GENRE ALBUM SALES REPORT
R&B 55,435 57,871 -4.2%
Most of Bey's sales were physical though
IGF 7.688M
RITD going 6x in a few weeks.
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