Here come the Brits! Adele's 21 named biggest-selling album in the world... as One Direction bag the third and fourth spots on the chart
It is the album that has taken a kid from a council estate to being the world’s best-selling singer for two years on the spin.
And now Adele’s 21 has helped British acts secure a record 13.3 percent share of global album sales, after being named the biggest-selling record in the world for a second year in a row.
The figure has risen from 12.6 percent in 2011, also helped by boyband phenomenon One Direction, whose albums Up All Night and Take Me Home were the third and fourth best-selling albums in the world.
Rod Stewart’s album Merry Christmas
Baby was the world’s eight biggest-selling album, while folk group
Mumford & Sons were in tenth place with their album, Babel, meaning
that five of the top ten biggest global sellers of 2012 were by British
artists.
Adele’s achievement, selling 4.4 million copies in the US 2012 after shifting 5.8 million in 2011, means it also the fifth time in six years that a British star has had the world’s number one selling album, following Susan Boyle in 2009, Coldplay in 2008 and Amy Winehouse in 2007.
It is the first time that one album has topped the US sales chart for two years in a row since Nielsen Soundscan began tracking album sales in 1991.
And now Adele’s 21 has helped British acts secure a record 13.3 percent share of global album sales, after being named the biggest-selling record in the world for a second year in a row.
The figure has risen from 12.6 percent in 2011, also helped by boyband phenomenon One Direction, whose albums Up All Night and Take Me Home were the third and fourth best-selling albums in the world.
On top: Adele album 21 has been announced as the best-selling album of the year in the world for the second year in a row
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Adele’s achievement, selling 4.4 million copies in the US 2012 after shifting 5.8 million in 2011, means it also the fifth time in six years that a British star has had the world’s number one selling album, following Susan Boyle in 2009, Coldplay in 2008 and Amy Winehouse in 2007.
It is the first time that one album has topped the US sales chart for two years in a row since Nielsen Soundscan began tracking album sales in 1991.
Doing it for the Brits: The London singer has helped record acts secure a 13.3 per cent share of global album sales
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