Top Selling Albums Of 2016
Albums just aren’t selling like they used to, and that goes for physical and digital. The end-of-the-year Nielsen numbers are out and they show that only 4 albums made it to platinum-level last year, which is sales of 1 million or more. If you add in sales of digital albums, you get 3 more, which is still way off from previous years.
We live in a streaming world, and that means that the single rules and consumers are buying far fewer individual albums, preferring to spend their money on a monthly streaming subscription instead. Here are the top 10 albums in the US for last year, both physical and digital.
Top Selling Physical Albums In The US In 2016
1 | Adele, 25 | 1,731,000 |
2 | Drake, Views | 1,608,000 |
3 | Beyonce, Lemonade | 1,554,000 |
4 | Chris Stapleton, Traveller | 1,085,000 |
5 | Pentatonix, A Pentatonix Christmas | 904,000 |
6 | Original Broadway Cast Recording, Hamilton: An American Musical | 820,000 |
7 | Twenty One Pilots, Blurryface | 738,000 |
8 | Prince, The Very Best of Prince | 668,000 |
9 | Rihanna, Anti | 603,000 |
10 | Justin Bieber, Purpose | 554,000 |
Adele has had the top selling album in the US for 4 out of the last 6 years, something that’s never happened before.
Top Selling Digital Albums In The US In 2016
1 | Drake, Views | 1,299,000 |
2 | Beyonce, Lemonade | 1,200,000 |
3 | Adele, 25 | 514,000 |
4 | Chris Stapleton, Traveller | 447,000 |
5 | Original Broadway Cast Recording, Hamilton: An American Musical | 422,000 |
6 | Twenty One Pilots, Blurryface | 377,000 |
7 | Prince, The Very Best of Prince | 371,000 |
8 | J. Cole, 4 Your Eyez Only | 356,000 |
9 | Rihanna, Anti | 347,000 |
10 | Panic! at the Disco, Death of a Bachelor | 334,000 |