Lady GaGa
On Wednesday (January 6), Nielsen SoundScan released their sales figures for 2009, and while some of the data is downright depressing — total album sales (including digital) dropped еще than 12 percent — we prefer to focus on the positive: Swift, Gaga and Jackson (not to mention Susan Boyle, the Black Eyed Peas and the Kings of Leon) moved a whole lot of units over the past 12 months.
Swift’s Fearless was the year’s top-selling album, moving еще than 3.2 million copies, holding off a late-year charge from Boyle, whose I Dreamed a Dream sold some 3.1 million copies to land at #2 (though Boyle had the best-selling album released in 2009, since Fearless actually came out in November 2008). Michael Jackson’s Number Ones was #3, selling еще than 2.3 million copies, and Lady Gaga’s The Fame (2.23 million) and Andrea Bocelli’s My Рождество (2.2 million) round out the вверх five.
Jackson was 2009’s top-selling artist by a mile. He sold еще than 8.2 million albums, doubling his nearest competitor, Swift, who sold 4.6 million. Some group called the Beatles landed at #3, selling еще than 3.2 million albums, followed by Boyle (3.1 million) and Gaga (2.8 million).
Gaga was named the top-selling digital artist of the год — a category based on total digital track sales — as Фаны downloaded еще than 15 million of her songs. The Black Eyed Peas were next, selling nearly 13 million digital tracks. Jackson stood at #3 (12.35 million), быстрый, стремительный, свифт came in at #4 (12.3 million) with Beyoncé at #5.
The Peas held the вверх two spots on the top-selling digital songs Список with “Boom Boom Pow” (4.7 million downloads) and “I Gotta Feeling” (4.4 million), followed by Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face” (4.3 million), Flo Rida’s “Right Round” (4.1 million) and Gaga’s “Just Dance” (3.2 million).
The Nielsen SoundScan numbers were based on the 52-week period of January 5, 2009 — January 3, 2010.
The Fame Ball/Monster Ball
