[h=3]The Official UK Top 40 Biggest Selling Artist Albums Of 2014[/h][TABLE="class: chart nonseq purple"]
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[TD]X[/TD]
[TD]ED SHEERAN[/TD]
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[TD="width: 30"]2[/TD]
[TD]IN THE LONELY HOUR[/TD]
[TD]SAM SMITH[/TD]
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[TD="width: 30"]3[/TD]
[TD]WANTED ON VOYAGE[/TD]
[TD]GEORGE EZRA[/TD]
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[TD="width: 30"]4[/TD]
[TD]CAUSTIC LOVE[/TD]
[TD]PAOLO NUTINI[/TD]
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[TD="width: 30"]5[/TD]
[TD]GHOST STORIES[/TD]
[TD]COLDPLAY[/TD]
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[TD="width: 30"]6[/TD]
[TD]A PERFECT CONTRADICTION[/TD]
[TD]PALOMA FAITH[/TD]
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[TD="width: 30"]7[/TD]
[TD]FOUR[/TD]
[TD]ONE DIRECTION[/TD]
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[TD="width: 30"]8[/TD]
[TD]NEVER BEEN BETTER[/TD]
[TD]OLLY MURS[/TD]
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[TD="width: 30"]9[/TD]
[TD]THE ENDLESS RIVER[/TD]
[TD]PINK FLOYD[/TD]
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[TD="width: 30"]10[/TD]
[TD]III[/TD]
[TD]TAKE THAT[/TD]
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[TD="width: 30"]11[/TD]
[TD]1989[/TD]
[TD]TAYLOR SWIFT[/TD]
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[TD="width: 30"]12[/TD]
[TD]HALCYON[/TD]
[TD]ELLIE GOULDING[/TD]
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[TD="width: 30"]13[/TD]
[TD]BLUE SMOKE - THE BEST OF[/TD]
[TD]DOLLY PARTON[/TD]
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[TD="width: 30"]14[/TD]
[TD]PARTNERS[/TD]
[TD]BARBRA STREISAND[/TD]
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[TD="width: 30"]15[/TD]
[TD]GIRL[/TD]
[TD]PHARRELL WILLIAMS[/TD]
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[TD="width: 30"]16[/TD]
[TD]LOVE IN THE FUTURE[/TD]
[TD]JOHN LEGEND[/TD]
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[TD="width: 30"]17[/TD]
[TD]IF YOU WAIT[/TD]
[TD]LONDON GRAMMAR[/TD]
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[TD="width: 30"]18[/TD]
[TD]AM[/TD]
[TD]ARCTIC MONKEYS[/TD]
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[TD="width: 30"]19[/TD]
[TD]CHAPTER ONE[/TD]
[TD]ELLA HENDERSON[/TD]
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[TD="width: 30"]20[/TD]
[TD]BAD BLOOD[/TD]
[TD]BASTILLE[/TD]
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[TD="width: 30"]21[/TD]
[TD]NO SOUND WITHOUT SILENCE[/TD]
[TD]SCRIPT[/TD]
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[TD="width: 30"]22[/TD]
[TD]ROYAL BLOOD[/TD]
[TD]ROYAL BLOOD[/TD]
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[TD="width: 30"]23[/TD]
[TD]MEET THE VAMPS[/TD]
[TD]VAMPS[/TD]
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[TD="width: 30"]24[/TD]
[TD]BEYONCE[/TD]
[TD]BEYONCE[/TD]
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[TD="width: 30"]25[/TD]
[TD]ROCK OR BUST[/TD]
[TD]AC/DC[/TD]
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[TD="width: 30"]26[/TD]
[TD]SONIC HIGHWAYS[/TD]
[TD]FOO FIGHTERS[/TD]
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[TD="width: 30"]27[/TD]
[TD]48:13:00[/TD]
[TD]KASABIAN[/TD]
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[TD="width: 30"]28[/TD]
[TD]SINCE I SAW YOU LAST[/TD]
[TD]GARY BARLOW[/TD]
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[TD="width: 30"]29[/TD]
[TD]5 SECONDS OF SUMMER[/TD]
[TD]5 SECONDS OF SUMMER[/TD]
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[TD="width: 30"]30[/TD]
[TD]CHRISTMAS[/TD]
[TD]MICHAEL BUBLE[/TD]
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[TR="class: entry odd"]
[TD="width: 30"]31[/TD]
[TD]TRUE[/TD]
[TD]AVICII[/TD]
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[TD="width: 30"]32[/TD]
[TD]THE TAKE OFF AND LANDING OF EVERYTHING[/TD]
[TD]ELBOW[/TD]
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[TD="width: 30"]33[/TD]
[TD]THE 1975[/TD]
[TD]1975[/TD]
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[TD="width: 30"]34[/TD]
[TD]LOVE IN VENICE[/TD]
[TD]ANDRE RIEU[/TD]
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[TD="width: 30"]35[/TD]
[TD]SYMPHONICA[/TD]
[TD]GEORGE MICHAEL[/TD]
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[TD="width: 30"]36[/TD]
[TD]STARS[/TD]
[TD]COLLABRO[/TD]
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[TD="width: 30"]37[/TD]
[TD]IT'S THE GIRLS[/TD]
[TD]BETTE MIDLER[/TD]
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[TD="width: 30"]38[/TD]
[TD]NIGHT VISIONS[/TD]
[TD]IMAGINE DRAGONS[/TD]
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[TD="width: 30"]39[/TD]
[TD]MIDNIGHT MEMORIES[/TD]
[TD]ONE DIRECTION[/TD]
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[TD="width: 30"]40[/TD]
[TD]MELODY ROAD[/TD]
[TD]NEIL DIAMOND
[h=3]British artists dominate as all of the yearâs Top 10 artist albums come from homegrown talent.[/h]British acts ruled the UKâs albums market in 2014, according to the
Official Charts Companyâs end of year sales data published today by British recorded music trade body, the
BPI.
Ed Sheeranâs X was the biggest selling artist album of 2014, selling over 1,689,000 copies in the UK (over 1 million copies more than
the biggest artist album of 2013, One Directionâs Midnight Memories).
Xâs bumper sales are the highest of any artist album since
Adeleâs 21 back in 2011, and mean that the best-selling artist album in each of the past 10 years has now come from a British act.
Advertisement
By Liv Moss
[h=3]British artists dominate as all of the yearâs Top 10 artist albums come from homegrown talent.[/h]British acts ruled the UKâs albums market in 2014, according to the
Official Charts Companyâs end of year sales data published today by British recorded music trade body, the
BPI.
Ed Sheeranâs X was the biggest selling artist album of 2014, selling over 1,689,000 copies in the UK (over 1 million copies more than
the biggest artist album of 2013, One Directionâs Midnight Memories).
Xâs bumper sales are the highest of any artist album since
Adeleâs 21 back in 2011, and mean that the best-selling artist album in each of the past 10 years has now come from a British act.
Edâs second studio album,
X spent 12 weeks atop the Official Albums Chart in 2014. Alongside claiming the title of the
fastest-selling artist album of the year, the LP was the most digitally downloaded album of the year, as well as racking up the biggest one-week sales tally of the year,
shifting 214,000 copies in the week before Christmas.
X has also spawned four
Official Singles Chart Top 40s, including
Edâs first ever Number 1 single, Sing, and the record-breaking
Thinking Out Loud.
Newcomer
Sam Smithâs In The Lonely Hour is at Number 2. With UK sales of nearly 1,248,000,
Sam joins
Ed Sheeran as one of only two artists to have sold over a million albums in the UK this year.
Sam also achieved the rare feat of becoming the
only artist in 2014 to sell one million albums in both the UK and US.
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By Liv Moss
[h=3]British artists dominate as all of the yearâs Top 10 artist albums come from homegrown talent.[/h]British acts ruled the UKâs albums market in 2014, according to the
Official Charts Companyâs end of year sales data published today by British recorded music trade body, the
BPI.
Ed Sheeranâs X was the biggest selling artist album of 2014, selling over 1,689,000 copies in the UK (over 1 million copies more than
the biggest artist album of 2013, One Directionâs Midnight Memories).
Xâs bumper sales are the highest of any artist album since
Adeleâs 21 back in 2011, and mean that the best-selling artist album in each of the past 10 years has now come from a British act.
Edâs second studio album,
X spent 12 weeks atop the Official Albums Chart in 2014. Alongside claiming the title of the
fastest-selling artist album of the year, the LP was the most digitally downloaded album of the year, as well as racking up the biggest one-week sales tally of the year,
shifting 214,000 copies in the week before Christmas.
X has also spawned four
Official Singles Chart Top 40s, including
Edâs first ever Number 1 single, Sing, and the record-breaking
Thinking Out Loud.
Newcomer
Sam Smithâs In The Lonely Hour is at Number 2. With UK sales of nearly 1,248,000,
Sam joins
Ed Sheeran as one of only two artists to have sold over a million albums in the UK this year.
Sam also achieved the rare feat of becoming the
only artist in 2014 to sell one million albums in both the UK and US.
Continuing the British theme,
George Ezraâs Wanted On Voyage is the third biggest selling artist album of 2014, shifting over 678,000 copies.
Wanted On Voyage spent 26 weeks in the Top 10,
topping the Official Albums Chart for two weeks back in October, 14 weeks after its original release.
Paolo Nutiniâs Caustic Love is at 4. Released in April,
Caustic Love became the then fastest-selling album of the year, shifting 109,000 copies in its first 7 days on sale. The album went on to spend three weeks at the Number 1 spot, and has now sold over 545,000 copies in the UK.
Rounding out the Top 5 is
Coldplayâs Ghost Stories. Another former fastest-selling album of the year (overtaken by
Ed Sheeranâs X),
Ghost Stories sold 168,000 copies in its first week, back in May. The LP scored
Coldplay their sixth UK Number 1 album and to date, has sold nearly 544,000 copies.
Advertisement
By Liv Moss
[h=3]British artists dominate as all of the yearâs Top 10 artist albums come from homegrown talent.[/h]British acts ruled the UKâs albums market in 2014, according to the
Official Charts Companyâs end of year sales data published today by British recorded music trade body, the
BPI.
Ed Sheeranâs X was the biggest selling artist album of 2014, selling over 1,689,000 copies in the UK (over 1 million copies more than
the biggest artist album of 2013, One Directionâs Midnight Memories).
Xâs bumper sales are the highest of any artist album since
Adeleâs 21 back in 2011, and mean that the best-selling artist album in each of the past 10 years has now come from a British act.
Edâs second studio album,
X spent 12 weeks atop the Official Albums Chart in 2014. Alongside claiming the title of the
fastest-selling artist album of the year, the LP was the most digitally downloaded album of the year, as well as racking up the biggest one-week sales tally of the year,
shifting 214,000 copies in the week before Christmas.
X has also spawned four
Official Singles Chart Top 40s, including
Edâs first ever Number 1 single, Sing, and the record-breaking
Thinking Out Loud.
Newcomer
Sam Smithâs In The Lonely Hour is at Number 2. With UK sales of nearly 1,248,000,
Sam joins
Ed Sheeran as one of only two artists to have sold over a million albums in the UK this year.
Sam also achieved the rare feat of becoming the
only artist in 2014 to sell one million albums in both the UK and US.
Continuing the British theme,
George Ezraâs Wanted On Voyage is the third biggest selling artist album of 2014, shifting over 678,000 copies.
Wanted On Voyage spent 26 weeks in the Top 10,
topping the Official Albums Chart for two weeks back in October, 14 weeks after its original release.
Paolo Nutiniâs Caustic Love is at 4. Released in April,
Caustic Love became the then fastest-selling album of the year, shifting 109,000 copies in its first 7 days on sale. The album went on to spend three weeks at the Number 1 spot, and has now sold over 545,000 copies in the UK.
Rounding out the Top 5 is
Coldplayâs Ghost Stories. Another former fastest-selling album of the year (overtaken by
Ed Sheeranâs X),
Ghost Stories sold 168,000 copies in its first week, back in May. The LP scored
Coldplay their sixth UK Number 1 album and to date, has sold nearly 544,000 copies.
The entire Top 10 artist albums come from homegrown artists - the strongest performance by British artists since
Official Chart records began.
Paloma Faithâs A Perfect Contradiction is at 6, followed by
One Directionâs Four (7),
Olly Mursâ Never Been Better (8),
Pink Floydâs The Endless River (9) and
Take Thatâs III (10).
Commenting on another strong year for British music,
Geoff Taylor,
Chief Executive BPI and
BRIT Awards, said: âThe remarkable success of British artists in 2014 is exciting news for the future. Our record labels are backing home-grown talent like
Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith and
George Ezra, who in turn are catching fire around the world.â
While the retail value of recorded music remains above £1 billion, overall album sales have slipped this year (Digital -9.0% and Physical -6.9% from 2013). However, album streaming has seen an exponential boost, increasing by a massive 97.6% in the last 12 months.
Announced by
Spotify as their most streamed artist in the world 2014,
Ed Sheeran joins
One Direction, Coldplay and
Calvin Harris as one of only four British acts to have achieved 1 billion streams on the service.
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