Pop and pop-rock take up the entirety of the top 5, while rock, hip-hop and K-pop fill up the lower half of the list
... [+]Albums don’t sell like they used to...and that’s something that the music industry has known for a long, long time. Fewer and fewer Americans purchase full-lengths every year, and the total number of copies moved dips constantly. According to Nielsen Music’s year-end report on the state of the business, sales of all forms of albums declined by 18.7% in the past year, from 138.8 million buys in 2018 to just 112.7 million in 2019.
While most efforts simply don’t sell well, there will always be a ranking of which titles did manage to move the most copies, and this time around, a familiar superstar ends up on top.wrapped 2019 as the bestselling album of the past year, and it is in a very, very distant first place. The former country musician’s latest chart-topper sold 1.085 million copies, making itwas the bestselling digital and physical album as well, which makes sense given how far ahead of every other title it is.
Pop and pop-rock take up the entirety of the top five, while rock, hip-hop and even K-pop fill up the lower half of the list., which closes out the list at No. 10 with 333,000 copies sold. The Fab Four’s masterpiece celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 2019, and a special reissue helped it rack up unbelievable sales for an album that’s already been purchased by so many people throughout the years.
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