NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nielsen SoundScan, the entertainment industry's data information system that tracks unit point-of-purchase sales of recorded music product and Nielsen BDS, the music industry’s leading music performance monitoring service- which power many of the Billboard charts- have announced the 2011 calendar year sales and airplay monitoring data for the 52-week period January 3, 2011 through January 1, 2012.
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OVERALL MUSIC SALES (1/3/11 – 1/1/12) |
OVERALL ALBUM SALES (1/3/11 – 1/1/12) |
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(ALBUMS, SINGLES, MUSIC VIDEO, DIGITAL TRACKS – IN MILLIONS) |
(INCLUDES ALL ALBUMS & TRACK EQUIVALENT ALBUMS – IN MILLIONS) |
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UNITS SOLD |
2011 |
2010 |
% Chg. |
UNITS SOLD |
2011 |
2010 |
% Chg. |
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| *1,611 | 1,507 | 6.9% | 457.7 | 443.4 | 3.2% | |||||||||||||||||||
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TOTAL ALBUM SALES (1/3/11 – 1/1/12) |
INTERNET ALBUM SALES (1/3/11 – 1/1/12) |
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(INCLUDES CD, CS, LP, DIGITAL ALBUMS - IN MILLIONS) |
(PHYSICAL ALBUM PURCHASES VIA E-COMMERCE SITES, IN MILLIONS) |
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UNITS SOLD |
2011 |
2010 |
% Chg. |
UNITS SOLD |
2011 |
2010 |
% Chg. |
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| 330.6 | 326.2 | 1.3% | 29.3 | 24.9 | 17.7% | |||||||||||||||||||
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DIGITAL TRACK SALES |
DIGITAL ALBUM SALES |
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(1/3/11 – 1/1/2012 - IN MILLIONS) |
(1/3/2011 – 1/1/2012 - IN MILLIONS) |
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UNITS SOLD |
2011 |
2010 |
% CHG. |
UNITS SOLD |
2011 |
2010 |
% CHG. |
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| *1,271 | 1,172 | 8.5% | *103.1 | 86.3 | 19.5% | |||||||||||||||||||
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TOTAL CD ALBUM SALES (1/3/11 – 1/1/12) |
TOTAL LP ALBUM SALES (1/3/11 – 1/1/12) |
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(CD ALBUMS - IN MILLIONS) |
(LP/VINYL ALBUMS - IN MILLIONS) |
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UNITS SOLD |
2011 |
2010 |
% Chg. |
UNITS SOLD |
2011 |
2010 |
% Chg. |
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| 223.5 | 236.9 | - 5.7% | *3.9 | 2.8 | 36.3% | |||||||||||||||||||
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HOLIDAY SEASON ALBUM SALES (11/7/11 – 1/1/12) |
HOLIDAY SEASON TRACK SALES (11/7/11 – 1/1/12) |
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(Physical & Digital ALBUM SALES DURING HOLIDAY SEASON: IN MILLIONS) |
(Digital Track SALES DURING HOLIDAY SEASON: IN MILLIONS) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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UNITS SOLD |
2011 |
2010 |
% Chg. |
UNITS SOLD |
2011 |
2010 |
% Chg. |
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| 75.1 | 78.7 | - 4.6% | 216.0 | 214.6 | 0.7% | |||||||||||||||||||
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TOTAL NEW ALBUM RELEASES |
ALBUM SALES PLATEAUS |
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(Based on new albums released 1/3/11 - 1/1/12) |
(Based on all albums sold 1/3/11 – 1/1/12) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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# OF ALBUMS |
2011 |
2010 |
# OF ALBUMS |
2011 |
2010 |
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| 76,875 | 75,159 | 1 million Or More | 13 | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 500,000 – 999,999 | 35 | 35 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
*Denotes a Nielsen SoundScan sales record
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2011 GENRE ALBUM SALES REPORT |
CURRENT VS. CATALOG ALBUM SALES |
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(Based on total album sales 1/3/11-1/1/12 – IN THOUSANDS) |
(1/3/11-1/1/12 - IN MILLIONS) |
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| Genre | 2011 | 2010 | % Chg. | Overall Albums | 2011 | 2010 | % Chg. | |||||||||||||||||
| Alternative | 55,032 | 53,727 | 2.4% | Current | 179.4 | 187.3 | - 4.2% | |||||||||||||||||
| Christian/Gospel+ | 23,734 | 24,226 | -2.0% | Catalog | 151.2 | 138.9 | 8.9% | |||||||||||||||||
| Classical | 9,566 | 8,957 | 6.8% | Deep Catalog | 119.4 | 106.1 | 12 .5% | |||||||||||||||||
| Country | 42,923 | 43,718 | -1.8% | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Jazz | 11,077 | 8,780 | 26.2% | Physical Albums: | 2011 | 2010 | % Chg. | |||||||||||||||||
| Latin | 11,814 | 12,350 | -4.3% | Current | 126.5 | 143.0 | - 11.5% | |||||||||||||||||
| Metal | 32,206 | 32,554 | -1.1% | Catalog | 101.0 | 97.0 | 4.1% | |||||||||||||||||
| New Age | 1,929 | 1,660 | 16.2% | Deep Catalog | 81.0 | 74.9 | 8.1% | |||||||||||||||||
| R&B | 55,435 | 57,871 | -4.2% | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Rap | 28,251 | 27,328 | 3.4% | Digital Albums: | 2011 | 2010 | % Chg. | |||||||||||||||||
| Rock | 105,685 | 103,709 | 1.9% | Current | 52.9 | 44.3 | 19.4% | |||||||||||||||||
| Soundtrack | 13,232 | 16,412 | -19.4% | Catalog | 50.2 | 41.9 | 19.8% | |||||||||||||||||
| Electronic | 10,049 | 8,735 | 15.0% | Deep Catalog | 38.4 | 31.2 | 23.1% | |||||||||||||||||
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2011 GENRE DIGITAL ALBUM SALES REPORT |
DIGITAL TRACK SALES BY DECADE |
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(Based on digital album sales 1/3/11-1/1/12 – IN THOUSANDS) |
(1/3/11-1/1/12 – IN THOUSANDS) |
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| Genre | 2011 | 2010 | % Chg. | Decade | 2011 | 2010 | % Chg. | % Tot Sales | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Alternative | 24,674 | 20,932 | 19.9% | 2010’s | 541,981 | 251,000 | 116% | 43% | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Christian/Gospel+ | 4,781 | 3,971 | 20.4% | 2000’s | 535,170 | 742,700 | - 28% | 43% | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Classical | 2,409 | 2,016 | 19.5% | 1990’s | 87,092 | 85,141 | 2% | 7% | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Country | 8,181 | 6,437 | 27.1% | 1980’s | 40,506 | 38,316 | 6% | 3% | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Jazz | 2,636 | 2,191 | 20.3% | 1970’s | 32,589 | 30,966 | 5% | 3% | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Latin | 1,128 | 917 | 23.0% | 1960’s | 18,236 | 16,933 | 8% | 1% | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Metal | 9,752 | 8,090 | 20.5% | 1950’s | 2,712 | 2,977 | -9% | 0.2% | |||||||||||||||||||||
| New Age | 574 | 529 | 8.5% | 1940’s | 601 | 652 | - 8% | 0.04% | |||||||||||||||||||||
| R&B | 14,922 | 11,731 | 27.2% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rap | 9,882 | 6,969 | 41.8% | CURRENT VS. CATALOG DIGITAL TRACK SALES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rock | 38,593 | 33,186 | 16.3% | (1/3/11-1/1/12 – IN MILLIONS) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Soundtrack | 5,543 | 5,678 | -2.4% | Sales | 2011 | 2010 | % Chg. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Electronic | 4,936 | 3,468 | 42.3% | Current | 552.4 | 523.0 | 6% | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Catalog | 718.4 | 648.5 | 11% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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DIGITAL TRACK SALES BY CORE GENRE |
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(1/3/11-1/1/12 – IN THOUSANDS) |
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| Genre | 2011 | % Tot Sales | Genre | 2011 | % Tot Sales | |||||||||||
| Blues | 2,423 | 0.2% | Latin | 20,613 | 1.6% | |||||||||||
| Children | 4,238 | 0.3% | New Age | 1,398 | 0.1% | |||||||||||
| Christian/Gospel | 32,248 | 2.5% | Pop | 305,606 | 24.0% | |||||||||||
| Classical | 6,692 | 0.5% | R&B/Hip Hop | 262,058 | 20.6% | |||||||||||
| Comedy | 6,650 | 0.5% | Rock | 291,655 | 22.9% | |||||||||||
| Country | 143,694 | 11.3% | World | 4,125 | 0.3% | |||||||||||
| Dance/Electronic | 39,095 | 3.1% | ||||||||||||||
| Holiday/Seasonal | 13,700 | 1.1% | ||||||||||||||
| Jazz | 9,231 | 0.7% | ||||||||||||||
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2011 YEAR-TO-DATE RECORD COMPANY MARKET SHARE (1/3/11 - 1/1/12) |
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(Reflects the market share for the entire entity including sub-distributed companies for the 52 week year) |
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TOTAL ALBUMS (Catalog & Current Titles) |
CURRENT ALBUMS |
CATALOG ALBUMS |
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| 2011 | 2010 | 2011 | 2010 | 2011 | 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UMG | 29.85% | 30.84% | UMG | 31.85% | 34.61% | UMG | 27.43% | 25.77% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SME | 29.29% | 27.95% | SME | 29.56% | 27.48% | SME | 28.97% | 28.59% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| WMG | 19.13% | 20.01% | WMG | 17.39% | 18.44% | WMG | 21.18% | 22.12% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| EMI | 9.62% | 10.18% | EMI | 9.07% | 9.62% | EMI | 10.34% | 10.93% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| OTHERS | 12.11% | 11.02% | OTHERS | 12.14% | 9.85% | OTHERS | 12.07% | 12.60% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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PHYSICAL ALBUMS (Catalog & Current Titles) |
DIGITAL ALBUMS (Catalog & Current Titles) |
DIGITAL TRACKS |
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| 2011 | 2010 | 2011 | 2010 | 2011 | 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UMG | 30.53% | 32.06% | UMG | 28.35% | 27.47% | UMG | 32.97% | 33.30% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SME | 31.08% | 29.31% | SME | 25.36% | 24.18% | SME | 26.21% | 25.28% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| WMG | 18.78% | 19.07% | WMG | 19.91% | 22.60% | WMG | 17.74% | 19.58% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| EMI | 9.44% | 9.99% | EMI | 10.00% | 10.71% | EMI | 8.26% | 8.36% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| OTHERS | 10.17% | 9.57% | OTHERS | 16.37% | 15.03% | OTHERS | 12.97% | 12.51% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
BILLBOARD’S TOP SELLING ALBUMS & ARTISTS, BASED ON NIELSEN SOUNDSCAN DATA
*for the 2011 Calendar Year
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2011 TOP TEN SELLING ALBUMS |
2011 TOP TEN SELLING ARTISTS |
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(1/3/2011-1/1/2012) |
(Based on Album sales from 1/3/2011-1/1/2012) |
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| Title/Artist | Units Sold | Artist | Units Sold | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | 21/ Adele | 5,824,000 | 1 | Adele | 6,744,000 | |||||||||||||
| 2 | Christmas/ Michael Buble | 2,452,000 | 2 | Justin Bieber | 3,393,000 | |||||||||||||
| 3 | Born This Way/ Lady Gaga | 2,101,000 | 3 | Michael Buble | 2,985,000 | |||||||||||||
| 4 | Tha Carter IV/ Lil’ Wayne | 1,917,000 | 4 | Lady Gaga | 2,828,000 | |||||||||||||
| 5 | My Kinda Party/ Jason Aldean | 1,576,000 | 5 | Lil’ Wayne | 2,651,000 | |||||||||||||
| 6 | Sigh No More/ Mumford & Sons | 1,420,000 | 6 | Lady Antebellum | 2,180,000 | |||||||||||||
| 7 | Take Care/ Drake | 1,247,000 | 7 | Glee Cast | 2,104,000 | |||||||||||||
| 8 |
Under The Mistletoe/ Justin Bieber |
1,245,000 | 8 | Jason Aldean | 1,884,000 | |||||||||||||
| 9 |
Watch The Throne/ Jay Z & Kanye West |
1,232,000 | 9 | Taylor Swift | 1,847,000 | |||||||||||||
| 10. |
Own The Night/ Lady Antebellum |
1,204,000 | 10. | Drake | 1,591,000 | |||||||||||||
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2011 TOP TEN SELLING DIGITAL SONGS |
2011 TOP TEN SELLING DIGITAL ARTISTS |
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(Combines all versions of same Song: 1/3/2011-1/1/2012) |
(Based on digital track sales from 1/3/2011 – 1/1/2012) |
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| Title/Artist | Units Sold | Artist | Units Sold | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | Rolling In the Deep/ Adele | 5,813,000 | 1 | Katy Perry | 15,187,000 | |||||||||||||
| 2 | Party Rock Anthem/ LMFAO feat. Lauren Bennett & G | 5,468,000 | 2 | Adele | 14,247,000 | |||||||||||||
| 3 | E.T./ Katy Perry | 4,829,000 | 3 | Rihanna | 13,918,000 | |||||||||||||
| 4 | Moves Like Jagger/ Maroon 5 feat Christina Aguilera | 4,111,000 | 4 | Glee Cast | 13,580,000 | |||||||||||||
| 5 | Give Me Everything/ Pitbull feat Ne-yo,Afrojack | 3,875,000 | 5 | Lady Gaga | 12,768,000 | |||||||||||||
| 6 | Pumped Up Kicks/ Foster the People | 3,843,000 | 6 | Lil Wayne | 12,335,000 | |||||||||||||
| 7 | Someone Like You/ Adele | 3,750,000 | 7 | LMFAO | 10,507,000 | |||||||||||||
| 8 | F**k You (Forget You)/ Cee Lo Green | 3,724,000 | 8 | Bruno Mars | 10,443,000 | |||||||||||||
| 9 | Super Bass/ Nicki Minaj | 3,608,000 | 9 | Eminem | 9,264,000 | |||||||||||||
| 10. | Born This Way/ Lady Gaga | 3,476,000 | 10. | Chris Brown | 8,770,000 | |||||||||||||
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2011 TOP TEN SELLING DIGITAL TRACKS |
2011 TOP TEN SELLING DIGITAL ALBUMS |
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(1/3/2011 – 1/1/2012) |
(1/3/2011-1/1/2012) |
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| Title/Artist | Units Sold | Artist | Units Sold | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | Rolling In The Deep/ Adele | 5,756,000 | 1 | 21/ Adele | 1,801,000 | |||||||||||||
| 2 | Party Rock Anthem/ LMFAO feat. Lauren Bennett & G | 5,006,000 | 2 | Born This Way/ Lady Gaga | 877,000 | |||||||||||||
| 3 | Moves Like Jagger/ Maroon 5 feat Christina Aguilera | 4,012,000 | 3 | Sigh No More/ Mumford & Sons | 761,000 | |||||||||||||
| 4 | Give Me Everything/ Pitbull feat Ne-yo,Afrojack | 3,793,000 | 4 |
Watch The Throne/ Jay Z & Kanye West |
608,000 | |||||||||||||
| 5 | Pumped Up Kicks/ Foster the People | 3,753,000 | 5 | Tha Carter IV/ Lil’ Wayne | 603,000 | |||||||||||||
| 6 | Someone Like You/ Adele | 3,750,000 | 6 | Mylo Xyloto/ Coldplay | 573,000 | |||||||||||||
| 7 | E.T./ Katy Perry | 3,424,000 | 7 | Take Care/ Drake | 467,000 | |||||||||||||
| 8 |
Sexy And I Know It/ LMFAO |
3,355,000 | 8 | Christmas/ Michael Buble | 348,000 | |||||||||||||
| 9 | Born This Way/ Lady Gaga | 3,346,000 | 9 | Teenage Dream/ Katy Perry | 299,000 | |||||||||||||
| 10. | Super Bass/ Nicki Minaj | 3,005,000 | 10. | Torches/ Foster The People | 294,000 | |||||||||||||
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TOP TEN ALBUMS DURING 2011 HOLIDAY SEASON |
TOP TEN DIGITAL SONGS DURING HOLIDAY SEASON |
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(Based on album sales from 11/7/2011-1/1/2012) |
(Based on digital song sales from 11/7/2011-1/1/2012) |
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| Title/Artist | Units Sold | Title/Artist | Units Sold | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | Christmas/ Michael Buble | 2,223,000 | 1 | Sexy And I Know It/ LMFAO | 1,873,000 | |||||||||||||
| 2 | 21/ Adele | 1,507,000 | 2 | We Found Love/ Rihanna feat Calvin Harris | 1,703,000 | |||||||||||||
| 3 | Take Care/ Drake | 1,246,000 | 3 | It Will Rain/ Bruno Mars | 1,465,000 | |||||||||||||
| 4 |
Under The Mistletoe/ Justin Bieber |
1,035,000 | 4 | Good Feeling/ Flo Rida | 1,272,000 | |||||||||||||
| 5 | Here And Now/ Nickelback | 586,000 | 5 | One That Got Away/ Katy Perry | 1,263,000 | |||||||||||||
| 6 | Now 40/ Various | 550,000 | 6 | Someone Like You/ Adele | 1,068,000 | |||||||||||||
| 7 | Talk That Talk/ Rihanna | 514,000 | 7 |
Ni**as In Paris/ Jay-Z & Kanye West |
1,005,000 | |||||||||||||
| 8 | Concerto:Live Central Park/ Andrea Bocelli | 460,000 | 8 | Party Rock Anthem/ LMFAO feat. Lauren Bennett | 996,000 | |||||||||||||
| 9 | Own The Night/ Lady Antebellum | 455,000 | 9 | Moves Like Jagger/ Maroon 5 feat Christina Aguilera | 993,000 | |||||||||||||
| 10. | Mylo Xyloto/ Coldplay | 454,000 | 10 | Without You/ David Guetta feat Usher | 904,000 | |||||||||||||
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2011 TOP TEN SEASONAL ALBUMS |
2011 TOP TEN INTERNET ALBUMS |
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(1/3/2011-1/1/2012) |
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| Title/Artist | Units Sold | Title/Artist | Units Sold | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | Christmas/ Michael Buble | 2,452,000 | 1 | 21/ Adele | 321,000 | |||||||||||||
| 2 |
Under The Mistletoe/ Justin Bieber |
1,245,000 | 2 | Christmas/ Michael Buble | 168,600 | |||||||||||||
| 3 | Heavenly Christmas/ Jackie Evancho | 310,000 | 3 | Duets II/ Tony Bennett | 97,200 | |||||||||||||
| 4 | Glee: The Music, The Christmas/ Glee Cast | 306,000 | 4 | Sigh No More/ Mumford & Sons | 96,700 | |||||||||||||
| 5 | Very She & Him Christmas/ She & Him | 288,000 | 5 | Born This Way/ Lady Gaga | 77,800 | |||||||||||||
| 6 | My Christmas/ Andrea Bocelli | 247,000 | 6 | 19/ Adele | 72,800 | |||||||||||||
| 7 | The Gift/ Susan Boyle | 233,000 | 7 | Dream With Me/ Jackie Evancho | 72,300 | |||||||||||||
| 8 | Christmas Symph./ Mannheim Steamroller | 184,000 | 8 |
King Of Limbs/ Radiohead |
71,300 | |||||||||||||
| 9 | Noel/ Josh Groban | 178,000 | 9 | Il Volo/ Il Volo | 63,000 | |||||||||||||
| 10. | Charlie Brown Christmas/ Vince Guaraldi | 170,000 | 10. | Mylo Xyloto/ Coldplay | 60,700 | |||||||||||||
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2011 TOP TEN VINYL ALBUMS |
2011 TOP TEN VINYL ARTISTS |
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(1/3/2011-1/1/2012) |
(Based on vinyl album sales from 1/3/2011-1/1/2012) |
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| Title/Artist | Units Sold | Artist | Units Sold | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | Abbey Road/ Beatles | 41,000 | 1 | Radiohead | 64,000 | |||||||||||||
| 2 | Helplessness Blues/ Fleet Foxes | 29,700 | 2 | Black Keys | 58,200 | |||||||||||||
| 3 | Bon Iver/ Bon Iver | 27,200 | 3 |
Bon Iver |
47,100 | |||||||||||||
| 4 | Sigh No More/ Mumford & Sons | 26,800 | 4 | Beatles | 43,300 | |||||||||||||
| 5 | King Of Limbs/ Radiohead | 20,800 | 5 | Fleet Foxes | 42,600 | |||||||||||||
| 6 | 21/ Adele | 16,500 | 6 | Tom Waits | 30,200 | |||||||||||||
| 7 | For Emma Forever Ago/ Bon Iver | 16,200 | 7 | Wilco | 30,100 | |||||||||||||
| 8 | Whole Love/ Wilco | 14,900 | 8 | Jimi Hendrix | 29,700 | |||||||||||||
| 9 | Brothers/ Black Keys | 14,200 | 9 | Bob Dylan | 27,400 | |||||||||||||
| 10. | El Camino/ Black Keys | 13,800 | 10. | Nirvana | 27,000 | |||||||||||||
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2011 TOP TEN PHYSICAL ALBUMS |
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(Based on CD, Cassette and LP album sales from 1/3/2011-1/1/2012) |
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| Title/Artist | Units Sold | |||||
| 1 | 21/ Adele | 4,023,000 | ||||
| 2 | Christmas/ Michael Buble | 2,104,000 | ||||
| 3 | My Kinda Party/ Jason Aldean | 1.326,000 | ||||
| 4 | Tha Carter IV/ Lil’ Wayne | 1.314,000 | ||||
| 5 | Born This Way/ Lady Gaga | 1,223,000 | ||||
| 6 |
Under The Mistletoe/ Justin Bieber |
1,094,000 | ||||
| 7 |
Own The Night/ Lady Antebellum |
966,000 | ||||
| 8 | 4/ Beyonce | 845,000 | ||||
| 9 | Take Care/ Drake | 780,000 | ||||
| 10. | Speak Now/ Taylor Swift | 774,000 | ||||
BILLBOARD’S MOST PLAYED TITLES AND ARTISTS, BASED ON NIELSEN BDS DATA
*for the 2011 Calendar Year
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Top 10 Most Played Songs |
Top 10 Artist Airplay |
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| Title/Artist | Detections | Artist | Detections | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | Rolling In The Deep/ Adele | 658,000 | 1 | Katy Perry | 1,457,000 | |||||||||||||
| 2 | Give Me Everything/ Pitbull feat Ne-yo,Afrojack | 620,000 | 2 | Bruno Mars | 1,440,000 | |||||||||||||
| 3 | Party Rock Anthem/ LMFAO feat. Lauren Bennett & G | 571,000 | 3 | Lady Gaga | 1,261,000 | |||||||||||||
| 4 | E.T./ Katy Perry | 526,000 | 4 | P!nk | 1,182,000 | |||||||||||||
| 5 | Firework/ Katy Perry | 509,000 | 5 | Rihanna | 1,127,000 | |||||||||||||
| 6 | F**kin’ Perfect/ P!nk | 501,000 | 6 | Adele | 1,118,000 | |||||||||||||
| 7 | Grenade/ Bruno Mars | 483,000 | 7 | Taylor Swift | 1,094,000 | |||||||||||||
| 8 | Moves Like Jagger/ Maroon 5 feat Christina Aguilera | 465,000 | 8 | Black Eyed Peas | 955,000 | |||||||||||||
| 9 | Just Can’t Get Enough/ Black Eyed Peas | 457,000 | 9 | Lady Antebellum | 916,000 | |||||||||||||
| 10. | Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)/ Katy Perry | 450,000 | 10. | Britney Spears | 900,000 | |||||||||||||
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Top 10 Holiday Songs Airplay |
Nielsen BDS: Top 10 Artists - Streams |
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| Title/Artist | Detections | Artist | Streams | |||||||||||||||
| 1 |
Rockin’ Around The Christmas/Brenda Lee |
40,000 | 1 | Lady Gaga | 135,606,000 | |||||||||||||
| 2 | A Holly Jolly Christmas/ Burl Ives | 38,900 | 2 | Rihanna | 131,351,000 | |||||||||||||
| 3 | Jingle Bell Rock/ Bobby Helms | 38,000 | 3 | Nicki Minaj | 126,244,000 | |||||||||||||
| 4 | Feliz Navidad/ Jose Feliciano | 36,800 | 4 | Adele | 123,642,000 | |||||||||||||
| 5 | The Christmas Song/ Nat King Cole | 36,300 | 5 | Taylor Swift | 123,585,000 | |||||||||||||
| 6 |
All I Want For Christmas Is…/Mariah Carey |
34,000 | 6 | Eminem | 114,023,000 | |||||||||||||
| 7 |
It’s The Most Wonderful…/Andy Williams |
33,500 | 7 | Beyonce | 104,002,000 | |||||||||||||
| 8 |
Happy X-Mas(War Is Over)/ John Lennon |
31,500 | 8 | Britney Spears | 82,738,000 | |||||||||||||
| 9 | Do They Know It’s Christmas/ Band Aid | 30,200 | 9 | Katy Perry | 78,789,000 | |||||||||||||
| 10. | White Christmas/ Bing Crosby | 28,500 | 10. | LMFAO | 71,371,000 | |||||||||||||
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Nielsen BDS: Top 10 Streamed Songs |
Nielsen BDS: Top 10 Music Video Streams |
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| Title/Artist | Streams | Title/Artist | Streams | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | Super Bass/ Nicki Minaj | 84,892,000 | 1 | Super Bass/ Nicki Minaj | 70,956,000 | |||||||||||||
| 2 | Party Rock Anthem/ LMFAO feat. Lauren Bennett & G | 71,371,000 | 2 |
Party Rock Anthem/ LMFAO feat. Lauren Bennett & |
56,428,000 | |||||||||||||
| 3 | Rolling In The Deep/ Adele | 53,173,000 | 3 |
Sexy And I Know It/ LMFAO |
45,800,000 | |||||||||||||
| 4 |
Sexy And I Know It/ LMFAO |
50,196,000 | 4 | Someone Like You/ Adele | 31,196,000 | |||||||||||||
| 5 | Someone Like You/ Adele | 40,853,000 | 5 | Rolling In The Deep/ Adele | 30,064,000 | |||||||||||||
| 6 | Born This Way/ Lady Gaga | 36,580,000 | 6 | Love You Like…/Selena Gomez & The Scene | 26,124,000 | |||||||||||||
| 7 |
Look At Me Now/ Chris Brown feat Lil Wayne & Busta |
33,909,000 | 7 | Born This Way/ Lady Gaga | 25,130,000 | |||||||||||||
| 8 | Give Me Everything/ Pitbull feat Ne-yo,Afrojack | 32,616,000 | 8 |
Look At Me Now/ Chris Brown feat Lil Wayne & |
24,218,000 | |||||||||||||
| 9 |
On The Floor/ Jennifer Lopez feat Pitbull |
31,909,000 | 9 | We Found Love/ Rihanna feat Calvin Harris | 22,819,000 | |||||||||||||
| 10. | Love You Like…/Selena Gomez & The Scene | 30,928,000 | 10. |
On The Floor/ Jennifer Lopez feat Pitbull |
21,960,000 | |||||||||||||
BILLBOARD’S TOP TITLES & ARTISTS OF THE NIELSEN SOUNDSCAN ERA
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TOP TEN SELLING ARTISTS |
TOP TEN SELLING ALBUMS |
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(Based on album sales from 1991-1/1/2012) |
(1991 – 1/1/2012) |
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| Title/Artist | Units Sold | Artist | Units Sold | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | Garth Brooks | 68,561,000 | 1 | Metallica/ Metallica | 15,735,000 | |||||||||||||
| 2 | Beatles | 63,299,000 | 2 | Come On Over/ Shania Twain | 15,513,000 | |||||||||||||
| 3 | Mariah Carey | 53,612,000 | 3 | Jagged Little Pill/ Alanis Morissette | 14,714,000 | |||||||||||||
| 4 | Metallica | 53,170,000 | 4 | Millennium/ Backstreet Boys | 12,168,000 | |||||||||||||
| 5 | Celine Dion | 51,492,000 | 5 | Beatles 1/ Beatles | 11,985,000 | |||||||||||||
| 6 | George Strait | 43,310,000 | 6 | Soundtrack/ Bodyguard | 11,829,000 | |||||||||||||
| 7 | Eminem | 41,166,000 | 7 | Supernatural/ Santana | 11,772,000 | |||||||||||||
| 8 | Tim McGraw | 40,169,000 | 8 | Human Clay/ Creed | 11,574,000 | |||||||||||||
| 9 | Alan Jackson | 38,860,000 | 9 | No Strings Attached/ N Sync | 11,122,000 | |||||||||||||
| 10. | Pink Floyd | 37,228,000 | 10. | Falling Into You/ Celine Dion | 10,790,000 | |||||||||||||
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TOP TEN SELLING DIGITAL SONGS |
TOP TEN SELLING DIGITAL ALBUMS |
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(7/4/2004-1/1/2012) |
(7/4/2004 – 1/1/2012) |
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| Title/Artist | Units Sold | Artist | Units Sold | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | I Gotta Feeling/ Black Eyed Peas | 7,688,000 | 1 | 21/ Adele | 1,801,000 | |||||||||||||
| 2 | Poker Face/ Lady Gaga | 6,529,000 | 2 | Sigh No More/ Mumford & Sons | 1,103,000 | |||||||||||||
| 3 | Just Dance/ Lady Gaga feat. Colby O’Donis | 6,458,000 | 3 | Recovery/ Eminem | 1,081,000 | |||||||||||||
| 4 | Boom Boom Pow/ Black Eyed Peas | 6,267,000 | 4 | Fame/ Lady Gaga | 1,010,000 | |||||||||||||
| 5 |
Low/ Flo Rida Feat. T-Pain |
6,152,000 | 5 | Born This Way/ Lady Gaga | 877,000 | |||||||||||||
| 6 | Tik Tok/ Ke$ha | 6,149,000 | 6 | Viva La Vida/ Coldplay | 841,000 | |||||||||||||
| 7 | Rolling In The Deep/ Adele | 5,921,000 | 7 | Fearless/ Taylor Swift | 785,000 | |||||||||||||
| 8 | I’m Yours/ Jason Mraz | 5,919,000 | 8 |
Only By The Night/ Kings Of Leon |
710,000 |
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| 9 | Hey, Soul Sister/ Train | 5,741,000 | 9 | Soundtrack/ Twilight | 682,000 | |||||||||||||
| 10. | Dynamite/ Taio Cruz | 5,719,000 | 10. | Speak Now/ Taylor Swift | 681,000 | |||||||||||||
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TOP TEN SELLING DIGITAL ARTISTS |
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(Based on digital track sales from 7/4/2004-1/1/2012) |
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| Artist | Units Sold | |||||
| 1 | Rihanna | 47,571,000 | ||||
| 2 | Black Eyed Peas | 42,405,000 | ||||
| 3 | Eminem | 42,290,000 | ||||
| 4 | Lady Gaga | 42,078,000 | ||||
| 5 | Taylor Swift | 41,821,000 | ||||
| 6 | Katy Perry | 37,620,000 | ||||
| 7 | Lil’ Wayne | 36,788,000 | ||||
| 8 | Beyonce | 30,439,000 | ||||
| 9 | Kanye West | 30,242,000 | ||||
| 10. | Britney Spears | 28,665,000 | ||||
2011 Year-End Factoids
- For the first time, total music purchases reached the 1.6 Billion mark for the year.
- Overall Album sales (including Albums and Track Equivalent Album sales) were up 3.2% compared to 2010.
- Total Album sales were up for the first time since 2004 (1.3%) with sales totaling 330.6 million, compared to 326.2 million in 2010.
- There were 228 million physical album sales in 2011, a decline of 5% over 2010. This is significantly less than the 19.5% decline in 2010.
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During 2011 there were 76,875 new albums released that sold at least
one copy, that’s up slightly from 2010 when there were just over
75,000 new albums released.
- The nearly 77,000 new album releases accounted for 113.2 million sales - or 34% of ALL album sales for the entire year.
- The top 1,500 best selling new album releases accounted for over 100 million (nearly 90%) of the 113 million sales generated by new releases.
- Similar to a year ago, there were 11 albums that sold 1 million or more copies and 35 albums that sold 500,000 – 999,999 copies.
- While there were a number of album genres that had saw growth over the previous year, 3 smaller genres experienced double digital growth in 2011: Jazz, New Age and Electronic grew by 26%, 16% and 15%, respectively.
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For the fourth consecutive year, more vinyl albums were purchased than any
other year in the history of Nielsen SoundScan.
- In 2011, vinyl album sales reached 3.9 million in sales, shattering the previous record of 2.8 million LP album sales in 2010.
- Note that 67% of all vinyl albums were purchased at an independent music store during 2011.
- Vinyl album sales in 2011 were up 36% compared to 2010 and accounted for 1.2% of all album sales.
- Nearly three out of every four vinyl albums purchased in 2011 were a Rock album.
Digital Factoids:
- For the first time, digital music sales are larger than physical sales; accounting for 50.3% of all music purchases in 2011.
- Digital track sales set a new record with 1.27 billion sales in 2011; an increase of 100 million sales (8.4%) over 2010.
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Digital album sales exceeded 100 million for the first time with a new
all-time high of 103.1 million sales (up from 86.3 million in 2010);
an increase of nearly 20%.
- Digital album sales accounted for nearly 1 out of every 3 album purchases (31%) in 2011; compared to 26% in 2010, 20% in 2009, 15% in 2008, 10% in 2007 and 5.5% in 2006.
- Nearly all digital album genres had a positive year in 2011; except for Soundtracks which were down just over 2% compared to 2010.
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While total digital album growth was 20% in 2011, there were a
number of digital album genres that experienced even higher
digital growth.
- Rap and Electronic digital album sales -> up 42%
- Country and R&B digital album sales -> up 27%
- Latin digital album sales -> up 23%
- For the last week of 2011 (week ending 1/1/2012), digital album sales set a new high with sales of 3.5 million.
- Digital track sales for Pop, Rock, R&B/Hip Hop and Country genres all had double digital growth in 2011; 24%, 23%, 20% and 11% respectively.
- For the first time, a digital song had more than five million downloads in a calendar year; Adele’s “Rolling In The Deep” sold 5.8 million downloads and LMFAO’s “Party Rock Anthem” sold 5.5 million.
- For the first time, more than 100 Digital Songs (112) exceeded the 1 million sales mark for the year.
- In 2011 there were 38 different digital songs with sales that exceeded two million (compared to 37 in 2010, 31 in 2009, 19 in 2008 and nine in 2007).
- In 2011, eight different artists broke the 10 million digital track sales mark.
Best Seller Album Factoids:
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Adele’s 21 finishes the year as the
biggest selling album with just more than 5.8 million sales. This is
the first time since 2004 that an album sold more than 5 million
copies in a year. Usher’s album Confessions
sold 8 million copies in 2004.
- Adele held top honors in many sales categories this year and became the first artist to claim the top spot for Best Selling Artist, Album and Digital Song in the same year.
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Below is a listing of Adele’s top honors for 2011:
- Best Selling Artist based on Album sales – 6.7 million
- Best Selling Album (21) – 5.8 million
- Best Selling Physical Album (21) – 4.0 million
- Best Selling Digital Album (21) – 1.8 million
- Best Selling Digital Album of All Time (21) – 1.8 million
- Best Selling Internet Album (21) – 321,000
- Best Selling Digital Song (“Rolling In The Deep”) – 5.8 million
- Best Selling Digital Track (“Rolling In The Deep”) – 5.7 million
- Most Played Song on the Radio (“Rolling In The Deep”) – 658,000 detections
- For the second straight year, Lady Antebellum finishes the year as the biggest selling group of 2011 with more than 2.1 million album sales.
- Metallica’s self titled album remains on top as the best selling album in the Nielsen SoundScan era with more than 15.7 million album sales; more than 200,000 ahead of Shania Twain’s Come On Over.
- Garth Brooks continues to be comfortably the best selling artist in the Nielsen SoundScan era with more than 68.5 million album sales; 5 million sales ahead of the Beatles.
- Rihanna takes over the top spot as the biggest selling digital artist of all time with digital track sales totaling more than 47.5 million.
- The Columbia label group ends the year with the largest album market share among all label groups with a 9.34 share.
Most Played and Streamed Factoids:
- Katy Perry ends the year as the most played artist over the airways in 2011 with more than 1.4 million spins; edging out Bruno Mars by 17,000 spins.
- Seven out of the top 10 played artists in 2011 all had more than 1 million detections for the year.
- There were more than 20.5 Billion streams captured by Nielsen BDS during 2011 from their panel of streaming services.
- Lady Gaga claimed the top spot as the most streamed artist in 2011 with more than 135 million streams.
- Nicki Minaj’s “Super Bass” was the most streamed song and music video in 2011 with 84.9 million audio streams and 71 million video streams.
Holiday Season Factoids: (11/7 – 1/1/12).
- Overall album sales during the 2011 holiday season were down 4.6% with sales of 75 million sales.
- Overall track sales during the 2011 holiday season were up just about 1% with sales totaling 216 million.
- Similar to the two previous years, album sales during the “holiday season” accounted for 23% of all album sales for the year.
- Michael Buble’s Christmas album compiled more than 2.4 million sales during the last 10 weeks of the year and wound up being the 2nd biggest selling album in 2011 behind Adele’s 21.
- Michael Buble’s Christmas album was also the biggest selling album during the 2011 holiday season (2.2 million sales) as well as the biggest holiday album since Josh Groban’s Noel (2007) that sold 3.7 million copies.
Strata Factoids:
- For more than five years Mass Merchant outlets were the more popular store type for consumers to buy music.
- In 2011, 31% of all albums purchased were through a digital service like iTunes, Amazonmp3 or eMusic, an increase of 5 points from 2010.
- During 2011, 31% of all album purchases occurred at Mass Merchant outlets (WalMart, Target, etc.) as well.
- Album sales at retail Chain stores accounted for 20% of all album sales in 2011 while 7% occurred at Independent music stores.