Official Biggest Selling Albums of the Millennium so far revealed

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Adele’s 21 is the biggest selling artist album of the millennium to date, the Official Charts Company can reveal. The singer-songwriter’s second studio album – which spent an impressive 23 weeks at Number 1 - has sold nearly 4,740,000 copies in the UK to date.

 

Amy Winehouse’s Back To Black earns the Number 2 spot with sales of over 3,560,000 since its 2006 release. The former Official Albums Chart Number 1 spawned five Top 40 singles including Rehab, You Know I’m No Good, Back To Black, Tears Dry On Their Own and Love Is A Losing Game.

 

In at Number 3 is James Blunt’s debut LP Back To Bedlam, which counts 3,310,000 sales this millennium. The album spent 10 weeks at the Official Albums Chart summit, racking up a total of 40 weeks in the Top 40.

 

Rounding out the Top 5 are chart debuts Leona Lewis’ Spirit with 3,130,000 UK sales and Dido’s No Angel with 3,080,000 sales.

 

Robbie Williams and Take That tie for the most entries in the Top 50 with four each. Robbie’s Swing When You’re Winning (21), Greatest Hits (25), Sing When You’re Winning (31) and Escapology (35) feature on the list alongside Take That’s Beautiful World (13), Progress (22), Never Forget – The Ultimate Collection (24) and The Circus (30).

 

Other acts with multiple entries include; Coldplay (3), Adele (2), Dido (2), Ed Sheeran (2), Michael Buble (2) and Rihanna (2).

 

Of the Top 50 Official Biggest Selling Artist Albums of the Millennium, only two were released before the year 2000 - David Gray’s White Ladder and ABBA’s Gold – Greatest Hits, which sit at Numbers 8 and 19, respectively.

 

Only 39 albums have passed the 2 million UK sales mark this millennium, with the latest addition to the list, Ed Sheeran’s X, tipping over just this week.

 

Check out the full Top 50 Official Biggest Selling Artist Albums of the Millennium so far below:

 

NO. TITLE ARTIST LABEL

1 21 ADELE XL RECORDINGS

2 BACK TO BLACK AMY WINEHOUSE ISLAND

3 BACK TO BEDLAM JAMES BLUNT ATLANTIC

4 SPIRIT LEONA LEWIS SYCO MUSIC

5 NO ANGEL DIDO ARISTA

6 1 BEATLES APPLE CORPS

7 CRAZY LOVE MICHAEL BUBLE REPRISE

8 WHITE LADDER DAVID GRAY EAST WEST

9 THE FAME LADY GAGA INTERSCOPE

10 A RUSH OF BLOOD TO THE HEAD COLDPLAY PARLOPHONE

11 LIFE FOR RENT DIDO CHEEKY

12 ONLY BY THE NIGHT KINGS OF LEON HAND ME DOWN

13 BEAUTIFUL WORLD TAKE THAT POLYDOR

14 HOPES AND FEARS KEANE ISLAND

15 SCISSOR SISTERS SCISSOR SISTERS POLYDOR

16 X&Y COLDPLAY PARLOPHONE

17 PARACHUTES COLDPLAY PARLOPHONE

18 COME AWAY WITH ME NORAH JONES VIRGIN

19 GOLD - GREATEST HITS ABBA POLYDOR

20 THE MARSHALL MATHERS LP EMINEM INTERSCOPE

21 SWING WHEN YOU'RE WINNING ROBBIE WILLIAMS ISLAND

22 PROGRESS TAKE THAT POLYDOR

23 EYES OPEN SNOW PATROL FICTION

24 NEVER FORGET - THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION TAKE THAT RCA

25 GREATEST HITS ROBBIE WILLIAMS ISLAND

26 NUMBER ONES MICHAEL JACKSON EPIC

27 19 ADELE XL RECORDINGS

28 CHRISTMAS MICHAEL BUBLE REPRISE

29 ROCKFERRY DUFFY A&M

30 THE CIRCUS TAKE THAT POLYDOR

31 SING WHEN YOU'RE WINNING ROBBIE WILLIAMS ISLAND

32 OUR VERSION OF EVENTS EMELI SANDE VIRGIN

33 HOT FUSS KILLERS VERTIGO

34 AMERICAN IDIOT GREEN DAY REPRISE

35 ESCAPOLOGY ROBBIE WILLIAMS ISLAND

36 EMPLOYMENT KAISER CHIEFS B-UNIQUE/POLYDOR

37 SONGS ABOUT JANE MAROON 5 A&M

38 BY THE WAY RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS WARNER BROS

39 X ED SHEERAN ASYLUM

40 STRIPPED CHRISTINA AGUILERA RCA

41 JUSTIFIED JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE JIVE

42 THE GREATEST HITS TEXAS MERCURY

43 I DREAMED A DREAM SUSAN BOYLE SYCO MUSIC

44 + ED SHEERAN ASYLUM

45 LOUD RIHANNA DEF JAM

46 GOOD GIRL GONE BAD RIHANNA DEF JAM

47 CALL OFF THE SEARCH KATIE MELUA DRAMATICO

48 BORN TO DO IT CRAIG DAVID WEA

49 UNBREAKABLE - THE GREATEST HITS - VOL 1 WESTLIFE S

50 GREATEST HITS GUNS N' ROSES GEFFEN

© Official Charts Company. Chart shows the Top 50 biggest selling albums since the Millenium, from week 1 2000 to week 11 2015.

 

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The Beatles are certainly artists for all-time.

 

The world is now in the fifth decade since their breakup and the band's music still sells better than the vast majority of artists from any decade. That can be easily shown in the newly released list of the top selling albums of the millenium, so far, in the U.K.

 

The Official Charts Company's list shows Adele at the top of the list that takes into account charts from week 1 2000 to week 11 2015 with her album 21, a monster seller in an era dominated by digital downloads and, now, streaming. It's one of two albums by the singer in the list with her 19 at number 27.

 

She is followed by Amy Winehouse's classic Back to Black, James Blunt's similarly titled Back to Bedlam, Leona Lewis' Spirit and Dido's No Angel.

 

Then comes the Beatles. Their hits album 1 is the sixth biggest selling album of the last 15+ years in England even though none of the songs were recorded even in the three decades running up to the begibning of the millenium.

 

Also in the top ten, at number 8, is veteran artist David Gray with White Ladder and, at 10, is Coldplay's A Rush of Blood to the Head. Over all, Coldplay has three albums in the top 50, one short of both Take That and Robbie Williams who each have four.

 

The top ten and all veteran artists farther down in the list:

01. 21 - Adele

02. Back to Black - Amy Winehouse

03. Back to Bedlam - James Blunt

04. Spirit - Leona Lewis

05. No Angel - Dido

06. 1 - Beatles

07. Crazy Love - Michael Buble

08. White Ladder - David Gray

09. The Fame - Lady Gaga

10. A Rush of Blood to the Head - Coldplay

13. Beautiful World - Take That

16. X&Y - Coldplay

17. Parachutes - Coldplay

19. Gold - Greatest Hits - ABBA

21. Swing When You're Winning - Robbie Williams

22. Progress - Take That

24. Never Forget: The Ultimate Collection - Take That

25. Greatest Hits - Robbie Williams

26. Number Ones - Michael Jackson

30. The Circus - Take That

31. Sing When You're Winning - Robbie Williams

34. American Idiot - Green Day

35. Escapology - Robbie Williams

38. By the Way - Red Hot Chili Peppers

42. The Greatest Hits - Texas

49. Unbreakable: The Greatest Hits: Volume 1 - Westlife

50. Greatest Hits - Guns N' Roses

 

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