The Official Charts Company has revealed the best-selling albums of the millennium so far, and we’ve got to say, there were a few surprises in there!
Perhaps rather unsurprisingly though, it was Adele who topped the list, as her album
21 charted sales of almost 4,740,000.
Next up was Amy Winehouse’s
Back to Black followed by James Blunt’s album
Back to Bedlam.
Two Irish acts also found their way into the top fifty, with Snow Patrol’s
Eyes Open and Westlife’s
Unbreakable: The Greatest Hits Volume 1 both charting in 23
rd position and 49
th position respectively.
Not surprisingly, Take That and Robbie Williams feature heavily throughout the list as too does Coldplay.
Classic music from the Beatles and ABBA also features.
Here’s the Top 50 in full – how many of these do you have in your collection?
- Adele – 21
- Amy Winehouse – Back to Black
- James Blunt – Back to Bedlam
- Leona Lewis – Spirit
- Dido – No Angel
- The Beatles – 1
- Michael Bublé – Crazy Love
- David Gray – White Ladder
- Lady Gaga – The Fame
- Coldplay – A Rush of Blood To The Head
- Dido – Life For Rent
- Kings of Leon – Only By The Night
- Take That – Beautiful World
- Keane – Hopes & Fears
- Scissor Sisters – Scissor Sisters
- Coldplay – X&Y
- Coldplay – Parachutes
- Norah Jones – Come Away With Me
- ABBA – Gold The Greatest Hits
- Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP
- Robbie Williams – Swing When You’re Winning
- Take That – Progress
- Snow Patrol – Eyes Open
- Take That – Never Forget: The Ultimate Collection
- Robbie Williams – Greatest Hits
- Michael Jackson – Number Ones
- Adele – 19
- Michael Bublé – Christmas
- Duffy – Rockferry
- Take That – The Circus
- Robbie Williams – Sing When You’re Winning
- Emeli Sandé – Our Version of Events
- The Killers – Hot Fuss
- Green Day – American Idiot
- Robbie Williams – Escapology
- Kaiser Chiefs – Employment
- Maroon 5 – Songs About Jane
- Red Hot Chilli Peppers – By The Way
- Ed Sheeran – X
- Christina Aguilera – Stripped
- Justin Timberlake – Justified
- Texas – The Greatest Hits
- Susan Boyle – I Dreamed A Dream
- Ed Sheeran - +
- Rihanna – Loud
- Rihanna – Good Girl Gone Bad
- Katie Melua – Call Off The Search
- Craig David – Born To Do It
- Westlife – Unbreakable: The Greatest Hits Volume 1
- Guns N’ Roses – Greatest Hits.
