On January 10th I did a post about US vinyl album sales in 2009 and how the 2.5 million vinyl LPs sold in 2009 was a new peak since Soundscan started keeping track in 1991. This climb in vinyl sales has been a sharp climb from just under one million in 2007 to 1.8 million [...]

After finding (and posting here) the top ten selling vinyl albums of 2008 last year I wanted to do the same thing this year when the numbers became available and they have and so I am. These numbers come from soundscan which has been keeping track of album sales since 1991. The 2.5 million new [...]

Soundscan is out with their final sales numbers for 2009 and the three biggest sellers of the year were Michael Jackson with 8.3 million albums sold, Taylor Swift with 4.6 million albums sold, and The Beatles with 3.3 million albums sold. That a pop singer known mostly for his work in the 1980s and a [...]

There’s still a month (OK, more like three weeks) left but Nielsen SoundScan has already released the list of the top 10 selling albums of the decade (in the US.) The numbers are updated through November 1 of 2009 so there will be two months of sales to add to this list for the final [...]

The natural follow-up to my last post on the top 10 selling artists in the US of the soundscan era (from 1991 through 2008.) It will be in the same format (total sold and amount sold just in 2008) for the same reason (to see which albums are slowing down, actually this idea works a [...]

Yes, I’m a bit obsessed with the soundscan information I’ve come across. I don’t really know why I find these details of album sales so interesting. It’s not like I think that albums sales have much of anything to do with actual quality. A lot of my favorite bands and albums weren’t particularly good sellers. [...]

I came across a very interesting (to me) list of the top 10 selling vinyl albums of 2008 in the US (from soundscan’s data so it should be quite accurate.) Here it is: 01 – Radiohead – In Rainbows – 25,800 02 – The Beatles – Abbey Road – 16,500