With just one month to go until the end of the year, 2015 has shaped up to be an interesting year for music sales. Adele did better than everyone selling three times faster than Justin Bieber at number two.
By comparison to last years fastest seller from Taylor Swift, Adele’s ’25’ has outsold Swift’s ‘1989’ first 10 days two to one.
Only 15 albums sold more than 10,000 copies in the first week so far during 2015. As a guess, there will probably be one more to add with the new Coldplay album ‘A Head Full Of Dreams’ coming out on Friday.
Here is a list of the 20 Fastest Selling Albums of 2015. Figures are for first week sales.
1. Adele – 25 (126,063)
2. Justin Bieber – Purpose (40,935)
3. One Direction – Made In The AM (34,866)
4. Dr Dre – Compton (19,185)
5. 5 Seconds of Summer – Sounds Good Feels Good (16,157)
6. Florence + The Machine – How Big How Blue How Beautiful (15,706)
7. Bring Me The Horizon – That’s The Spirit (14,692)
8. Parkway Drive – IRE (14,500)
9. Muse – Drones (12,047)
10. Tame Impala – Currents (11,415)
11. The Weeknd – Beauty Behind The Madness (11,375)
12. Mumford & Sons – Wilder Mind (11,038)
13. Various – Triple J Like A Version 11 (10,994)
14. Hermitude – Dark Night Sweet Light (10,352)
15. Troye Sivan – Wild (10,286)
16. Meghan Trainor – Title (9,631)
17. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly (8,958)
18. Lana Del Rey – Honeymoon (8,660)
19. Disturbed – Immortalized (8,242)
20. Hillsong – United ‘Empires” (7,778)
21. Soundtrack – Fifty Shades of Grey (7,449)
22. Elvis Presley – If I Can Dream (7163)
23. Hillsong Worship – Open Heaven/River Wide (7154)
24. John Farnham and Olivia Newton-John – Two Strong Hearts (7,118)
25. Madonna – Rebel Heart (6,962)
26. Bullet For My Valentine (6,187)
27. Boy and Bear – Limit of Love (6,144)
28. Northlane – Mode (5,824)
