IFPI: 2014's best-selling albums & songs worldwide, Frozen OST sells 10M

[Mills 446]

Here are the official top 10 best-selling albums worldwide in 2014, based from physical and digital albums sold:

Rank / Title (Year of Release) / Artist / Total Sales
1. Frozen Soundtrack (2013) - Various Artists - 10 million
2. 1989 (2014) - Taylor Swift - 6 million
3. x (2014) - Ed Sheeran - 4.4 million
4. Ghost Stories (2014) - Coldplay - 3.7 million
5. In The Lonely Hour (2014) - Sam Smith - 3.5 million
6. FOUR (2014) - One Direction - 3.2 million
7. Rock or Bust (2014) - AC/DC - 2.7 million
8. Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 (2014) - Various Artists - 2.5 million
9. The Endless River (2014) - Pink Floyd - 2.5 million
10. Pure Heroine (2013) - Lorde - 2.0 million

Source: IFPI. Physical and digital albums included. Streams excluded.

Here are the official top 10 best-selling digital singles worldwide in 2014, including track-equivalent streams:

Rank / Title / Artist / Total Sales
1. Happy - Pharrell Williams - 13.9 million
2. Dark Horse - Katy Perry feat. Juicy J - 13.2 million
3. All of Me - John Legend - 12.3 million
4. All About That Bass - Meghan Trainor - 11 million
5. Let It Go - Idina Menzel -10.9 million
6. Timber - Pitbull feat. Kesha - 9.6 million
7. Fancy - Iggy Azalea feat. Charli XCX - 9.1 million
8. Problem - Ariana Grande feat. Iggy Azalea - 9 million
9. Rude - MAGIC! - 8.6 million
10. Bailando - Enrique Iglesias feat. Sean Paul, Descemer Bruno, Gente De Zona - 8 million

Source: IFPI. Units include single-track downloads and track-equivalent streams

http://www.ifpi.org/news/Global-digital-music-revenues-match-physical-format-sales-for-first-time

 

About the IFPI:

The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) is currently the sole representation of the worldwide music industry which reports the state of the industry and other major music news, including the world's best-selling albums and songs, in a yearly basis.

[Pure Adrenaline 1,518]

so Frozen is the only album to sell 7+ m copies since BTW 

[ViviLittleM 3]

We won't have Cheek To Cheek shipments

[Haroon 49,685]

Half of the list being British  

I'm still amazed at how Taylor Swift skyrocketed to #2 with just 2 months of sales, I wonder where she'll land this year  

[Haroon 49,685]

so Frozen is the only album to sell 7+ m copies since BTW 

​1989's sold 7m+ copies altogether (this 2014 number + 2015 sales so far)  

[ViviLittleM 3]

8 Ariana Grande feat. Iggy Azalea Problem 9.0

[ViviLittleM 3]

The weird thing is for Beyoncé

The album was shipped 2,3M in 2013 and less than 2M in 2014???

[ViviLittleM 3]

Hopefully Cheek To Cheek will be in the report

Please note that IFPI’s full global market report for 2014, Recording Industry in Numbers, will be published on April 20th. To be added to the alert list when that becomes available to purchase please contact [email protected]

[Bloody 64,631]

The weird thing is for Beyoncé

The album was shipped 2,3M in 2013 and less than 2M in 2014???

​interesting

 

[Mills 446]

The weird thing is for Beyoncé

The album was shipped 2,3M in 2013 and less than 2M in 2014???

​The 5M figure for the album which her team has released via OCC is now in question then. They most probably included the album's stream and track equivalents, which IFPI didn't. That's actually rather embarrassing.

[ViviLittleM 3]

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I will contact them to know if CTC will be in their lists lmao

 

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[Supersonic 49,376]

Fancy and 9 million? As if.

[Mills 446]

so Frozen is the only album to sell 7+ m copies since BTW 

​In terms of yearly sales, it's the 2nd album since Adele's 21 to move at least 10 million worldwide. But in terms of overall reported album sales, it's only 1 of the 7 albums (alongside Eminem's Recovery, Rihanna's Loud, 21, Christmas, Born This Way, and 1989) in the 2010s exceeding more than 7 million. Here are the albums with the biggest reported WW sales in the digital era prior to the 2014 IFPI report - http://gagadaily.com/topic/130682-list-of-albums-w-the-biggest-reported-ww-sales-in-the-digital-era/

And here are the biggest selling official global album sales in one year since 2010:

Rank / Title (Year of Release) / Artist / Sales in one year
1. 21 (2011) - Adele - 18.1 million units moved in 2011
2. Frozen OST (2013) - Various Artists - 10 million units moved in 2014
3. 21 (2011) - Adele - 8.3 million units moved in 2012
4. Christmas (2011) - Michael Buble - 6.8 million+ units moved in 2011*
5. Born This Way (2011) - Lady Gaga - 6.8 million units moved in 2011
6. 1989 (2014) - Taylor Swift - 6 million units moved in 2014
6. Recovery (2010) - Eminem - 6 million units moved in 2010

Note: The 2011 report didn't state the exact worldwide sales of the best-selling albums but the 2011 worldwide sales of Adele's 21 and Lady Gaga's Born This Way were later reported by the 2012 IFPI annual report and the 2011 Vivendi annual report respectively (labels' numbers are the ones reported to the IFPI). WMG didn't officially give an exact global figure for Michael Buble's Christmas in 2011 but it was ranked as the 2nd best-selling album of that year by IFPI, therefore making its 2011 sales above BTW's 6.8M sales total.

[GagaMyBlood95 9,915]

Fancy and 9 million? As if.

​It was huge everywhere tbh..

[ViviLittleM 3]

I think CTC can be at 1,3M

Hopefully we will have a list like this for 2014