Adele, Mumford and Sons and Muse help UK break album sales record
UK music industry enjoyed record breaking sales in 2012
- No.2: Adele - 21 (786,000)
by Andrew Trendell | Photos by WENN
Tags: Adele
Adele, Mumford & Sons and Muse were all among the artists who lead the way in the UK smashing records for album sales in 2012.
The BPI has revealed that British album sales accounted for 13.3% of the global market share last year, the highest on record ever.
The biggest seller was Adele, who took the top spot for the second consecutive year with 21 - clocking up 21 million sales to date.
One Direction took both second and third place with Up All Night and Take Me Home, while other appearances in the chart are from the likes of Muse, Mumford & Sons, Led Zeppelin and Emeli Sande.
Muse helped the UK break records for album sales last year with The 2nd Law
Check out the top 10 best-selling UK albums of 2012 below, with their global positioning in brackets:
1. (1) Adele - 21 (XL)
2. (3) One Direction - Up All Night’ (Sony)
3. (4) One Direction -Take Me Home (Sony)
4. (8) Rod Stewart - Merry Christmas Baby (Universal)
5. (10) Mumford & Sons - Babel’ (Universal / Glassnote / Sony)
6. (13) Led Zeppelin- Celebration Day (Warner)
7. (15) Ed Sheeran - + (Warner)
8. (18) Emeli Sande - Our Version Of Events (EMI)
9. (21) Muse - The 2nd Law (Warner)
10. (24) Adele - 19 (XL)
Below - The top 10 biggest selling albums of 2012: who sold what?
