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Adele’s 21 is the biggest selling album of 2012 so far

02/07/2012

By Dan Lane

According to the latest Official Charts Company sales data, Adele’s 21 is the biggest selling album of 2012 so far.

The London born singer leads an all-female Top 3 - which also includes Emeli Sande’s Our Version Of Events (Number 2) and Lana Del Rey’s Born To Die (2) - in the 2012 half-year report published by the British music industry’s trade body, The BPI.

Despite being released over a year ago, Adele’s second album has sold over 596,000 copies this year so far, giving it a total sales figure of 4.36 million copies to date. In May, OfficialCharts.com revealed that 21 has become the UK’s fifth biggest selling album of all time, overtaking Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side Of The Moon, Dire Straits' Brothers In Arms, and Michael Jackson’s equally iconic albums, Bad and Thriller.

Back to the 2012 half-year chart: Scottish singer / songwriter Emeli Sande is in second place with her debut album, Our Version Of Events, which has sold an impressive 532,000 copies since its release in February of this year. US starlet Lana Del Rey is at Number 3 with her second album, Born To Die, ringing up an impressive 482,000 since its release in January.

Ed Sheeran’s + is at Number 4, selling 448,000 copies during 2012 (over 1.2 million copies to date), while Coldplay’s fifth album, Mylo Xyloto, has sold 312,000 copies during 2012 (1.2 million copies to date).

You can view the Official Top 20 albums of 2012 so far below:

1	21	ADELE
2	OUR VERSION OF EVENTS	EMELI SANDE
3	BORN TO DIE	LANA DEL REY
4	+	ED SHEERAN
5	MYLO XYLOTO	COLDPLAY
6	WHO YOU ARE	JESSIE J
7	NOTHING BUT THE BEAT	DAVID GUETTA
8	DOO-WOPS & HOOLIGANS	BRUNO MARS
9	IN CASE YOU DIDN'T KNOW	OLLY MURS
10	TALK THAT TALK	RIHANNA
11	MAKING MIRRORS	GOTYE
12	IN MY DREAMS	MILITARY WIVES
13	STEREO TYPICAL	RIZZLE KICKS
14	WRECKING BALL	BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
15	19	ADELE
16	UP ALL NIGHT	ONE DIRECTION
17	NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING BIRDS	NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING BIRDS
18	LONELY ARE THE BRAVE	MAVERICK SABRE
19	SING	GARY BARLOW/COMMONWEALTH BAND
20	HEAVEN	REBECCA FERGUSON

© 2012 the Official Charts Company. All rights reserved.

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