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Adele 's
21 was the best-selling album of 2012. This was her second consecutive year at the top of the U.S. year-end charts. She became the second artist in history to achieve this feat, after
Michael Jackson .
The highest-selling albums and
EPs in the United States are ranked in the
Billboard 200 , which is published by
Billboard magazine. The data are compiled by
Nielsen Soundscan based on each album's weekly physical and
digital sales. In 2012, a total of 32 albums claimed the top position of the chart. One of which,
Canadian singer
Michael Bublé 's album
Christmas started its peak in late 2011.
[1]
Adele 's album
21 was the longest-running number-one album of the year for the second time, staying atop the chart for eleven non-consecutive weeks.
[2]
Red by
Taylor Swift had the second-most weeks at number one with five. Other albums with extended chart runs include
Babel by
Mumford & Sons ,
Tuskegee by
Lionel Richie ,
Blown Away by
Carrie Underwood ,
Born and Raised by
John Mayer and
Uncaged by
Zac Brown Band ; each spent two weeks on the top position. Throughout 2012, only one act achieved multiple number-one albums on the chart:
One Direction with
Up All Night and
Take Me Home . Swift's album Red sold 1.21 million copies in its first week, making it the album with the highest weekly sales in 2012.
[3] 21 was the biggest-selling album of 2012, with 4,410,000 copies sold.
[4]
Chart history
Taylor Swift 's
Red earned the singer-songwriter her third number-one album. It opened with the biggest sales week of 2012, selling 1.21 million copies in its first week.
Lionel Richie 's
Tuskegee gave the singer his third number-one album and the first since 1986's
Dancing on the Ceiling .
Country singer
Carrie Underwood earned her third number-one album,
Blown Away , which became her first to spend more than a week at the top.
Rock singer
John Mayer scored his second chart-topping album,
Born and Raised , which spent two consecutive weeks at number one.
Babel by British
folk rock band
Mumford & Sons garnered their first number-one. It topped the chart for three consecutive weeks, and earned 2012's second-biggest sales week after Red .
English-Irish boy band
One Direction scored two number-one albums in 2012,
Up All Night and
Take Me Home .
Pink earned her first number-one album with her sixth effort
The Truth About Love , released twelve years since her debut. It has the third biggest debut sales by a female singer in this year, behind
MDNA and Red .
Key
†
Indicates best performing album of 2012
See also
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