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Top Selling Albums Of 2001 - Linkin Park And Shaggy Lead The Pack
01-03-02
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Jan 3, 2002 - Soundscan released their
year-end music industry report today which features the top selling albums
of 2001 as well as genre and record company market share data.
Soundscan was launched in 1991 to track
point of sales data for music. Linkin Parks debut album Hybrid Theory
lead sales for 2001 with Soundscan reporting sales of 4,812,852 units during
the calendar year. Shaggys Hotshot claimed the number two spot
with sales of 4,507,568 units. N Syncs Celebrity rounded out the top
10 with 4,421,231 units sold.
Album sales down in 2001.
According to the Soundscan report,
Total album sales for 2001 were 23 million less than total album sales
for 2000. The top 10 selling albums of 2001 accounted for 20 million units
less than the top 10 selling albums of 2000. Sales of all albums
outside the top 10 accounted for the remaining 3,000,000 unit difference.
Platinum Album sales up, Gold Sales Down.
Platinum album sales were up in 2001 with
100 albums showing sales of 1 million units or more. In 2000 Soundscan
reported 88 albums with million plus sales. Gold album sales for 2001 were
less than 2000. In 2001, 187 albums sold 500,000 units or more compared
with 202 album titles going Gold in 2000.
Below are excerpts from the Soundscan report.
.
2001 TOP TEN SELLING ALBUMS
(01/01/2001-12/30/2001)
|
Title / Artist |
Units Sold |
| 1 |
Hybrid Theory / Linkin Park |
4,812,852 |
| 2 |
Hotshot / Shaggy |
4,507,568 |
| 3 |
Celebrity / N Sync |
4,421,231 |
| 4 |
Day Without Rain / Enya |
4,410,053 |
| 5 |
Break the Cycle / Staind |
4,242,507 |
| 6 |
Songs In A Minor / Alicia Keys |
4,102,482 |
| 7 |
Survivor / Destinys Child |
3,718,446 |
| 8 |
Weathered / Creed |
3,581,344 |
| 9 |
Soundtrack / O Brother Where Art Thou? |
3,460,852 |
| 10 |
Vol.6-Now Thats What I Call / Va-Now |
3,133,462 |
TOP TEN SELLING ALBUMS OF SOUNDSCAN
ERA
(1991 12/30/2001)
|
Title / Artist |
Units Sold |
| 1 |
Come on Over / Shania Twain |
14,147,017 |
| 2 |
Jagged Little Pill / Alanis Morisette |
13,890,054 |
| 3 |
Metallica / Metallica |
12,981,888 |
| 4 |
Millennium / Backstreet Boys |
11,971,132 |
| 5 |
Bodyguard / Soundtrack |
11,689,093 |
| 6 |
Supernatural / Santana |
10,961,112 |
| 7 |
No Strings Attached / N Syn |
10,891,514 |
| 8 |
Human Clay / Creed |
10,490,972 |
| 9 |
Falling Into You / Celine Dion |
10,438,190 |
| 10 |
Baby One More Time / Britney Spears |
10,269,049 |
2001 YEAR-TO-DATE RECORD COMPANY MARKET
SHARE (01/01/01-12/30/01)
TOTAL ALBUMS (Catalog & Current Titles)
|
2001 |
2000 |
| UMVD |
26.40 % |
26.76 % |
| BMG |
14.71 % |
16.26 % |
| WEA |
15.93 % |
15.55 % |
| SONY |
15.65 % |
15.15 % |
| EMD |
10.64 % |
9.66 % |
| OTHERS |
16.66 % |
16.63 % |
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