2008 Top Ten Selling Albums/Artists

Metallica’s “Death Magnetic” is the best selling Internet album for the year with 144,000 sales. Metallica’s dominance is in full effect, as they are in almost every top ten category, whether albums sells, best selling Artists or Internet albums sold, it’s clear, they sells tons of records.

Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter III is the biggest selling album of the year with 2.8 million sales.

Taylor Swift is the biggest selling solo artist, with sales greater than 4.0 million albums and AC/DC is the biggest selling group in 2008 with sales of 3.4 million.

Taylor Swift stands at the top of the list, marking the 2nd time in the last three years that a country artist is the top selling artist for the year. Rascal Flatts was the biggest selling artist in 2006 with 5 million sales. Josh Groban took the honors last year (2007) with 4.8 million sales.

2008 TOP TEN SELLING ALBUMS
1.Tha Carter III/ Lil Wayne -2,874,000, 2.Viva La Vida/ Coldplay -2,144,000, 3.Fearless/Taylor Swift -2,112,000, 4.Rock N Roll Jesus/ Kid Rock -2,018,000, 5.Black Ice/ AC/DC -1,915,000, 6.Taylor Swift/Taylor Swift -1,597,000, 7.Death Magnetic/ Metallica -1,565,000, 8.Paper Trail/ T.I. -1,522,000, 9.Sleep Through the Static/ Jack Johnson -1,492,000, 10.I Am…Sasha Fierce/ Beyonce -1,459,000

2008 TOP TEN SELLING ARTISTS
1.Taylor Swift -4,003,000, 2.AC/DC -3,418,000, 3.Lil Wayne -3,382,000, 4.Coldplay -2,691,000, 5.Metallica -2,466,000, 6.Kid Rock -2,405,000, 7.Jonas Brothers -2,340,000, 8.Sugarland -2,063,000, 9.Nickelback -1,953,000, 10.Jack Johnson -1,895,000

2008 TOP TEN INTERNET ALBUMS
1.Death Magnetic/ Metallica -144,000, 2.Little Bit Longer/ Jonas Brothers -119,000, 3.Viva La Vida/ Coldplay -112,000, 4.Fearless/ Taylor Swift -82,000, 5.Winter Came/ Enya -75,000, 6.Soundtrack/ Twilight -74,000, 7.Black Ice/ AC/DC -62,000, 8.Promise/ Il Divo -62,000, 9.Soundtrack/ High School Musical 3: -56,000, 10.David Cook/ David Cook -55,000

2008 TOP TEN VINYL ALBUMS
1.In Rainbows/ Radiohead -25,800, 2.Abbey Road/ Beatles -16,500, 3.Chinese Democracy/ Guns ‘N Roses -13,600, 4.Funplex/ B-52’s -12,800, 5.Third/ Portished -12,300, 6.In the Aeroplane… /Neutral Milk Hotel -10,200, 7.Dark Side of the Moon/ Pink Floyd -10,200, 8.Fleet Foxes/ Fleet Foxes -9,600, 9.Death Magnetic/ Metallica -9,400, 10.O.K. Computer/ Radiohead -9,300

2008 TOP TEN VINYL ARTISTS
1.Radiohead -61,200, 2.Metallica -39,500, 3.Beatles -20,400, 4.Elliott Smith -17,800, 5.Bob Dylan -15,200, 6.Portishead -15,100, 7.Ryan Adams -14,000, 8.Coldplay -13,900, 9.Guns ‘N Roses -13,600, 10.Neutral Milk Hotel -13,200