Say whatever you want about the Canadians, but they love their Rock Music, And of course, Celine Dion (7 million albums sold) and Shania Twain (4.2 million albums sold). AC/DC’s Black Ice is the biggest selling album of the year with 341,000 sales. I would have expected for Guns N’ Roses “Chinese Democracy” Album to have at least cracked the top ten.

AC/DC is the biggest selling artist with album sales of 557,000 in 2008.  The first best selling “solo artist was Jack Johnson at #5 with 254,000 album sales. Rihanna was the biggest selling digital artist with digital track sales surpassing 475,000 in 2008.Note that the top 5 biggest selling digital artists are all female solo artists.

2008 TOP TEN SELLING ALBUMS
1.Black Ice/ AC/DC -341,000, 2.Viva La Vida/ Coldplay -334,000, 3.Death Magnetic/ Metallica -265,000, 4.Dark Horse/ Nickelback -216,000, 5.Sleep Through the Static/ Jack Johnson -193,000, 6.Soundtrack/ Mamma Mia -169,000, 7.Hard Candy/ Madonna -169,000, 8.Promise/ Il Divo -162,000, 9.Circus/ Britney Spears -143,000, 10.Rock N Roll Jesus/ Kid Rock -143,000

2008 TOP TEN SELLING ARTISTS
1.AC/DC -557,000, 2.Coldplay -418,000, 3.Metallica -404,000, 4.Nickelback -279,000, 5.Jack Johnson -254,000, 6.Celine Dion -234,000, 7.Taylor Swift -233,000, 8.Guns N’ Roses -221,000, 9.Madonna -215,000, 10.Il Divo -214,000

Data provided by The Nielsen Company’s SoundScan