twenty one pilots Had Biggest Selling Vinyl Album of 2016

Imagine if the music chart was compiled the way it is done with movies titles … by box-office takings.

The sales and listening of recorded albums continues to drop according to Buzz Angle Music but, of the LPs that have been purchased or streamed, almost two-thirds were catalogue product.

Once again stories about the death of the CD have been grossly exaggerated. A study of this week’s Australian Top 10 ARIA album chart by The Noise Network shows that most fans prefer the physical format over streams and downloads.

Only four albums sold over one million units in the USA during 2016 with Adele ‘25’ the biggest seller.

2016 has proven that the best PR you can do to drive music sales is to die.

Death is undeniably the greatest promotional tool of the music industry as sales of Prince and Bowie attest.

Adele ‘25’ has sold a further 65,719 albums in Australia in the second week on sale bringing its tally to 191,782 sales.