Nielsen SoundScan Archives

Music fans purchased more Rock Music than any other genre in 2013.

Nielsen Entertainment and Billboard have released their annual review of the music business for the period of December 31, 2012 through December 29, 2013.

Justin Timberlake’s ‘The 20/20 Experience’ is the biggest selling album of the year so far in the USA.

Record Store Day has been declared a success after music sales for independent record stores across America were up 59% on the previous week and up 3% on the same day last year.

Metallica’s ‘Metallica’ album remains the biggest selling album of the SoundScan era and clocked up a further 110,000 sales in 2012.

Rock was the biggest selling music genre of 2012.

Jack White’s ‘Blunderbuss’ was the biggest selling vinyl album of 2012 bumping The Beatles ‘Abbey Road’ from the top of the chart.

Melbourne’s Gotye had the biggest selling song of 2012 in the USA.

Adele was the biggest selling artist of 2012 and ‘21’ was the biggest selling album in the USA, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Music sales have registered at 3.1% increase in the USA for 2012, according to figures from Nielsen SoundScan.

Music sales for the first nine months of 2012 are on track to break last year’s record figure in the USA.

Adele ‘21’ is the biggest selling album of the year in the USA so far and the only album to have sold more than 1,000,000 units.

Gotye ‘Making Mirrors’ is the third biggest selling digital album of 2012 so far, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Melbourne’s Gotye featuring Kimbra ‘Something That I Used To Know’ is the biggest selling song in the USA for 2012 so far, according to Nielsen Soundscan.

The death of Whitney Houston has generated a buying spree for fans. Since her death people have purchased over 100,000 Whitney Houston albums and almost 900,000 digital tracks.