The 10 Best-Selling Albums/Songs/Vinyls Of 2015 So Far

So recently, Nielsen Entertainment published their mid-year music report which shows the number of albums, songs, and vinyl records sold so far this year.

Ever since Taylor Swift dropped the first single off 1989, Shake It Off, she's been ruling the charts and I know we've seen that here on the Hits 1 Weekend Countdown as she broke the record for most weeks at #1 with Shake It Off. 1989 was definitely Taylor Swift's biggest, most successful album up-to-date mainly because of Shake It Off and her transformation from the country side to mainstream as a whole. So of course, 1989 is at #1 for most of these categories.

However when you look at the best-selling digital songs so far this year, Taylor Swift is nowhere in the Top 10. Instead, it's being overrun by artists like Mark Ronson, Ed Sheeran, Wiz Khalifa, Maroon 5, Ellie Goulding, and more. This list will be down below.

So without further ado, here are the Top 10 best-selling albums, songs, and vinyl records as well as the 10 most-streamed songs.


Best-Selling LP Vinyls Of 2015
(NOTE: Parenthical Number = Units Sold In The U.S.)
1. Taylor Swift – 1989 (33,500)
2. Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell (31,700)
3. Arctic Monkeys – AM (27,000)
4. Alabama Shakes – Sound & Color (25,600)
5. Miles Davis – Kind Of Blue (23,200)
6. Sam Smith – In The Lonely Hour (22,900)
7. Pink Floyd – Dark Side Of The Moon (22,600)
8. Various Artists – Guardians Of The Galaxy [Soundtrack] (22,000)
9. Father John Misty – I Love You Honeybear (21,600)
10. Hozier – Hozier (21,400)


Best-Selling Digital Songs
(NOTE: Parenthical Number = Units Sold In The U.S.)
1. Mark Ronson/Bruno Mars – Uptown Funk (4,883,000)
2. Ed Sheeran – Thinking Out Loud (3,450,000)
3. Wiz Khalifa/Charlie Puth – See You Again (3,073,000)
4. Maroon 5 – Sugar (2,884,000)
5. Ellie Goulding – Love Me Like You Do (2,294,000)
6. Walk The Moon – Shut Up and Dance (2,155,000)
7. The Weeknd – Earned It (1,966,000)
8. Hozier – Take Me To Church (1,925,000)
9. Rihanna/Kanye West/Paul McCartney – FourFiveSeconds (1,868,000)
10. Fetty Wap – Trap Queen (1,864,000)


Most-Streamed Songs On Audio/Video
(NOTE: Parenthical Number = Streams In The U.S.)
1. Mark Ronson/Bruno Mars – Uptown Funk (367,987,000)
2. Fetty Wap – Trap Queen (289,531,000)
3. Wiz Khalifa/Charlie Puth – See You Again (250,958,000)
4. Ed Sheeran – Thinking Out Loud (225,645,000)
5. Maroon 5 – Sugar (195,197,000)
6. The Weeknd – Earned It (190,326,000)
7. Ellie Goulding – Love Me Like You Do (163,799,000)
8. Taylor Swift – Shake It Off (155,889,000)
9. Hozier – Take Me To Church (151,454,000)
10. Omarion/Chris Brown/Jhene Aiko – Post To Be (147,524,000)


Best-Selling Physical Albums Of 2015
(NOTE: Parenthical Number = Units Sold In The U.S.)
1. Taylor Swift – 1989 (1,328,000)
2. Drake – If You're Reading This It's Too Late (965,000)
3. Sam Smith – In The Lonely Hour (788,000)
4. Ed Sheeran – X (763,000)
5. Various Artists – Fifty Shades Of Grey [Soundtrack] (763,000)
6. Meghan Trainor – Title (727,000)
7. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly (627,000)
8. Fall Out Boy – American Beauty / American Psycho (478,000)
9. Various Artists – NOW 53 (451,000)
10. Josh Groban – Stages (420,000)


Overall Best-Selling Albums Of 2015
(NOTE: Parenthical Number = Units Sold In The U.S.)
1. Taylor Swift – 1989 (2,011,000)
2. Drake – If You're Reading This It's Too Late (1,431,000)
3. Ed Sheeran – X (1,428,000)
4. Various Artists – Fifty Shades Of Grey [Soundtrack] (1,402,000)
5. Sam Smith – In The Lonely Hour (1,296,000)
6. Meghan Trainor – Title (1,209,000)
7. Various Artists – Furious 7 [Soundtrack] (971,000)
8. Maroon 5 – V (966,000)
9. Nicki Minaj – The Pinkprint (825,000)
10. Fall Out Boy – American Beauty / American Psycho (813,000)