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24 year old Lady Gaga’s “The Fame Monster” is officially the best selling album of 2010. After shifting an amazing 5.8 million copies worldwide it relegated Eminem’s chart topper “Recovery” to the runner up spot.
Gaga also snatched Spotify’s most listened-to tracks and albums of 2010 list’s top spot.
Rounding out the top five albums of the year were Justin Bieber selling 5.6 million copies of his My Worlds album, Lady Antebellum sold 3.6 million copies of Need You Now and Taylor Swift came in at number five with Speak Now selling 3.5 million albums.
Gaga announced on twitter: “The Fame Monster’ was named the best-selling album of 2010!” “I’m so excited for the future, believe + work hard, you will achieve your dreams.”
She also revealed to expect a special announcement about her forthcoming second album ‘Born This Way‘ at midnight on New Year’s Eve (December 31).
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This wrong. Where’s Take That’s ‘Progress’ and Iron Maiden’s ‘The Final Frontier’?
They have to be there!
The Final Frontier and Progress has sold about 2.5 million copies worldwide,
@ Matt: These are just the top 5 listed. 2.5 million copies sold is not enough for getting into the top 5…..
@Matt : here’s the top 15
1. Lady Gaga – The Fame (Monster) – 5.8 million
2. Eminem – Recovery – 5.7 million
3. Justin Bieber – My Worlds – 5.6 million
4. Lady Antebellum – Need You Now – 3.6 million
5. Taylor Swift – Speak Now – 3.5 million
6. Susan Boyle – The Gift – 3.0 million
7. Black Eyed Peas – The E.N.D. – 3.0 million
8. Michael Buble – Crazy Love – 3.0 million
9. Sade – Soldier Of Love – 2.3 million
10. Alicia Keys – The Element Of Freedom – 2.3 million
11. Take That – Progress – 2.3 million
12. Iron Maiden – The Final Frontier – 2.3 million
13. Katy Perry – Teenage Dream – 2.2 million
14. Susan Boyle – I Dreamed A Dream – 2.1 million
15. Ke$ha – Animal – 2.1 million
Iron Maiden have themselves claimed that they sold 800,000 copies of the Final Frontier all over the world in it’s first week of release…… if it could sell that many records in one week…. then I’m damn sure by the end of 2010 it sold at least 2.5 million! At most 5 million…..