Adele comfortably had the biggest selling album of 2012 in the US, new Billboard figures show.
The singer’s second album ‘21‘ shifted 4.41m copies during the course of last year having already enjoyed a bumper 2011 – well over one million more than her nearest rival, Taylor Swift‘s ‘Red‘.
Mumford & Sons‘ ‘Babel‘ also proved to be a popular record Stateside, shifting 1.46 million copies following its release in September.
Earlier this week, Jack White‘s debut solo album ‘Blunderbuss‘ was revealed to have been the top selling record on vinyl in the US last year, with an impressive 33,000 copies sold.
Top 10 Best Selling Albums Of 2012 (US):
1/ Adele – ’21’ (4.41m)
2/ Taylor Swift – ‘Red’ (3.11m)
3/ One Direction – ‘Up All Night’ (1.62m)
4/ Mumford & Sons – ‘Babel’ (1.46m)
5/ One Direction – ‘Take Me Home’ (1.34m)
6/ Justin Bieber – ‘Believe’ (1.34m)
7/ Carrie Underwood – ‘Blown Away’ (1.2m)
8/ Luke Bryan – ‘Tailgates & Tanlines’ (1.1m)
9/ Lionel Richie – ‘Tuskegee’ (1.07m)
10/ Jason Aldean – ‘Night Train’ (1.02m)
