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The Official Charts Company has confirmed the UK’s 40 best selling albums of last year, and Muse, Noel Gallagher and Coldplay are among those to have made the list.
Six weeks was more than enough for Adele to comfortably take first place with ‘25‘s sales of nearly 2.5 million, while Coldplay’s ‘A Head Full Of Dreams‘ is at #9.
Further back, Noel Gallagher’s second High Flying Birds album ‘Chasing Yesterday‘ was the UK’s 21st biggest seller of 2015, while Muse‘s ‘Drones‘ sold enough to get to #30.
UK’s best selling albums of 2015, Top 40:
1/ Adele – ’25’
2/ Ed Sheeran – ‘x’
3/ Sam Smith – ‘In The Lonely Hour’
4/ Elvis Presley – ‘If I Can Dream’
5/ Justin Bieber – ‘Purpose’
6/ Taylor Swift – ‘1989’
7/ Jess Glynne – ‘I Cry When I Laugh’
8/ James Bay – ‘The Chaos and The Calm’
9/ Coldplay – ‘A Head Full Of Dreams’
10/ George Ezra – ‘Wanted On Voyage’
11/ Little Mix – ‘Get Weird’
12/ Hozier – ‘Hozier’
13/ Olly Murs – ‘Never Been Better’
14/ One Direction – ‘Made In The AM’
15/ Mumford & Sons – ‘Wilder Mind’
16/ Rod Stewart – ‘Another Country’
17/ Meghan Trainor – ‘Title’
18/ Jeff Lynne’s ELO – ‘Alone In The Universe’
19/ Florence & The Machine – ‘How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful’
20/ Years & Years – ‘Communion’
21/ Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – ‘Chasing Yesterday’
22/ Royal Blood – ‘Royal Blood’
23/ Paloma Faith – ‘A Perfect Contradiction’
24/ Sia – ‘1000 Forms Of Fear’
25/ Cilla Black – ‘The Very Best Of’
26/ Weeknd – ‘Beauty Behind The Madness’
27/ Paul Simon – ‘The Ultimate Collection’
28/ Fall Out Boy – ‘American Beauty/American Psycho’
29/ Enya – ‘Dark Sky Island’
30/ Muse – Drones’
31/ Ella Henderson – ‘Chapter One’
32/ Alexander Armstrong – ‘A Year Of Songs’
33/ Take That – ‘III’
34/ Ellie Goulding – ‘Delirium’
35/ David Gilmour – ‘Rattle That Lock’
36/ Catfish & The Bottlemen – ‘The Balcony’
37/ Gregory Porter – ‘Liquid Spirit’
38/ Ed Sheeran – ‘+’
39/ Stereophonics – ‘Keep The Village Alive’
40/ Michael Buble – ‘Christmas’
