Ed Sheeran’s X was the biggest selling album of 2014, selling over 1,689,000 copies in the UK. X’s sales were higher than any other artist since Adele’s 21 4 years ago. Ed managed to stay at the top of the charts for 12 weeks. Along with this, X was made the most downloaded album of the year and sold over 214,000 copies in the week before Christmas too.
Sam Smith’s album In The Lonely Hour stayed at Number 2 and sold nearly 1,248,000 copies in the UK. Sam joins Ed Sheeran as one of only two artists to sell over a million albums in the UK in 2014. Sam also became the only artist in 2014 to sell over one million albums in both the UK and the US.
George Ezra’s Wanted On Voyage is the third biggest selling album of 2014, selling over 678,000 copies in the UK. Wanted On Voyage spent 26 weeks in the Top 10, topping the Official Albums Chart for two weeks in October, 14 weeks after its release. Coldplay’s Ghost Stories managed to settle at Number 5. This was set to be the fastest-selling album of the year, but was overtaken by Ed Sheeran’s album X. Ghost Stories sold 168,000 copies in its first week of release. This scored Coldplay their sixth UK Number 1 album and as of the 1st January 2015, has sold nearly 544,000 copies.
Finally, one of the best selling albums as of late 2014 was The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 Soundtrack. Featuring the voices of Lorde, Lana Del Rey, Charlie XCX and Jennifer Lawrence herself, the soundtrack was already set for the top 20 before it had even been released. In it’s first week on the charts, the soundtrack had already sold over 200,000 copies. In the US, the spooking Soundtrack stayed at Number 3, just below Taylor Swift’s 1989 on Billboard for 3 weeks.
NOW, IF YOU’RE TIRED OF READING ABOUT MUSIC FROM LAST YEAR, HERE ARE SOME ALBUM’S YOU CAN LOOK OUT FOR IN 2015:
Charlie XCX’ s Sucker is the third studio album by Charlie XCX which was supposed to be released in December 2014 but was pushed back to January 2015.
Mark Ronson’s Uptown Special is his fourth album set to be released on January 26th meaning we don't have too long to wait until we are able to hear more music from him.
Coldplay’s A Head Full of Dreams is the band’s seventh album. This album could be quite a bittersweet moment for their fans as Chris Martin has insinuated that it could be their final album.
