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TOP DIGITAL SONGS 2013 POS ARTIST TITLE LABEL SALES
1 ROBIN THICKE Blurred Lines Star Track/Interscope 6.5 million 2 MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS Thrift Shop Macklemore 6.1 million 3 IMAGINE DRAGONS Radioactive Kidinakorner/Interscope 5.5 million 4 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE Cruise Republic Nashville 4.7 million 5 LORDE Royals Lava/Republic 4.4 million 6 KATY PERRY Roar Capitol 4.4 million 7 PINK FEAT. NATE RUESS Just Give Me A Reason RCA 4.3 million 8 MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS Can’t Hold Us Macklemore 4.3 million 9 BRUNO MARS When I Was Your Man Atlantic 3.9 million 10 RIHANNA FEAT. MIKKY EKKO Stay SRP/Def Jam 3.9 million Source: Nielsen SoundScan
TOP ALBUMS 2013 POS ARTIST TITLE LABEL SALES
last year, but demand for current download titles actually rose – up 3.5% – with 62.3 million purchases. This trend was reflected in both the physical market and overall album sales. The total albums market dropped by 8.4% last year to 289.4 million units with catalogue down by a sharper 11.1%, but current album sales fell a less steep 5.8%. Similarly, the physical album market’s 14.5% annual drop was made up of an 1l.3% fall for frontline albums, but a much-worse 15.5% drop for catalogue. Also heading downwards for the first time was
the one-track download market with an annual fall of 5.7% to 1.259 billion units, compared to a rise of 5.1% the year before to a new record high of 1.336 billion units. Sales of current tracks almost matched their peak achieved in 2012 with this part of the
sector down by 1.5%, but catalogue sales fell 9.2%, which may indicate a maturing of the market with some consumers having already purchased most of the oldies they wanted and also the potential transfer of business to streaming services. Certainly sales of the year’s biggest one-track
downloads were on a par with what was achieved in 2012 with 2013’s No 1, Robin Thicke featuring TI and Pharrell Williams’ Blurred Lines, shifting 6.5 million units compared to 6.8 million for leading 2012 title Somebody That I Used To Know by Gotye featuring Kimbra. There were two tracks over the course of the
year that shifted more than 6 million copies with Thrift Shop (6.1 million) also joining this party, compared to one hitting the same level in 2012. The past year also included another track above 5
US VINYL MARKET GROWS AGAIN IN 2013
Fewer than a million vinyl albums were bought in the US in 2007, but since then the market has expanded more than six-fold. After reaching 0.99 million units six years ago, sales rose
in 2008 to what was a new high in the Nielsen SoundScan era dating back to 1991 of 1.9 million units. However, in each of the five subsequent years that record has been smashed annually and another new benchmark was reached in 2013 with 6.1 million 12-inch albums having been purchased. The 33% year-on-year increase meant that vinyl
represented around 2% of the entire US albums market last year, an incredible turnaround for a format that back in 2007 was deemed of so little importance that it did not even warrant a mention in Nielsen SoundScan’s annual music sales report to the media. Reflecting the huge increase in demand for vinyl
across the pond, sales of the individual leading titles last year were far higher than the numbers the biggest albums attracted even a few years ago. In 2008 the top- selling 12-inch album was Radiohead’s In Rainbows with 25,800 copies sold while the band’s 1997 classic OK Computer was ranked at No 10 with 9,300 sales. Five years later Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories needed to shift 49,000 copies to finish as 2013’s top seller, while Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience sold 21,000 vinyl albums to sit at No 10 on the year-end chart. Two other albums sold more than 30,000 copies on vinyl last year with Vampire Weekend’s Modern Vampires
Of The City attracting 34,000 purchases and Arcade Fire’s Reflektor 31,000. Similar to the UK, what was notable about the top vinyl
sellers in the US was how many of them were released by independent labels. Outside of Daft Punk and Justin Timberlake’s albums, the rest of the year-end Top 10 was exclusively made up of albums released independently in the States. Four of these were albums handled by Universal in the UK but on indies in the US, led by Arcade Fire’s Reflektor, which was released by Merge there, but also taking in Mumford & Sons’ two studio albums through Glassnote and The Lumineers’ self-titled debut on Dualtone. The indie showing included a trio of albums that came out through UK-owned Beggars Group with XL act Vampire Weekend at No 2 joined at No 6 by Queens Of The Stone Age with their Matador debut… Like Clockwork and 4AD act The National’s Trouble Will Find Me at No 9. The Top 10 was completed by Bon Iver’s For Emma Forever Ago, released by 4AD in the UK and Jagjaguwar in the US, at No 7. One other notable development of the top vinyl sellers in
the US is how the leading titles annually have changed from being dominated by classic albums to more recent releases taking away. In 2008 the year-end vinyl Top 10 included such enduring titles as The Beatles’ Abbey Road and Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side Of The Moon, but the oldest albums in last year’s Top 10 were the Bon Iver set from 2007 and Mumford & Sons’ Sigh No More from 2009 with the rest of the chart from 2012 or 2013.
1 JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE The 20/20 Experience RCA 2.4 million 2 EMINEM The Marshall Mathers LP 2 Interscope 1.7 million 3 LUKE BRYAN Crash My Party Capitol Nashville 1.5 million 4 IMAGINE DRAGONS Night Visions Kidinakorner/Interscope 1.4 million 5 BRUNO MARS Unorthodox Jukebox Atlantic 1.4 million 6 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE Here’s To... Republic Nashville 1.4 million 7 DRAKE Nothing Was The Same Young Money/Cash Money 1.3 million 8 BEYONCE Beyonce Parkwood Entertainment/Columbia 1.3 million 9 BLAKE SHELTON Based On A... Warner Bros Nashville 1.1 million 10 JAY Z Magna Carta Holy Grail Roc-A-Fella/Roc Nation 1.1 million
Source: Nielsen SoundScan
million sales – Imagine Dragons’ Radioactive with 5.5 million takers – while hits by Florida Georgia Line, Lorde, Katy Perry, Pink featuring Nate Ruess and another by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (Can’t Hold Us) shifted more than 4 million copies. This meant six tracks in all sold 4 million or more units, compared to four in 2012.
TOP VINYL ALBUMS OF 2013 POS ARTIST TITLE LABEL SALES
1 DAFT PUNK Random Access Memories Daft Life/Columbia 49,000 2 VAMPIRE WEEKEND Modern Vampires Of The City XL 34,000 3 ARCADE FIRE Reflektor Merge 31,000 4 MUMFORD & SONS Babel Gentleman Of The Road/Glassnote 27,000 5 MUMFORD & SONS Babel Gentleman Of The Road/Gassnote 27,000 6 QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE …Like Clockwork Matador 27,000 7 BON IVER For Emma Forever Ago Jagjaguwar 23,000 8 THE LUMINEERS The Lumineers Dualtone 22,000 9 THE NATIONAL Trouble Will Find Me 4AD 22,000 10 JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE The 20/20 Experience RCA 21,000
Source: Nielsen SoundScan ANNUAL VINYL ALBUM SALES IN US
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