Adele’s 25 is the official biggest artist album of 2015, according to Official Charts Company data.
Statistics revealed that the album sold 2.496m copies since it was released just over six weeks ago in November last year.
The record sold 800,307 copies in its opening week and went on to break numerous records – after ten days, 25 crossed the 1m sales barrier before reaching 2m after 29 days of release.
Ed Sheeran’s second album X was in second place - X finished the year on 971,000 combined sales (2.66m in total to date across its release lifetime).
Rounding off the top three was singer songwriter Sam Smith with his album, In The Lonely Hour.
The findings showed that the record achieved 893,000 combined sales in 2015.
The top list of best-sellers is below - visit the Official Charts Company website for the full list of top selling albums.
Adele - 25
Ed Sheeran - X
Sam Smith - In The Lonely Hour
Elvis Presley - If I Can Dream
Justin Bieber - Purpose
Taylor Swift - 1989
Jess Glynne - I Cry When I Laugh
James Bay - Chaos and the Calm
Coldplay - A Head Full Of Dreams
George Ezra - Wanted On Voyage
Statistics revealed that the album sold 2.496m copies since it was released just over six weeks ago in November last year.
The record sold 800,307 copies in its opening week and went on to break numerous records – after ten days, 25 crossed the 1m sales barrier before reaching 2m after 29 days of release.
Ed Sheeran’s second album X was in second place - X finished the year on 971,000 combined sales (2.66m in total to date across its release lifetime).
Rounding off the top three was singer songwriter Sam Smith with his album, In The Lonely Hour.
The findings showed that the record achieved 893,000 combined sales in 2015.
The top list of best-sellers is below - visit the Official Charts Company website for the full list of top selling albums.
Adele - 25
Ed Sheeran - X
Sam Smith - In The Lonely Hour
Elvis Presley - If I Can Dream
Justin Bieber - Purpose
Taylor Swift - 1989
Jess Glynne - I Cry When I Laugh
James Bay - Chaos and the Calm
Coldplay - A Head Full Of Dreams
George Ezra - Wanted On Voyage
