Justin Timberlake’s 20/20 Experience was the best-selling album of 2013, according to Nielsen SoundScan, as reported by billboard.com.
Timberlake’s album sold 2.43 million albums last year, as per billboard.com. It was the only album to sell more than 2 million copies in 2013.
20/20 and Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter III, which was the best-selling album of 2008 with 2.87 million copies, are the only best-selling albums of a year to sell less than 3 million copies since SoundScan began tracking music sales in 1991, billboard.com reports.
The second-highest selling album of 2013 was Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers LP 2, which sold 1.73 million copies. The Detroit rapper had the best-selling album of 2010 with Recovery, which sold 3.4 million copies that year.
Drake’s Nothing Was The Same album is the seventh best-selling album of 2013. It sold 1.34 million copies. Despite being released December 14, Beyonce’s self-titled album is the #8 album overall and the best-selling album from a woman of 2013. It sold 1.3 million units.
Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” single, which featured Pharrell and T.I., was the best-selling song of 2013. It sold 6.5 million copies. “Thrift Shop” by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis sold 6.15 million copies, making it the second-best-selling song of 2013. “Blurred Lines” and “Thrift Shop” are among the 26 songs to have sold more than 6 million units in music history, billboard.com reports.
“Can’t Hold Us,” also by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, sold 4.26 million units, which made it the #8 best-selling song of 2013.
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LOL @ JT being the only musician to sell double platinum. The music business is a train wreck.
To be fair if Beyonce and Eminem released their albums a bit earlier they would hit 2 million this year too.
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Pretty sure Magna Carter sold over 2 million records??
Who wrote this shit??
Nobody counts that “I’m so well connected I had Samsung by a million copies off the top” bullshit…….. Jay is at like 1.2 million of actual human beings who bought that record, FOH with that payola scheme shit him and samsung put together.
Magna Carta Holy Grail was purchased and downloaded by 1 Million Samsung Galaxy users in 3 days..
But yea, that doesn’t count..
Come back when something hits yu
It was certified plat by the RIAA
If eminem released his album earlier in the year he would of won.
Lord Jamar was right
my buddy’s mother-in-law makes $63 an hour on the internet. She has been laid off for six months but last month her income was $15702 just working on the internet for a few hours. check here,,,,,,,,,,,, http://x.co/3XthC
nice to know that the other genere of music are slumping as well i thought only hip-hop was nose diving
my buddy’s mother-in-law makes $63 an hour on the internet. She has been laid off for six months but last month her income was $15702 just working on the internet for a few hours. check here,,,,,,,,,,,, http://x.co/3XtiE
It’s crazy how he released TWO dope albums and neither one of them are nominated for a grammy..
If Eminem had released his album before June, he would have had the highest selling album. But he released it in November.
Isn’t it funny that NWTS was released before MMLP2 and MMLP2 ended up selling more?
No, it’s not funny.
til I looked at the paycheck saying $9401, I be certain …that…my friends brother was like actually taking home money part-time on-line.. there moms best frend has been doing this less than 17 months and recently paid the debts on their house and bourt a great Jaguar XJ. visit this website… http://www.Fb39.Com
.it plays into bigger picture of keeping EVERYONE DOWN by taking away alternative sources of revenue, so that we all stay poor and can never resist the power structure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epP7i7unWdU
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didn’t jay go double plat? Sammy bout 1 mill and then jay sold 1 mill.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfHv0K3xAW8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJSfieToXSQ
Kendrick got outsold by everybody lol