The Nielsen Company & Billboard's music industry report
Nielsen SoundScan, the entertainment industry's data information system that tracks unit point-of-purchase sales of recorded music product and Nielsen BDS, the music industry's leading music performance monitoring service - which power many of the Billboard charts - have announced the 2010 calendar year sales and airplay monitoring data for the 52-week period January 4, 2010 through January 2, 2011.
2010 Top Ten Seasonal Albums
| | | title | | artist | | units sold | | 1. | | The Gift | | Susan Boyle | | 1,852,000 | | 2. | | O Holy Night | | Jackie Evancho | | 1,010,000 | | 3. | | Music: Xmas | | Glee Cast | | 917,000 | | 4. | | Merry Christmas II You | | Mariah Carey | | 432,000 | | 5. | | My Christmas | | Andrea Bocelli | | 371,000 | | 6. | | Noel | | Josh Groban | | 261,000 | | 7. | | Merry Little Christmas | | Lady Antebellum | | 253,000 | | 8. | | Now Christmas 4 | | Various | | 240,000 | | 9. | | The Holiday Collection | | Taylor Swift | | 209,000 | | 10. | | Christmas Cornucopia | | Annie Lennox | | 178,000 |
2010 Top Ten Holiday Songs Airplay
| | | title | | artist | | detections | | 1. | | Rockin' Around the Christmas... | | Brenda Lee | | 34,900 | | 2. | | A Holly Jolly Christmas | | Burl Ives | | 34,400 | | 3. | | The Christmas Song | | Nat King Cole | | 33,300 | | 4. | | Jingle Bell Rock | | Bobby Helms | | 33,000 | | 5. | | Feliz Navidad | | Jose Feliciano | | 32,900 | | 6. | | All I Want for Christmas Is... | | Mariah Carey | | 32,500 | | 7. | | It's the Most Wonderful... | | Andy Williams | | 29,200 | | 8. | | Happy X-Mas (War is Over) | | John Lennon | | 28,400 | | 9. | | Do They Know It's Christmas? | | Band Aid | | 26,700 | | 10. | | White Christmas | | Bing Crosby | | 26,200 |
2010 Top Artists - Internet Streams
| | | artist | | streams | | 1. | | Eminem | | 94,000,000 | | 2. | | Taylor Swift | | 77,000,000 | | 3. | | Lady Gaga | | 58,000,000 | | 4. | | Rihanna | | 57,000,000 | | 5. | | Ke$ha | | 53,000,000 | | 6. | | Nickelback | | 52,000,000 | | 7. | | Lady Antebellum | | 52,000,000 | | 8. | | Black Eyed Peas | | 49,000,000 | | 9. | | Beyonce | | 46,000,000 | | 10. | | Mariah Carey | | 45,000,000 |
Top Ten Selling Artists (based on album sales from 1991-2011)
| | | artist | | units sold | | 1. | | Garth Brooks | | 68,513,000 | | 2. | | Beatles | | 62,066,000 | | 3. | | Mariah Carey | | 53,185,000 | | 4. | | Metallica | | 52,672,000 | | 5. | | Celine Dion | | 51,162,000 | | 6. | | George Strait | | 42,396,000 | | 7. | | Eminem | | 39,643,000 | | 8. | | Tim McGraw | | 39,396,000 | | 9. | | Alan Jackson | | 38,275,000 | | 10. | | Pink Floyd | | 36,429,000 | (excerpt from Yahoo! Finance)
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