Only Oasis match Coldplay’s 100% career sprint of back-to-back chart topping albums. Coldplay’s seventh studio album didn’t manage to hit Number 1 last year, but climbed to the top in February 2016, continuing their unbroken streak of Number 1 studio albums.

MORE: Look back at every Official UK Number 1 album EVERĪnother 2015 release finishes in second place - Coldplay’s A Head Full of Dreams, with combined sales of just over 512,000. Official figures released by the UK labels' association the BPI revealed that a total of 123 million albums or their equivalent were either streamed, purchased on physical format, or downloaded by UK music consumers in 2016 - a 1.5% rise on 2015. However, sales of CDs declined by over a tenth in 2016 (-11.7%), though the format remains relatively resilient with many of us still drawn to its collectible or gift appeal, particularly with deluxe box-set packages. MORE: The UK's Official Top 40 biggest songs of 2016Ģ5 is already in the Top 30 of the UK's best selling albums of all time, as revealed in July as part of the Official Charts Company's celebrations for the Official Albums Chart's 60th anniversary. The album has gone 10x Platinum in the UK and was this year certified Diamond in the US for shifting over 10 million units. MORE: Get more Official Charts news and features straight to your inbox with The Official Word newsletterĭiscounting streams that 25 has amassed since it was added to Spotify and Apple Music in June, the album has passed the 3 million sales mark, becoming one of only 26 albums in history to do so. The album has also never left the Official Albums Chart Top 40 since its release in November 2015. 95% of 25’s chart sales total was made up of physical and digital purchases.

Adele was top of the mountain in 2015 and it is a similar story in 2016 – the much-loved megastar has hiked her way to Official Albums Chart supremacy for the second year in a row.Īdele’s third studio album 25 is the biggest record of 2016 when sales and streams are combined, notching up a combined total of 753,000 in the last 12 months.

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