TOP 10 ALBUMS OF 2021 IN U.S., BY TOTAL EQUIVALENT ALBUM UNITS
1. Morgan Wallen, Dangerous: The Double Album (3.226 million)
2. Olivia Rodrigo, Sour (2.856 million)
3. Drake, Certified Lover Boy (1.970 million)
4. Adele, 30 (1.936 million)
5. Pop Smoke, Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon (1.533 million)
6. Doja Cat, Planet Her (1.510 million)
7. The Kid LAROI, F*ck Love (1.505 million)
8. Justin Bieber, Justice (1.473 million)
9. Dua Lipa, Future Nostalgia (1.403 million)
10. The Weeknd, After Hours (1.342 million)

 

Source: MRC Data, for the tracking period Jan. 1, 2021, through Dec. 30, 2021. UGC streams are not included in this chart, but are included in MRC Data’s on-demand streaming charts (below). MRC Data’s equivalent album unit totals include SEA and TEA for an album’s songs registered before an album’s release, but during the tracking period. For example, Adele’s 30 album unit total includes SEA and TEA for its song “Easy on Me” from Oct. 15, 2021 (its release day) through Nov. 18, 2021, before the album was released on Nov. 19, 2021.

 

TOP 10 SELLING ALBUMS OF 2021 IN U.S. (PHYSICAL & DIGITAL SALES COMBINED)
1. Adele, 30 (1.464 million)
2. Taylor Swift, Red (Taylor’s Version) (621,000)
3. Olivia Rodrigo, Sour (557,000)
4. Taylor Swift, Evermore (529,000)
5. Taylor Swift, Fearless (Taylor’s Version) (521,000)
6. Billie Eilish, Happier Than Ever (430,000)
7. Harry Styles, Fine Line (317,000)
8. Taylor Swift, Folklore (304,000)
9. Carrie Underwood, My Savior (293,000)
10. Morgan Wallen, Dangerous: The Double Album (288,000)
Source: MRC Data, for the tracking period Jan. 1, 2021, through Dec. 30, 2021.

 

TOP 10 SELLING VINYL ALBUMS OF 2021 IN U.S.
1. Adele, 30 (318,000)
2. Olivia Rodrigo, Sour (268,000)
3. Taylor Swift, Red (Taylor’s Version) (260,000)
4. Harry Styles, Fine Line (256,000)
5. Billie Eilish, Happier Than Ever (252,000)
6. Taylor Swift, Evermore (249,000)
7. Prince & The Revolution, Purple Rain (Soundtrack) (207,000)
8. The Beatles, Abbey Road (201,000)
9. Taylor Swift, Folklore (195,000)
10. Kendrick Lamar, good kid, m.A.A.d city (194,000)
Source: MRC Data, for the tracking period Jan. 1, 2021, through Dec. 30, 2021.

 

 

TOP 10 MOST STREAMED SONGS OF 2021 IN U.S., ON-DEMAND (AUDIO & VIDEO COMBINED)
1. Dua Lipa, “Levitating” (804.71 million)
2. Olivia Rodrigo, “Drivers License” (761.58 million)
3. Olivia Rodrigo, “Good 4 U” (709.79 million)
4. Lil Nas X, “Montero (Call Me by Your Name)” (684.90 million)
5. The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber, “Stay” (679.90 million)
6. The Weeknd & Ariana Grande, “Save Your Tears” (677.91 million)
7. Masked Wolf, “Astronaut in the Ocean” (609.90 million)
8. Doja Cat featuring SZA, “Kiss Me More” (599.06 million)
9. Lil Nas X & Jack Harlow, “Industry Baby” (597.80 million)
10. Polo G, “Rapstar” (572.96 million)
Source: MRC Data, for the tracking period Jan. 1, 2021, through Dec. 30, 2021. Includes UGC streams.

 

TOP 10 MOST STREAMED SONGS OF 2021 IN U.S., ON DEMAND AUDIO
1. Dua Lipa, “Levitating” (626.56 million)
2. Olivia Rodrigo, “Drivers License” (595.21 million)
3. Olivia Rodrigo, “Good 4 U” (579.61 million)
4. The Weeknd & Ariana Grande, “Save Your Tears” (558.16 million)
5. Glass Animals, “Heat Waves” (517.98 million)
6. Doja Cat featuring SZA, “Kiss Me More” (500.07 million)
7. Polo G, “Rapstar” (487.46 million)
8. The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber, “Stay” (486.45 million)
9. Lil Nas X, “Montero (Call Me by Your Name)” (470.20 million)
10. Masked Wolf, “Astronaut in the Ocean” (452.21 million)
Source: MRC Data, for the tracking period Jan. 1, 2021, through Dec. 30, 2021. Includes UGC streams.

 

TOP 10 SELLING DIGITAL SONGS OF 2021 IN U.S.
1. BTS, “Butter” (1.89 million)
2. Walker Hayes, “Fancy Like” (499,000)
3. BTS, “Permission to Dance” (404,000)
4. Dua Lipa, “Levitating” (375,000)
5. Masked Wolf, “Astronaut in the Ocean” (325,000)
6. BTS, “Dynamite” (308,000)
7. Coldplay x BTS, “My Universe” (287,000)
8. Ed Sheeran, “Bad Habits” (282,000)
9. Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars & Anderson .Paak), “Leave the Door Open” (260,000)
10. The Weeknd & Ariana Grande, “Save Your Tears” (251,000)
Source: MRC Data, for the tracking period Jan. 1, 2021, through Dec. 30, 2021.

 

TOP 10 RADIO SONGS OF 2021 IN U.S. (BASED ON AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS)
1. Dua Lipa, “Levitating” (2.94 billion)
2. The Weeknd & Ariana Grande, “Save Your Tears” (2.41 billion)
3. Chris Brown & Young Thug, “Go Crazy” (2.21 billion)
4. The Weeknd, “Blinding Lights” (2.13 billion)
5. Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars & Anderson .Paak), “Leave the Door Open” (2.11 billion)
6. Doja Cat featuring SZA, “Kiss Me More” (2.03 billion)
7. 24kGolden featuring Iann Dior, “Mood” (1.94 billion)
8. Ariana Grande, “Positions” (1.87 billion)
9. Olivia Rodrigo, “Good 4 U” (1.854 billion)
10. Ed Sheeran, “Bad Habits” (1.849 billion)
Source: MRC Data, for the tracking period Jan. 1, 2021, through Dec. 30, 2021.

 

https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/dua-lipa-morgan-wallen-us-2021-mrc-data-1235016079/

 

Dua & Adele

Is there no chart for overall consumption?? I wanna see how much did Taylor reach

6 minutes ago, Hector said:

 

TOP 10 SELLING ALBUMS OF 2021 IN U.S. (PHYSICAL & DIGITAL SALES COMBINED)
1. Adele, 30 (1.464 million)
2. Taylor Swift, Red (Taylor’s Version) (621,000)
3. Olivia Rodrigo, Sour (557,000)
4. Taylor Swift, Evermore (529,000)
5. Taylor Swift, Fearless (Taylor’s Version) (521,000)
6. Billie Eilish, Happier Than Ever (430,000)
7. Harry Styles, Fine Line (317,000)
8. Taylor Swift, Folklore (304,000)
9. Carrie Underwood, My Savior (293,000)
10. Morgan Wallen, Dangerous: The Double Album (288,000)
Source: MRC Data, for the tracking period Jan. 1, 2021, through Dec. 30, 2021.

the way women dominating this list 

Carrie’s gospel album selling 300k pure  

Physical album sales grew by 21.7% I noticed from the HDD year-end chart that pure sales last year were actually pretty strong... and this is without ticket or merch bundles!

1 minute ago, KillingYourCareer said:

Physical album sales grew by 21.7% I noticed from the HDD year-end chart that pure sales last year were actually pretty strong... and this is without ticket or merch bundles!

Thanks to Vinyls and specially Taylor , Adele and Olivia

Maga Wallen  

 

Heat Waves really deserved to smash hard earlier, crazy stats and it's just getting bigger.  

 

Great year for Olivia, Doja, Taylor and Adele and Miss Levitating of course  

The way they removed DaBaby from the Levitating credit despite his remix version being the one that was streamed and bought

TOP 10 SELLING ALBUMS OF 2021 IN U.S. (PHYSICAL & DIGITAL SALES COMBINED)
1. Adele, 30 (1.464 million)
2. Taylor Swift, Red (Taylor’s Version) (621,000)

 

Is this the first time since charts exist in the USA where only one album surpassed 1M in sales in 1 full year? 

BTS dominating that list 

8 minutes ago, KillingYourCareer said:

The way they removed DaBaby from the Levitating credit despite his remix version being the one that was streamed and bought

Yet they credited Ari on SYT for radio when it was barely played, they're so transparent.  

TOP DIGITAL SONG CONSUMPTION (Song sales + on-demand SES)*

ARTIST SONG SONG SALES + SES ON-DEMAND STREAMS SONG SALES ON-DEMAND AUDIO STREAMS ON-DEMAND VIDEO STREAMS

1 DUA LIPA “Levitating” 5.745 million 581,000 626.6 million 178.1 million
2 OLIVIA RODRIGO “drivers license” 5.050 million 226,000 595.2 million 166.4 million
3 OLIVIA RODRIGO “good 4 u” 4.813 million 165,000 579.6 million 130.2 million
4 THE WEEKND & ARIANA GRANDE "Save Your Tears” 4.786 million 251,000 558.2 million 119.7 million
5 THE KID LAROI & JUSTIN BIEBER “Stay” 4.386 million 212,000 486.5 million 193.4 million
6 MASKED WOLF “Astronaut In The Ocean” 4.159 million 325,000 452.2 million 157.7 million
7 DOJA CAT FEAT. SZA “Kiss Me More” 4.146 million 130,000 500.1 million 99.0 million
8 LIL NAS X “MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name)” 4.129 million 135,000 470.2 million 213.8 million
9 GLASS ANIMALS “Heat Waves” 4.109 million 148,000 518.0 million 53.1 million
10 THE WEEKND “Blinding Lights” 3.702 million 231,000 432.2 million 88.1 million

55 minutes ago, Hector said:

TOP 10 SELLING DIGITAL SONGS OF 2021 IN U.S.
1. BTS, “Butter” (1.89 million)
2. Walker Hayes, “Fancy Like” (499,000)
3. BTS, “Permission to Dance” (404,000)
4. Dua Lipa, “Levitating” (375,000)
5. Masked Wolf, “Astronaut in the Ocean” (325,000)
6. BTS, “Dynamite” (308,000)
7. Coldplay x BTS, “My Universe” (287,000)
8. Ed Sheeran, “Bad Habits” (282,000)
9. Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars & Anderson .Paak), “Leave the Door Open” (260,000)
10. The Weeknd & Ariana Grande, “Save Your Tears” (251,000)

 

Harry best selling male pure without releasing music since 2019

 

If he’d added a shit ton of songs like Dua and Abel did he’d been top ten combined too for sure.

2 hours ago, tiagol88 said:

TOP 10 SELLING ALBUMS OF 2021 IN U.S. (PHYSICAL & DIGITAL SALES COMBINED)
1. Adele, 30 (1.464 million)
2. Taylor Swift, Red (Taylor’s Version) (621,000)

 

Is this the first time since charts exist in the USA where only one album surpassed 1M in sales in 1 full year? 

Nah it already happened in 2019, 2020 and even 2018 if I'm not mistaken 

 

 

 

Edited January 6, 20224 yr by JawBreaker

I'm worried about future BTS releases. Since Spotify increased charts streams limit per user bots gonna crash all charts... 

2 hours ago, Ger-55 said:

Yet they credited Ari on SYT for radio when it was barely played, they're so transparent.  

I was surprised about this because they never credited her on the radio songs chart 

So idk why they added her name here 

5 hours ago, popmusic said:

I'm worried about future BTS releases. Since Spotify increased charts streams limit per user bots gonna crash all charts... 

Yeah, I read that the stans have been doing testing in countries with low spotify numbers and concluded that it's 20 streams now.

Do you know the reason spotify doubled the streams for charts?

8 hours ago, KillingYourCareer said:

The way they removed DaBaby from the Levitating credit despite his remix version being the one that was streamed and bought

This should be a norm. He's still getting his coin, but no publicity from all of these YE publications.

8 hours ago, Agenor said:

Yeah, I read that the stans have been doing testing in countries with low spotify numbers and concluded that it's 20 streams now.

Do you know the reason spotify doubled the streams for charts?

It's insane that they already discover new rules   And Spotify didn't explain to their partners why they changed rules. Increasing the limit clearly helps new releases and tiktok virals and harms songs popular because of playlists placement. 

16 hours ago, FolkLover1989 said:

Thanks to Vinyls and specially Taylor , Adele and Olivia

This

5 hours ago, popmusic said:

It's insane that they already discover new rules   And Spotify didn't explain to their partners why they changed rules. Increasing the limit clearly helps new releases and tiktok virals and harms songs popular because of playlists placement. 

I think I read about it on pulsemusic 10-15 days ago, they used spotify Vietnam for testing.

 

1 hour ago, Agenor said:

I think I read about it on pulsemusic 10-15 days ago, they used spotify Vietnam for testing.

 

Omg, this is clearly some fraud: https://spotifycharts.com/regional/vn/daily/2022-01-06

 

I've checked the twitter, and they manipulate charts in other countries.

19 minutes ago, popmusic said:

Omg, this is clearly some fraud: https://spotifycharts.com/regional/vn/daily/2022-01-06

 

I've checked the twitter, and they manipulate charts in other countries.

An exact number of fans with multiple accounts using VPN did the testing, they were streaming that song 20 times a day and then observed if the numbers would increase by the same number of their streams.

On 1/6/2022 at 9:57 AM, Hector said:

Dua Lipa, “Levitating” (375,000)

UK Mix's Old Bloke has this at 458,000 pure now. Shell reach 500k pure not too far into 2022.