1. Bruno Mars - Unorthodox Jukebox - 4.0m (total: 4.5m)
2. Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience - 3.8m
3. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories - 3.1m
4. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP 2 - 2.9m
5. Pink - The Truth About Love - 2.9m (total: 5.3m)
6. One Direction - Midnight Memories - 2.5m
7. Mumford & Sons - Babel - 2.4m (total: 5.1m)
8. One Direction - Take Me Home - 2.4m. (total: 5.3m)
9. Imagine Dragons - Night Visions - 2.3m
10. Michael Bublé - To Be Loved - 2.3m
11. Taylor Swift - Red - 1.9m (total: 5.7m)
12. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - The Heist - 1.9m
13. Rihanna - Unapologetic - 1.9m (total: 3.5m)
14. Katy Perry - Prism - 1.8m
15. Soundtrack - Les Misérables 1.7m
16. Lumineers - Lumineers - 1.7m
17. Drake - Nothing Was The Same - 1.7m
18. Adele - 21 - 1.6m (total: 26.1m)
19. Luke Bryan - Crash My Party - 1.6m
20. Jay-Z - Magna Carta... Holy Grail - 1.5m
If an album was released in 2012 and I haven't added that to it's total, it's because it failed to make last year's WW YE Top 40 and so it's sales for that year are unknown to me.
Source: http://www.mediatraffic.de/year-end-albums.htm
2. Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience - 3.8m
3. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories - 3.1m
4. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP 2 - 2.9m
5. Pink - The Truth About Love - 2.9m (total: 5.3m)
6. One Direction - Midnight Memories - 2.5m
7. Mumford & Sons - Babel - 2.4m (total: 5.1m)
8. One Direction - Take Me Home - 2.4m. (total: 5.3m)
9. Imagine Dragons - Night Visions - 2.3m
10. Michael Bublé - To Be Loved - 2.3m
11. Taylor Swift - Red - 1.9m (total: 5.7m)
12. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - The Heist - 1.9m
13. Rihanna - Unapologetic - 1.9m (total: 3.5m)
14. Katy Perry - Prism - 1.8m
15. Soundtrack - Les Misérables 1.7m
16. Lumineers - Lumineers - 1.7m
17. Drake - Nothing Was The Same - 1.7m
18. Adele - 21 - 1.6m (total: 26.1m)
19. Luke Bryan - Crash My Party - 1.6m
20. Jay-Z - Magna Carta... Holy Grail - 1.5m
If an album was released in 2012 and I haven't added that to it's total, it's because it failed to make last year's WW YE Top 40 and so it's sales for that year are unknown to me.
Source: http://www.mediatraffic.de/year-end-albums.htm