Twenty One Pilots Had The Biggest Selling Vinyl Of 2016
4 January 2017, 11:19 | Updated: 8 May 2017, 17:09
Plus, one of Tyler and Josh's older albums also made the top-sellers list...
Twenty One Pilots' Blurryface was America's biggest selling vinyl album of 2016, it has been revealed.
Stats released by data analysis company BuzzAngle placed Tyler and Josh at the top of the list with sales of 49,004.
They beat the likes of Amy Winehouse who took second place with just over 41,000 sold and David Bowie's final record Blackstar which sold around 39,000 copies, reaching sixth place on the list.
Furthermore, TØP's own Vessel also made it into the top ten, placed at number 9 with 31,006 copies.
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Other 2016 albums in the top twenty include Panic! At The Disco's Death Of A Bachelor and Blink 182's California. Overall, vinyl sales were up by 26% last year, and, in the UK, sales reached a 25-year high.
Check out the full list of biggest US vinyls of 2016 below:
01. Twenty One Pilots – Blurryface (49,004 album sales)
02. Amy Winehouse – Back to Black (41,087)
03. Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool (39,861)
04. The Beatles – Abbey Road (39,615)
05. Adele – 25 (39,512)
06. David Bowie – Blackstar (39,334)
07. Prince and the Revolution – Purple Rain (35,244)
08. Bob Marley and the Wailers – Legend (32,899)
09. Twenty One Pilots – Vessel (31,006)
10. Miles Davis – Kind of Blue (30,495)
11. Various Artists – Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 (30,328)
12. Chris Stapleton – Traveller (29,707)
13. Lana Del Rey – Born to Die (27,450)
14. Fleetwood Mac – Rumours (26,644)
15. Michael Jackson – Thriller (26,092)
16. Blink-182 – California (25,549)
17. Panic! at the Disco – Death of a Bachelor (24,861)
18. The Lumineers – Cleopatra (24,120)
19. Taylor Swift – 1989 (23,364)
20. Adele – 21 (22,616)
21. Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin IV (20,919)
22. Arctic Monkeys – A.M. (20,731)
23. Nirvana – Nevermind (20,255)
24. Leon Bridges – Coming Home (19,631)
25. David Bowie – The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (19,373)
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