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Adele's '21' was the biggest-selling album on iTunes for the second year running

  • December 14, 2012
  • Brad O'Mance

Adele's '21' was the biggest-selling album on iTunes this year, as it was last year.

Second on the list was Taylor Swift's 'Red', despite only coming out in October, followed by Mumford & Sons' 'Babel', One Direction's 'Up All Night' and Fun.'s 'Some Nights'.

Carly Rae Jepsen's 'Call Me Maybe' was the biggest-selling single of the year, followed by Goyte's 'Somebody That I Used to Know', Fun.'s 'We Are Young', the tech­no­lo­gic­ally inad­equate 'Payphone' by Maroon 5 and Nicki Minaj's 'Starships'.

You can see the full list of big-sellers right here if you're inter­ested.

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