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Justin Timberlake had the biggest-selling album in America last year

  • January 3, 2014
  • Brad O'Mance

Justin_Timberlake_albumJustin 'JT' Timberlake's 'The 20/20 Experience' (the first one) is the biggest-selling album in America of 2013.

The album, which included 'Mirrors' and some other stuff nobody's really listened to since April, was released in March and has sold 2.43m copies, making it the only album 'across the pond' to sell more than 2m in a year.

(While that sounds quite impress­ive, it's the lowest-selling end of year best­seller since records began, which isn't great. Mind you records only began in 1991 so it's not all bad news.)

In second place last year was Eminem's 'The Marshall Mathers LP2' with 1.73m, while Beyoncé's 'BEYONCÉ' finished eighth with 1.3m sold in about three weeks.

As with the UK, America's biggest-selling single was 'Blurred Lines', 'shifting' a ridicu­lous 6.5m copies (!).

You can read about it all in more depth here if you like.

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