Taylor Swift Holds Top-selling Country Album and Digital Country Song of 2012
12 years ago Liv Carter Comments Off on Taylor Swift Holds Top-selling Country Album and Digital Country Song of 2012
Well, OK, so that headline will not actually surprise anyone, I’m sure. For 2012, Taylor Swift tops both the top-selling albums and digital songs lists. She had no competition. Swift’s Red outsold the #2 album, Carrie Underwood‘s Blown Away, by just under 2 million copies. The next-best-selling song, Hunter Hayes‘ ‘Wanted,’ fell 885k units short of catching up with ‘We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together.’ Despite his obvious crossover appeal, Hayes is still selling primarily to country music fans so his sales figures are very impressive nonetheless. It also makes him the top breakthrough act of the year, ahead of Florida Georgia Line (at #6 with ‘Cruise’) and Kip Moore (at #9 with ‘Somethin’ ’bout a Truck’). And according to these figures, almost 1.3 million of you actually spent money on Toby Keith‘s ‘Red Solo Cup.’ Shocking.
Best-selling country albums in 2012:
1. Taylor Swift – Red – 3,107,000
2. Carrie Underwood – Blown Away – 1,203,000
3. Luke Bryan – Tailgates & Tanlines – 1,105,000
4. Lionel Richie – Tuskegee – 1,071,000
5. Jason Aldean – Night Train – 1,024,000
6. Eric Church – Chief – 764,000
7. Zac Brown Band – Uncaged – 718,000
8. Little Big Town – Tornado – 605,000
9. Jason Aldean – My Kinda Party – 594,000
10. Kenny Chesney – Welcome to the Fishbowl – 592,000
Best-selling country digital songs in 2012:
1. Taylor Swift – ‘We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together’ – 3,055,000
2. Hunter Hayes – ‘Wanted’ – 2,170,000
3. Luke Bryan – ‘Drunk on You’ – 2,089,000
4. Eric Church – ‘Springsteen’ – 1,959,000
5. Little Big Town – ‘Pontoon’ – 1,786,000
6. Florida Georgia Line – ‘Cruise’ – 1,636,000
7. Carrie Underwood – ‘Blown Away’ – 1,636,000
8. Carrie Underwood – ‘Good Girl’ – 1,527,000
9. Kip Moore – ‘Somethin’ ’Bout a Truck’ – 1,316,000
10. Toby Keith – ‘Red Solo Cup’ – 1,293,000
Liv Carter
She holds several certificates from Berklee College of Music, and a certificate in Positive Psychology from UC Berkeley.
Her main influences are coffee, cats, and Alexander Hamilton.
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