Canada: Taylor Swift, Sam Smith, Ed Sheeran amongst 2014’s bestselling albums

January 27, 2015

Taylor Swift was the only artist to sell more than 300,000 copies of a single album in Canada last year, as her 1989 romped its way to the top of the year’s charts.

With 314,000 sales, the LP was the year’s leader by some distance, according to new Nielsen data: 1989 and the Frozen soundtrack were the only two albums to top 200,000 sales in the territory in 2014.

Meanwhile, local boy Bobby Bazini’s Where I Belong was the only album from a Canadian artist to sell more than 100,000 copies.

That meant that the Top 5 best-selling albums of the year in Canada in 2014 didn’t contain a single local artist.

As reported earlier, Canada’s overall unit sales of albums were down 5% across 2014.

Read the most important 2014 charts from Canada below, courtesy of data from Nielsen Music.

Billboard 2014 top-selling albums

1 1989 / Taylor Swift (314,000 units sold)
2 Frozen / Soundtrack (226,000)
3 In The Lonely Hour / Sam Smith (157,000)
4 X / Ed Sheeran (133,000)
5 Ghost Stories / Coldplay (117,000)
6 Pure Heroine / Lorde (104,000)
7 Where I Belong / Bobby Bazini (102,000)
8 Serge Fiori / Serge Fiori (99,000)
9 Four / One Direction (98,000)
10 The Endless River / Pink Floyd (89,000)

Billboard 2014 top-selling artists (all album sales)

1 Taylor Swift (350,000)
2 Eminem (200,000)
3 Pink Floyd (182,000)
4 Ed Sheeran (164,000)
5 Sam Smith (159,000)
6 AC/DC (159,000)
7 One Direction (155,000)
8 Coldplay (150,000)
9 Michael Jackson (138,000)
10 Queen (135,000)

Billboard 2014 top-selling tracks

1 Happy / Pharrell Williams (538,000)
2 All Of Me / John Legend (409,000)
3 All About That Bass / Meghan Trainor (408,000)
4 Dark Horse / Katy Perry (390,000)
5 Stay With Me / Sam Smith (345,000)
6 Shake It Off / Taylor Swift (341,000)
7 Counting Stars / OneRepublic (322,000)
8 Timber / Pitbull feat. Ke$ha (320,000)
9 Say Something / A Great Big World/Christina Aguilera (317,000)
10 Come With Me Now / Kongos (288,000)

Billboard top-selling digital albums

1 1989 / Taylor Swift (123,000)
2 Frozen / Soundtrack (76,000)
3 X / Ed Sheeran (74,000)
4 In The Lonely Hour / Sam Smith (69,000)
5 Ghost Stories / Coldplay (63,000)
6 Guardians Of The Galaxy / Soundtrack (54,000)
7 Pure Heroine / Lorde (54,000)
8 Night Visions / Imagine Dragons (41,000)
9 Prism / Katy Perry (40,000)
10 Hozier / Hozier (39,000)

Billboard top-selling CD albums

1 1989 / Taylor Swift (190,000)
2 Frozen / Soundtrack (150,000)
3 In The Lonely Hour / Sam Smith (86,000)
4 Where I Belong / Bobby Bazini (85,000)
5 Serge Fiori / Serge Fiori (82,000)
6 Icon / Queen (76,000)
7 The Endless River / Pink Floyd (73,000)
8 Plus Tard Qu’on Pense / Fred Pellerin (71,000)
9 Icon/ Bon Jovi (69,000)
10 Very Best Of / Neil Diamond (65,000)

Top 10 audio on-demand streaming (H2 2014)

1 Take Me To Church / Hozier (1.4m streams)
2 Habits (Stay High) / Tove Lo (1.3m)
3 Stay With Me / Sam Smith (1.3m)
4 Chandelier / Sia (1.2m)
5 Animals / Maroon 5 (1.1m)
6 I’m Not The Only One / Sam Smith (1.0m)
7 All About That Bass / Meghan Trainor (1.0m)
8 Thinking Out Loud / Ed Sheeran (1.0m)
9 Bang Bang / Jessie J, Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj (1.0m)
10 Blame / Valvin Harris ft. John Newman (1.0m)

Music Business Worldwide