Blog: Idolator

Nielsen SoundScan has released its year-end numbers for music sales, and perhaps unsurprisingly, they aren't all that great—no albums cracked the three-million-sold mark this year, with Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III almost getting there (2.874 million) and every other album in the top 10, um, not. Thanks to SoundScan's Dec. 31-to-Dec. 28 chart year, the top single was Leona Lewis' "Bleeding Love," which shifted 3.42 million digital singles and bested Wayne's "Lollipop" by some 260,000 units. Top 10s after the jump. THE GOOD: Perhaps most intriguing to me was the number of [...]