Global Album Chart

Album Chartweek 52 / 2013 - December 28 the top-selling albums according to global sales figures and national album charts

Beyoncé - BeyoncéColumbia - 746.000 - 1 week at No.1 - Hot Shot Debut 1 / 1week 3 One Direction - Midnight Memories  Syco Music - 419.000   4 / 7week 4 Robbie Williams - Swings Both WaysIsland - 240.000 2 / 2week 6 Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP 2  Aftermath / Interscope - 226.000 Exo - Winter Special Album: Miracles In DecemberS.M.Entertainment South Korea - 218.000 5 / 6week 3 Garth Brooks - Blame It All On My RootsPearl - 173.000 7 / 15week 23 Michael Bublé - Christmas 4 Reprise - 168.000 6 / 3week 8 Katy Perry - PrismCapitol - 163.000 9 / 8week 7 Kelly Clarkson - Wrapped In RedRCA - 155.000 R.Kelly - Black PantiesRCA - 133.000 13 / 25week 17 Stromae - Racine CarréeVertigo / Mercury - 133.000 Girls' Generation - Love & PeaceUniversal Music Japan - 129.000 11 / 11week 6 Celine Dion - Loved Me Back To LifeColumbia - 129.000 10 / 4week 6 Lady GaGa - ArtpopInterscope - 118.000   12 / 9week 7 The Robertsons - Duck The Halls: Robertson FamilyEMI Nashville - 118.000 16 / 6week 3 Gary Barlow - Since I Saw You LastPolydor - 109.000 Childish Gambino - Because The InternetGlassnote - 105.000 25 / 26week 9 Olly Murs - Right Place Right TimeSyco Music / Epic - 95.000 28 / -week 23 Michael Bublé - To Be Loved  Reprise - 95.000 - Largest Sales Increase 15 / 19week 11 Lorde - Pure HeroineRepublic / Universal - 94.000 18 / 29week 8 James Blunt - Moon LandingAtlantic - 89.000 20 / 32week 53 Bruno Mars - Unorthodox Jukebox 2 Atlantic - 88.000 17 / 23week 3 Susan Boyle - Home For ChristmasSyco Music - 84.000 Myléne Farmer - TimelessUniversal Music Division France - 78.000 3 / -week 2 Britney Spears - Britney JeanRCA - 78.000   Radwimps - New Album: Title Is To Be AnnouncedUniversal Japan - 77.000 19 / 13week 10 Miley Cyrus - BangerzRCA - 69.000   30 / -week 2 Various Artists - We Love DisneyMercury France - 65.000 22 / 30week 13 Avicii - TruePositiva / Island - 65.000 14 / -week 2 Muse - Live At Rome Olympic StadiumHelium 3 / Warner Bros. - 64.000   29 / 34week 3 Soundtrack - FrozenWalt Disney - 63.000 27 / 18week 52 Imagine Dragons - Night Visions  Interscope - 62.000 24 / 22week 4 Mary J.Blige - A Mary ChristmasVerve - 59.000   39 / -week 8 Helene Fischer - FarbenspielPolydor / Universal Germany - 59.000 21 / -week 3 Il Divo - A Musical AffairSyco Music - 55.000   Soundtrack - The Hobbit: Desolation Of SmaugDecca / Watertower - 54.000 37 / -week 13 Arctic Monkeys - AMDomino Recordings - 52.000 31 / -week 4 Beatles - On Air: Live At The BBC, Volume 2Capitol / Apple - 51.000 36 / 12week 18 Luke Bryan - Crash My PartyCapitol Nashville - 50.000 - / -week 4 Bastille - Bad BloodVirgin - 49.000 albums with sales gains this week     albums with global sales of 2 million copies with additional 2 million copies indicated by a numeral following the symbol

The completely surprising release of the new Beyoncé album was a big story in the media last week. Now it jumps easily atop the global album chart with massive 746.000 copies sold, 617.000 of it in the USA alone. Initially available only digitally since Friday, December 13, the start sales of many countries are reflected on next week's chart (like Germany or Australia). Beyoncé ends the two week reign of One Direction's 'Midnight Memories', which slides one slot at no.2 now, despite another hugh 419.000 sales. In its three weeks on the tally it sold more than 2 million copies. Robbie Williams turns back at no.3 in the fourth week on the list with 'Swing Both Ways' and 240.000 sales. Eminem's 'The Marshall Mathers

LP 2' sinks at no.4 with 226.000 sales, a total of 2,67 million after six weeks. Daft Punk's 'Random Access Memories' is outside the Top 40 since weeks, but now it breaks through the 3 million border. It's only the third album this year, which reaches that level, after Justin Timberlake's 'The 20 / 20 Experience' (3,74 million) and Bruno Mars' 'Unorthodox Jukebox' (3,92 million this year). At the end of 2013 'Unorthodox' will be the only album with sales more than 4 million during this year, an alarmingly low! Back to the current tally, where the South Korean boy-group Exo lands at no.5 with 'Winter Special Album: Miracles In December'. It moved 218.000 copies in its initial week and it's the best-selling album in Asia at the moment. Another South Korean idol group, Girls'

Generation, arrives at no.12 with 'Love & Peace' and 129.000 sales. The set is available in two different languages, a Korean and a Chinese version. Both versions were added. Two slots higher at no.10 R&B legend R.Kelly is back with his twelfth studio album 'Black Panties' and 134.000 sales. R.Kelly's career peak was the third album, simply titled as 'R.' (1998), which sold more than 12 million copies to date. Another notable album is Michael Bublé's 'Christmas', which holds no.7 with another 162.000 sales, a total of 835.000 this year (since week 2, 2013) and a total of exactly 8 million since its release in autumn 2011... the most successful Xmas album of the 21st century!