Current trends in popular music show that the UK have quite a varied taste with contrasting artists such as George Ezra and Iggy Azalea charting in the UK Top 40. However, The Official Chart Company's figures show that when it comes to actually buying music, Pop fans are still the most willing to spend their money. Over half of the artists in the top 10 biggest selling albums fall into the Pop Genre. The UK top 40 includes streaming figures so naturally the Charts and the Sales Figures will differ.
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| UK Biggest Selling Albums 2013 (Official Charts Company) |
The UK market also seem to favour UK Artists with them accounting for 80% of the UK Top 10 biggest albums. As well as UK artists The British buying public also favoured Male Solo Artists with them making up 60% of the Top 10.
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| Bruno Mars with his No. 6 charting album 'Unorthodox Jukebox' |
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The top selling album was One Direction's 'Midnight Memories' which took only five weeks to sell 685,000 copies and chart at No.1 in the UK, with an opening week of 237,000 copies sold.
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| One Direction's No. 1 selling album 'Midnight Memories' |
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