After some Swifties struggled to play their Red vinyl at the right speed in 2021, they recovered impressively in 2022 to make Record Store Day ambassador Taylor Swift's LPs account for one in every 25 records sold in the US, as per Billboard, citing Luminate's year-end music report.
Although there wasn't so much as a single leading up to the release of Swift's latest album, Midnights, there were certainly a hell of a lot of vinyl variants fans were encouraged to buy all of, contributing to her whopping 1.7 million total LP sales.
Even after its release, the album managed to subvert the dominant trend of pop sales skewing digital with 62 percent of first-weeks sales on CDs and LPs. Across formats, Midnights sold 1.58 million albums in seven days for the biggest release week since Adele's 25 in 2015.
Based on total consumption, however, Bad Bunny's Un Verano Sin Ti was 2022's biggest album in the US, pulling ahead of Swift thanks to massive streaming numbers — 4.3 billion to Midnights' 1.8 billion.
Obviously, Midnights was still the year's highest-seller on vinyl at 945,000 units, and the pop star's 2020 LP folklore was the seventh-biggest seller at 174,000 records. Harry Styles's Harry's House and Olivia Rodrigo's SOUR accounted for the second and third best-sellers on wax, with Kendrick Lamar's good kid, m.A.A.d city in fourth place and Tyler, the Creator snagging No. 6 and No. 8 with CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST and IGOR, respectively.
If your Gen Z senses are tingling, you're right: Luminate noted that they spend an average of 18 percent more money on music than the average US listener, making a major contribution to vinyl sales growing for the 17th consecutive year.
See the full top 10 vinyl sellers in the US below, and check out Exclaim! staffers' favourite vinyl finds of 2022.
1. Taylor Swift - Midnights (945,000)
2. Harry Styles - Harry's House (480,000)
3. Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR (263,000)
4. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city (254,000)
5. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (243,000)
6. Tyler, the Creator - CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST (211,000)
7. Taylor Swift - folklore (174,000)
8. Tyler, the Creator - IGOR (172,000)
9. Michael Jackson - Thriller (168,000)
10. The Beatles - Abbey Road (160,000)
Although there wasn't so much as a single leading up to the release of Swift's latest album, Midnights, there were certainly a hell of a lot of vinyl variants fans were encouraged to buy all of, contributing to her whopping 1.7 million total LP sales.
Even after its release, the album managed to subvert the dominant trend of pop sales skewing digital with 62 percent of first-weeks sales on CDs and LPs. Across formats, Midnights sold 1.58 million albums in seven days for the biggest release week since Adele's 25 in 2015.
Based on total consumption, however, Bad Bunny's Un Verano Sin Ti was 2022's biggest album in the US, pulling ahead of Swift thanks to massive streaming numbers — 4.3 billion to Midnights' 1.8 billion.
Obviously, Midnights was still the year's highest-seller on vinyl at 945,000 units, and the pop star's 2020 LP folklore was the seventh-biggest seller at 174,000 records. Harry Styles's Harry's House and Olivia Rodrigo's SOUR accounted for the second and third best-sellers on wax, with Kendrick Lamar's good kid, m.A.A.d city in fourth place and Tyler, the Creator snagging No. 6 and No. 8 with CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST and IGOR, respectively.
If your Gen Z senses are tingling, you're right: Luminate noted that they spend an average of 18 percent more money on music than the average US listener, making a major contribution to vinyl sales growing for the 17th consecutive year.
See the full top 10 vinyl sellers in the US below, and check out Exclaim! staffers' favourite vinyl finds of 2022.
1. Taylor Swift - Midnights (945,000)
2. Harry Styles - Harry's House (480,000)
3. Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR (263,000)
4. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city (254,000)
5. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (243,000)
6. Tyler, the Creator - CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST (211,000)
7. Taylor Swift - folklore (174,000)
8. Tyler, the Creator - IGOR (172,000)
9. Michael Jackson - Thriller (168,000)
10. The Beatles - Abbey Road (160,000)
