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The Greatest Showman claims the biggest album of 2018 in the UK

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With the most weeks at Number 1 this century on the Official Albums Chart, it should come as no surprise that The Greatest Showman's Motion Picture Cast Recording finishes as the biggest album of the 2018, OfficialCharts.com can reveal.

The hugely successful film soundtrack was released in December 2017 and in 2018 – where it didn’t exit the Top 5 for the whole year – the collection shifted 1.6 million combined sales. The album performed well across all formats, leading the way as the year’s best physical seller (CD and vinyl), which makes up 51% of its sales total, as well as being the most downloaded (17%) and streamed (32%) album of the year.

The longest-running Number 1 soundtrack in 50 years, The Greatest Showman spawned five Official Singles Chart Top 40 hits, including the Number 3-peaking This Is Me, 2018’s most downloaded single.

The news comes as the record labels' association, The BPI, revealed 142.9 million albums or their equivalent were either purchased or streamed over the past year - up 5.7% in 2018 compared to the previous year. Streaming, of which The Greatest Showman was at the forefront of, now accounts for over 63.6% of UK music consumption.

See the full top 40 of the biggest albums in the UK below:

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POS TITLE ARTIST PEAK
1 THE GREATEST SHOWMAN MOTION PICTURE CAST RECORDING 1
2 STAYING AT TAMARA'S GEORGE EZRA 1
3 DIVIDE ED SHEERAN 1
4 MAMMA MIA - HERE WE GO AGAIN MOTION PICTURE CAST RECORDING 1
5 SCORPION DRAKE 1
6 BEERBONGS & BENTLEYS POST MALONE 1
7 A STAR IS BORN MOTION PICTURE CAST RECORDING 1
8 LOVE MICHAEL BUBLE 1
9 DUA LIPA DUA LIPA 3
10 KAMIKAZE EMINEM 1
11 ODYSSEY TAKE THAT 1
12 SI ANDREA BOCELLI 1
13 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY - OST QUEEN 3
14 ALWAYS IN BETWEEN JESS GLYNNE 1
15 BLOOD RED ROSES ROD STEWART 1
16 SWEETENER ARIANA GRANDE 1
17 THE ARCHITECT PALOMA FAITH 1
18 TRANQUILITY BASE HOTEL & CASINO ARCTIC MONKEYS 1
19 HUMAN RAG'N'BONE MAN 1
20 GOLD - GREATEST HITS ABBA 1
21 THE THRILL OF IT ALL SAM SMITH 1
22 X ED SHEERAN 1
23 UNCHAINED MELODIES ROY ORBISON/RPO 3
24 THE PLATINUM COLLECTION QUEEN 2
25 LM5 LITTLE MIX 3
26 SPEAK YOUR MIND ANNE-MARIE 3
27 CHRISTMAS MICHAEL BUBLE 1
28 YOU KNOW I KNOW OLLY MURS 2
29 CURTAIN CALL - THE HITS EMINEM 1
30 GLORY DAYS LITTLE MIX 1
31 QUESTION MARK XXXTENTACION 3
32 REVIVAL EMINEM 1
33 GOLDEN KYLIE MINOGUE 1
34 BEAUTIFUL TRAUMA PINK 1
35 TIME FLIES - 1994-2009 OASIS 1
36 DIAMONDS ELTON JOHN 5
37 REPUTATION TAYLOR SWIFT 1
38 LEGEND BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS 5
39 THE VERY BEST OF FLEETWOOD MAC 6
40 MAMMA MIA MOTION PICTURE CAST RECORDING 5


Debut albums

Anne-Marie leads the list of the biggest debut albums released in 2018, with the Number 3-peaking Speak Your Mind accumulating combined sales of 164k. Camila Cabello’s self-titled collection picks up the honour of the year’s best-selling international debut (125,000), with Cardi B in third with Invasion of Privacy (104,000).

  TITLE ARTIST PEAK
1 SPEAK YOUR MIND ANNE-MARIE 3
2 CAMILA CAMILA CABELLO 2
3 INVASION OF PRIVACY CARDI B 5
4 LOST & FOUND JORJA SMITH 3
5 GOODBYE & GOOD RIDDANCE JUICE WRLD 25
6 I'LL REMEMBER YOU D-DAY DARLINGS 15
7 ONLY HUMAN CALUM SCOTT 4
8 LIGHTING MATCHES TOM GRENNAN 5
9 DAY69 6IX9INE 20
10 EVERYTHING IS LOVE CARTERS 5

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2 hours ago, Chris Morlock said:

the movies themselves are huge too.

I mean, duh, but they don't feel big enough to be getting these kind of achievements rip4 like how TGS is the longest running #1 of the century is beyond me 

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1 hour ago, Kuba said:

I mean, duh, but they don't feel big enough to be getting these kind of achievements rip4 like how TGS is the longest running #1 of the century is beyond me 

do you remember Frozen jj3 

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On 1/3/2019 at 12:53 PM, Chris Morlock said:

do you remember Frozen jj3 

Yes Frozen DOMINATED the US in 2014 dead7 We havent seen an album so big since

Anyways congreats to TGS cast and performers! Only quality can outdo quality. 

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