Weekly sales of top selling albums in the United Kingdom 2009-2016
This statistic displays average weekly unit sales of music albums ranked number one on the album charts in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2009 to 2016. After the significant success of Adele's album in 2015 that boosted the weekly sales to more than 81 thousand units, in 2016, this figure decreased by half, and reached the level of 39,506 units. In 2011, number one albums sales peaked with almost 110 thousand copies sold on average weekly.