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Adele, Lady Gaga feature in iTunes UK all-time bestsellers

By Sam Rigby

Adele at the The BRIT Awards

Adele, Rihanna and Lady Gaga are among the artists who feature in iTunes UK’s all-time bestsellers list.

The list has been compiled to mark the 10th anniversary of the launch of the iTunes Store in the UK, with Adele’s 21 leading the way in the albums category.

Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines is the biggest selling single of the last decade on iTunes UK, followed by Daft Punk’s Get Lucky and Gotye’s Somebody That I Used To Know, in second and third respectively.

Adele’s Someone Like You is the sixth biggest seller of the last ten years, while Rihanna’s chart-topper We Found Love follows in seventh place.

Mumford and Sons have two albums, Sigh No More and Babel, in the Top 10, while Lady Gaga’s The Fame Monster features in sixth. Rihanna’s Loud is in seventh place, while Bruno Mars’s Doo-Wops and Hooligans rounds out the list.

Take a look at the full single and album countdowns below:

Albums
1. Adele: 21
2. Ed Sheeran: +
3. Emeli Sandé: Our Version Of Events
4. Mumford & Sons: Sigh No More
5. Kings of Leon: Only By The Night
6. Lady Gaga: The Fame Monster
7. Rihanna: Loud
8. Coldplay: Mylo Xyloto
9. Mumford & Sons: Babel
10. Bruno Mars: Doo-Wops & Hooligans

Songs
1. Robin Thicke: Blurred Lines
2. Daft Punk: Get Lucky
3. Gotye: Somebody That I Used To Know
4. Pharrell Williams: Happy
5. Maroon 5: Moves Like Jagger
6. Adele: Someone Like You
7. Rihanna: We Found Love
8. Carly Rae Jepsen: Call Me Maybe
9. Eminem ft. Rihanna: Love The Way You Lie
10. Avicii: Wake Me Up

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