Best-selling albums in 2019
1. Angela, “Brol”: 532,111 sales
2. Nekfeu, “Les Etoiles vagabondes”: 449,545 sales
3. Johnny Hallyday, 433,656 Sales
4. NLP, “Two brothers”: 402,854 sales
5. Ninho, “Destiny”: 379,843 sales
6. Soprano, “Phoenix”: 337,403 sales
7. Lady Gaga, “A Star is born”: 298,808 sales
8. Vitaa and Slimane, “Versus”: 273,207 sales
9. Lomepal, “Jeannine”: 263,459 sales
10. Aya Nakamura, “Nakamura”: 247,093 sales
Calculations, instructions: The sales figures for albums that we reveal with the National Union of Phonographic Editing (SNEP) are counted by GfK, an international institute for consumption measurements which also works in France on books. For each artist, GfK adds up its sales of physical discs (CDs and vinyls), its sales in downloads (which decrease as the subscriptions to streaming progress) and its listenings on these platforms (Spotify, Deezer…) .
How many online plays do you need for an album sale? The equivalence rule changed at the start of 2019. 1,500 “streams” are required, compared to 1,000 previously. The math hasn’t changed. GfK adds all the plays of all the tracks in the album and halves those of the most “streamed” track to prevent the album figures from being artificially inflated by a huge tube.
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