Taylor Swift surpasses Bad Bunny with the best-selling album in 2022

The end of the year 2022 has allowed several sites to obtain the necessary data to determine more accurately how certain artists or record releases performed. An example of this has been the list of the best-selling albums worldwide by the German portal Mediatraffic.

Taking into account that the consumption of physical disks is decreasing more and more, the site for years has incorporated the reproductions by platforms of streaming to present a complete picture on sales in the music industry.

In 2022, according to Mediatraffic, the one who managed to sell the most records was Taylor Swift. Despite having been published in the second half of the year, on October 21, “Midnights” exceeded 4.6 million copies worldwide.

This data is not surprising considering that weeks ago it was reported that Tay-Tay’s tenth studio album

it managed to break two records for being the fastest-selling vinyl since its release and the best-selling LP of the 12th century. Since 1987 no vinyl had managed to outsell the compact disc version, until the release of “Midnights”.

One factor that may have contributed to the sales of “Midnights” was that, for both the CD and vinyl versions, four different sleeves were released with different photos and colors. The concept was time, since by joining the back covers of the disc a clock was formed (the mechanism to add the hands was sold separately). Undoubtedly, a collector’s item that forced you to buy all the versions in order to have a wall clock.

Mediatraffic reports that Bad Bunny ranked second in the best-selling albums of 2022 thanks to “A Summer Without You” accumulating more than 4 million copies. Most of its collection was thanks to reproductions through streaming platforms. The album was listed as the best of 2022 by TIME magazine

and one of the best five by the specialized music magazines Rolling Stone, Complex and Pitchfork. Similarly, Bad Bunny was considered the best Latin artist as well as one of the best singers globally in 2022.

Third place is occupied by Harry Style with his album “Harry’s House”, which managed to sell almost 4 million copies. thanks to the success of the single “As It Was,” as well as the songs “Late Night Talking” and “Music for a Sushi Restaurant.” Like “Midnights”, this record material managed to add high sales in its vinyl version without being able to match or exceed what Taylor Swift achieved in that area in 2022, but it did stay close.

Among the observations made by Mediatraffic is the rise of interest in k-pop as BTS managed to surpass 3.5 million records sold thanks to “Proof”, positioning itself in fourth place, and Seventeen was left with the seventh position with the almost 3 million copies of “Face The Sun”.

This is how the top 10 best-selling albums of 2022 were:

1. Taylor Swift, “Midnights” (4,615,000 copies)
2. Bad Bunny, “A Summer Without You” (4,047,000 copies)
3. Harry Styles, “Harry’s House” (3,895,000 copies)
4. BTS, “Proof” (3,562,000 copies)
5. Olivia Rodrigo, “Sour” (3,216,000 copies in 2022; 7,325,000 total since its release in 2021)
6. Soundtrack of the movie “Encanto” (3,105,000 copies)
7. Seventeen, “Face The Sun” (2,901,000 copies)
08. Ed Sheeran, “Equals” (2,831,000 copies in 2022; 4,524,000 total since release in 2021)
09. Morgan Wallen, “Dangerous: The Double Album” (2,825,000 copies in 2022; 6,330,000 total since release in 2021)
10. Doja Cat, “Planet Her” (2,547,000 copies in 2022; 4,662,000 total since release in 2021)