2. Total record sales in the U.S. (2014)
In 2014 the most popular genre due to sales was
that of Rock music with 33% of all sales being
under that genre and the next highest was other
which consisted of genres such as indie and
dubstep.
3. Top 40 albums
• In the top 40 albums sold in 2014 the Rock genre has six albums in
total from numerous bands such as: Kasabian, AC/DC and Arctic
Monkeys.
• The highest album out of the six was Arctic monkey’s AM album at
18.
• Source: The official charts company.
4. How many albums were sold in 2014
• In general, there were 257 million music albums sold in the United
States in 2014.
• The most popular genre of the year was rock with 85.25 million sold
albums. Country music was still very popular in the United States: in
2014, 30.46 million country albums were sold.
