This chart includes the 10 best-selling songs of 2014. According to Official Charts, "Happy" by Pharrell Williams was the best selling song of 2014 with 6.45 million copies sold in the United States. "Happy" was also the Billboard number one song of 2014. [1] This is the fifth time in the past seven years that singer Katy Perry has had a song in the year-end top 10 best selling songs. She's the only artist who is able to make that claim. [2] "Happy" and Idina Menzel's "Let It Go" are both songs from animated movies. "Happy" is from Despicable Me 2, and "Let It Go" is from Frozen.
Songs written in bold are songs that were released before January 1, 2014.
This chart is only for the United States.
| Artist | Single | Released | Sales (in millions) | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pharrell Williams | "Happy" | 11/21/2013 | 6.45 | [3] |
| John Legend | "All of Me" | 8/21/2013 | 4.67 | [2] |
| Katy Perry | "Dark Horse" | 12/17/2013 | 4.43 | [4] |
| Meghan Trainor | "All About That Bass" | 06/30/2014 | 4.36 | [5] |
| Iggy Azalea ft. Charli XCX | "Fancy" | 02/17/2014 | 3.97 | [2] |
| Jason Derulo ft. 2 Chainz | "Talk Dirty" | 01/07/2014 | 3.96 | [6] |
| DJ Snake ft. Lil Jon | "Turn Down for What" | 12/18/2013 | 3.45 | [2] |
| Taylor Swift | "Shake It Off" | 08/18/2014 | 3.43 | [4] |
| Idina Menzel | "Let It Go" | 11/25/2013 | 3.37 | [2] |
| Sam Smith | "Stay with Me" | 04/14/2014 | 3.34 | [7] |
According to Billboard, the best-selling album was 1989, by Taylor Swift. It sold 3.66 million copies in the US. It topped the Frozen Soundtrack album on the last week of December. Frozen's album sold 3.53 million copies. This is the second time Swift has earned the top selling album of a calendar year. She did it previously back in 2009 with her second studio album, Fearless, which made 3.22 million that year. [8]
Albums written in bold were released before January 1, 2014.
This chart is only for the United States.
| Artist | Single | Released | Sales (in millions) | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taylor Swift | 1989 | 10/27/2014 | 3.66 | [8] |
| Various Artists | Frozen (soundtrack) | 11/25/2013 | 3.53 | [9] |
| Sam Smith | In the Lonely Hour | 05/26/2014 | 1.21 | [10] |
| Pentatonix | That's Christmas to Me | 10/21/2014 | 1.14 | [8] |
| Beyoncé | Beyoncé (album) | 12/13/2013 | 0.87 | [11] |
| Barbra Streisand | Partners | 09/16/2014 | 0.85 | [8] |
| Lorde | Pure Heroine | 09/27/2013 | 0.84 | [11] |
| One Direction | Four | 11/17/2014 | 0.814 | [4] |
All the Way... A Decade of Song is the first English-language greatest hits album by Canadian singer Celine Dion. Released by Sony Music Entertainment on 12 November 1999, it features nine previously released songs on most editions and seven new recordings on all editions. Dion worked on new tracks mainly with David Foster. Other producers include Max Martin, Kristian Lundin, Robert John "Mutt" Lange, James Horner, and Matt Serletic. It is the best-selling greatest hits album in the US during the Nielsen SoundScan era. All the Way... A Decade of Song has sold over 22 million copies worldwide, including over nine million in the United States, five million in Europe, two million in Japan and one million units in Canada.
The Digital Songs or Digital Song Sales chart ranks the best-selling digital songs in the United States, as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan and published by Billboard magazine. Although it originally started tracking song sales the week of October 30, 2004, it officially debuted in the issue dated January 22, 2005, and merged all versions of a song sold from digital music distributors. Its data was incorporated in the Hot 100 three weeks later. Since October 2004, digital sales have been incorporated into many of Billboard's music singles charts. The decision was based on the dramatic increase of the digital market while commercial single sales in a physical format were becoming negligible.
Greg Wells is a Grammy winning Canadian record producer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and audio engineer. Wells has songs on over 130 million albums sold and streaming numbers in billions. He has worked with Lin-Manuel Miranda, Kid Cudi, Adele, Michael Bublé, Tick, Tick... Boom!, Rufus Wainwright, John Legend, In The Heights, Taylor Swift, The Greatest Showman: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Ryan Tedder, OneRepublic, Ariana Grande, Pharrell Williams, Pink, Theophilus London, Dua Lipa, Keith Urban, Celine Dion, Jake Wesley Rogers, Missy Elliot, MIKA, Twenty One Pilots, Carrie Underwood, Deftones, Katy Perry, Jamie Cullum, Aerosmith, Weezer, and music legends Sir George Martin, Quincy Jones, Elton John, Burt Bacharach, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and the Count Basie Orchestra.
These Are Special Times is the seventeenth studio album by Canadian singer Celine Dion, and her first English-language Christmas album. It was first released in Europe on 30 October 1998, by Columbia Records. In the United States, it was released on 3 November 1998 through Epic Records. The album features cover versions of popular Christmas songs and original material, including "I'm Your Angel", a duet with R. Kelly. Dion worked with David Foster and Ric Wake, who produced most of the album. Other producers include Bryan Adams, R. Kelly and Humberto Gatica. These Are Special Times was released after two of Dion's most successful albums, Falling into You (1996) and Let's Talk About Love (1997).
In My Mind is the solo debut studio album by American recording artist and record producer Pharrell Williams. The album was released on July 25, 2006 by Star Trak Entertainment and Interscope Records. It debuted at number 3 on the US Billboard 200 and sold 142,000 copies in its first week. It was also certified Silver in the United Kingdom for sales of over 60,000 copies.
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"Two Is Better Than One" is a song by the American rock band Boys Like Girls from their second studio album Love Drunk (2009). The song features American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It was written by Martin Johnson and Swift and the song is the band's second official single from the album. On some advanced copies of the album sent to reviewers and members of the press, the song does not feature Swift, rather, Johnson handles all vocals. The song is written in the key of C major with a slow tempo of 128 beats per minute.
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Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 is the soundtrack album for the Marvel Studios film Guardians of the Galaxy. Featuring the songs present on Peter Quill's mixtape in the film, the album was released by Hollywood Records on July 29, 2014. A separate film score album, Guardians of the Galaxy , composed by Tyler Bates, was also released by Hollywood Records on the same date, along with a deluxe version featuring both albums. The soundtrack album reached number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, becoming the first soundtrack album in history consisting entirely of previously released songs to top the chart.
That's Christmas to Me is the third studio album by a cappella group Pentatonix. It is their sixth release overall and their second holiday release following their 2012 EP PTXmas. It only features previously unreleased material. It was released on October 21, 2014 through RCA Records, peaked at number 2 on the Billboard 200, and has been certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.
1989 is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It was released on October 27, 2014, by Big Machine Records. Following the release of her genre-spanning fourth studio album Red (2012), noted for its pop hooks and electronic accents, the media questioned the validity of Swift's status as a country artist. Inspired by 1980s synth-pop to create a record that shifted her sound and image from country to mainstream pop, Swift enlisted Max Martin as co-executive producer, and titled her fifth album after her birth year as a symbolic rebirth of her artistry.
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Now That's What I Call Music! 53 is the 53rd edition of the Now! series in the United States. It was released on February 3, 2015. It features 21 tracks including the Billboard Hot 100 number-one hit "Uptown Funk".
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Reputation is the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It was released on November 10, 2017, by Big Machine Records. Swift became a subject of rampant tabloid scrutiny following the release of her fifth studio album 1989 (2014), with the media outlets highly publicizing her personal life and her disputes with other celebrities. She hence secluded herself from the press and social media, where she had maintained an active presence, and created Reputation as an effort to revamp her state of mind.
