Femme Fatale On Top Selling Album

With 2011 half-over, Adele's "21" reigns as the year's biggest selling album in the U.S., shifting 2,517,000 units, according to Nielsen SoundScan. "21" has moved 2,517,000 copies in the U.S. since its release on Feb. 22 -- through the week ending July 3, the mid-point of the tracking year. It's the only album to have sold more than 2 million in 2011, and one of only two to surpass 1 million. The second is Lady Gaga's "Born This Way," which has moved 1,540,000. (72% of that total was shifted in its debut week, when it started with 1,108,000 -- making it only the 17th album to sell a million in one week since SoundScan began tracking data in 1991.)

Mid-Year 2011 Top Albums
	Artist	Title	Year to Date Sales*
1	Adele	21	2,517,000
2	Lady Gaga	Born This Way	1,540,000
3	Mumford & Sons	Sigh No More	982,000
4	Jason Aldean	My Kinda Party	763,000
5	Bruno Mars	Doo Wops & Hooligans	686,000
6	Justin Bieber	Never Say Never: The Remixes (EP)	676,000
7	Chris Brown	F.A.M.E.	646,000
8	Various Artists	Now 37	637,000
9	Nicki Minaj	Pink Friday	609,000
10	Katy Perry	Teenage Dream	600,000
11	Rihanna	Loud	598,000
12	Britney Spears	Femme Fatale	590,000
13	Taylor Swift	Speak Now	563,000
14	P!nk	Greatest Hits	530,000
15	Justin Bieber	My World 2.0	524,000
16	Eminem	Recovery	517,000
17	Foo Fighters	Wasting Light	497,000
18	Wiz Khalifa	Rolling Papers	484,000
19	Lady Antebellum	Need You Now	473,000
20	Various	Now 38	440,000
*SOURCE: NIELSEN SOUNDSCAN, year to date sales through the week ending July 3, 2011