Best-Selling Music of 2011

The top 100 on Amazon UK that year.

A definitive look back at the 2011 Amazon UK chart. Click any cover to find it on Amazon.

Adele's 21 didn't just top 2011 — it defined it, the year's inescapable record by some distance. Compilations clustered close behind with Now That's What I Call Music! 80, while Bruno Mars's Doo-Wops and Hooligans and Ed Sheeran's debut + announced new pop forces. The poignant surprise is Amy Winehouse's posthumous Lioness: Hidden Treasures, released months after her death; alongside it, Military Wives' Wherever You Are and Kate Bush's wintry 50 Words for Snow add unexpected texture. Coldplay's Mylo Xyloto and Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds kept the rock veterans present. But 2011 belonged to Adele, whose 19 also lingered — a singular voice dominating British listening.

Born in 2011? See everything that topped the UK charts in 2011 — books, film, games and music.

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4.7 · 9

Now That's What I Call Music! 80

4.5 · 308

Christmas

4.7 · 9

4.5 · 6

Mylo Xyloto

4.4 · 638

Doo-Wops and Hooligans

4.7 · 664

Wherever You Are

4.8 · 589

Lioness: Hidden Treasures

4.5 · 502

4.6 · 935

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

4.6 · 451

Up All Night

4.5 · 450

In Case You Didn't Know

4.7 · 382

Born This Way

4.4 · 450

Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Room Floor

4.8 · 929

Build A Rocket Boys!

4.3 · 219

The Lady Killer

4.5 · 207

Now That's What I Call Music! 79

4.6 · 180

Ceremonials

4.5 · 410

Heaven

4.6 · 310

Jukebox

4.5 · 106

Seasons Of My Soul

4.5 · 432

Alfie

4.5 · 272

Echoes

4.7 · 271

Sigh No More

4.6 · 695

Wasting Light

4.6 · 240

Fallen Empires

4.5 · 122

50 Words for Snow

4.2 · 474

Talk That Talk

4.2 · 181

Who You Are

4.3 · 348

Pop Party 9

4.5 · 75

Back To Black

4.6 · 5

Helplessness Blues

4.3 · 98

Bring Him Home

4.6 · 541

Now That's What I Call Disney 2011

4.7 · 120

Duets Ii

4.5 · 309

Let England Shake

4.6 · 143

Velociraptor!

4.3 · 171

Last Night on Earth

4.5 · 99

The Defamation of Strickland Banks

4.5 · 278

Someone To Watch Over Me

4.4 · 391

Let Them Talk

4.4 · 516

Loud

4.5 · 272

The Awakening

4.7 · 167

Now That's What I Call Music! 78

4.3 · 112

Battleground

4.6 · 94

Greatest Hits

4.6 · 275

And the Waltz Goes On

4.6 · 271

Wicked Game

4.6 · 200

What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?

4.4 · 165

Crazy Love [Hollywood Edition]

4.6 · 316

Bon Iver, Bon Iver

4.6 · 121

Bright Lights

4.5 · 285

BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge, Volume 6

4.5 · 51

Lovestrong

4.6 · 229

Suck It And See

4.3 · 125

Teenage Dream

4.4 · 236

Letters

4.5 · 235

Good Ol' Fashioned Love

4.6 · 357

I'm With You

4.1 · 175

Mayhem

4.7 · 229

Progressed

4.5 · 116

Classic

4.7 · 312

The King of Limbs

3.8 · 150

Playing in the Shadows

4.5 · 86

Sticks + Stones

4.5 · 114

Concerto: One Night In Central Park

4.6 · 138

The Fame Monster

4.6 · 400

No More Idols

4.5 · 122

Dreamboats & Petticoats 5 - Coffee Bars and Candy

4.7 · 217

4.6 · 935

Olly Murs

4.7 · 270

XX Twenty Years

4.4 · 89

You & I

4.6 · 162

The Seldom Seen Kid

4.5 · 495

Tourist History

4.5 · 131

The Suburbs

4.4 · 212

Stereo Typical

4.6 · 120

Nothing But The Beat

4.5 · 256

A Creature I Don't Know

4.2 · 83

Need You Now

4.7 · 473

Ceremonials (2CD Deluxe Edition)

4.5 · 410

I Speak Because I Can

4.4 · 116

Paper Airplane

4.7 · 109

Frank

4.6 · 350

So Beautiful Or So What

4.2 · 82

Come Around Sundown

4.0 · 223

Now That's What I Call Classical

4.3 · 84

Progress Live

4.7 · 70

You Can't Teach An Old Dog New Tricks

4.8 · 112

Daydream

4.6 · 98

Here And Now

4.5 · 137

Soul City

4.8 · 121

Simply Eva

4.7 · 129

Collapse Into Now: Special Edition Digipack

3.9 · 80

The Harrow & the Harvest

4.6 · 73

Soul 2

4.6 · 108

Rumours

4.7

Angles

4.1 · 60

Lungs

4.5 · 388

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