Best-Selling Music of 2012

The top 100 on Amazon UK that year.

A definitive look back at the 2012 Amazon UK chart. Click any cover to find it on Amazon.

For once a compilation led: Now That's What I Call Music! 83 topped 2012, with Adele's 21 still selling a year on. One Direction's Take Me Home and Emeli Sandé's Our Version of Events fronted the new British pop, while Lana Del Rey's Born to Die brought cinematic gloom. The surprises sit in the festive and catalogue corners: Michael Bublé's Christmas charting hard, the Rolling Stones' GRRR! marking fifty years, and Leonard Cohen's late-career Old Ideas landing among the pop. Mumford & Sons' Babel kept folk-rock booming. With talent-show graduates and chart-pop dominating, 2012 was a year of polished, dependable hits rather than disruption.

Born in 2012? See everything that topped the UK charts in 2012 — books, film, games and music.

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Now That's What I Call Music! 83

4.6 · 614

4.7 · 9

Babel

4.5 · 873

Take Me Home

4.6 · 437

Our Version of Events

4.7 · 7

Our Version of Events [Special Edition: Bonus Tracks]

4.7 · 7

Born to Die

4.4 · 571

Right Place Right Time

4.7 · 921

Pop Party 10

4.7 · 211

Now That's What I Call Music! 82

4.6 · 224

Magic of the Movies

4.7 · 671

Merry Christmas, Baby

4.6 · 603

Christmas [Special Edition: Bonus Tracks]

4.7 · 9

Bbc Radio 1'S Live Lounge 2012

4.6 · 183

The Truth About Love

4.6 · 702

Some Nights

4.6 · 323

GRRR!

4.6 · 556

Mylo Xyloto

4.4 · 638

Now That's What I Call Music! 81

4.5 · 177

Old Ideas

4.6 · 319

The Very Best Of Neil Diamond

4.8 · 576

Up All Night

4.5 · 450

Every Kingdom

4.7 · 486

18 Months

4.6 · 359

In My Dreams

4.7 · 373

Storyteller

4.5 · 333

Unapologetic

4.3 · 357

4.5 · 6

El Camino

4.7 · 259

4.6 · 935

4.6 · 935

Ceremonials

4.5 · 410

Unorthodox Jukebox

4.6 · 715

Take The Crown [Regal Edition, Standard CD]

4.4 · 375

Anthems 90s

4.6 · 428

Now That's What I Call Christmas [2012]

4.6 · 470

Wrecking Ball

4.5 · 285

DNA

4.6 · 325

Jake Bugg

4.7 · 893

Sigh No More

4.6 · 695

The Abbey Road Sessions

4.7 · 360

Red

4.6 · 567

Fall To Grace

4.7 · 848

Stronger Together

4.7 · 331

Together

4.7 · 728

An Awesome Wave

4.7 · 336

In Case You Didn't Know

4.7 · 382

Overexposed (Parental Advisory Explicit Content)

4.6 · 210

The Golden Age Of Song

4.7 · 430

Blunderbuss

4.4 · 97

Strangeland

4.6 · 251

The 2nd Law

4.3 · 453

4.5 · 373

Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version Of The War Of The Worlds – The ...

4.0 · 472

Standing Ovation: The Greatest Songs from the Stage

4.6 · 499

Fall To Grace

4.7 · 848

Coexist

4.1 · 158

Battle Born

4.4 · 297

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

4.6 · 451

Boys & Girls

4.3 · 158

Making Mirrors

4.4 · 206

Doo-Wops and Hooligans

4.7 · 664

The Lumineers

4.6 · 564

Tempest

4.4 · 295

Sing EP

4.7 · 170

The Best Of Eva Cassidy

4.7 · 413

ORA

4.4 · 195

Until Now

4.6 · 167

My Head is an Animal

4.7 · 361

Isles of Wonder - Music For The Opening Ceremony Of The Lond...

4.5 · 173

California 37

4.7 · 192

The 2nd Law [Digipack]

4.3 · 453

Home Again

4.6 · 135

Take The Crown [Roar Edition, Limited Edition Artwork]

4.4 · 375

Celebration Day [2CD+2 PAL DVDs--CD Case]

4.7 · 681

Life In A Beautiful Light

4.7 · 228

Girl On Fire

4.3 · 166

Need You Now

4.7 · 473

Now That's What I Call Disney! [2012 Jewel Case]

4.6 · 354

Nothing But The Beat

4.5 · 256

Stereo Typical

4.6 · 120

Wrecking Ball (Deluxe)

4.5 · 285

Standing At the Sky's Edge

4.3 · 143

Lioness: Hidden Treasures

4.5 · 502

Come Of Age

4.4 · 106

He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother [Hillsborough Tribute Single...

4.9 · 301

iUNO!

4.4 · 124

Who You Are [Platinum Edition]

4.3 · 348

NOW That's What I Call Running

4.4 · 210

Coldplay Live 2012 [CD+DVD--CD Case]

4.7 · 396

Battle Born

4.4 · 297

Keep Calm and Relax

4.5 · 165

Whitney Houston - The Ultimate Collection

4.7 · 526

What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?

4.4 · 165

Electronic Earth

4.4 · 124

Lovestrong

4.6 · 229

Heaven

4.6 · 310

The Seldom Seen Kid

4.5 · 495

American Soul

4.4 · 208

Motown Anthems

4.7 · 344

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