Best-Selling Music of 2016

The top 100 on Amazon UK that year.

A definitive look back at the 2016 Amazon UK chart. Click any cover to find it on Amazon.

Now That's What I Call Music 95 led 2016, but the year was shadowed by loss. David Bowie's Blackstar, released days before his death, charted at number three with the vinyl edition reappearing lower down, while Elvis's orchestral The Wonder Of You and Leonard Cohen's farewell You Want It Darker also marked passings. The Rolling Stones' blues covers Blue & Lonesome and the Best Of Bowie compilation deepened the catalogue presence. Beyoncé's Lemonade and Bruno Mars's 24K Magic kept contemporary pop strong. With Bowie, Cohen and Prince all memorialised across the list, 2016 was a year defined as much by who the music world lost as by what it released.

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Now That's What I Call Music 95

4.6 · 429

Together

4.7 · 877

Blackstar

4.7 · 9

4.7 · 6

The Wonder Of You: Elvis Presley With The Royal Philharmonic...

4.8 · 839

Blue & Lonesome (Digi Pack)

4.5 · 784

A Head Full of Dreams

4.7 · 6

NOW That’s What I Call Music! 93

4.6 · 453

NOW 94

4.5 · 322

You Want It Darker

4.8 · 542

The Heavy Entertainment Show

4.6 · 504

4.7 · 514

Glory Days

4.7 · 197

Nobody But Me

4.6 · 292

Before The Dawn

4.6 · 434

Best Of Bowie

4.8 · 793

If I Can Dream: Elvis Presley With The Royal Philharmonic Or...

4.8 · 8

24K Magic

4.6 · 325

Upon a Different Shore

4.1 · 421

Wonderland

4.6 · 270

A Moon Shaped Pool

4.5 · 328

Chaleur Humaine [UK Version]

4.8 · 397

NOW That’s What I Call Disney

4.7 · 607

Long Live The Angels

4.6 · 252

All Over The World: The Very Best Of ELO

4.8 · 7

Get Weird

4.7 · 705

I Cry When I Laugh

4.8 · 2

Walls

4.6 · 229

One Voice

4.8 · 575

LEMONADE

4.5 · 249

The Heavy Entertainment Show

4.6 · 504

Trolls

4.8 · 241

24 HRS

4.7 · 300

Wonderland

4.6 · 270

The Very Best of Prince

4.7 · 417

The Singles (3CD)

4.8 · 285

This Is Acting

4.8 · 336

Sing Your Heart Out 2016

4.5 · 263

Blackstar [VINYL]

4.7 · 9

4.7 · 9

Chaos And The Calm

4.8 · 875

24 HRS

4.7 · 300

Blurryface

4.8 · 358

Nobody But Me [Deluxe Lenticular Sleeve Edition]

4.9 · 170

Glory Days

4.8 · 139

The Getaway

4.6 · 223

Back From The Edge

4.8 · 309

Christmas [Special Edition: Bonus Tracks]

4.7 · 9

Take Me To The Alley

4.7 · 265

Just… Fabulous Rock ʻnʼ Roll

4.7 · 420

1000 Forms Of Fear

4.8 · 674

Falling In Love

4.7 · 246

Purpose

4.7 · 601

Classic House

4.7 · 391

Chasing Dreams

4.7 · 334

Hardwired...To Self-Destruct

4.6 · 247

I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so un...

4.5 · 175

Revolution Radio

4.7 · 197

Len Goodman's Crooners And Swooners

4.5 · 207

Now That's What I Call Christmas

4.6 · 594

My Universe

4.7 · 233

The Annual 2017

4.6 · 115

Cartwheels

4.9 · 255

One Voice At Christmas

4.8 · 209

1989

4.7 · 5

Skeleton Tree

4.4 · 170

Can't Touch Us Now

4.5 · 162

BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge 2016

4.5 · 72

4.5 · 6

Dreamboats & Petticoats - 10th Anniversary Collection

4.8 · 290

Hunky Dory (2015 Remastered Version)

4.8 · 193

Keep Me Singing

4.7 · 176

Love & Hate

4.7 · 187

The Ride

4.0 · 140

Chapter And Verse

4.3 · 106

Elaine Paige Presents The Musicals

4.6 · 160

Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1

4.8 · 7

Written In Scars (New Edition)

4.8 · 746

Nine Track Mind

4.8 · 250

The Lexicon Of Love II

4.6 · 228

Hardwired...To Self-Destruct

4.4 · 170

The Country Album

4.7 · 338

The Wave

4.6 · 191

Sleep No More

4.8 · 290

4EVER

4.6 · 123

Legacy (The Very Best Of)

4.6 · 219

Stranger To Stranger

4.5 · 193

The Ultimate Collection

4.7 · 213

I Love The 90s

4.8 · 89

Immortalized (Deluxe Version)

4.8 · 347

Long Live The Angels

4.6 · 252

Views

4.1 · 88

Tapestry

4.8 · 700

The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mar...

4.6 · 493

Death Of A Bachelor

4.6 · 189

Now That's What I Call Music! 92

4.5 · 734

A Year Of Songs

4.5 · 766

The Beatles: Live At The Hollywood Bowl

4.6 · 181

NOW That's What I Call Love

4.8 · 113

Funk The Disco

4.7 · 104

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