Inside Music with Melinda Newman

Taylor Swift's 'Fearless' is 2009's top seller: Where's Jay-Z? Britney?

How did your favorite acts fare?

By Melinda Newman Tuesday, Dec 15, 2009 1:11 PM

Taylor Swift's "Fearless"

Credit: Big Machine

No surprise here: Taylor Swift’s “Fearless” is the top selling album of 2009, according to Billboard and Nielsen SoundScan. Like the other titles in the top four, Swift’s album came out at the tale end of 2008, meaning the project had the benefit of a full-year’s worth of sales.

For the first time this decade sellers, two soundtracks cracked the Top 5 sellers of the year. In the main, soundtrack sales have been tanking for the last several years, but the fervent fan based that both the “Twilight” and “Hannah Montana” franchises have created have led to followers needing every affiliated piece of merchandise they can get their hands on.

1	FEARLESS	Taylor Swift
2	I AM...SASHA FIERCE	Beyonce
3	DARK HORSE	Nickelback
4	TWILIGHT	Soundtrack
5	HANNAH MONTANA: THE MOVIE	Soundtrack
6	CIRCUS	Britney Spears
7	808S & HEARTBREAK	Kanye West
8	THE FAME	Lady Gaga
9	RELAPSE	Eminem
10	THE E.N.D.	The Black Eyed Peas
11	ONLY BY THE NIGHT	Kings Of Leon
12	THE BLUEPRINT 3	Jay-Z
13	DAVID COOK	David Cook
14	THE FOUNDATION	Zac Brown Band
15	NOW 29	Various Artists
16	FUNHOUSE	Pink
17	INTUITION	Jamie Foxx
18	NO LINE ON THE HORIZON	U2
19	UNSTOPPABLE	Rascal Flatts
20	A DIFFERENT ME	Keyshia Cole