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Now That's What I Call Music 95 was the UK's best-selling album in 2016
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Now That's What I Call Music! 95 was the UK's best-selling album in 2016, Official Charts can confirm.
The latest in the Now! compilation series shifted 868,000 copies following its release in November last year. A massive 770,000 of those sales were physical CD purchases, with the remaining 98,000 coming from downloads.
The sales figure makes it the biggest selling album overall in 2016. Official Charts recently announced that Adele had claimed the biggest artist album of the year with her third record 25. Check out the full Top 40 artist album list here.
MORE: See the Now That's What I Call Music! 95 tracklisting
The Now! compilation series has continued to prove hugely popular over the past year, with all three of its flagship Now That's What I Call Music releases in 2016 finishing in the Top 3 best-selling compilation albums of the year. Now 94 finishes second with 818,000 sales - also higher than Adele's 25 - while Now 93 is third on 701,000.
A further 10 Now! releases dominate the Top 40 biggest compilations list, including Now That's What I Called Christmas in fourth and Now That's What I Call Disney in eighth.
The best-selling non-Now! compilation was Sing Your Heart Out 2016. Released in February 2016, the collection places fifth, followed by 100% Clubland in sixth.
MORE: The UK's Official Top 40 biggest songs of 2016
The UK's Official Top 40 best-selling compilation albums are:
| 1 | NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC 95 | VARIOUS ARTISTS |
| 2 | NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC 93 | VARIOUS ARTISTS |
| 3 | NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC 94 | VARIOUS ARTISTS |
| 4 | NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL CHRISTMAS | VARIOUS ARTISTS |
| 5 | SING YOUR HEART OUT 2016 | VARIOUS ARTISTS |
| 6 | 100 PERCENT CLUBLAND | VARIOUS ARTISTS |
| 7 | THROWBACK - SUMMER JAMZ | VARIOUS ARTISTS |
| 8 | NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL DISNEY | VARIOUS ARTISTS |
| 9 | THE COUNTRY ALBUM | VARIOUS ARTISTS |
| 10 | THE ANNUAL 2017 | VARIOUS ARTISTS |
| 11 | NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC 92 | VARIOUS ARTISTS |
| 12 | DREAMBOATS & PETTICOATS-10TH ANNIVERSARY | VARIOUS ARTISTS |
| 13 | THE ANNUAL 2016 | VARIOUS ARTISTS |
| 14 | NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL SUMMER HITS | VARIOUS ARTISTS |
| 15 | I LOVE 90S | VARIOUS ARTISTS |
| 16 | THROWBACK - SLOWJAMZ | VARIOUS ARTISTS |
| 17 | ACOUSTIC CAFE | VARIOUS ARTISTS |
| 18 | LEN GOODMAN'S CROONERS & SWOONERS | VARIOUS ARTISTS |
| 19 | NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL PARTY ANTHEMS | VARIOUS ARTISTS |
| 20 | GO HARD OR GO HOME | VARIOUS ARTISTS |
| 21 | GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY - AWESOME MIX 1 | ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK |
| 22 | NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL ROCK BALLADS | VARIOUS ARTISTS |
| 23 | 80S XL | VARIOUS ARTISTS |
| 24 | I LOVE SUMMER | VARIOUS ARTISTS |
| 25 | ACOUSTIC | VARIOUS ARTISTS |
| 26 | NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL LOVE | VARIOUS ARTISTS |
| 27 | THROWBACK PARTY JAMZ | VARIOUS ARTISTS |
| 28 | SUICIDE SQUAD - THE ALBUM | ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK |
| 29 | NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL 70S | VARIOUS ARTISTS |
| 30 | 100 HITS - 80S ESSENTIALS | VARIOUS ARTISTS |
| 31 | CLASSIC MOTOWN | VARIOUS ARTISTS |
| 32 | FOR THE LOVE OF TRANCE | VARIOUS ARTISTS |
| 33 | MINISTRY OF HOUSE | VARIOUS ARTISTS |
| 34 | NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL REGGAE PARTY | VARIOUS ARTISTS |
| 35 | NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL THE 80S | VARIOUS ARTISTS |
| 36 | MOTOWN ANTHEMS | VARIOUS ARTISTS |
| 37 | 100 HITS - CAR SONGS | VARIOUS ARTISTS |
| 38 | BBC RADIO 1'S LIVE LOUNGE 2016 | VARIOUS ARTISTS |
| 39 | JUST GREAT SONGS 2016 | VARIOUS ARTISTS |
| 40 | 100 HITS - 70S CHARTBUSTERS | VARIOUS ARTISTS |
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Brian Quinn
These albums never feature my genres of music therefore I do not buy them.
I Am A Stegosaurus
100% Clubland at number 6, what a joke, that has one of the worst tracklists I've ever seen in my life
Sunshine Gal
there's a now 95!!?? , i had the 1st 5 in the u.s. back in the day :D
I Am A Stegosaurus
Why? Its terrible! 94 and even 93 were a LOT better.
nico9191
Now 95 released on November which is on holiday season so it was bound to do very well in sales no matter what the content was.