As the new year rolls around, there's plenty of lists making their way around the blogosphere, but there's nothing like the cold hard numbers, and Yahoo Music has offered the best-selling albums of 2016.
1. Adele — 25 (1,684,000 copies)
2. Drake — Views (1,579,000 copies)
3. Beyonce — Lemonade (1,527,000 copies)
4. Chris Stapleton — Traveller (1,042,000 copies)
5. Various — Hamilton Original Cast Album (739,000 copies)
6. Twenty One Pilots — Blurryface (678,000 copies)
7. Prince — The Very Best Of Prince (660,000 copies)
8. Pentatonix — A Pentatonix Christmas (639,000 copies)
9. Rihanna — Anti (591,000 copies)
10. Justin Bieber — Purpose (543,000 copies)
11. Blake Shelton — If I’m Honest (522,000 copies)
12. Panic! At The Disco — Death Of A Bachelor (506,000 copies)
13. Prince — Purple Rain (487,000 copies)
14. David Bowie — Blackstar (448,000 copies)
15. Metallica — Hardwired… To Self-Destruct (432,000 copies)