Black Veil Brides debuted at seven on the Billboard charts with their new album, Wretched & Divine, selling over 40,000 copies.

Adele's 21 was 2012's best-selling album, which makes it the first album in the Soundscan era to top album sales two years in a row.

Jack White's Blunderbuss is the biggest selling vinyl album of 2012 according to Nielsen Soundscan's vinyl charts with over 33,000 copies sold. Knocking The Beatles' Abbey Road off the top spot (a position it had held the previous three years), Blunderbuss sales are the highest for a new album (not a catalog album) since Soundscan began specifically tracking vinyl in 2008.

Adele’s 21 has just passed 10 million albums sold.

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Green Day's ¡Dos! sold just over 60k to enter at 10 on Billboard 200 (¡Uno! debuted at 2 with 139k). Deftones' Koi No Yokan was right behind at 11 with just over 59k, while Lana Del Ray's Paradise was at 9 with 66k albums sold and The Weeknd's Trilogy opened at 4 with nearly 91k albums sold.

One Direction's new album is projected to sell between 500-575k copies its first week.

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"Take Me Home" is projected to sell over 500,000 copies by Nov. 18, with hopes that the number could reach as high as 575,000. If the album does see that kind of success, it will find itself just behind the year's two most successful records -- Taylor Swift's "Red" which sold 1.2 million in its first week, and Mumford & Sons' "Babel" which sold 600,000.

Kendrick Lamar's good kid, m.A.A.d city debuted at the #2 spot on Billboard, selling 242,000 records its first week. Not bad for a longtime independent artist who just recently signed to Aftermath Records.

Taylor Swift sold 1.21 million copies of Red its first week. It's the biggest sales week for an album since 2002. She's also the first woman in chart history to ever have two albums sell over 1 million copies in their first weeks.

Taylor Swift is projected to sell over a million copies of her new album, Red, and will possibly surpass Lady Gaga's mark of 1.1 million from May 2011.

Mumford and Sons stay at the top of the charts this week moving a little over 100k units. Macklemore and Ryan Lewis show up at an impressive number two with around 75k sold. Hits is reporting All Time Low sold around 30k of their new album, Billboard says 48k, and Coheed and Cambria comes in around 35k (Hits) or 49k via Billboard.

Mumford and Sons sold another 156k copies of their new album last week, again landing at number one on the charts. Muse came in at number two with just over 100k. Green Day dropped to number 10.

Mumford & Sons have six different songs from their new album, Babel, that debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 this past week -- the most since The Beatles did it back in 1964.

Mumford and Sons officially had the best debut week album sales of 2012 with over 600,000 copies sold. Babel had the second biggest debut week in digital sales ever with 420,000 downloads, just falling behind Lady Gaga's Born This Way last year. The only other indie distributed album to do better was The Eagles' Long Road Out of Eden back in 2007. Another interesting fact is 1 out of every 10 Spotify users in the US streamed at least one track from Babel.

A report by MusicMetric shows that Americans used BitTorrent to illegally download 759 million songs (assuming 10 songs per album) throughout the first half of 2012. The most active city for illegal downloads was Gainesville, Fla., with other small towns (Albany, GA; Fairbanks, AK; Lexington, KY; Tallahassee, FL) being listed as other high offenders. This information was rated per capita. The report lists YouTube as the most popular website for listening to music. Check out the full rundown here.

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Across the USA, the most downloaded releases were Lil Wayne and Drake's The Motto (438,038 downloads), Drake's Take Care (453,933), Jay-Z and Kanye West's Watch The Throne...

Kreayshawn had the second worst selling debut of all time, selling 3,900 copies of her new album, Somethin 'Bout Kreay in its release week.

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The new Mumford & Sons album is set to have the biggest first week sales in the US since 2008.

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Title Fight's new album Floral Green entered this week's Billboard 200 at #67. Congrats to the band and Side One Dummy!

One Wing is now The Chariot's highest charting album to date.

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Such Gold debut album Misadventures has debuted on the Billboard heaterseeker chart at #6 with 2,350 copies sold.

Taylor Swift's new single, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," broke the record for biggest digital sales week for a song by a woman with 623,000 sold.

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The previous high-water mark among female acts was Ke$ha's "TiK ToK," which moved 610,000 on the chart dated Jan. 9, 2010 (reflecting the busy post-Christmas week of 2009). Swift also nets the largest debut week among women, shattering the 448,000-unit start that was logged by Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" (Feb. 26, 2011). ("Born This Way" racked up that figure after only three days on sale -- it bowed Friday, Feb. 11, 2011 and the SoundScan tracking week ends on Sunday of each week....

Pierce The Veil's new album Collide With The Sky debuted at #10 on the Billboard 200, selling over 27,000 units.

I Call Fives' self-titled (Pure Noise Records) debuted at No. 13 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart. Congrats, guys.

Frank Ocean's Channel Orange has sold 130,945 digital copies. I wonder how many physical copies will sell?

With The Punches' Seams & Stitches debuted at #20 Billboard Heatseekers Chart.

Neilsen SoundScan has reported its mid-year sales numbers, and Adele's 21 is the only album so far to have sold over 1 million units (she sold 3.69 million copies so far). This is the first time the industry has only had one album sell at least 1 million records mid-way through the year in SoundScan's 21 years of tracking data. Remarkably, 21 was also the leader at the mid-way point in 2011, and topped the year-end charts last year as well. If the record sells the most copies this year, it will be the first album to ever top the total sales charts two years in a row. Oddly enough, Lionel Richie's Tuskegee takes the No. 2 overall spot (912K), One Direction is at No. 3 (899K), Whitney...

Memphis May Fire sold over 18,000 copies of Challenger this week, putting them at No. 16 on the Billboard charts. Linkin Park and Maroon 5 topped the charts.

Justin Bieber's new album, Believe, came in at #1 this week with more than 374k copies sold, marking it as the biggest chart debut for a record this year.

Usher took the top spot on the sales charts this week, selling 128,000 units of Looking 4 Myself. Rush debuted in second place with 103,000 units of Clockwork Angels, while Adele dropped to No. 3 with another 60,000 of 21. Other notable debuts include Ed Sheeran at No. 4 with 44,000 copies of + and Waka Flocka Flame at No. 9 with 33,000 of Triple F Life. Finally, fun. moved yet another 16,000 copies of Some Nights, landing at No. 22. Some Nights hasn't moved out of the top 50 in its 17-week run since its release, and has sold over 300,000 copies in total.