All told, Underwood has sold 9.6 million albums and 10.7 million digital downloads, according to Nielsen Soundscan.
According to Nielsen SoundScan, West to date has sold more than 957, 000 albums.
As measured by Nielsen SoundScan, overall music sales reached an another all-time high, with unit sales increasing 3.1% over last year.
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In 2010, 2.8 million LPs were sold, up 14% from 2009--and more than any other year since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991.
In 2012, the compact disc continued its long decline, with sales down 13% from last year, and down 70% from 10 years before, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Over the last five Super Bowls, these acts have seen an average boost in album sales of 187% in the week following the game, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
In 2009, 39 years after breaking up, they sold the third-highest number of albums of any act in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan, with 3.3 million copies sold.
"21" has continued its amazing run a year after its initial release, selling 3.69 million copies through the sales week that ended July 1, the mid-year point for tracker Nielsen SoundScan.
To see how well this genre (as well as a few others) performed, we turned to Nielsen SoundScan, which tracks album sales in the digital, CD and, in some cases, tape and LP format.
Fearless was the top-selling album of the year, according to Nielsen SoundScan ahead of Susan Boyle's much-reported-on I Dreamed a Dream, which did not feature at all in Sunday night's telecast.
According to the New York Times and Nielsen Soundscan, weekly record sales can jump between 40 and 60 percent in the weeks following a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nod.
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Music sales this year are down again, burnt by file sharing and CD burning, among other reasons: So far this year music buyers have bought 423 million units, down 5.2% from a year ago, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Recorded-music sales in the U.S. edged up for the first time since 2004, according to Nielsen SoundScan, thanks to lower prices, growing digital song sales and a massive hit from the singer Adele, whose album "21" sold more copies than any title in the last seven years.
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