Eminem‘s Recovery was the best-selling album of 2010 at the iTunes Music Store, while Train‘s “Hey, Soul Sister” was the biggest single, according to year-end charts just released by Apple.
Other top-selling albums came from Ke$ha, Lady Gaga, and Lady Antebellum. Katy Perry, B.o.B, and Eminem were among the singles chart’s runners-up.
Here is the full list of iTunes’ top 10 best-selling albums and singles.
Best-Selling iTunes Singles of 2010: 1. Train, “Hey, Soul Sister” 2. Katy Perry, “California Gurls” (feat. Snoop Dogg) 3. Eminem, “Love the Way You Lie” (feat. Rihanna) 4. B.o.B, “Airplanes” (feat. Hayley Williams of Paramore) 5. Taio Cruz, “Dynamite” 6. Usher, “OMG” (feat. will.i.am) 7. Taio Cruz, “Break Your Heart” (feat. Ludacris) 8. Ke$ha, “TiK ToK” 9. Lady Antebellum, “Need You Now” 10. Eminem, “Not Afraid”
Best-Selling iTunes Albums of 2010: 1. Eminem, Recovery 2. Ke$ha, Animal 3. Lady Gaga, The Fame 4. Lady Antebellum, Need You Now 5. Taylor Swift, Speak Now 6. Drake, Thank Me Later 7. Mumford & Sons, Sigh No More 8. The Black Eyed Peas, The E.N.D. 9. Jack Johnson, To the Sea 10. Sade, Soldier of Love
For more information, please visit iTunes’ “Rewind 2010″ page.
It was a night of entertaining performances at the American Music Awards from Rihanna to New Kids On The Block & Blackstreet Boys, with some Black Eyed Peas, Christina Aguilera, Enrique Iglesias & Pitbull, Ke$ha, Katy Perry, Train, and so much more, in between.
Talk about girl power: This summer, Rihanna will take her smash album Rated R on the road for her "Last Girl On Earth" North American tour. She'll also be joined by up and coming pop star Ke$ha.
The ladies, along with rapper Nicki Minaj, will kick it off in Seattle July 2nd, and make 25 total stops – including Los Angeles on July 21st, Miami on July 31st and Madison Square Garden in N.Y.C. on August 12th – ending August 25th in Chicago.
Turn on the radio and you're bound to hear Ke$ha (pronounced Kesha, not Keisha or Casha!) belting out the lyrics to her club anthem "Tik Tok," the No. 1 pop song right now. Sound like your typical 22-year-old party girl? Maybe. But here are a few things about her that may surprise you:
1. Nerd Alert!: Sure, she brags about brushing her teeth with Jack Daniels and hooking up with boys who look like Mick Jagger, but the pop star has an intellectual side too. Before scoring a record deal, "I was going to go to Barnard to be a psychologist," she says. Currently reading A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson ("It's so good," she gushes), Ke$ha adds that as a high school student, she used to crash college classes for fun. "I'd drive down to Belmont [University] and sit in on a cold war history class," she says with a laugh. "I love learning."
2. She Ain't Afraid of No Ghosts: Terrified is more like it. "I just recently moved because [my house] was haunted," she says. In fact, her fear helped inspire the line, "Woke up in the morning feeling like P. Diddy," in "Tik Tok." "I'd always try to convince my friends to spend the night, 'cause I wouldn't get haunted on if they were there," she says. "I woke up one morning, surrounded by all my girlfriends. I woke up feeling like P. Diddy!"
3. Homeward Bound: She may look like a California girl, but make no mistake: Ke$ha is proud of her Nashville roots – so much so that she recently decided to move home. "I really love L.A., [but] it's like a weekend all the time there," she says. "I want to go back home, hang out with the fam – I have a 10-year-old brother who thinks I'm cool so I like hanging out with him – and learn how to play the drums.
4. All the Single Ladies: Guys, listen up: the blonde beauty is single and looking. When asked about her love life, she is emphatic: "It's a disaster. It really takes a strong guy to have a successful girlfriend who's as mouthy as I am. I've yet to find someone who can handle the sass," she says. "I just want somebody who's really cool – a really cool musician with a big beard."
5. Animal Instincts: "I'm super into being an animal – that's why I named my album Animal," she says, adding that one day she hopes to have parrots named Wayne and Garth. "I go [scuba] diving, mountain biking, and camping to see animals. I [even] went to the Amazon to try to see jaguars," she says. "I'm obsessed with watching animal documentaries, [too]. It's the only TV you'll ever catch me watching." She corrects herself: "Or maybe Seinfeld."
Ke$ha just topped the Billboard charts for all-time highest single-week digital sales with her hit song “TiK ToK.”
During the week ending December 27, 2009, “Tik Tok” garnered 610,000 downloads, which is just behind the 636,000 number posted for another Ke$ha vocal track, “Right Round” by Flo Rida.
Ke$ha smashes the record for highest weekly sum by a female artist, previously held by Lady Gaga’s “Just Dance” (419,000 downloads).
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Eminem‘s Recovery was the best-selling album of 2010 at the iTunes Music Store, while Train‘s “Hey, Soul Sister” was the biggest single, according to year-end charts just released by Apple.
