Adele logs top-selling album and song of 2011

To the surprise of virtually no one, Adeles 21 is officially the top-selling album of 2011, with a final tally of 5.82 million copies, while the British soul singers single Rolling in the Deep was the years bestselling song with 5.81 million copies, according to Billboard, based on Nielsen SoundScan's year-end sales report.

Adeles album has not dropped out of the Top 10 since it entered the chart at No. 1 in February. It is now in its 14th non-consecutive week as the nations top-selling album.

Michael Bubls latecomer holiday entry Christmas was the No. 2 selling album of the year with nearly 2.5 million copies, followed by Lady Gagas Born This Way (2.1 million), Lil Waynes Tha Carter IV (1.9 million) and Jason Aldeans My Kinda Party (1.6 million).

The remainder of the top 5-selling digital songs behind Rolling In the Deep are LMFAOs Party Rock Anthem (5.5 million), Katy Perrys E.T. (4.8 million), Maroon 5s Moves Like Jagger (4.1 million) and Pitbulls Give Me Everything (3.9 million).

Industry -wide perhaps the best news in the year-end figures is that album sales increased over the previous year for the first time since 2004, up 1% to 330.6 million units, compared to 326.2 million in 2010. Overall music sales, including albums, singles, music video and digital tracks, increased nearly 7% in 2011 compared to a year earlier.

More from Nielsen SoundScans year-end report will be reported in Thursdays Calendar.

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Photo: Adele's performance in February at the 2011 Brit Awards at the O2 Arena in London. Credit: Joel Ryan / Associated Press.