Best selling UK Albums of 2000-2019

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_albums_of_the_21st_century_in_the_United_Kingdom

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-50013491

Bob Marley - Legend still makes the list

I've always wondered whether having an artist name at the start of the alphabet has any influence on sales, in terms of casual buyers / elderly relatives and the like just picking the first thing they see on the racks / from a list and thats the record they have bought for the year.

Not saying there is any evidence in that at all, but 26/60 of the entries on that list have band names, or forenames and surnames that start with A-E, which seems quite a high percentage?

Adele was smart to pick that name.

Changed it by deed poll from Zoe when she got signed iirc

Winehouse gets filed at W though, I reckon. If only she would have just been Amy, it would have doubled the sales.

quite amazed about the Gorillaz being there. And I thought their debut was the hit record (with Clint Eastwood, the hit song, maybe I missed out.)

No Arctic Monkeys. Susan Boyle isn't anywhere near as popular as I thought.

I was more shocked by Duffy, I had no idea she sold that many albums.

I knew that, I have always wondered what happened to her as she seemed to just disappear.