Adele's '25' Named Highest Selling Album Of 2015

It was only released in late November but Adele's multi-platinum third studio album 25 has remarkably achieved the honour of Australia's highest selling album in 2015.

After just six weeks on the chart and remaining unmoved from the peak position of #1 since its release, the record has also already been certified seven times platinum in the country, while her second offering 21 ranked as the 32nd highest selling album in the country. 

Meanwhile the top end of the Albums chart is dominated by pop artists with fellow Brit singer Ed Sheeran's X coming in at #2, Taylor Swift's 1989 at #3, Justin Bieber's Purpose at #4 and Title by Meghan Trainor ranked at #5. 

The highest Aussie selling artist of 2015 came in country singer Lee Kernaghan with his latest effort Spirit Of The Anzacs which placed at #8, a few spots ahead of Sia's 2014 acclaimed album, 1000 Forms Of Fear which finished at #14 and Vance Joy's Dream Your Life Away at #16.

Other local names finishing in 2015's top 100 included the latest The 12th Man compilation (#20), triple j's Like A Version Vol 11 (#24), Hilltop Hoods' Walking Under Stars (#25), Tame Impala with Currents (#28), Chet Faker's Built On Glass (#34), Courtney Barnett's Sometimes I Sit & Think & Sometimes I Just Sit (#39), AC/DC's Rock Or Bust (#40), Hermitude's Dark Night Sweet Light (#43), Parkway Drive's Ire (#44), Seth Sentry's Strange New Past (#65), The Rubens' Hoops (#70), Alison Wonderland and Run (#72), Boy & Bear's Limit Of Love (#92) and Flight Facilities' Down To Earth (#94).

Over on the Singles Chart, Mark Ronson's 2014 hit Uptown Funk took out top honours this year with a sales accreditation of nine times platinum. 

The song, featuring US singer Bruno Mars, spent two weeks at #1, 15 weeks in the top ten, and it did not leave the top 100 the entire year. 

Adele and Biebs were the only artists to feature in both the Album and Singles Chart, with Adele's Hello coming in at #5, while Bieber claimed #9 with What Do You Mean?, while other hits from his latest album including Sorry and Love Yourself ranked at #16 and #25 respectively. 

Sia enjoyed highest honours locally with Elastic Heart ranking at #14, ahead of Jarryd James' Do You Remember at #23.

ARIA-winning artist Conrad Sewell's hit Start Again came in at #54, behind his sister Grace's track You Don't Own Me which came in at #26. 

Elsewhere, Vance Joy had two tracks in the top 100 in Fire & The Flood  (#46) and Georgia (#72).

Other local placings included Hilltop Hood's Cosby Sweater (#66), Chet Faker's Talk Is Cheap (#76) and his track with Marcus Marr, The Trouble With Us (#99), Iggy Azalea's Trouble (#84), Peking Duk and Take Me Over featuring SAFIA (#90), Sia's fan-favourite Chandelier (#94) and Hermitude's The Buzz (#100).