James Blunt's 2005 debut Back to Bedlam sold more copies than any other album in the past ten years.
Singer-songwriter James Blunt has the biggest selling UK album of the past ten years, it has been revealed.
The Official Charts Company announced that Blunt's 2005 debut Back to Bedlam sold more copies than any other record released in the last decade.
Dido's 2000 effort No Angel took second place, followed by 2006's Back to Black by Amy Winehouse.
Leona Lewis's 2007 debut Spirit came in fourth and White Ladder, David Gray's 2000 record, took fifth place.
In the US, the bestselling record of the noughties was The Beatles' compilation 1, according to Billboard, followed by No Strings Attached by N*Sync and Norah Jones' Come Away With Me.
Last month, an NME poll named The Strokes' 2001 debut as the best album of decade, while Beyonce's Crazy In Love was voted as the best song of the last ten years.
Other tracks singled out include Time To Pretend by MGMT, MIA's Paper Planes and Hey Ya by OutKast.
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