Adele Grammy success in 2012.
Two British star Adele and One Direction helped album sales in the U.S., which fell 0.6% in the first six months of 2012.
Until now 21 Adele album is still the best-selling album with sales of 3.7 million copies, while her first album, 19, is still sold as many as 539 000.
While Boyband One Direction in third line of best-selling album with sales reaching 899,000 copies for their debut album, Up All Night.
Overall, 220 million albums sold this year, according to Nielsen tally institute, which showed that the U.S. music market started to recover since last year.
Nielsen data says total sales figures, including singles, albums, music videos and digital tracks reached 853 million, up from year 2011 to reach 820 million.
Digital sales from iTunes and Amazon mostly be the largest contributor to reverse the slump that has affected the industry since 2004.
Digital album sales rose 13.8% to 57 million, while the physical album sales still decreased 3% from 155 million to 150 million.
Vinyl albums are also experiencing a revival, with the number of records sold around 2.2 million this year, up from 1.9 million in 2011.
Who ruled the vinyl album is the debut solo album Jack White, Blunderbuss.
However, CD sales are still dominant, with sales reaching 91 million, or 61% of the album market.
Based on data from Nielsen, the top 10 best-selling albums are:
Adele - 21 (3.668 million) Lionel Richie - Tuskegee (912 000) One Direction - Up All Night (899 000) Whitney Houston - Greatest Hits (818 000) Various Artists - Now 41 (714 000) Carrie Underwood - Blown Away (602 000) Luke Bryan - tailgates and Tan lines (575 000) Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded (557 000) Drake - Take Care (549 000) Adele - 19 (539 000) while Australian singer Gotye is ranked first single and became the singer's first bestseller that sold more of 5 million within a period of under six months. While single Boyfriend Justin Bieber is ranked 10th best-selling single.
Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know (5.501 million) Fun. ft Janelle Monae - We Are Young (5.087 million) Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe (4.064 million) Kelly Clarkson - Stronger (3.324 million) Nicki Minaj - starships (3.158 million) Maroon 5 ft Wiz Khalifa - payphone ( 3.075 million) The Wanted - Glad You Came (2.892 million) One Direction - What Makes You Beautiful (2.885 million) Flo Rida ft Sia - Wild Ones (2.79 million) Justin Bieber - Boyfriend (2.599 million) sales trend improved in the first half of this year, said David Bakula from Nielsen SoundScan.
In the current retail sales continue to face challenges related to widespread market trends, digital sales are expected to achieve record sales again, he said.
21 Adele album is still a queen in the U.S., since 2011 until now has sold 5.82 million copies, though not a record that had printed Usher Confessions album sold 8 million copies in 2004.
Album sales figures in the United States and most other countries has decreased since the widespread illegal upload service on the internet.
1999 and 2000 the Backstreet Boys and NSYNC managed to sell more than nine million copies of their album as a physical album sales continue to thrive.
