Individual Research - What Is Selling Well?

Top Rated Singles of 2014 in order of how long they stayed in the UK's top 10 official hottest records chart

Music of the Pop genre, featuring artists such as Pharrell Williams, Clean Bandit and OneRepublic, is the best selling, with 10 of the 18 artists' singles being of this genre. There are a few Rap artists such as Eminem and Pitbull, and Acoustic music features a lot too (Ed Sheeran, George Ezra)

The highest selling singles of the 21st Century 

The top selling singles chart indicates that, similar to previous observations of data involving music sales and current popular music, the best selling tracks are feelgood dance and pop tracks. It's also quite interesting to see the highest singles are by American music artists. 

This table just highlights how much the Pop genre dominates sales of music in the UK. Listening to the songs, all have quite a repetitive beat with a catchy chorus, which is generic of current Pop songs and is probably the reason they do so well. 

BBCs official highest selling singles chart as of date 

The list of the current music charts shows the variety of music that UK consumers listen to. Dance seems to be the current favorite genre in the UK, with all the top three songs being of this genre. Pop/RnB is also present with 3 tracks also in the top 10.