The soundtrack for the Disney movie High School Musical was the top selling album of 2006, with 3,719,071 sales in the US according to figures released Thursday by Nielsen SoundScan.
Country rock band Rascal Flatts were the year's biggest band, coming in at No 2 with 3,479,994 sales for Me and My Gang. Carrie Underwood was the top selling individual artist with sales of
3,015,950 for Some Hearts.
Hard-rockers Nickelback were fourth with All the Right Reasons followed by Justin Timberlake's Futuresex/Love and Back to Bedlam from James Blunt.
The Top 10 selling albums of 2006 were:
1. Soundtrack / High School Musical 3,719,071
2. Me and My Gang / Rascal Flatts 3,479,994
3. Some Hearts / Carrie Underwood 3,015,950
4. All the Right Reasons/ Nickelback 2,688,166
5. Futuresex/Love Sounds/ Justin Timberlake 2,377,127
6. Back to Bedlam / James Blunt 2,137,142
7. B'day / Beyonce 2,010,311
8. Soundtrack/ Hannah Montana 1,987,681
9. Taking the Long Way/ Dixie Chicks 1,856,284
10. Extreme Behavior/ Hinder 1,817,350