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Although it was thought that Keane's debut album Hopes And Fears was the highest-selling of the year, Scissor Sisters beat them on New Year's Eve.
Hopes And Fears smugly sat at the top of the album chart during November and December and was thought to be the greatest commercial success of the year, but then Scissor Sisters beat it by just 582 at the last minute.
Over the year the New York band sold 1,594,259 copies of their album featuring the hits Comfortably Numb, Laura and Mary.
"It's a fantastic result, but what is most special is that the two biggest-selling albums of the year are both from brand new UK-signed artists," said Lucian Grainge, the chairman Scissor Sisters' record label, Universal Music UK.
Hopes And Fears smugly sat at the top of the album chart during November and December and was thought to be the greatest commercial success of the year, but then Scissor Sisters beat it by just 582 at the last minute.
Over the year the New York band sold 1,594,259 copies of their album featuring the hits Comfortably Numb, Laura and Mary.
"It's a fantastic result, but what is most special is that the two biggest-selling albums of the year are both from brand new UK-signed artists," said Lucian Grainge, the chairman Scissor Sisters' record label, Universal Music UK.
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