One Direction's Four was the biggest-selling album by a UK artist in terms of sales of albums, tracks and streams from services such as Spotify, ranking second to Taylor Swift's 1989.
"UK artists and labels dominated sales at home like never before, releasing all of the top 10 best-selling artist albums of 2014," said Geoff Taylor, chief executive of music industry body BPI.
Related: UK top 10 albums of 2014 are all by British artists for first time Taylor said that the slide in British CD sales, precipitated by the rise of illegal downloads and digital sales and streaming, appeared to be slowing.
Did you think you'd still be here now, 25 million albums and three Grammys later?
By the beginning of 2006, the site had 100,000 users and hosted torrents for nearly a million distinct albums, making it four times bigger than the iTunes store.
The muscular bass lines played by Louis Johnson as a session musician on Michael Jackson's Off the Wall and Thriller albums are known to millions – in particular his classic, driving bass part for the Jackson song Billie Jean.
There were Brothers Johnson reunions at various points, and new albums were released by the group in 1984, 1988 and 2002, although they met with limited success.
He has been involved in previous Africa Express projects in Paris and Spain and has released three albums including his debut, 2007's Manifestations.
Malvina Reynolds' song Little Boxes and albums such as Arcade Fire's The Suburbs continued the theme.
"I've got a few more things planned – at least a couple more albums, some EPs, things like that.
But there was something special about Kelly Clarkson, who has since gone on to become the show's biggest-selling winner with 23m albums sold.
