News: Janelle Monae, Nicki Minaj and Adele Top Mid Year Singles Chart

Njai Joszor 7/5/2012 9:43:09 AM

Nicki Minaj and Adele are two of this year's most successfulrecording artists, at least when it comes to digital singles.

Following fun and Janelle Monae's hit single "We Are Young," whichis the second best selling digital song of the year (5.087 million,thus far), Minaj and Adele have three of the top 20 selling songs forthe first half of 2012.

"Starships," Nicki Minaj's pop driven single, comes in at no.5 onthe list with 3.158 million digital copies sold. It is not her onlytrack on the list either. Her collaboration with David Guetta, on "Turn MeOn," comes in at no.17 with over 1.87 million copies sold.

While Adele continues to have the no.1 selling album of the year, her singles did not fare as well. "Set Fire To The Rain" is herbest selling single according to Billboard, moving over 2.53million copies. To be fair, Adele's "21" was released over a year ago.

Despite there being a strong list of best selling songs, with BestNew Artist Grammy Award winner Gotye selling over 5.5 millioncopies of the single "Somebody That I Used to Know," R&B is nonexistent on the chart. There are no best selling songs from artistswith recent releases including Usher, Chris Brown, Monica, or even Rihanna. Hip Hop artists like Tyga, Flo Rida, Snoop Dogg and Drakedid make the cut exceeding sales of 1.6 million on their singles.

Are we not supporting R&B recording artists this year ?