( Rolling Stone ) -- The returning Justin Timberlake and upstart rappers Macklemore and Ryan Lewis top the list of best-selling recording artists at the midyear point of 2013 , according to Nielsen SoundScan . As of June 30 , Timberlake 's `` The 20/20 Experience '' has sold just over two million copies -- the only album to do so thus far this year . Best Albums of 2013 : Mid-year Report . The rest of the top five best-selling albums include Bruno Mars ' `` Unorthodox Jukebox '' ( 985,000 copies sold this year after a December release ) , Mumford & Sons ' nine-month-old `` Babel '' ( 884,000 sold in addition to 1.46 million sold by the end of last year ) , Blake Shelton 's `` Based on a True Story . . . '' ( 703,000 ) and Imagine Dragons ' `` Night Visions '' ( 692,000 ) . Macklemore and Ryan Lewis ' `` Thrift Shop '' has broken a record for the most digital sales in the first six months of a calendar year , barely besting Gotye 's 5.5 million downloads of `` Somebody That I Used to Know '' by this time last year . On the Charts : Wale Keeps the Hip-Hop Summer Rolling . Pink , Mars , Rihanna and Imagine Dragons round out the top five in digital singles . Overall , sales of digital tracks are down two percent , to 682 million this year , while album sales are down six percent , to 142 million . See the original story at RollingStone.com . Copyright © 2011 Rolling Stone .
Justin Vernon has the best - selling album of the year so far . ` ` The 20/20 Experience '' has sold just over two million copies . Right behind him are Bruno Mars , Mumford & Sons and Blake Shelton . Vernon and Ryan Leslie have set a record for the most digital sales so far .