Mozart sold more CDs than any other artist in 2016

Which music artist would you guess has sold the most CDs this year?

Beyoncé? Drake? Adele? Nope, think again.

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The answer is actually none of the above and someone who would likely be very far down on your list of guesses.

It was, in fact, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

A box set titled "Mozart 225: The New Complete Edition" was released on 28 October and in just five weeks it sold 1.25 million CDs.

But, there's a bit of a catch. Each box contains a total of 200 discs, so it would only have taken a little over 6,000 sales to hit the 1.25 million CDs mark.

But this is still impressive, since the box set was on sale for up to $500.

Universal Music Group spent 18 months working on the project, which it calls the 'most authoritative, complete and scholarly box set ever devoted to the work of a single composer.'