British stars Adele and One Direction have featured highly on a list of the top selling albums this year so far in the US.

Billboard reports that Adele's chart behemoth '21' has lorded over the list with a massive 3.69 million copies sold this year.

Pop tykes One Direction meanwhile are third on the chart with their debut effort 'Up All Night', which has managed to sell 899,000 units so far in 2012.

Other names on the chart include Madonna with her release 'MDNA' - which managed to shift 484,000 copies - and Whitney Houston's 'Whitney: The Greatest Hits', which has sold 818,000 units.

In terms of the top selling digital songs in the US this year so far, Gotye's 'Somebody That I Used to Know' is the big-hitter at 5.5 million copies sold, whilst fun.'s 'We Are Young' has shifted 5.09 million units.