Google’s Play Store was first released five years ago on March 6. To celebrate, Google released a roundup of the best selling apps, games, movies, music, and books in the U.S. since its launch, The Verge says.
The most installed apps are topped by a seemingly obvious list of popular social networks, while top songs look like a complication of the biggest radio earworms from the last half-decade. Notably, many of the songs, albums, and movies are all recent releases, which speaks both to the popularity of that content, but also to increased Android growth (and therefore, Play Store usage) in recent years.
The full list of the top Play Store content is included below:
Top Installed Games (does not count those pre-installed on Android devices)
Candy Crush Saga
Subway Surfers
Temple Run 2
Despicable Me
Clash of Clans
Top Installed Apps (does not count those pre-installed on Android devices)
Facebook Messenger
Pandora Radio
Snapchat
Top Selling Songs
Ed Sheeran – Thinking Out Loud
Lorde – Royals
Taylor Swift – Blank Space
Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars – Uptown Funk
Pharrell Williams – Happy
Top Selling Albums
Adele – 25
Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP2 (Deluxe)
Taylor Swift – 1989
Drake – If You're Reading This It's Too Late
Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly
Top Selling Movies
The Interview
Frozen
Deadpool
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Guardians of the Galaxy
Top Selling Books
Fifty Shades of Grey, by E. L. James
The Hunger Games trilogy, by Suzanne Collins
A Game of Thrones, by George R.R. Martin
The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green
Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn
