Mozart 225 may be the best-selling physical CD of 2016, but it is not the best-selling album, and it is not even close to the biggest title of the year.

In a year marked by surprises, it seemed fitting that, as a recent story on Billboard’s website attested, the top-selling CD in 2016 came from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who has been dead for 225 ...

And since Billboard counts each album in the box set as an individual sale, only about 6,250 box sets would need to have been sold to push “Mozart 225” to the top of the CD chart for the year.

And since Billboard counts each album in the box set as an individual sale, only about 6,250 box sets would need to have been sold to push "Mozart 225" to the top of the CD chart for the year.

The monumental 225-CD collection had been in the making for over 18 months, and its release at the end of October marked the 225th anniversary of Mozart's death.

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Mozart DG There's a vogue for CD distributors to issue bulk box sets at budget prices but few can compete with this limited-edition 55-CD set of top artists and renowned recordings.

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And since Billboard counts each album in the box set as an individual sale, only about 6,250 box sets would need to have been sold to push “Mozart 225” to the top of the CD chart for the year.