It's been five years ago to the day that Google replaced the Android Market with Google Play, expanding it in the process to include a variety of additional types of digital media including music, video content, eBooks and more.
In celebration of the anniversary, Google has published a list of the best-selling games, apps, albums, singles, movies and books in the US since the store's launch. The results probably won't be much of a surprise to those that have kept up with pop culture in recent years but here they are nevertheless:
Top Installed Games (does not include those pre-installed on Android devices)
- Candy Crush Saga
- Subway Surfers
- Temple Run 2
- Despicable Me
- Clash of Clans
Top Installed Apps (does not include those pre-installed on Android devices)
- Facebook Messenger
- Pandora Radio
- Snapchat
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 Songs
- Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud
- Lorde - Royals
- Taylor Swift - Blank Space
- Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk
- Pharrell Williams - Happy
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
Today, Google Play offers some 40 million songs, five million eBooks and "millions" of mobile apps (a spokesperson unfortunately wouldn't provide CNET with an exact number).