The Top 10 Best-Selling Drugs Of 2020

Humira Tops The $100bn List

 
• By Derek Burkhard, Daniel Chancellor, and Stephanie Yip
  
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AbbVie’s Humira easily retained its lead in 2020 with $20.3bn in sales. Gilead Sciences’ HIV triple combo Biktarvy was the fastest climber, entering the top 10 in eighth place after 53.2% growth in a year, while Avastin, Enbrel and Rituxan fell out of the list.

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One hundred billion dollars. That is the combined revenue of the top 10 pharmaceuticals in 2020, marking the first year in which this threshold has been crossed. All but one of these pandemic-proof mega-blockbusters achieved growth in what has been a remarkable year, where COVID-19 has ravaged the world, revealing – and in some cases exacerbating – existing inequalities. In the biopharma sphere, this has translated into the rich getting richer, with physicians favoring familiarity and new launches being scuppered by grounded sales forces.

Humira (adalimumab) remains firmly at the top of the rankings, with a considerable albeit narrowing distance to Keytruda (pembrolizumab) and...

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