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A digital copy is a commercially distributed computer file containing a media product such as a film or music album.The term contrasts this computer file with the physical copy (typically a DVD, Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D, or Ultra HD Blu-ray disc) with which the digital copy is usually offered as part of a bundle.
This demand on physical copies of the album was met by Jive by shelving up millions of units leading to the album's release date. The label was able to ship 4.2 million copies for the album's official release date, then couriered another 2.3 million in reorders the next day on March 22, 2000.
Of that total, 252,423 copies were digital downloads, breaking the record for most digital copies sold in a week, and 548,000 were physical copies. [141] In its first week, 25 sold more copies in the UK than the combined sales of the last 19 number-one albums in UK on their debut week. [ 142 ]
During its first day of release in the United States, Beyoncé sold 80,000 units in three hours [182] and a total of 430,000 digital copies within 24 hours. [183] In its second day, the album sold 120,000 units, which brought its two-day sales total to 550,000. [ 184 ]
Per Luminate Data's year-end report, Proof sold 422,000 physical and digital copies combined in the US, making it the best-selling group album of 2022 and the third best-selling album overall in the country. It was also the second best-selling release on CD format, with 413,000 copies sold. [75]
For the week of June 29, 2008, it became the first song ever to sell four million digital copies in the US, [8] and then for the week of June 21, 2009, the first to sell over five million copies. [9] It was best-selling digitally-downloaded song of all time until it was surpassed by The Black Eyed Peas ' " I Gotta Feeling " in May 2010. [ 10 ]
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The Fame has sold 4.9 million copies in the United States as of March 2019 [94] and is the seventh best-selling digital album, selling 1.086 million digital copies. [95] [96] Including equivalent album units, The Fame has sold 8.8 million in the country. [97] It was ranked at number 12 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums of All Time list. [98]