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The standard of an album-equivalent unit in the United States, according to the RIAA. The album-equivalent unit, or album equivalent, [1] is a measurement unit in music industry to define the consumption of music that equals the purchase of one album copy. [2] [3] This consumption includes streaming and song downloads in addition to traditional ...
Record sales or music sales are activities related to selling music recordings (albums, singles, or music videos) through physical record shops or digital music stores. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Record sales reached their peak in 1999, when 600 million people spent an average of $64 on records, achieving $40 billion in sales of recorded music.
An "album unit" is determined by an algorithm that weights a digital, CD, and cassette standard-format album sale as 1; a digital and CD deluxe-format album sales as 1.3; a vinyl standard-format album sales as 2; a vinyl deluxe-format album sales as 2.5; and respectively values 10 digital song sales, 1,200 subscription-based streams, and 3,600 ...
Keep scrolling to see the 50 best-selling music artists of all time in the US by album sales. This post has been updated with the most recent data from RIAA. John Lynch, Travis Clark, and Will ...
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) was founded in 1933, and since 1996, has granted the Platinum Europe Award for album sales over one million within Europe and (as of October 2009) the Middle East. Multi-platinum Europe Awards are presented for sales in subsequent multiples of one million.
^ XI Swedish sales figures provided refer to "Pop" albums. A separate scale is used for children, jazz, classical, and folk music albums: sales exceeding 10,000 and 20,000 for Gold and Platinum awards respectively. ^ XII South African sales figures provided refer to albums released after 1 December 2015. For albums released before 1 December ...
Year-to-date CD album sales stand at 22.870 million (down 8.5% compared to the same time frame a year ago) and year-to-date vinyl album sales total 25.868 million (up 0.1%).
Theoretically, if one song were streamed 1.5 billion times on YouTube, the single would receive Diamond and the whole album could be certified Platinum, [7] thus creating a combined total of 11 million certified units without any sales. Kanye West's album The Life of Pablo achieved Platinum without selling a single copy and was only available ...