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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 ...
Garth Brooks Elvis Presley Eagles Led Zeppelin Michael Jackson Billy Joel AC/DC Elton John Mariah Carey Pink Floyd Bruce Springsteen Aerosmith. The following is a list of 100 highest-certified artists in the United States based on album-equivalent units, which include physical album shipments, digital album downloads, as well as individual song downloads and streams.
Since 2013 in the U.S., [13] and 2014 in the UK [22] and Germany, [23] streaming of songs counts towards certification of singles with 150 streams being the equivalent of 1 unit sold. [22] [24] Since February 2016, RIAA includes on-demand audio and video streams and a track sale equivalent in Gold and Platinum Album Award. The program counts ...
TTPD makes Swift the only artist to have seven albums debut with over 1 million units sold in their first week. ... Apple Music’s biggest pop album of all time by first-day streams. Show comments.
Adele’s “30” enjoyed the biggest opening numbers of any blockbuster album in 2021, as expected, with 839,000 album-equivalent units, according to an announcement by Billboard Sunday night.
A "song unit" was determined by an algorithm that weights a digital song sale as 1 and respectively values 120 subscription-based streams and 360 ad-supported streams as a song-equivalent unit. With regard to album-equivalent units, a song was generally considered to be part of the first album in which it was included, with the exception of the ...
On-demand audio and video streams started to be counted towards Digital Single units consumed in 2013. [13] [14] Track downloads and audio and video streams were then included in album certification in 2016 using formulas converting downloads and streams into the album units for certification purpose. [15]
And at 2am, with the drop of the rest of what is now an old-fashioned double album, the “two” symbolism took on yet another layer of meaning. Two albums, not one. 31 tracks. And yes, 31 is 13 ...