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Industry standard, includes albums from any genre. Includes both new and catalog albums. Includes data from on-demand streaming services [4] Top Album Sales: 100 A pure album sales chart. Top Alternative Albums : 25 Ranks the most popular alternative albums of the week, as compiled by Nielsen Music.
The album-equivalent unit was introduced in the mid-2010s as an answer to the drop of album sales in the 21st century. Album sales more than halved from 1999 to 2009, declining from a $14.6 to $6.3 billion industry, [4] partly due to cheap digitally downloaded singles. [5] For instance, the only albums that went platinum in the United States in ...
The album’s 38,000 sold in the week ending Sept. 1 marks the album’s second-largest sales week yet, only trumped by its opening week of 42,000 (on digital download and CD, chart dated Nov. 27 ...
1989 (Taylor's Version), the fourth re-recorded album by Taylor Swift, surpassed her own Speak Now (Taylor's Version) to garner the largest opening week of 2023, with over 1.65 million album-equivalent units, including 1.35 million album sales. [1] It became the best-selling album of the year, with over 1.9 million copies sold within 2023. [2]
An album must have sold for at least $3.75 for that sale to be logged for a given tracking week; units sold for less than the minimum price requirement in the first month of release would not be considered for weekly charts, but would be reflected in its lifetime sales. An "album unit" is determined by an algorithm that weights a digital, CD ...
The Tortured Poets Department, the eleventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, is the longest-running number-one album of the year with 17 cumulative weeks atop the chart. It broke several all-time Billboard 200 records, including becoming the first album by a female artist to spend its first 12 weeks at the chart's number ...
The list is based on total certified album units sold in the US and includes streaming figures. ... Keep scrolling to see the 50 best-selling music artists of all time in the US by album sales.
Taylor Swift, Beyoncé and Billie Eilish had the most successful years thus far in terms of U.S. album sales, according to Luminate’s midyear music report for 2024. The report, which examines ...