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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 ...
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 ...
Physical albums only; when combined with digital sales, thresholds are 15,000 for Gold and 30,000 for Platinum, whereby the digital sales are counted as 1/10 actual digital sales (10 downloads = 1 unit). ^ VII For Mexican sales, albums add physical, digital and streaming sales, for singles digital and streaming sales are taken into account. It ...
Swift was able to move another 142,000 equivalent album units to keep TTPD in the No. 1 spot. ... with 314 million streams. First album to amass more than 300 million streams on Spotify in a ...
Until now, the Billboard 200 chart has been ranked based on albums sales, but that's about to change. On November 30th, that list will expand its criteria to include sales of a record's individual ...
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]
Multi-Platinum: 2,000,000 units (increments of 1,000,000 thereafter) Diamond: 10,000,000 units; For certification purposes, each unit may be one of: [25] sale of a digital album or physical album; 10 track downloads from the album; 1,500 on-demand audio or video streams from the album
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.