- 57,138
- 60,132
- Joined
- Aug 6, 2012
Is it piracy? Is it steaming? Is it Obama's fault? Or does just ****** suck?
"So far this year, 60 digital songs have sold over 1 million units as compared to 83 last year. And after nine months, not one artist-album has yet to hit the million-unit mark, although the Frozen soundtrack is the year's best-seller so far with a robust 3.12 million units.
In the prior year, five albums each had scanned over a million units, led by Justin Timberlake's 20/20 Experience, which at the end of 2013's third quarter had scans of 2.3 million units.
The best-selling artist title this year is Beyonce's self titled album with 776,000 scans, followed by Lorde's Pure Heroine, with 754,000 units. But like Frozen, both of those albums came out last year, which means that so far the top three selling albums this year were released last year. The top-selling release from this year is the No. 4 title, Eric Church's Outsiders with 722,000 scans, just ahead of Coldplay's Ghost Stories, by a a few units.
Getting back to digital songs, Pharrell Wiliams' "Happy," is the best-selling track this year with 6.2 million scans followed by John Legend's "All of Me," with 4.4 million scans and Katy Perry's "Dark Horse," featuring Juicy J, with 4.3 million scans."
http://www.billboard.com/biz/articl...scans-third-quarter-numbers-in-one-word-bleak
"So far this year, 60 digital songs have sold over 1 million units as compared to 83 last year. And after nine months, not one artist-album has yet to hit the million-unit mark, although the Frozen soundtrack is the year's best-seller so far with a robust 3.12 million units.
In the prior year, five albums each had scanned over a million units, led by Justin Timberlake's 20/20 Experience, which at the end of 2013's third quarter had scans of 2.3 million units.
The best-selling artist title this year is Beyonce's self titled album with 776,000 scans, followed by Lorde's Pure Heroine, with 754,000 units. But like Frozen, both of those albums came out last year, which means that so far the top three selling albums this year were released last year. The top-selling release from this year is the No. 4 title, Eric Church's Outsiders with 722,000 scans, just ahead of Coldplay's Ghost Stories, by a a few units.
Getting back to digital songs, Pharrell Wiliams' "Happy," is the best-selling track this year with 6.2 million scans followed by John Legend's "All of Me," with 4.4 million scans and Katy Perry's "Dark Horse," featuring Juicy J, with 4.3 million scans."
http://www.billboard.com/biz/articl...scans-third-quarter-numbers-in-one-word-bleak
Last edited:
