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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 album sales .
The program counts both sales and streams for single and album certifications. [25] United States [26] [27] Media Gold Platinum Diamond Album 500,000 1,000,000
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. However, sales of physical singles are not counted for album-equivalent units, which do not favor artists with a large ...
Ten tracks sold will equal one album, while 1,500 spins via the likes of Spotify, Rdio or Beats Music from the same title will count as one sale, too. ... Until now, the Billboard 200 chart has ...
First album to amass more than 300 million streams on Spotify in a single day Biggest album debut in U.S. Spotify history with 150 million streams “Fortnight” is Spotify’s most-streamed song ...
^ X 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. ^ XI South African sales figures provided refer to albums released after 1 December 2015. For albums released before 1 December 2015 ...
Digital album sales, which passed physical album sales in 2011, declined in 2013, likely due to streaming services making the concept of owning music irrelevant.
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.